New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10

p,arzing that New Workers find IL inn
ross,ble TO digest their food in these days
,,,Isss there is a song and dance going on
:, their elbow during dinner leading
rns,surant in Chinatown has swallowed
the spirit Of the age and introduced a
cabaret.
ps,ore the timely spirit prowled away
from "Broadway." looking for new and
u,uspecting fields to conquer, this same
chinese restaurant was a favorite haunt
~ many just plain newspaper men and
o,her unaware souls who like chop suey,
a,d eat II Tor its own sake and not as an
.vneriepce. Now, however. that the caba-
%, has introduced the kick. the wink and
Tho lifted shoulder into the quiet OF
CHINATOWN the advent OF the respectable
is inevitable.
chinatown always has had thrill in
{, I. has always been bit dangerous.
a tribe raldsh, to so there. There have
..er those who have considered it an
,,r.,-,svshIe step toward a downward
nc "a 20 20 Chinatown. Now, it is TO be
feared, all that will change The cabaret
has always been an invitation TO the
light hearted and reckless, except IN Ne"
york Here anything in the way of res
..,rar4 that offers the Bohemian spirit
beeor,es AZ once the rendezvous OF the re-
sn.ctsble. II is useless to hope otherwise.
The thing has often been tried, and al
,,avs failed No restaurant in New York
car stav disreputable for long. AS soon
az The ruuor walks abroad that the place
Loci Av, en- nt1fa V,
fanille 10 see it, and soon II becomes
Mace where as some one has expressed
II "peopIe from Montclair go to see
people from Staten Island"
Is this 10 be the fate OF the place
where they serve the best chop suey IN
Manhattan? The note OF strangeness is
struck from the outside Of this once Sc
cI,,ded SPOT. A liveried carriage man
stands before the door on the narrow little
sidewaik Though paper lanterns in gor-
reous colors swing above his head in the
might breeze and give him the costume
euo he IS not dressed in the Chinese way.
Vie holds the door open and you pass into
q small yestibule, finding yourself con-
fronted by q steep pitch OF marble steps
In YOU go. Strains of music coax you up
FOR YOU know the cabaret is IN run SWINE
above A rather large room receives
ron II Is bizarre in it's decorations OF
hsct and gold. it's lanterns and dragons.
,,s heavily carved teakwood tables. Chi
nese walters. dressed in the best LONDON
mode, glide about silently in their neat
and elegant precision. A blast OF music
and song bursts from the far corner IN
terested groups from the Middle west the
South. the Pacific Coast and New Eng
land sit al the tables. dipping into bowls
NJ chop suey and rice with expressions or
ar,used distrust. II is perhaps the best
Mace lust now to see the New YORK as
sernblage Of merTymakers. waiting as i
Characteristic Of them, for some one else
TO do the merrymakinG.
Then the music 1t comes In relays,
and Part Of II is Chinese, part HOBO. Inc
boho Is contributed by pianist, appar-
entity Of German beginnings, II one may
indigo by the back OF his neck ana
American finishing, II the visor OF his
stroke NJ the keys signifies anything AZ
cornpanying the piano are VioilniSt ana
bass hddlist, both apparently trained IN
the Conservative dies Saloons de Bo"erE'
A little girl in Chinese costume stahuS
beside the piano and moves her mouth
rbvtbuicaI,v. She is apparently singing
hut tho ear is so preoccupied with the
work Of her three virile accompanies
that her contribution is seen not hearu.
II is all very entertaining lheh 'no
Chinese musicians come in. They dress
like a delegation from an American col