The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-09
MORNING IN THE TENDERLoIN.
Especially Sunday Morning -Contrasts OF
3 A. NJ. and o A.. NJ.


Did you ever see the Tenderloin on a
Sunday morning. There are few people
stirring there ate o'clock. There are more
there at 8 than a few hoars later.
The change from the noisy CROWD that
whirls out of the theatres at II O'Clock TO
the few figures that sneak about in the first
thousands that crowd Broadway gradually
disappear.
Some OF them go TO restaurants; some.
ano they are the smaller number. 60 home
and others seemingly find amusement in
walking about to look at the parade OF
pleasure, Within an hour after the theatres
nave closed there are very few persons left
in comparison with the first great outpour-
ing that overlooked both sides Of Broadway,
but the lights behind restaurant windows
and the long lines of hansoms and motors
waiting along the sidewalks or at the cab
stands show that the Saturday night crowd
has not yet gone home.
A second outpouring comes nearer 1
o'clock. 1t is from the restaurants. 1t is
not so great as the theatre crowd nor is it
so sudden nor does it end so quickly.
Gradually the restaurants are emptied,
but they are so crowded on Saturdays that
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drive away from their doors. Parties fall
l~aughingly into the motors.
There is an occasional outburst Of very
hilarious and shrill merriment. Occasion
ally a friend helps into the street a too en-
thusiastic merrymaker and departs quietly
with him in a cab. After a while even the
windows in the restaurants grow dark. The
pedestrians on Broadway are few then.
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and two girls say. comes marching along
singing softly some popular melody. Men
pass uptown on their homeward way.
The hoboes who wait for the early Sunday
hours TO descend wander from one late
pedestrian TO another.
There is less and less life to be seen,
but the stretch Of street about Times
SQUARE is never altogether deserted. The
electric lights have not faded before dawn
comes to prove that it is Sunday morning
now and not any longer Saturday night in
the Tenderloin.
The first persons who come freshly on
the scene issue early fromthe large hotels.
They are the servants on the way to church.
The pedestrians who meet them do not
have the look Of just having come from
home. Their appearance suggests a de-
parture hours before. They are now on
the way to revisit that home after the
long separation.
Almost the only life in the early Sunday
Of the Tenderloin comes from the big
hotels, After the servants are housed
again an occasional patron makes his way
TO the barber shops. Like all those who
follow him later, he is supplied with a news
paper,
That is the symbol Of the day for him.
Breakfast, the barber and then home to
the newspaper for the rest Of the morning;
that Ia the routine that the Tenderloin
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There are everywhere suggestions OF the
gayer night that came before. There is
never sufficient explanation for the litter
that this Saturday night crowd leaves be-
hind it..
Nobody seems to he carrying paper bags,
eating fruit or holding pasteboard boxes
in his hands as he walks along. Yet such
souvenirs litter the sidewalks as far down
as Thirty-fourth street and in the repose
the street cleaners take on that day. the
streets remain the same all day TO remind
New Workers what the night before was,
II is doubtful il the impression Of the
morning after ever leaves the Tenderloin
stretch Of Broadway OF a Sunday, Life is
noon a few benighted s~trollers who think
they are seeing something OF Sunday in New
York by wandering up that almost deserted
and dreary highway.
Even the crowds keep away from the
front Of the hotel at Forty-second street and.
with the sidewalk lounGers on Forty-second
street, do not make themselves seen until
late in the afternoon. II il Sunday night
before they are there in full number.
Under the porch Of the Metropolitan
Opera House gather a few groups OF the
kind that seem TO have nowhere 10 go but
out. In a DOORWAY are an occasional pair
waiting for something "a happen that will
break the monotony Of the Sunday quiet.
Even n sunshinv spring Sunday IL drnb
and gray here. The part Of Broadway that
il comprised between T~hirty-fourth and
Fiftieth streets il almost human in its eX-
preston Of remorse and the feeling that
comes the morning after Saturday night.