Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-01-29
10th a m Knickerbock
Tells What One Can See
and Do in Metropolis.
IT Is RUNNING OVER.
COrks Pop ON Side Streets and South.
ern Colonies Are Quite Num-
er0us There.
(By Gotham Knickerbocker.)

(By Gotham Knickerbocker.)
New York, Jan. 2S.-Broadway is
one Of the longest and most remark
able streets in the world. 1t starts
at Bowling Green, amidst towering
office buildings and meanders off into
the wilderness somewhere near
Yonkers.
Besides being noted for Its night
life, Broadway has more skyscrapers,
cafes, restaurants, actors, get-rick-
quick-men, panhandlers and automo-
biles to the mile than any other thor
oughfare in America. 1t also is the
headquarters of the Forty-Second
Street Country Club, which meets ev-
cry mild and sunny afternoon at
Forty-Second street and Broadway.
Broadway's principal industry is
raising poultry and raising CON-. In
the latter art it has become quite pro-
ficient. Two classes Of people fire.
quent Broadway. They are New
Workers without money and out-of-
towners with money and anxious to
separate from 1t. The New Workers
without money have developed the
are of appearing to have it to such a
fine point that it becomes science.
The art of removing superfluous coin
from the persons of joy-seeklng
strangers along Broadway may also
be numbered among the higher arts
and sciences.
Although Broadway is haunted by
bandits masquerading as head wait
ers, cloak room boys, Southern Col
onels, wealthy mine owners "just in
from the West" but who were never
further west than Hoboken; stock
brokers, ETC., it is usually safe to ven
,ture upon the thoroughfare after dark
|iH one. keeps ones senses.
Not all the dangers of Broadway
come. from the presence Of profess
sional @Broadwayites." There is a
|'ferocious person known as "taxi
chuff. ,. with whose cash acquiring In
stincts it is best not to experiment.
II the "taxi chuff" had not had a
taste for mechanics, he probably
would have become headwaiter or
a cloak room ''boy," instead of a
mere driver of a taxicab, although 1t
is very much open to question as to
which pays the most.
At Bowling Green Broadway is the
very spirit Of innocence. 1t runs past
Wall Street as il it were afraid OF
becoming contaminated. To add to
it's responsibility at this point Broad
way nestles in it's arms Trinity
Church, a religious institution which
owns tenement houses on the side
Past office buildings that shoot high
into the air Broadway runs to st.
Paul's. where there is another church
and graveyard. GLOW fortunate
sighs the night-lifers, frequenters OF
another part Of Broadway, chat all
of the churches and dead ones al
at the lower end"
Ignoring the remarks of the gay
Tenderloiners Broadway dashes on
uptown, past more office buildings,
now not quite SO tall, until Aston
place is reached, just above which,
Grace Church Is met. From a thor
oughfare of Office buildings, Broad
way has not changed into a street of
plain commercial atmosphere. To
tell the truth, however, Broadway had
commercial atmosphere for its en-
tire length, although in the vicinity
of Forty-second street it is skilfully
disguised as "gayety."
When you begin to see the names of
theatrical booking agents, when the
cafes become more and more to the
block, and the loiterers on the corn
ers greater and greater in number,
you know you are then getting into
the famous "White Light" district.
There is not room enough on Broad
way for all OF the theatres. restaur-
ants, booking agencies, cafes and
gambling houses. Broadway has be-
come SO crowded that 1t has spilled
over and the stream has seeped into
the side streets. But when the
champagne corks commence to pop
| and the Holsters to turn red and the
cash registers to ring, then the side
streets give back to broadway part
OF what they have taken, and the flow
Of humanity, some in search OF
amusement and some in search OF
suckers in search Of amusement, IL
steady-that Is. it is steady until