Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-02

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BeaslEs ms&SMF@&
nhers To Eat
II seems ancgeaihAe that Sew
Workers - hosne. WITH aaoaey in
their pockets. shoala v naA mare
tAAa . passing Officially - answes
tx the question; where shalt Ne
ear For homeless haeheAoEx. howev"
er. such a thea Al ieas: - Ike
god Substantial American dlshes.
The problem is fast becoming q Sc"
toas one, Time Vas. and not -
ago. when the snsSer to the CUES
ton might have been foand ~ a
G01en direrent ehop houses and res
taurants where food had = hOmelike
taste and the proprietor took some
personal interest tn his guests. Sow
Engel's, the last % q them. has
besn sold to make way Tor a hank
Martin. the best known of them nil.
failed bot u short time ago. and a
to let" sign in the window Is one Of
the mournfal sights Of Broadway To-
day. Old Toms has given way TO
N office building: Seighortnor NOV
/ 81 away and changed It's character:
Pedr0's Ia closed: lie Rianc's has
given way 10 . building devoted %
millinery. Even the middle class h0~
tel has become almost extinct, horne
down before the advance 81 trade.
The New York hotel. the old Metre
polltan. and the 81. Nicholas have
gone. and the Sinclair il doomed
soon to follow. leaving the field
wtth practically no middle ground
between the cheap lunch rooms on
the one hand and the ornate lobster
palaces In which tiresome music and
menus printed In nnintelligibla
French are the apology for exorbit.
ant charges and insolent service. In
the various foreign quarters OF the
city there are restaurants which pro-
vide the fayorite dishes OF the faith
erland. but for the men and ONE
who were born and brought up In
the United States, there Is no place
where they may expect TO find. and
recognize the toothsome dishes OF
New England and the old south, or
even the plain. substantial fare upon
which the west grew 10 lusty man.
hood. In this respect. perhaps more
than In any other. New York has
ceased 10 be an American city.
charley's Experiences.
New York has ever q warm vel.
come for the stranger within her
gates. Hence when Charley Jack.
son. Of Billings. Montana, came 90
town about three weeks ago., with
$500 In his pocket and a desire to
see what might be done with 1t, he
was promptly taken in hand and
shown a few things which could not
fail to interest however little they
may have pleased him. Before he
left for home one day last week. he
had accumulated the finest stock OF
experience that ever went west In a
, cattle train for lack of a Pullman
ticket. Charley's first night was
spent at a hotel to which a friendly
policeman referred him. where he
awoke the next morning TO find him.
self without even the price of an
!, early morning cocktail. After kind,
!, ly %harboring him for three whole
, days In the hope that something
, might turn up. the management sug.
gested that he move-without bag
. gage. which they offered to retain
. until his bill vas paid. Deeming It
essential TO eat, even II 1t should ba
found necessary TO walk back u
!, Montana. Charley sought honest EN-.
. ployment, which he found at the
business end Of a long-handled SHOW
, ell clearing the streets of snow. At
|, the end of the eleventh hour he was
rewarded with a ticket calling for
!, $2.2o. The ticket lacked the appear
, ance Of a satisfying meal, however,
, so he parted with it to a kind heart.
ed %speculator for $50, with which
he made for "a famous east side hos,
, telry, In his confiding western wav,
Jackson pulled his shoes off before
, going to bed that night. which &C.
counted for his appearance the next
morning at the office Of a charity or.
ganization In the second best pair OF
a friendly tramp. Here he exchang.
ed a pedigree reaching all the way