The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06
NEW YORK TOPICS.
DRIFTS AND UNDERGRADUATES OF
THE METROPOLIS.

THE METROPOLIS.
Though Fifth Avenue No Longer APP
proves of the Easter Parade,
Grand street Does, and There the
Greatest show of the Day Was
Held Last Sunday-The Fashion
able ThOrOughfare of the Great
East side Was Particularly Rad
liant This Year-How the Holidays
Affected the Brokers--A Wonderful
Book of Caricatures-The Excise
situatiOn-MarI<et Gossip.
New York, April 4.-As a day of
fashionable parade Easter has lost its
gories With all the weather con-
ditions favorable, bright sunshiny and
balmy air, there seemed to be every
chance of good turnout But So
ciety summed the avenue. 1t had gone
out of town, mostly, over Easter.
Such of it as remained, however,
stayed in the house or went demurely
to church AND came demurely out
again. seeking the side streets. Fifth
avenue knew it not.
But for all that the parade section
of the avenue was damned to the linn
it's of the sidewalks and more, so that
the overflow drifted along the asphalt
lodging bicyclists and being menaced
by automobiles. In numbers the crowd
was fully up to that of other years;
in quality it was doubtless eminently
a h1a hirf h brilliant
consisted largely of iinportations from
Williamsburg, Hoboken, Communipaw,
Barren Island and the uttermost parts
of Brooklyn. 1t was dressed within
an inch of it's life, and wore the severe
and somewhat strained aspect of them
that strive to live up to apparel which
they feel is little bit above their reg
lister. 1t was there, in the first place,
to see what was going on; in the Sec
Ond, to hope that it would be regarded
by the other outlanders as part of the
metropolitan scheme of things. Oc
casionally one would see little group
of New Workers, usually distinguish
able by the fact that they didn't show
the effects of trying to dress for the
occasion. The women wore furs and
made no attempt at spring-tide bud
dings. Nor did they display Easter
bonnets. A milliner could have
watched all day without getting a new
Idea.
The fact is Fifth avenue doesn't APP
prove of the Easter parade. 1t likes
TO get out and show itself in all it's
hnery, does Fifth avenue, as at the
Horse Show and the opera; but to
nave a horde of barbarians from the
suburban outposts of civilization in
wade its precints and crowd it off
It's own sidewalk, is beyond it's phil
anthropic endurance. So the thumb
OIL social disapproval is turned down
and the Easter parade is slain in the
mouse of it's former friends. Soon it
VIII be as extinct as New Years call
ing.
But If you want to see the real thing
m parades try Grand street. Here is
tne fashionable thoroughfare of the
great East Side; here is the place
where you shall see the pomp and
prlde of the neighborhood trinked out
N its best adornment, pacing the broad
SIDEWALKS and glad to be alive. The
local political magnate with his $4,000
worth of diamond shirt stud doffs his
uazzlng beaver to the Division street
Shop girl, who, on her Sc per week, has
bought bonnet that she wouldn't
trade for Queen Alexandra's best
crown There are big bevies of girls
N N the freshest of clothes-not made by
Ith avenue dressmakers, it is true,
pul pretty well done, nevertheless
who will give you a pleasant nod as
tiIey pass; not to be f1irtations, but
because good fellowship is the order
VI Ihe day. There are groups of youths
IN the torners, with huge bouton-
Hlerres and trousers creased so sharp
mat they are dangerous, critically OBJ
servant OF the passing show. There
are FAMILY groups of eight or ten or
;t"enly; Tor big families are the rule
III the tenement district, all grinning
Mlth pure enjoyment of the prospect,
aoi lnls is the day when they dine at
restaurant and go to Atlantic Gar
Nen atterward to hear the music.
N0t one in that crowd but has a
snliHhg face; not one, no matter how
Soor' but has on some new thing in
, ,,umor OF the day. Back in the tene-
tnghts there is another story to be
eold; the grim story of the girl who
Ip0 oaCt afford 1t. Her name was
ieooney and she wasn't very strong,
ner wages were small She has
lieu hard to save enough for an
b1asler hat. A very cheap one would
SO a. uone, she wasn't particular. Just
W. was something new, so the girls
, ctSa laugh at her. But the med
c SilIe ollls ate it all up. Saturday
fo %.le and there wasn't enough even
The d a., new ribbon. Poison is cheap. SO
III elri named Rooney was dead when
bar otner girls came around to get
its avenue doesn't care much for
1saster, but they take theirs very
down on Grand street.