Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-06
GREENWICH VILLAGE
HAS BAREFOUT GUIDE

NEW YOR, Nov. 6.-Old Green
witch village has guide, 1t is some
thing new for that interesting part
of the town, which has nearly every
thing, good, bad, and Indifferent, since
the days of the Dutch Governor, Wou-
ter van Twiller, who appropriated its
broad acres for his private tobacco
plantation. Miss Adele Kennedy is
the one who knows it all' for the
benefit of the stranger within. that
quarter, where the streets have such
h a careless way of twisting about that
a guide is really necessary. She
combines the protective duties of a
chaperone with the sightseeing pro-
/ gressiveness of a guide
They come down here to see
freaks, 1 am of it" said she They
are primed for thrills, rather anxious
tc be shocked, and l have suspicion
that some of my parties have actual
ly expected to see undraped models
walking around the studios But
they go away satisfied, even if not
unduly shocked, and evidently they
give graphic descriptions of their ex-
periences. as friends from their home
town often come to me for personal
w conduc4nd tourcn
1t was while Miss Kennedy was
standing one day in front of tue
Pirates Den on the south side Of
Sheridan. Square, next door to a rick
ETY. tenement approached by dimuni-
tive alley, that the inspiration seiz-
ed her to be a guide. On the opposite
side of the sqpare, gazing up at tue
row of ferocious bandits over the en-
trance to the low building designated
as the Treasure Shop, was party
of sightseers.
What a lark it would be to show
them around" thogght Miss Kennedy.
The visitors accepted her offer with
alacrity. Tea in tiny room in the
basement of an old Sheridan Square
residence was the first to experience.
This was followed by an inspection
OF curious streets, visits to a studio
or two, and then dinner in Fourth
Street, near Washing Square, among
artists of various degrees, poets ditto,
Socialists and disciples of other cults
for, as the guide explained, navely,
I'VE do have some radicals down
here"-and bob-haired girls wearing
their studio smocks.
IF you don't eat IS cents worth
here" volunteered the guide, you will
be charged cents for bread and but
ter. The war prices forced that rule
because it was found that many vii
layers were eating nearly all the
bread generously placed on each
table, and getting away with it for
a ten or fifteen cent check"
The diner to whom money is no OBJ
iject may be able, by selecting cane
Iloupe, salad, and dessert to spend
as much as so cents for a meal. 1t
is all good but the service is simpler
than that at big uptown hotels, from
one of the most magnificent of which
the village guide was requested by
telephone recently to meet a party O.
visitors and give them real Green
wich Village dinner, different from
anything else"
Miss Kennedys hair is bodied, a
sign that she is a member in good
standing of the art colony of the
Sheridan and South Washington
Square colonies Her nature-loving
instincts led her early in the summer
to abandon shoes and stockings as
non-essentials, Going around Green
wich Village with a good-looking bare
footed guide was an experience that
many far western tourist still re-
calls with smile of delight. She
now wears sandals but no stockin s.