The Washington herald., 1908-02-16
GREAT WHITE WAY
How the Initiate May Court
Pleasure.
ROUND OF POPULAR RESORTS
A Days Jaunt Along Broadway Is
Full of joy to WattersOn ''PrOvin-
Always the Same, but the Frame
Changes, and scenes Are New.

Col. Henry Watterson. out Of the good
natured superiority of wide experience,
J has been gently scolding New York peo-
pie for ''provincialism.
He says they think themselves excep-
/ ton, and comments;
They are. as "a matter OF fact. chiefly
exceptional in their ignorance OF every
/ thing outside the Great White Way
Possibly the distinguished editor is right
as TO local ignorance of things outside
/ says the New York Herald, but Il is in
| finitely more probable that a careful in
| quiry would disclose a familiarity with
general conditions Of the country suft-
| cient to call for a modification Of his
structures. This however, is incidental.
! The concession Col. Watterson makes
when he admits a knowledge of 1.-THE
Great White Way is the important
| thing For to know this district as it de-
! serves to be known is the futile ambition
| Of about ninety-nine out of every hundred
adult visitors-and the accomplishment Of
only the provincial" New York resident
Learned by Years of Absorption.
To know ones Broadway is not 20 have
walked its stretches for "a day or month
or a year. It is a contamination attained
only after years Of assimilation, years of
unconscious absorption. An Inheritance
/ in the kingdom Of Broadway, indeed, is
not to be had for the seeking. It comes
with gradual development
IL Is not probable your first appearance
will be made much before soon. You will
have been sleeping peacefully until close
upon this Time and on rising there viii
have been the bath 10 be taken and the
toilet TO be considered
You viii have arrayed yourself with
discrimination for the objectionable Of
Tense against the Broadway code is
tasteIessness in dress. You must be SO
carefully clothed that there viii be no
cause for comment The sort of costum-
ing which excitcs remark is not correct
costuming, but Incorrect and distressing
c0stuming
With your dress Of the sort YOU aref ex-
pected to wear-0f the sort your fellows
OF Broadway viii be- wearing-you are
ready for the stroll from your rooms 10
the clearinghouse.
Probably you viii drop IN at Brownies
Chop House. 1t is conveniently situated
for you but, then of course. all the other
restaurants are convenient for YOU. for
your territory is not mduly extensive.
geograp hiCally. Naturally YOU viii meet
your own people in Brownies. And the
cooking will be right and the atmosphere
such YOU Ike.
And so il is Brownies for breakfast.
and you pass in the swinging door. open
ing right off Broadway and minus the
stone st0Op which for years extended out
into the sidewalk
Taking in the Matinee.
After breakfast. which. Instead of tax
ing az Browne $. under the eye of Paul
Schubert the manager. you may have
had with equal enjoyment al the Aston,
IN that corner of the mems griIlroom that
fronts the sun, you 90 for leisurely
parolling of your beat for an hour or so,
by which time you are ready for the mat
ince performance at Hammersteins or
the New York
Or maybe. instead Of the matinee. you
have good thing AT New Orleans and
want 20 get a bet down. There Will be
no difficulty in the preliminaries
You can go 10 one or the score OF
Broadway cafes and In the back room
the bOOkmaker viii approach you. as
you sit at table. and carefully expose TO
your gaze the little card. Or you rcan
visit an Office building, and II you tap
at the right d0or-and are not deceived
by the Real Estate" or Public Stenog-
rapher' sign on the ground GLASGOW
will be admitted.
Or. if not the back room Of the Office
building, there is a very excellent hotel
where you. who are an intimate may be
received on terms Of confidence and where
the sky Is the limit
After the matinee or the racing invest
ments you will foregather with your kind
in the mems room at the KniCkerbOcker. /
Lined up AGAINST the bar rail and facing
the famous painting Of Old King Cole. by
MaXtield Parrish, which runs the whole
length of the room, you viii touch shoUl-
deTs with the celebrities of YOUR little
world
Where the Initiate May Dine
Soon it is time for dinner. and you may
as well dine at Mouquins as at any
one of a dozen other places, for the wines
are good and inexpensive, and the chef
knows whereof he cooks On the lower
floor, If you are fortunate enough TO get
a seat, you will have for neighbOrs the {
artists and good livers generally who /
have gravtated TO this Sixth avenue
restaurant after the passing of the at
traction of the little old place in West
Twelfth street where once they locked !
Or it may be that you will be nearer |
Shanley's-the Forty-secOnd street Shan
ley's, to be sure, where all the walters
are of the same agreeable nationality as
the prOprietors. Here are the politicians, /
the Tammany crowd, the rulers Of the /
city. and here most OF the liners are
known to TIE particular Stanley who /
may be on the figurative bridge at the /
time.
1t really makes little difference where |
you have your dinner, for you are sure /
to meet congenial company, whether it /
be at Sherry's-a hotel by the way, as 1
well as an eating house, and still pointed 1
out by the men on the Fifth avenue 1
stages as the place they held the famous /
Seeley dinner, at which the decenty de- I
ceased Little Egypt was star perform |
er-or at the new and already famous /
Plaza. or at any OF the other houses of /
call approved by your fellows. You will 1
be well served and in good humor for /
the affairs of the evening. no matter /
under whose roof you break bread and |
drain the cocktail glass
1t may be your fancy will lead you TO a
theater in the evening. but if so it will /
be a theater where the entertainment is
of the light and airy order, where the
chorus girls constitute the plot of the
piece" where the comedians are your
companions after their arduOus three
hours work. and where the manager is
your friend
At paddy the Pigs"
or, maybe you stray over 10 Sixth ave-
nue. and enter the hOspitable doors Of
Clarence O'Brien, known as Paddy the
Pig" and seldom resenting the designa-
ton Mr.. O'Brien is partly TO the point
that he requires double doors for ingress
and egress, He is engaging in his man
ners and viii invite the caller to a seat