El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-12
The Bandits Of Broadway
Tai Chaf Haadwais Other Hghwymen Also Southern Kernels
Arc Found in AbundanGOsap About New York. Its sights
andS Of Innovations.
nv COTHAM KNICKFRBOCKER.

DIV W HAM ~
EW YORK, Feb. 12.-Broadway
~ is one OF the longest and most
remarkable streets in the world.
II starts at Bowling Green, amidst
towering office buildings and mean
GERS of into the wilderness some
Where near Konkers.
Besices being noted for its night
LIE Broadway has more skyscrapers,
cafes, restaurants, actors, get-rich-
4llck-men, panhandlers and automO-
D-leS to the mile than any other thor
oughfare in America. 1t also is the
lies-u z uilt lers % the FOrty-Second
street country club. which meets every
mild and sunny afternoon at Forty
second street and Broadway.
5roadWeys principal industry is
raising poultry and raising coin. In
the latter art it has become quite
proficient Two classes of people FREE
Quent Broadway. They are New York
ers without money and Out-oftown-
ers with money and anxious to sep
aiate from il. The New Workers
without money have developed the art
o. appearing 10 have it to such a fine
point that it becomes a science. The
arr Of removing superfluOus coin from
me persons of jOy-seekimg strangers
along Broadway may also be numbered
among the higher arts and sciences.
Haunted BY Bandits.
Although Broadway is haunted by
bandits masQuerGding as head walters,
cloak room boys, southern colonies,
wealthy mine owners, Just in from
the west but who were never further
west than HobOken; stock brokers,
etc, 1t is usually safe to venture upon
me thOrOughfaTe after dark if one
Keeps ones senses.
Not all the dangers Of Broadway
come lrom the presence Of profess
slonal '5roadWayites." There is a fe-
rGclous person known as a taxi ,
chuIf,' with whose cash acquiring in
nj IN frr7n r7T
II the taxi chuff' had not had a
taste for mechanics, he probably would
nave become a headWaiter or a cloak
room boy instead of a mere driver !
OF taIicab, although it is very much J
cpen to question as to which pays the I
most
Innocent Mt One End.
At Bowling Green Broadway is the /
very spirit Of innocence. 1t runs past /
Vail Street as If it were afraid of i
becoming contaminated To add to its I
responsibility at this point, Broadway 1
nestles in its arms Trinity church, a /
religious institution which owns ten 4
ement houses on the side. Past Of /
flee buildings that shoot high into the I
air, Broadway runs to st. Paul's 4
where there is another church and /
graveyard. How fortunate" sigh the !;
uight-lifers, frequenters of another
part Of Broadway, that all of the
churches and dead ones are at the
lever end"
ignoring the remarks Of the gay
TenderiOiners, Broadway dashes on
uptown past more office buildings, !
now. not quite so tall until Astor |
place is reached, just above which,
Grace church is met From a thor l
Oughfare OF office buildings, Broad
way has now changed into street |
Or plain commercial atmosphere for its
ertire length, although IN the vicin-
itv of Forty-second street it is skill
fully disguised as "gayety.
TIE White Light District.
Of theatrical booking agents, when
cafes become more and more to the
block. and the lOiterers on the cor
ucrs greater and greater IN number,
Won know YOU are then getting into
the famous white Light district
There is not room enough on Broad
way for all of the theaters, restau-
rants, booking agencies, cares ana |
gambling houses. Broadway has be-
Gene so crowded that it has spilled /
over and the stream has seeped into
he side streets, but When the c1a IN
)agnee CoTks commence TO pop and the
Obsters to turn red and the cash reg
sters to ring then the side SueeIs
give back to Broadway part or WnaI
they have taken. and the flow Of hui
manity, some in search of amuse-
ment and some in search Of suckers
liz search of amusement, is steady
that IS it is steady until about. a. I
M. when usually it first commences
to display signs of unsteadiness.
Business of Being Gay.
Being gay along Broadway is 2 bus
mess. People who know Just how to I
b. gay. and thereby infect others with
The brand Of gayety that induces them
10 spend their money, frequent all Of /
The cafes. restaurants and MOTEL Dars-
AZ g. certain hotel, which has an ex-
,ellent reputation, and where many
ont -of-town business men stay while
In the metropolis. a collection of eX-
eontfonaUv capable and able "cOn" ;
men make their headquarters. don't
mean ordinary green goods" men or
wire tappers." o dear me, no. They
are far cIeverer than that. They are ]
business men" who never lay them
selves open to prosecution.
Actors. ahemi may be seen along I
Broadway any pleasant afternoon,
.elling each other Of their last sea- I
sons successes and Of how they are
cooked for Europe next season. Some
7cw they never get to Europe, ard
sow they live is a mystery. They are I 9
perfectly harmless, being too
wrapped up in their art to think Of
I