Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
Special to The Herald.

NEW YORK, March IS. Ocean
| travel in the second cabin has increased
greatly since the big new liners of the
Baltic type have been put into service.
Deck room is larger and many of the
discomforts of the old second cabins
! have been eliminated. In most respects
the second cabin amuses itself through
| the voyage much as does the first cabin
| The veteran anecdotes of the smoking
room are as much at home aft as they
are amidships. An energetic and pros
porous second cabin makes it's little
pools on the days run, though the
basis be only a bob" instead of a
sovereign. On some lines the second
cabin has it's own concert, and if it has
| been year of bad business at the the
aters, or if the vaudeville shows happen
to have sent IL light or two abroad, the
array of talent often surpasses that
which the purser has wearily mustered
| farther forward. The audience is ten
| times more responsive, and it gives its
| bit toward the seaman's orphanage
quite as generously in proportion to it's
means. In one respect in it's diversions,
the second cabin differs from the first.
| Even where considerate company has
| provided it with a little library even
when 1t has brought it's own magazines
and paper-coVered novels aboard, it
reads, or pretends to read. far less than
does the first. And who crosses the
Atlantic in the second cabin? All sea-
sons of the year the strapped" be
| they of America or of Europe, be they
in that financial state either for the
| hour, or as II recurring, even q con-
| tinuous condition--it is they that make
| the life of the second cabin so lively
| that any one with q responsive soul
! f0rScts its material discomforts. At all
seasons, too, there is a sprlnkling off
the ever-economcal, but they make un-
congenial travelling companions. In the
spring and summer there are the home
going families, especially to the conti-
nent, that have found fortune accord
ing to their standards in America and
that are going back to the old country,
the old town and the old associates,
to give ample and visible evidence of
the reward of emigration.
Drink, but Don't Smoke
Having been delegated by the Rev.
Madison c.. Peters to visit the principal
cafes and restaurants of the city, from
| those of the most exclusive and fash |
| ionable variety to the cheaper, more
promiscuous sort in the districts of the
| lower tenderloin in order to obtain ac-
curate facts as to the drinking ana
smoking habits among women, the fol- |
| lowing observations are given as a re-
suit of a six hours tour at the fashion
dDle TeSOTIS CdluIuiy CNSIiISb DS6hi0
ming at the dinner hour and extending
to the after theater hours:
I'VE first visited the Hotel Astor. |
The beautiful L. a dining room, which |
could stand the test of comparison with
any similar room of any restaurant in
the world perhaps, was filled with
gay and fashionable throng. AT no
table in that great hall did L see any
woman who was not drinking either
wine or other liquor. There was no
exception.
"At the Waldorf all of the dining
rooms were filled, and, from figures
given by one in authority, as many as
10000 drinks are consumed every day
in the year The women drink just the
same as the men. l saw no women
smoking.
AT the Hotel Astor, at the st. Regis,
at Sherry's and at Martins the same
fashionable crowds gathered and drank.
We saw no women smoking"
LisIe Gloves for Men
Only few seasons ago it would have
been considered effeminate for mere
man to don Isle handwear. Indica
tions for this springs trading points
with pronounced tendency to the fact
that superior quality Isle gloves will
divide attention with leather handwear.
Importers, as a rule, are agreed that
conditions favor isles for gentlemen's
spring and summer wear. This style
has the unqualified Endorsement of such
leading fashion capitals as London,
Paris, Vienna and Berlin. The claim is
made that the fabric glove is more
slightly and comfortable in hot weather,
at the same time affording a relief
from the conventional winter mode of
handwear.
On the Bowery
There are a lot of visitors who seem to
think that trip to the Bowery Is a |
fine experience. A party went through
this rotten old thoroughfare the other
day and it happened that they had not |
taken their lunch before going out A |
member of the party suggested that
they take their midday meal in Beef
steak Johns" and the sightseers filed |
in and took seats. When the waiter |
came around the party's members were
a bit diSguSted and finally one of them |
said: Lets order a cocoanut-the |
sucker can't get his dirty hands
through the shell" Finally the whole |
lot compromised on hard boiled eggs,
which they expressly stipulated should
be opened by themselves. This is the
way with the Bowery business. Fellows
from out of town come here and ask
their friends to show them the sights"
and when they get the real article they
become overfastidious. What's the
use?
Why the Dress Brought $125
In the beginning the dress was quoted
at $1O0. 1t sold for 1925.
"It was marked up because the per-