The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-01
DOWN r0WN GOES HOME.
A Scene o May Nee Any Saturday I'm IN
Year In COPtIandt street.

A Scene You May Nee Any Saturday I'm the
Year In COPtIandt street.
Scene in tina second city Of the world on
any Saturday from 1880 to 1 p. NJ. In Cort-
landt street from Broadway to the North
River.
Battalions OF humanity. from the Office
boy to the head Of the concern. leaving
Office building for the day ~g
Push and rush for subway cars, motor
oars. and a multitude heading for the Jersey
ferries, five blocks westward.
Street takers block tho way to make a
sale. Boy. not IS. with new device. and
voice that rises above the din OF the city.
arrests the attention OF many.
In ten minutes he has an audience Of men,
women and children. The city is never too
hurried 10 notice a novelty. A child faker
IS the novelty here.
One man makes q purchase; only a nickel.
II one man. why not q woman She buys
and hurries 20 the river.
The example Of these two people becomes
contagious. The boy EakeT disposes Of his
devices faster than he can do them up.
Man in q window giving an exhibition Of
a new physical exercise. Bunch OF young
men watch. and one enters the building.
The bunch follows. Another bunch coll
lects on the sidewalk and blocks It.
Policeman clears the a A patch Of
color comes into hes scene. Italian women
in yellow and scarlet trimmings get caught
in the crush and peer with wondering gaze.
Ono has a babe In her arms. II looks
like q fragment Of rainbow. Its face is
turned upward toward the only bit OF sky
in the scene.
The great iron crane OF a skyscraper in
construction swings out from the top story.
A man in an ~improvised seat is lowered
from above. As he nears the ground he
wav his cap.
The woman with the baby pushes her way
to the place where the basket lowered by
the crane touches the street. The man
steps from the basket and pats the cheek
OF the little one. That is what the little n
saw when somebody thought IL was gazing
at the bit of blue sky.
The triO1 the a the. woman and the
baby. push into a corner Of the unfinished
building. and the woman opens the meal,
which she has brought from somewhere.
and-welI. that's their luncheon.
On the corner near by two girls in fam
tastic garb toss ~tambOurines into the air
while the automatic "a frets the atmos-
pher8 with airs from operas.
A bit Of a woman with a blue poke bon
net trimmed with a red ribbon stands In
the way with a little box in her hand. A
few nights ago her white face was in the
crush in City Hall Park while -the General
vas making his farewell talk. The next
morning she was down at the pier watching
the ship hat carried away the commander
Of the army.
While she waits for q niclCel-Or a cent
something ont Of the way happens across
the street. There is a olang OF agony.
A horse with a covered vehicle comes to n
standstiN. -
9 AZ many OF the crowd az are in that
immediate vicinity surround the vehicle.
The woman with the blue poke bonnet
trimmed with tho red ribbon pushes her
way to the man on the seat and peers into
the ambulance as II she would like to be Of
some help 2
, The gong elangs and the ambulance
moves OF. One Of the laborers on the
building had tambSsd from mis- work. Some
body asks n he was badly hurt. Cop comes
into the crowd and orders everybody to
move along.
Half an hour has elapsed since the scene
opened. Tho stage, a short block, and
narrow. In not &C. great In area as the mimic
senges Oh the playhouses uptown. One OF
the profession who had watched what he
called the pageant ssid 20 his friend: .
Put this ON the boards and you couldn't
beRtt."