The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-04
4 Wonderful Centre OF Life.

The most widely known part of New
York is the district through which Broad
way runs diagonally from Forty-seoond
street to Union Square. 1t is the district
of this town most familiar to both visi-
tors and residents. The theatres OF the
town are mainly congregated in that
region and it's neighborhood. Through
out its length or near to it are many
hotels, and among them some of the best
known in the world. No city Of the
world, not even Paris, has more and
more notable restaurants in an equiva
lent area; and along that stretch Of ter
ritory are situated some of the largest,
busiest and most luxurious bazaars of
retail trade to be found in the world.
Whoever knows New York at all is sure
to know of that district. The names OF it's
great merchants and its great theatres
are of worldwide celebrity. In this dis
trct is the famous Tenderloin," once
confined to the region from Thirty
fourth street to Twenty-third street, and
between Fourth and Sixth avenues, but
now extending to Forty-second street
and beyond.
The impression has prevailed outside
of New York that the Tenderloin" is of
shady reputation, is rather disreputa-
BILE centre, and the seat Of population
notable rather for craftiness and wicked
ness than for moral excellence; but it is
an altogether false impression. The
Tenderlon is rather the district in
which American civilization is found at its
highest level. 1t includes the Murray Hill
region. the seat Of the most conservative
population of New York. Churches
abound in it. 1t is region of impor-
tant clubs and hotels of worldwide fame.
In no other district of the same area in
America is there so much wealth gath
cred as in the Tenderloin," extended to
Forty-second street, and now rapidly ad-
vancing to Longacre Square, and even
up to Central Park.
During the day there is no other part
of New York buster or more thronged.
The great bazaars draw crowds of shop
pers and the district is lively with the
activities of multiplicity of trades and
professions. When nightfall comes the
streets are filled with people tending to
the many restaurants. for New York has
grown to be the city of the world in which
there is relatively the largest patronage
Of these public eating places. Later
new throng fills the streets, when resi-
dents and many thousands of visitors
hasten TO the theatres and other places
Of public amusement. Along about the
hour of the opening of the theatres the
Broadway trolley line is filed with packed
cars running as closely together as safety
and the possibility of movement allow.
At the conclusion of the play and the
opera the district again throbs with life,
and 80 continues until midnight. It is
the cheerfullest, the gayest part of New
York, and, as we have said, the part
most familiar to multitudes of Wis
tors from all over the Union and all over
the world. 1t is there you must 90 to
feel the pulse of New York and to dis
cover its most distinguishing social
features. If you would find it at its
height of excitement, go on an election
night. You will see veritable carnival
scene, in which are mingled representa-
tives Of every nationality and the meth
dds OF merry-making OF all peoples.
Nowhere else in America is there the
like OF 1t or any approach to it.
That is, the Tenderloin, as it is now
stretched out. is the great centre of the life
OF New York, and in it is the very flower
OF American civilization. 1t is place to
ro to if you seek exhilaration of spirits: