Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-11-13
OWERYDELMOH|CO'S
Incidents Recalled by Reopening
Lyons Noted Place.
CID new YORK RESTAURANT.
Clmpses Of the Eas. Side Resort When
Il Was In It's GIory-popular With
Police, Firemen and 6owery Wedding
parties

It Was In It's GIory-popular With
Police. Firemen and eowery Wedding
Parties.
Mike Lyons famous old restaurant
On the Bowery. In New York. has been
reopened and the key thrown away
once more.
Lyons place. at go Bowery. near
Houston. on the east side. was opened
in 1872. Then Lyons threw away the
key. and the place was never shut
day or night. sundays or holidays.
He can't close because he threw
away the key when he first opened
up" said the knowing ones. But two
years ago the Bowery was shocked Que
night to find the place closed up at
midnight. says the New York Post
English Harry" the head walter. who
started In with Lyons as boy. ex.
planned
Times was when You couldn't get
seat here at . O'Clock In the morning,
and we had room for 800 at that" he
said. I'VE kept six walters busy until
breakfast time Now there's only one
waiter on the dogwatch, and he spends
half his time asleep, My son. the Bow.
ery's on the blink"
The old restaurant man. who used TO
take pride in being around his place
for about twenty hours out OF the
| twenty four, seemed to lose heart after
ha hn tsph a a H..
out Of the business last January. when
be sold out to his eldest sou. George
Washington Lyons. After his son took
charge Mike went down TO his Old
home in Louisiana for q long visit
and after he returned he spent most of
his time on little farm he owns on
| Long Island. The restaurant which
Mixes good mana cement caused TO be
known as the "Bowery Delmonico's"
saw little OF its founder after he turned
| his back on ii.
| In August last year deputy sheriff
appeared. and Mike Lyons was shut.
wherest the Bowery sat up and took
notice, and the part OF Mulberry
streets police outfit that had to be OH
| the job at or around dinner time went
| to other restaurants and grumbled
when the goulash had queer things in
it and the ham and eggs failed to
come up to the requirements of the
| pure food regulations.
Ever since there has been a bare
| spot along the street TO which the man
| o'-wars man always turns, because it
| has been man-o'-war's man habit. But
the wide thoroughfare is different
very different. A few years ago there
was always something doing at Sui
eide corner" where First street i'm
pinges on the Bowery. The girls who
killed themselves there came mostly
from McGurk's Suicide hail." bit
north Of Houston. on tie same side OF
the street as Lyons.
Then. next TO McGurk's, was the
Germania, famous music hall where
you could sip beer beside strong arm
teams. cadets aud Jack tars, for whom
was created and sincerely chanted that
Bowery war song which meant all
that 1t impled-more than can be said
of the average song of the day-"Strike
Up the Band; Here Comes Sailor
Over the tables at Mike Lyons the
shifting tide of the Bowery was faith
omed. and it was at Lyons that one
went, be he cub reporter or plain
clothes man, to get the latest gossip OF
any precinct. not TO mention the poll
tics churning behind the impassive
dirty gray front of 300 Mulberry, Pc.
lice headquarters.
In days when Lyons was In its glory
a dozen inspectors. to say naught of
captains. each with revolving satellite
OF sergeant and wardman and a hand,
full of fire department battalion chiefs
sat down to meat daily. while the
Bowery haberdashers' clerks and even
the banana men, with push carts ca
reening over the curb in front of the
wide open doors, whispered that this
one was Captain Smith of the Steentf
precinct and that one was attached to
Inspector Jones' staff. Even "Englisl
Harry" and the small fry of the wait
ers-and they made good tips at Lyons
knew when fire commander or police
man was Sin bad" or lin right"
Many an important ''shakeup" not a
all 'for the good Of the service" wa:
framed up over the linen at No. $50