Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-06-20
SIX DAYS In GOTHAM.
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How the People Live.


readers. In the first place practically
all of the first class hotels OF the klnu
that cater to transient travel are con-
Quoted strictly on the European plan.
That Is YOU pay so much per day OF
tWenty-four hours for room with
bath, and necessary service. FMS ser
vice includes the attention of porters'
hell bows, chamber maids, etc., care
and responsibility for mail, tele-
grams, transportion to the railway
station on leaving, If desired, accu-
rate information as to how TO go any
where or to get whatever may be de-
sired. In fact it means that the LOGGER
Is a guest in all that the word implies
and he or she has at her call all the
resources that a wealthy private host
Is usually accustomed to place at the
disposal of his visiting friends. In
connection with the hotel Is nrst-
class restaurant most eXcellently con-
Quoted. Meals are served at all nouIs
and guests OF the hotel get practlcaliy
whatever they order and pay Tor what
rhey get. But 1t does not follow tnat
the lodger in a given hotel eats at tne
restaurant of that hotel. PUBIC eat
ing places are so numerous In the city
that there Is not much exaggeration
in the statement that one can De
found within a couple of hundred
wards of almost any given point. This
is especially true of all the business
portion of the city and much more
than two-thirds of the city Is given
over to business. Within certain linn
its the class and standing of different
eating places are regulated py the
prices charged for service. For In,
stance the same beefsteak may De mao
at prices ranging all the way from 20
cents to $500, and generally speaking
the rs cents steak is likely to De as
good as the $5 steak. or course that
is also to be taken with certain quail
6cations. There comes in the ele-
ments of skill and experience in prep
aration, luxury and style of sur
roundings, and such like considera-
tions But there is not much claim
that differences are based very large
Iv on values Glass figures more
prominently than values In the same
manner there are places where halI
pint glass of beer is served for 20
cents and other places where the
charge is only five cents for a quart
of the same beer. The idea Is to Gre
ate lines of division in accordance
with the means and financial stand
ing Of the various kinds OF customers
OF course all classes understand the
from their money; but that Is not the
whole point. If you should complain
at the prices in a high class restau-
rant, for instance, you would be po-
!itely informed of places where you
can get the same things more In
keeping with the amount you want to
paw. A handkerchief that would cost
twenty-five cents on Broadway can be
had for ten cents on 7th or 9TH ave-
nue., only block away on either SIDE
Certainly there would be that much
difference in price within the distance
of another block. So many people
who lodge at first class hotels paying
from $1.5O to SIS a day for rooms go
to cheaper places than the restaurant
of the same hotel for what they want
to eat. And that is the rule as to
practically all visitors There are
thousands, of course who think moth
ing of paying from 81 to So and up
ward for breakfast, lunch and dinner
(supper), and they invariably tip the
walters with anything from twenty
five cents to 81 in addition. But don't
let it be understood that respectable
living is not to be had except at these
high prices. There are hundreds and
thousands of boarding houses at
which most of the readers of this can
get board and lodging as good as they
want at from $4 to Sc week.
The Things In the Streets.
OF the thousand attractions and
distractions of New York, there are
none more interesting than the one
which is most commonplace
passing throngs in the streets. This ap-
plies to any of the streets; but just
now the reference will be only to
Broadway, and the paralleling ave-
nues on either side. There are three
systems of car lines in the city, sur
face lines, subway lines and elevated
lines. The surface lines run up and
down along all the thoroughfareS ex-
cept Fifth avenue. The subway runs
from north to south. holding close to
Broadway but a part of the time on
one side a part of the time on the
other. OF the north and south ele-
waited lines there are five. On all the
| lines trains and cars are passing at an
interval of from one to two minutes,
and all are crowded with people. But
| the car lines do not take care OF a
third of the traffic. In the busiest
down town districts for distance OF
| four or five miles people are going
and coming in ceaseless trotting
streams Everybody tries to keep to
the right on either sidewalk, and by
| this means traffic is less impeded than
otherwise; but in spite of this there
are frequent jams. The cross town
| traffic at many points is just as heavy.
Street cars, drays, automobiles, de-
livery wagons, taXicabS and people
come to frequent jams and are often
packed in solid masses extending for
hundreds of yards in all directions. At
crossing points where traffic is heavi-
| est, policemen stand in the middle of
| the street from morning till night
helping to keep the way open. These
policemen are armed with clubs and
whistles with which they give signals
| to stop or go on. On the develop
| ment of a jam, a blast of the whis-
tie stops all vehicles where they are.
Then pedestrians are motioned to
move this way and that, and then
| first one street and then another is
cleared of vehicles. Ordinarily the
policemen are able to manage with
wonderful precision and despatch;
but at times the tangle gets beyond
their control and it may be hours be-
| fore the thrOng can get on its way
| again. And the composition of the
crowds furnish unlimited material for
study. There is in it humanity i'm all
its phases. Well tO-dO. substantial
looking American citizens. foreigners,
| W IllltS, SGlloNH' ShiICoN'
paneSe. and in fact every race of the
| earth. There are those who look as If
| they have all that wealth can procure
and thousands whose pinched, drawn
| faces and rags are the picture of the
most abject misery. poverty and want.
| The turbaned Turk with his baggy
| trousers attracts no more interest or
comment than the frOntiersman from
| Alaska, or maybe the pampered dude
of the metropolis. Noticeable in the
midday thrOngs too, are thousands OF
women, young. old. hOmely, hand
some, well dressed. chick or in latter
ed rags. some with escorts. some in
| parties of two or three, some alone,
some accompanied by numbers of
dirty. half-starved children, but many
| dressed i'm the height of big hat. hob
| BILE skirt fashion. The ultra rich, ii is
| said, are not often seen in the street
| throngS but they are not missed.
| There are enough of all kinds of other
| folks TO take their places. Among the
women are lots of pretty, sweet faced
beauties, and many who are equally
| well dressed and equally handsome in