The sun., 1910-05-08
THV FABULOUS EAST SIDE
A WRITER. A PROFESSOR AND A
PAINTER SEEN Az IMAGE.
BShrmiAn necr'-6earch Ter no Easi
Blds 90 George LulSs-lThe Anolcai
Mariner CeichEitles Pointed 0ua-A
Fmd at ths ma % ths ExpedBtion.


chAnted spot a. the Latin Quarter. An old
Frenchman with whom I dinod daily at
that time IN a luxurious Batignollos gar
cote informed me that Paris had seen the
last of the famous quarter after The Com
mune. but a still older person who
wrote obituary notices for the parish
swore the Latin Quarter had not been IN
exisience sincs ists tho swelling tide Of
democracy had swept away the darling
superstltions Of tho studenan. many Of
whom hsosms comfortably rich when
Napoleon Tho Little grasped ths crown.
This set down as pure leggCI. Had
not sen young painters. poets and muai-
clans IN baRgy velvet trousers walk 10
and down the Bour Mich during the en-
position II isTs2 And they still prancsd
avOut the cafes and brasssriss In iSos.
their hair az long az their thirst There
may be no LATIN Quarter. but the Latin
Quarter h ever in young mah's soul
Who goss 10 Paris in pursuit % the golden
aeece Of art
recovered from the dislllusionmant
and no more bothered my head about this
paaieboard Bohemia than I did at the
Ialand Of Markan whsn was told that its
Dutch peasants with their picturesque
costumes and hsaddreas Wera moonshins
manufactured by an eRterprisiRg travel
bureau 10 attract tourists. Ars thsrs
not more Puritans in the West than In
New England But the loss ~ such
treasured illusion - our 0wn East SIDE
smOts me severely When young and
luoyant one illusion crowds out another.
After you have crossed the crest divide
of "a, with the mountains Of The moon be-
hind you and an increasing waist measure
ment before you. the annulment ~ .
oherishsd image wounds the soul.
The Fast Side with its Arabian Nights
sntetainmsui was such m image. Twuuty
wars ago you could play the role % the
disguised Sultan and with favoFitO Vizier
saIly forth AZ eve from Park roW IN pur-
suit Of OfstmnReadventuros WhatthriliinR
encounteul What hairbrsadth escnpes!
What hand 70 hand struggles with gonii.
afrlts. lmps- bottlO imps. very Oftsn-
dangerous bandits. perilous policemen and
nymphs or thFios dangerous anaTchists,
To sIink down an IN lighted. sinisaOr alley
fun Of Chinese and American trampa. 10
hurry by solitary poliosmsn a. II you were
engaged In somo criminal enterprise. 20
sater the abode of them that nSver wash,
whore bad bceg and terrible tobacco Glled
tha air with discoriant perfmnss-ahi
what joys for adventurous souls. what
tFumsndoSis daWna that appeared over
Williamsburg, what glorious headaches
wepO ours on awakening thu neHf night
An East Side there vas in thoss hardy
times. and it Wus still Firginal % sgttls-
msnt workers. sociological canka, i'm
psrtinent reforFnoga self-advortising poll
ticians. billonairB sOCialista and the
ubiquitous n0wspapsr man Magazine
writers had not tOpuytuFvied the ideas Of
tbe tensmcut dwollers, nor we're the street
cleaner, the Board of Hgalth and other
dostroysrs of tho picturssqus IN svidmce
n was the dsar Old dirty. oftsa- disrupu-
table though nsveE dnll Fast Side: while
nov the sentimentaliEt fssls q heart pang
- so the order. the olaanllnaus. the wide
strpess the playgrounds. ths haG bouIo-
wards. the absence of indispaos that
have spoiled the most Interesting part of
New York city.
JUsTUs scHwABa
Well I remsEnbsr tho night. years ago.
when finding ourselves In Tompkins
SQUARE We went across 10 Justris Schwab's
and joined an anarchist meeting in full
swing. ThsrsWereno bombs though there
was plsnty % bsor. A mors Amiable and
bOfter informed man than SChWab mover
trod carpst slippers The discussions in
German and English betrayed a culture
not easily duplicated on tho West Side
whsrever that mysterious territory really
is Before NistaSohs' a and Stirneg names
wers pronounced In our lscture rooms
ghsy were tamiliarly quoted az SchWab's.
BY requsst I played The Marsaillaise'
and tho international Hymn on an Old
piano smoke stained, with rattling keys
and a cracked tone which stood at the
rear upon q platform. All was peace ana
GOw ~ soul; yet tho place was raidad
hefors midnight and a hand of indignant.
also merry. prisoneTs marched 70 tho
polics station. Naturally no one was
detained but Schwab The polics felt
called upon 70 arrest somebody around
TOmpkins Square about onos a month.
Anarchist Outnges' vas the usual news
paper headline Whv are the Mafa Der
FORMERS mover called anarchs? To-day
the Black Hand tsrroFizss a region whore
IN. bombs in the old times were manufac.
tured of ink for the daily papers They
esnsrally blow themselves mp, these an
archists: but there IL nothing adventurous
IN having an eye OF q leg blown away by
q Sicilian you have mover sson. To 10
arrested twenty years ago forths romantic
crime Of playing The Marsslllaise' on a
badly tuned piano-is Il any wonder 7
re- ssntimsutAi Vhsn mink og an
Fast Side that IL no morsi PsrhRpa the
younger Kensration, which Ibssa de-
scFibsd a. knocking. may have its hooks
unknown 10 us. hut the old fascination
has hoWn.
Yet like the warhorss that n pot out 10
grass and rears when Il hsars tho tin din
nsr horn. We pTicksd sars on learning one
summer afternoon that up on First avenue
there was a wonderful brew Of beer 20 he
had. Pilsnsr beer served across genuine
Bohsmian tablesi How tho 7imor came
N my easS I've forE0ttsn. but was not
long In sending itl Elad import over the
telephone. Remember that We now dwell
10 a city where never before has 90 much
badly kept beer been sold. The show
places are gaudy and AmsrioanlSed
Fashionable summers whose fathers wore
leathen aprons and drank their beer