The Nenana daily news., 1919-06-14
PETT|COAT LANE
 COMES ID LIFE
 AFTER LONG REST

l posed by the war and the rigors of an unusually wet winter, and with the coming of spring fairly huns with life, trade and dirt.
 Petticoat Lane is more of a dis trict than a street, for there are number of streets, and each one carries the same curb markets and the same motley crowd of traders and sightseers It is within five minutes walk of some of the most important financial institutions in the world, and on the edge of that interesting section known as the East End, where royalty and others have recently discovered there are slums which are a disgrace to Eng land, in fact to all civilization.
 Petticoat Lane is lined with stalls, some of them covered, some Of them open to the elements, and all of them mounted on wheels Here may be found for sale almost everything the purchasing public may desire, anything in fact which might be included in a list which stretched from secondhand under wear to cheap jewelry.
 The old clothes man occupies the commanding position almost di- rectly opposite the great Liverpool street passenger station, and some of his. prices would do justice to some of the smart West End shops, but price and sale are not the same thing in Petticoat Lane. If the seller cannot get his price he is always willing to come down, and if trade happens to be slow he will mount a box and offer his stock to the highest bidder. Then comes out all the wit and humo- of the throng, with the auctioneer usually leading in sarcastic sallies.
 Art china" fearfully and won derfully made; mems and women's ineckwear in all colors of the rain ] bow; fried fish fresh from the skill let; pictures, frames and unframed and prized because of their high color; ice cream and shaving pow der, with a liberal assortment of hair brushes and suspenders; money belts, Mons ribbons and the in signia of every regiment in the British army. These and a thou sand and one other things line the street on each side, their leather lunged sellers pausing only in their appeals for trade to make the necessary change.
 One section of the Lane is given over to the man who is there to heal the sick and afflicted. He usually specializes in some par ticular disease, his appeals sup ported by an open bottle of his particular medicine, and for a tpenny one may sample the remedy and know for himself whether he wants a bottle. And it is surpris- ling how many bottles are sold from the sample, on which the thrifty doctor" makes much more profit than he does on the larger amount. l Not far from the Lane proper is the Livestock" market, as they call it, in Club Row. Here one can buy some of the best dogs that have mysteriously disappeared from the fashionable sections of the city during the previous week.
 | Sunday morning is the great day in Petticoat Lane and its environs, for while all commodity stores in London are closed on that day, the Lane is allowed to operate freely without interference from the police. It serves it's purpose in that it affords a cheap, convenient market for the teeming thousands lof the East End, and gives them a promenade, little crowded to be sure, but all the more popular in conSeuueDrp