The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-03

6s 1E People-O Op-All-N1Bn III a great (S city-not necessarily those who
 work while you sleep-are many and varied. They move in circum- scribed orbit, the people up all night from choice, and if you should draw a circle taking in Long Acre square and the To- cality adjacent, say from Fortieth street on the south, Fiftieth street on the north and Sixth avenue on the west, you will have hived them in.
 Leaving out the little places, many and interesting of themselves, the foregather- ing points of interest would be a success sion of stepping stones to swing around the circle at night upon, like this; The Metropole, Shanley's, Rector's, Church. irs, Joe Adams, Jake Wolf's, Jacks and back again.
 If you will enter these places before Il you will find them dull and quiet. A will derness of tables spread but not sat at, a scattered array of yawning waiters-and then the treatres begin to exude their throng upon Broadway and the people who stay up all night put in an appear ance. It is morning for them, break fast for them-the day, all day in the night time in the Tenderloin. has just begun when the clock is one hour to midnight.
 At the Metropole Alfred Henry Lewis, the writer, has his table at which to drink many small cups of coffee, smoke many cigars and sit up all night, while actors, prize fighters, jockeys, detectives, sport ing men and local politicians come and go to discuss many topics concerning hu- man life as they see it with the sage of Wolfville.
 Here is the little group of actors who did not go to the fight" They are wait ing for the returns to be brought in by those who did go. It's going the limit" :" these first say, as they watch the clock, "or the bunch would be back
 There is Rose Beaumont with a collie pup in the ladies dining room. With her is a very small boy, a lad of 5 Evil dently her little boy, you think, for that is her husband, Billy B. Van, the come dian, sitting opposite to her with the little boy between.
 Then the little boy turns and faces you Such an elderly looking little boy Ted Marks stops beside him and says: "Gabe to settle a bet, how old are you?'
 ''Twenty-sixu' pipes the child; but it isn't a child its Master Gabriel, who is rlaying Little Memo at the New Amster- dam theatre.
 There is Little Tim" Sullivan and Eddie" Burke and another childish fig- ure But by this time you are not to be fooled by midgets, and it is no sur padse you to recognize Adolph zink the Lilliputian. Big men or little men, they are old enough to stay up all night at the Metropole, and, so far as you know, they do, for you leave the place and saunter up Long Acre square to Churchilfs.
 At Churchill's big Captain Jim" is at the doorway welcoming them with hearty greeting, for Churchills is a favorite place whereat to stay up all night.
 The place is packed and damned, and there is method as well as hospitality in Captain Jims' welcoming them in.
 When all the tables are taken" he says, "I have to stall those I know a while till the head walters can find places for them'
 ''Theres deuce by the window" says a head waiter, coming up.
 "A table for two right over there; you re looking welll' says Captain Jim,'' not to the head waiter, but to couple. he has been buttonholing at the door.
 Here, you see, you have learned some thing. A table for two is called "a deuce" in the all-night restaurants.
 'To avoid confusion at our crowded hours" says Captain Jim,'' we use signs. Now I watch the head waiter or one of his assistants further down the room, and if he puts his hand up to the back of his head I know there are no more vacant tables, and so hold the new corners in conversation till a place can be found for them.
 If a big table is vacated l get sign. and if there is a deuce ready he holds up two fingers. Simple, isn't it?'
 Churchill's isn't open Dy day. Hasn't been for months. It's hours are from , in the evening until in the morning, for it is exclusively conducted for those who stay up all night. Just before 5 in the morning those who stay up all night take their last meal before going home to bed at dawn. The favorite last meal dish