The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-23
| pointing toward q man who 10 apparently
In a hurry to get through the crowd.
I whats the matter, miss2' asked the

pointing toward q man who 10 APPARENT.
In a hurry to get through the crowd.
whats the matter, mlss'' asked TN
policeman.
sDon't stop TO ask questions : replie'
the young woman imperiously. but -
after that man. He's just snatched my
purse
The officer starts of At a double-quicl
with the crowd following, everybody yell
The girl stands awaiting developments
and in a few moments back comes the po'
, licoman with n bodybuilding young maj
rs this the man, Miss?' the officer in
quires.
Indeed it is replies the young woman
How did you ever catch him?'
Il couldn't find no money on him, miss,
remarks the policeman, but II you say
| he's the one that pinched your pocketbook
III lock him up II you'll appear in court In
the morning
'oh. l never could do that, but III have
This amt no case for your pepper.
miss; you'll have to tend to this yourself,
Before the girl can reply, some n in
the crowd calls out:
needed the coin and thel oidy can get more
from pepper"
Maybe the poor fellow did need the
money" she says. You may as well let
him go, officer
The alleged thief can hardly realize the
import OF the words, but as the policeman
let's 90 of his collar he sinks away, and
the Avenue returns 10 itself;
For six LAYS in the week Fifth avenue
Is particularly a woman's boulevard. On
Sunday, however, the men come out IN
force. And after the morning hour for
service they and their wives and sisters
and s~weethearts make the best avenue
parade OF the week.
II has come 70 be a very we~ll-established
custom in this town for the majority OF
folk 10 walk home from church after the
morning service, On any early sunday
afternoon Fifth avenue is the place TO see
the men who have made the town rich ana
big and great.
Uncle RUSSELL Sage Is In the crowd, re-
turning from the West Presbyterian Church.
And then there are Morris X. Jesup and
Col. John j. McCook, and John Kennedy
hob-nobbinR with one another and dis
cussing the affairs of the Brick Church.
Now and then j. Pierpont Morgan may be
seen sauntering up from ~. georges
while Young Mr. and Mrs. William X. Van
derbilt, Jr., are often among those coming
from high mass at the Cathedral. .
Time was when the fashionablcs possessed
Fifth avenue all day Sunday. Within the
last half-dozen years, however, all thai has
changed.
As the Easter parade is 10 longer a parade
OF fashion. so Fifth avenu on Sunday
afternoon is no longer the parade-ground
for the smart set. Then IL ia that the thor
oughfare is literally possessed by tho
people of the lower East Side. .
In all the fine feathers OF Division and
Grand streets the East Side troops uptown
70 see what the great world and It's people
look like. The East Siders must study
carefully a street directory all the week,
because when they turn themselves loose
into Fifth avenue on Sunday, every mothers
son and daughter Of them seems TO know
the home Of every prominent family along
the avenue. BY couples and by families
they will stop in their walk in front OF the
hose Of an Aston or a Vanderbilt, just for
the sake Of seeing what the stones and the
mortar 10 ok like.
Fifth avenue is the parade ground OF New
York.