The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19

OCnef orchestra plays between udnCeS.
The place is ablaze with lights, and
about midnight each night, when it is
crowded with well-dressed people, it is
a brilliant spectacle. Everything con-
sidered, it is extraordinarily quiet, and
at no time do the scenes come any
where near eQualing the revels that go
on at the big balls In Madison Square
Garden each winter.
Most of the men are very young col
lege youths, although there is usually
a plentiful sprinkling of bald heads.
Young men and old men alike dance,
and it isn't necessary to keep men to
start the ball rolling when the music
starts up. In the old days of the Hay
market the men friends of the women
used to hang about and for small
wages start the dances, but they are no
longer necessary and are not allowed in
the place.
Proud of His Girls.
Corey is very proud of his Haymar-
ket dance hall. He points with pride
to the fact that in the last three years
four of the girls in the place have mar
rled out of it and are now respectable.
Why he says, there's dozen here
could get married tomorrow any time
if they only would. Sooner or later
most of them will, too, for they get
their senses after While. And l want
to say that never girl that's married
out of here in my time has ever been
in the place again. That shows that
Haymarket marriages turn out better
than some that are made in front par
lors''
The Haymarket building is an inter-
esting structure. 1t was originally
built in the Cos as public bath, and
under the present dancing floor the old
swimming tank still remains. In 1872
Billy Mcmahon opened the place as a
dance hall, calling it the Argyle.
On the Sixth avenue side a gambling
house was conducted as an annex to
the dive. The place was then about as
disreputable a dive as the city could
boast OF. Mcmahon renamed the place
the Haymarket. after the London Hay
market, when it had been running a
few months, and it has been the Hay
market ever since. with the exception
OF year or two when it was occupied
as dime museum by Prof. Worth
Mcmahon made a tremendous for
tune IN the old Haymarket. and a score
OF his descendants are now living on
the money that he made out of his no.
torious dive. The Mcmahon estate to-
day includes some valuable real estate
in this city.
Corey, the present proprietor, is an
interesting character. His father was
POAASCilietil, anu 1lNe years ago Wn9n he
announced that he was going to reopen
the Haymarket a roar of protest went
from all sides. Corey was himself pen
nlless, but he had a rich hacker. said
70 nave been Al Adams, the policy king.
He went ahead and opened the dive
despite the protests that We're made,
ana IN hNe years has cleaned up over
half million dollars for himself.
For long time Corey lived with his
family in fine suite of rooms in the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. He says he doesn't
live there any more. He has a hand
some summer home on Long Island.
He. recently put $25O,OOO in a plot of
real estate on West Forty Ninth street.
where he is to erect an apartment
hotel.
Corey is a quiet man, but a deter
mined man, as he has shown whenever
efforts to close his place have been
made. For months he ran his dances
under the name of some club each
night and the authorities could not get
at him. He doesn't have to do that now.
w. D. Lyons,