New-York tribune., 1903-07-12
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of 165 feet to Theatre Alley, where in a big wing
was located the green room 1t was from the
constant passing back and forth up the narrow
way that the alley got its name .,.-
try was brought out in thg old Park Theatre and
Europe but saw its first hight in the old playhouse
George Frederic Cooke the brilliant but III starred
English actor. charmed American hearts Tor the
first time there while 1t was in the same theatre
that Edmund Kean was first hissed and nd driven
ton before the same footights and audience;
Kembie and others were among the famous actors
there while Ineedon Bra ahIn Philips @ tb anq ne o6ner
1t there, too. that ole Bull, the yolinist was
negro by an n PuogG or oP and ob5 X Beck
man owned or were greatly interested in both the
era ers hn Wheh nfw II was TFf naiiy burned in iS4S
When the unknown artist made this model knlcko k
erbocker Hail swung its sign over the door OF the the
high building to the he right Of Park TFe5F bad & ana d
fee of his hotel, while the rooms over the hali
were used for lodgers Next door to Smoker, S'a5
Lovejoy's Hotel at the corner of the Row, shows
by Tammany, the hotel being the place where they
dined and planned for campaigns and celebrations
The model shows a rather plain building, but i'm.
posing for that day and time, four and a hall
stories high with green shutters at all the tr4ht l
windows, those on the second story open but the ne
on the roof and imposing cupola. all giving tne
pillars upholdng the cutunder portico, and square
swinging lantern lights, the way in .bo
corner SouIlard Delluc & Co. pharmaceutists,
showed their wares and catered TO the puolc IN
of the theatre being in the block that there were
a number of hairdressers on the Row RooerJ
Kitchen occupied the low, squat building second
door removed from Park Theatre, ana advertised
to Cut and curl hair in the latest fashion
One of the quainteSt old business houses or the
anG Se GS pFefe9tioGs sign Looking class
factory stretches entirely across the red Drlck
front, gayly touched off with white. There are two
queer dorIner windows almost like human eyes
on the slopng roof, while the entire three ana a
half story structure is topped or with hlghly
ornamental octagon shaped cupola, on the highest
point of which weather cock turned. Two dinin.
utive gilt mirrors swung from the outer edge Of
the awning frame TO attract ocief traef neona were
wont TO gather in this block, and before these
quaint old houses for the first night performances
in the theatre, and some prints. show ChathaIn-st
now Park Row. filled with coaches. some of them
having four horses to drag them over the uneven
streets of New-York.
twice each week. and the bell man came around
once each day with his cart for garbage Up and
crying with melodious intonation, Sweep, no!
sweep. no! from the bottom to the top. without
ladder or rope; sweep, no! sweep ho! , Milk
suspended from yoke their shoulders, and
measured and sold milk from door to door
Tea Water Pump was at the corner OF chatham
St, and old New-Y York housewives willingly paid a
cent gallon for the delivered at their doors
as it was thought to make better tea than the
lamps lighted the sidewalk and the park, while the
old theatre thought to be blaze of light
with some extravagant chandeliers the interior
and brave array of lamps outside
This Park Row when the model was made.
OF the artist no one can tell and perhaps the
quaint old Row is all that he left to proclaim his
talents. It owned by a stranger who died
near Washington, and it was found with the few
pieces of luggage-his only worldly goods, left be-
hind The heavy brass handle the top of the
case containing the street model shows that it
was carried from place to place, and the wonder is