New-York tribune., 1903-05-03
IN IOBSTER PALACES"
Scenes in Br0adzcay Restaurants
I1ftcr the Theatre.

That particular kind of Manhattanite who Is
often referred to as the man about town is gen
orally considered to fairly hate to go to bed and
sleep is the last thing he thinks about. He and
his kind can do that when there is nothing else
to do and about to do it. Once in a long
while sheer wearness forces them to retire be-
fore l or ) o'clock in the morning. but
that is a physical defect and must be laid at the
door of their ancestors from SchOharie County
and the State of Ohio.
With this kind of New Yorker evening begins
with dinner-an elaborate meal usually. with
food highly seasoned and enough wine to excite.
Then it is a rush to Broadway for two hours
and half enterta tainment-any kind you like.
with fifty pIayhouses from which to choose.
Now in most cities that would satisfy. Bos
ton people would coast TO homes of dignified
dreariness in the Back Bay Pittsburgers would
climb into their carriages and shut their teeth
for a rough ride out to the East End. In Chi
go there would be time for nothing more. for
the Windy City is far from the various parts
Of itself that has look smart to get home
in time for breakfast. Giddy Buffalo-but But
falo is keeping Lent and doing penance for her
sins Up in dear old kehoe's-Eut kehoes is
not having theatres just now; the school board
will not rent the room.
Thus it is that while the citizens of other
cities know when they have had enough and
give a thought for the morrow. certain New:
Workers do not know: and how they think
Of tomorrow when tomorrow is at hand before
they stop TO think? When the theatre is over.
most of the people. it is true go straight home.
but they are not the this story is about
1t is about those for whom the theatre is just
an incident and the real fun comes afterward.
If this were not so the mile and a half Of
lobster shops" that satisfy after-t theatre hun
ger and thirst might we'll turn out their
electric signs and revoke their own liquor
licenses Were it not for the rushing business
they do in the last and first hours Of the day
there would be profit in it
Real hunger has little to do with the New
York rush from parquet TO restaurant This
supper is the one meal of the day when the
minds of don't run to roast beef or steak.
Appetite there is, but not for food; for things
drink, perhaps for the glare of electric Lightly
and blare of orchestra; desire to keep aWaks
as long rs possible
1t may be noted. too, that this fourth meal
idea is no longer confined to the money-to-spend
class. Maggie" and her gentleman friend"
after three hours of melodramatic excitement in
make for the nearest tile paved,
plate gIassed all night hash house just AZ
naturally as Miss West Side. with her escort
md chaperon, goes to DelmoniCO's some
place equally expensive. Maggie enjoys her
ham and even more thoroughly than her
more fortunate sister does her la New.
preparations.
Lobster Row begins or ends CHhichavcr
way you happen to be going) with a novelty
the drip drop" place. as it IS known 70 some
1t is French from to walters, and eSpe-
cay Partisan as 90 drinks. Sometimes. when
the orchestra stols suddenly and there Is a