The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19
HAYMARKET DIVE is
SINGULAR IN NEW
YORK
Nothing Like the New Re
sort With Old Name Is to
Be Seen in Gotham-Trend
of Sans Souci Is Still To-
wards the Bridge.
Snecial TO The Globe

Special to The Globe.
NEW YORK, April 1S-The uptown
ward trend of the New York Sans
Souci has been marked by the same
steady wiping out of the unfit purlieus,
of the lucrative sporting resorts, of
the fashionable and the reduced fash
ionable residential quarters, of the
strictly respectable cafes and down
town commercial hotels, the vacated
localities to be filled by the marts, the
offices and the exchange houses of
Mammon-that has been noted in the
growth of all the other great centers
of population. The London Sans Souci
has grown from the Strand backwards
to Whitechapel, Berlin has carried the
historic Sans Souci of Frederick away
from the now select and restricted
StrasseS, once made hideous by the
midnight orgies of the companion of
SeidlitZ. Paris has turned away the
stream of vice from the cite; st.
Petersburg has grown with the new
ideas of public seemlineSS and the old
freedom and license of the Orloffs and
Potemkins in the heart of the city have
receded to the barracks whose fearfuIly
defiant depravity is described by
TolStoi So the new work that once
was gay below Fourteenth street has
reached the acme of unreStraint at the
Haymarket, Thirtieth street and Sixth
avenue.
People of earnest and thoughtful
mind have differed on the point as to
whether the Warnings, the Roosevelts,
the Greenes and the cartridges of our
own American metropolis have done
more harm than good by fighting in
the open that social evil that Charles
H. Louis XII, Frederick the Great and
the first Alexander of Russia thought
to. regulate by segregation, but no
thoughtful American can view without
some uneasiness the growth of such an
apparently ineradicably bad spot as
the Haymarket.
Nothing Like Haymarket.
Certain it is that no intelligent
American can duplicate the scenes of
the Haymarket outside of the pages of
Dumas, Gautier and Lever. The gayety
of this part of New York is as strange
to the English visitor as to the Ameri-
can from Ohio or Indiana. The air of
license, the abandon of vice, are strict
~ continental. Liverpool and London
never saw them and do not now toler-
ate them any more willingly than we
do.
However, much our literary tastes
may find diversion in and some excite
ment from, the description of HON.
burg, Ems and Monte Carlo contained
IN our English Lever and in the trans
latiOns from the French, we certainly
have no ambition to emulate those Old
World connections, much less initiate
or copy their extreme latitudism. Still
we have the fact of the Haymarket in
New York.
This is an absolutely respectable
dive The present proprietor has
grown immensely rich in five years.
No visitor is ever robbed assaulted or
treated badly in the Haymarket 1t is
claimed, and many, who have inquired
no hat &c AlI
after the legal hour of 1 a. m. After
that hour sociability, the dance, jolly
conversation go on uninterruptedly.
People from cities of the interior visit
the Haymarket, so as to have some
thing particularly wicked to tell of a
recent Summing expedition to New
York. These good souls have no idea
what an immense amount of money all
of them leave to Mr.. E. 3. Cory, the
most defiant alleged sinner this side of
Paris.
No Disturbances Allowed.
No unseemly conduct of women is
allowed in this dancing hall If one of
our women makes the least misstep
Cory sees it. No matter in what part
of the hall he may be, the warning
finger goes up and the woman goes out
nevermore to come back to the Hay
market This, of course, keeps the
women habitueS of the place in order
and the dances are now spoken of by
the unthinking as models of decorum.
When a man raises row at this place
he is put in a cab and taken to his
hotel, if, as generally the case, he is
from out of town. Men of New York
do not as a rule raise disturbances in
this gay resort, but if they ever do
they are used we'll in their folly and
no one hears of it.
The dancing floor of the Haymarket
is small, but as most of the patrons of
the place are good dancers they man
age to wind in and out with a tolerable
degree of comfort. Around the floor are
small tables for the dancers. On the
Thirtieth street side are several large
drinking rooms, up stairs there are
more drinking rooms, and on three
sides are galleries. At the east end of
the hall is a stage where an orchestra
plays the dance music, and at the west
side is promenade floor where an