The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-19
Miscellany
Seeing New York.
By Gotham Knickerbocker.

! Broadway is one of the longest and
| most remarkable streets In the world. III
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-rich-quick mon
panfla ndlers and automobiles to the mile
| than any other thoroushfare In America.
1t also is the headquarters OF the Forty
second Street Country club which meets
every mild and sunny afternoon at Forty
| second street and Broadway.
Broadway's principal industry is raising
the dickens and raising coin. In the
| latter art 1t has become quite proficient.
Two classes Of people frequent Broadway.
| They are New Workers without money
| and out -of-towners with money and anX-
| ious 10 sepa rate from it The New York
| art OF appearing TO have it TO such a
| fine point that IT becomes a science. The
art OF removing superfluous coin from
the persona OF joy-seeking strangers
along Broadway may also be numbered
among the higher arts and sciences
Although Broadway is haunted by
bandits masqueradine as head walters,
cloakroom boys. southern colonies, veal
| thy mine owners lust I'm from the west"
but who were never further west than
Hoboken: stock brokers. etc. II is usual
|
after dark II one keeps ones senses
Not all tho dangers OF Broadway come
| from tne presence OF professional Broad
Enona Tso,en' There Is a ferocious person
| known as q TAXI chuff,' with whose cash
pertinent. " "a
II the taxi chuff" had not had taste
Ho tor rnecnanics. ne probably would have
| poy' instead or mere driver OF a taxi.
| CAP, although 1t Is very much omen to
| question as to which pays the most.
At Bowling Green Broadway IS tho very
spirit OF Innocence 1t runs past wall
| street as If II were afraid oF boco,ning -
contaminated. To aid to Its resnectI
m mDinty at ms point Broadway nesties in
| lts arms Trinity church. a religious in
situtlon which owns tenement houses on
the side. Past office buildings that shoot
high into the air Broadway runs TO 81
sra veyard. '''
/ Ignoring the remarks Of the gay Ten
derloiners: Broadway dashcs ON uptown
past more office buildings, now not quite
SO tall. until Astor place is reached i,,st
above which Grace church is met. From
| a thoroughfare OF office buildings. Rroad.
way has not changed into a street OF
| plain commercial atmosphere To tell
the truth. however. Broadway has a com
mercial atmosphere for Its entire length
| although In the vicinity of Forty-gecond
street 1t is skIlfulIy disguised as gay
| ETY."
| 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 corners greater and
greater In number. YOU know you are
then getting into the famous white
| Light" district.
| There is not room enough on Broadw way
| for all Of the theaters. restaurants book
| ing agencies, cafes and gambling houses
broadway has become so crowded that
| II 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 10 Broadway part OF what they
| have taken. and the flow OF flurns nifty
| some In search of amusement and some
| in search OF suckers in search OF amuse :
| inent Is steady; that is. II Is steady un-
| III about l a.. M. when usually SC first
commences 10 display signs Of unsteadl-
| ness.
Being CAV along Broadway Is a bust
| ness. People who know just how to be
| gay. and thereby infect others with the
| brand OF gayety that induces them to
spend their money. frequent all OF the
| cafes. restaurants and hotel bars At a
| certain hotel, which has an excellent
| reputa ton. and where many out-of- town
| business men stay while In the metrop-
| oils. collection OF exceptionally cap
| able and able Con men make their
| headquarters. don't mean ordinary
| green goods men or "wireta ppers." Oh
| dear me. no. They arc far cleverer than
] that They are business men who