Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02
BROADWAY PICTURES GOTHAM'S LAY LIFE New York's Main Artery is Remarkable Thoroughfare of the World
 In Regard to Length
 And Activities.
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 NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-"Thc great. est street no the world is in America London may have its strand and Plea. lilly, Paris its Bois du Boulogne and Champs Elysces and Berlin its Untcr den Linden. But viewed from any aspect that cf mere age, Broadway New York's Broadway-is ahead of any two of them put together The words were spoken today by an Amer ican who has just returned from n trip of several months through Flu rope. but tdey may be taken as typi. cal of the sentiments of those who have had the opportunity of compar ing the most celebrated thoroughfarc in the United States with others more or less known to fame in foreign countries. Even the New Yorker. who takes for granted almost all the good and bad equalites of this city. grows enthusiastic when Broadway is men. toned
 TIe reason for this is easy to under. stand for those who know the long. irregular thoroughfare which runs from tip to tip of Manhattan Island. lt is not merely that Broadway is the most important sreet in New York; it is the epitome of New York. Other streets and sections have made nor. or less hecting bids for popularity, but as the growth of the city has continu ed nortnward the famous old street has steadily maintained its supremacy which is more firmly grounded now than ever before. It is significant that one never hears an actor singing "Take Me Back to Fifth Avenue. v It's always Broadway. For all that Fifth Avenue has been written about and preached against its fame, like that of any fashionable street, is transitory. Even in it's palmicst days Fifth Avenue represented nothing characteristic except wealth. Now business is rapidly driving on. the costly residences, forcing tnem into side streets and to the newer fashion. able sections fartheur uptown. Almost the entire length of the avenue below Central Park is already given over to business and to the kind of business that keeps daylight hours-oiiice build. ings, wholesale salcsrooms and retail shops. After nghtfall it is compara. lively silent and deserted.
 Broadway, on the other hand, lives every moment of every twenty four hours. When the daylight fades the electrics begin to bathe it in their brilliant glow. Nowhere else in the world are such millions of light used in outdoor illumination as along that two miles stretch of Broadway be. tween Madison Square and Columbus Circle, which has come to be known as the Great White Way. And be Tore the last of these lights has wink ed itself out as the last of the all. night crowd turns it's steps homeward
 H''' lHf FLOW is bright again in the East and fresh army of toilcrs and pleasure seekers IS rolling down Broadway to take up the burdens of another day.
 Broadway s a long street. It ex- tends from the southcrnmost tin of Manhattan to it's extreme northern | nutn, vsbau h. son join to shut t of from the main. land. Tnis is distance of some four | teen or fifteen miles. As matter of | fhet the street retains its name and | identity all the way along the eastern bank of the Hudson to Albany, I4O | miles. Along it's course within the | boundaries of the Island 1t exempliies every activity of inc city and nation | Of which it forms a part More than | l,5oO,OOO people live along it and TO-, | O0O,O0O trips day are made on foot | ana in vehicles along and below its | surface. Thirty million business trans | actions involving amounts from | penny tO millions of dollars take | place along 1t during every twenty. four hours. lt is a business, shop | ping, theatre, hotel and residence | street and as many a confirmed Broad, | wnyitc has discovered ii K possible to | lind almost every conceivable means | of making and spending money wltain iis limits.
 Beginning It's course at the Bowling | Green, where the Dntch burghers of Kew Amsterdam smoked their even. ing pipes and snilfed tho salt breezes coming mp the Bay, for tho first half mile of its length Broadway is tho street of Big Business, the home of ihc Trusts Amos, at it's lower end,