New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
bf WORKERS IN Demand at Lobster"

counter, but the dairy products are quite
satisfying and-ahem,-cheap, while the
young ladies who minister to you are
pleased to accept sIve-cent tip! Let us 80
there
What pains and annoys lobsterdom in
the matter of the revocation of all-night
! licenses is the Mayors confounding of the
gay White Way restaurants with the
cheap and nasty side-street drums This
is ally a more serious matter than the
imaginary grievance over turning away
horGes of twenty-five or fifty-dollar-a- week
night workers from fancy supper places
that would burn a hole through their sal
/ airy envelopes In no time.
The Mayors right about closing the
tough places says Broadway, loftily.
Those Paris by Night joints have no
business to be licensed all night any
part of it-reSortS. they tell me, where the
girls walk down the aisles flirting with
customers and accepting drink or meal
from anybody that smiles at en-, But why
bother us? And then what does the Mayor
mean by letting the license of one Sixth
avenue restaurant stand and revoking all
ours? 1t amt any better than Broadway.
Pfaugh, 1t amt half as classy. Tell me.
is Mr.. Mayor a bug?
B8fDaf1Sm OF brooklyn ana 81. James,
Lcne Island The former Justice of the
Supreme Court who rules greater New
York is blind absolutely blind to the nice
social distinctions of the great white way
That thoroughfare prides itself on the pro-
prietjes No soiled doves trail through its
corridors The birds of passage there are
perfect ladies: they've got TO be. man dear
fer. as a lobster palace proprietor care
admitted to any of the first-class public
dining rooms at night
To be sure. Violetta and Angeine are un-
commonly lively the earlier hours of the
evening. Violetta and Angelina are real
persons and they are also types. The oh
server first saw them trapeSing into a big
lobster palace about O'Clock in the af
ternoon and comforting with the head wait
er Nioletta wore a striking directOre
dress and a kittensh white lace bonnet;
Angeline was more Of the Moyen Age, her
bounteous curves being reduced to proper
tior in a confection of friars' gray The
Comely breadth of each damozel bespoke
innumerable Holsters consumed and mag
NUNS of champagne drunk; their hard,
smooth faces. handsome. If unbeautiful. in
dicated previous term of servitude as
SHOW girls and Strlct attention TO the
beauty doctors orders
About o'clock Nioletta and Angellne re-
turned having in tow an aged adnirer and
a callow youth. The party took seats at a
window table, and the goings-on We're no
more exciting than those at O'Clock
tea-though 1t wasn't tea Nioletta and
Angeline were drinking. AT . O'Clock the
old man and the boy novitiate went their
respective ways. The girls fiddled around
the entrance of the lobster palace for "A
quarter of an hour. They darted In and
out OF the telephone booths. they whispered
now with one waiter and then with an
other and in the intervals they ''rubbered''
up and down Broadway or chartered: said
he'd ne here, sure-Percy's comm over
from Chicago to-night-That old geezer
asked me for supper; think III can him!-
Are you in on the mobile party ?-Yes. yes!
Starts for Larchmont after the restau-
rants close-Joseph, the maitre dhotel at
Blank IS, asked me to work there can't
thougil-Say," and the rest of the talk was
lost as Angeline cophded state secrets close
In her chums ear.
Finally. they faded away into the Broad