Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-18
RECTOR ALSO HAS NEW
PLACE TO REPLACE OLD
White Light Eating Places Have All
Had Strenuous Time Since the
I Murder Of Rosenthal
BY CARLTON TEN EYCK.
Written for the United Press

sweet If called rOsel That, apparent.
ly is what several of New York s best
known restaurateurs are trying to find
out
There have been great many
changes in the favorite eating places
of Manhattan in the past six months,
but few new names appear. The res
taurant owners seem to have the idea
that location does not make a great deal
of difference, so long as the name is
the same. Louis Martin, the famous
pioneer caterer of Broadway, now holds
forth at Fifty-ninth street, where form.
erly the name of George Rector flaunt.
ed itself in big electric letters. George
Rector, in turn has taken over the old
Folies Bergere restaurant at Fifty.
eighth street and Broadway. His name
already appears in big letters on all
sides Of the building, and the place
viii be opened for business about the
IlFhJ BOOu oyster day.
When Louis Martin moved from
Twenty.fifth street and Broadway up
to Forty.second street, impelled by the
uptown rush and the northward mi.
grafton of the theatre district, he form.
ed a stock company, Not many months
ago there arose a series of dissensions
which eliminated in Louis Martin sell.
ing out to his associates. They made
the stipulation that Martin should not
again engage in the restaurant bust.
ness in New York aud the veteran
caterer in turn demanded that the com
pany no longer use his name.
Despite his protests, "LOuis Mart
ms in big electric letters continued
to be one of the most glaring signs
around Forty.second street, where the
glaring is good. firing of seeing his
name drawing card for business
whern he no longer had an interest
Martin went up to Fiftyninth street
and bought out George Rector. He
hung his name in big letters, length.
wise of the building, and there was
vigorous protest from Forty.second
street Martin was threatened with
law suit, but evidently he had the best
Of the argument, for his sign still
flaunts itself up town, and at Forty.
second street the sign "Cafc de Pars'
assaults the eey whore "Louis Mar.
tins" formerly hung.
Now it is evident that George Rector
is giving Martin the same medicine that
the latter gave his former associates
in transferring his wel.known name
to another food emporium. And in so
doing George Rector is making another
restaurant keeper uneasy His new
stand is not far away from the we'll
known Hotel Rector at Forty.fourth
street and Broadway, and on the new
place George displays the sign, "Rec
tors. In taking his new location Rec
tor is defying one of the superstitiony
Of the Great White Way is taking the
stand occupied by a concern that failed
The Folics Bcrgere restaurant has
failed twice. The first time it was in
Forty.siXth street, just west Of Broad.
way, whore the Fulton theatre is now
located, and the management said the
failure was due to some murder or
other Next time the same owners, in
anew location, failed, they said, be.
capso Of the rigid ! a, M closing cru.
sadie of Police Inspector Dwyor.
Many Places Lose Money
The White Light eating places, by
the way have had rather a strenuous
time since the murder more than a
yCOr ago, Of Gambler Herman Roscu.
thal, in front Of the Mctropole on
Forty second street
The policggraft Investigations and
the attendant reforms that followed inn.
modiatcly in the wake Of the celebrated
killing is said TO have put rHmp in
much of the Broadway business. The
Wctropolc itself soon closed It's doors
tronN lack of patronage aud when II
later reopcpcl as thu Miller, It's rem.
uaiss9nce was shortliycd The place
~ now closed. The Cadillac, at Forty.
third street and Broadway, which came
In for mention in the Roscutha mat.
ter, recently changed It's name to the
Wallick, when the place douncd u new
coat Of paint within and without
The Garden, at Ffticth aud seventh
avenue, which was popular resort
about the time Of the killing, lost caste
immediately when the guumen testified
that they had originally planned tC
murder tho gambler in that restaurant
The better class patronage fell away
at that time aud has never gone back
The Tikio the Green Turtle tho Lob
etcr Palace, and tho German Village
and several other resorts Of that class
closed up entirely. The old Rector !
went into bankruptcy for something
like $GOOOOO All tho proprietor.
blamed the slump on the police and tn