The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-08
From A STUDIO WINDOW.


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A Cross section Of New YORK Laid Open
for fhspcrfien.
To THE EprroH OF TEE sUN-str: 1 live
In q region OF supposed rcspectsbility In New
York. IL fronts on an avenue. at least the
place does, but my apartment 10 at the back.
overlooking the hollow square at the back
OF the studio building and street houses. One
street furnishes the respectable resident ele-
mont. the other the Bohemian atmosphere.
A Bohemian atmosphere In not objection
able provided it goes to bed or keeps quiet
after 1 o'clock In the morning. This Bohemia
embraces many things In Its elastic word
q profane parrot at q window. pots OF sers-
NUNS and refrigerators on the IRE escapes.
children. dogs. and by night many cats.
Opposite meis q family VIII battle frankly
every Saturday night, but do no lingerie
washing. nor Is II done for them.
There's an old man In blue jeans who smokes
q pipe. there's q mother with the children. q
husband who occasiongn Ivy comes In 60 shave.
q friend b plays the Violin Saturday eve-
ming. when the children and the canary birds
are shut on somewhere.
In the daytime the children and the canary
birds and some dead daisies In pots hang out
on the fire escape. Beyond 10 Q prize tighter.
He has Just moved In and he wears the same
suit. like Robinson Crusoe. all the while. What
there N OF 1t is dark blue and the rest Of him
10 all tan and muscles.
There is a little son attached TO him in q
little blue suit like his fathers. but he Isn't
tan and muscles. He is a thin. white little
son. with a very big tow head and such very
white little arms that one can see from afar
they have not been bathed for many days.
The prize fighter or boxer or what not never
talks or reads. He lies on the bed all the
time when at home and smokes. The bed Is
never made up. When he first came there was
a pair OF white arms and hands at the window.
and then the bed was made. but It never 10
now. The man pulls 1t q bit In the morning
and that's all.
About his room are the prize lighting things,
and he gets out Of the window and beats the
boxing gloves and hangs them all out on .
clothes line, where they look like q collection
OF belligerent Teddy bears: then he goes back
and lies on thebed and smokes. while the white
little boy with the white dusty arms hangs out
the window and exchanges courtesies. kind
and otherwise. with the little girl In the court
yard below.
The little girl belongs to the stationery store
in front. where her older sisters sell things
ineficiently. On Monday. at the back. they
devote the same sloppy inoapacity to the wash
tub. by reason Of which the little girl gets an
occasional and unattended bath. The older
Ironing. IL there is any, because the younger
% ali, the time. and they can't 40 IN the tub.
In the middle Of my hollow square there are
green spaces and. nice trees with long green
biggest IL an Ice cream garden. gay by night
with laughter and lanterns. and tawdry by
dag. with chalk faced servitors In sSIled
shop freauented by the boys from. the pri-
much vesly biestins. mixed with wine color.
ful feminine laughter. High up above the
| "a tia A,.n north H0ht nalA aWaafin9 man
ply their trade TO the end that their fellows
may wear trousers even In summer when they
From the south side several sober psda-
gogues watch the cheap foridity OF the oppo-
ne areas scss ss stnsy wV ;n.3as p snS an. H%, vanish TS:h
maxim that labor is Worship. and making
. .es. ,f Sia. e orsr:Il.' fh snD, .fs Ell Ssa Il S1a.
; IA; ~. :53l,s .h ,s,I %;n a: rs s. f T,nso-. The. Y,s me-" i..s
gentleman brushing the hair that is not with
q Sushy head uses only a poor thin. Im1potent
IN the girl bachelors room with the red
lamp there Ii usually q man In the evcning s,
and from the hsnds, long and, slender and
artistic. the rest OF him must be attractive.
might see through the stinsy crack Of the
drawn curtains.
Nov {: III: not, By sI,, :h2yinF. : p9Iits;
in nv blue balcony Of an apartment. between
respectability and, bohemia, enjoy, II all i'm
I ne doSt mind the the s%ocietiss that ,s spSi 1iP Their
boiling .egotism y, loud speech right beside
me 1. The Si,s big c ns,l BY ON my n Ssd .OS Va, burned
wasn't PLEASANT TO a neishbor With old family
tiSn e Il only spa es sll ! r By ths eS Vice. ssof asES1
Of her burnt dolls in This Master Builder.
stil IT, The ;hs hall B.S q al c 1,sht o %s' by it s,S GSi S1
but just beyond that hall and below it in tbs
the came building is q arSthe bar wish 70
TIE rooms connected with a.. The ordinary
growls and roaIs OF besotment can Be en-
s shisS IL x. g earl. %i1n %orsitn H1' may a. :n s. free y from M
horror and fright to eober people In the neigh
borhoodl on Sunday por9inS especially:
drunken screams and cries mingled With the
sicoSoi@s Voice made ali the more creepy and
eSs:: Be. :s:is.t ,aS. SEs.:, cia 5-ls: s!syy,
The drunken roars and screams stab and
S,ScssSa business. ssv. lived n fs III. Place place
two years: and summer Day :, d1Sns have been
orgy. its identity from time to time I could
.Sd f scafs s to; : :Iis:. T e sp sr.n ne .s :sSs.%s
that can put q stop to this nuisance. which
h.: S..,i9ue A. steadily S : Z; .n NIX S, E.9 S.sS ss, for
msnts In q studio building are never unreas-
enable people, We know what IA. expect and
mind on much unconventionality Of Twin and
conduct. We only ask q little quiet rest after
midnight. Many Sunday mornings when I've
wanted most 10 sleep, as every one does, I've
been kept awake from 3 O'Clock until . o CLOCK
BY this wailing, drunken music and screams.
Somebody is always saying Jerome should
be written to, and then somebody else assures
me that 10 wouldn do the least good, so
send this account 20 TEE SUN.
I'VE DwELLFR IN ruE BLUE BALCONY.