Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-08
AS ONE WOMAN SEES 1T
A New York Rarely Seen by Visitors
Is That Known by Quiet Old
Families, in Quiet Old Homes,
Quietly Furnished
BY SARAH ID. LOWRTE

I Asst spring when I was over in New
- York I made n resolution that never
again would / go just as tourist--a person
in hotel who sees the latest show and
takes dinner in one well known restaurant
and supper in another, shops next morning
along Fifth avenue and comes home with
just enough change to pay the cnbman and
not enough to fee the porter.
What ! really decided was that there
must be another New lork---in fact, ! knew
there was, for hadn't ! relations and f"'ends
who lived in another New York t-persons
whose life program did not include II show
every evening and supper somewhere ana
takes at every turn and shopping down
f1ith avenue; persons with bank account
not unlike my own and enough of last year
clothes to make the latest models in the
shops works of supercrogation 80 far as their
purchases went. Their New York was the
real town, ! felt sure, but it was city
mat ! had actually never seen. let alone
felt For alw"ys l have regarded the town
as place to spend money in. to see plays
ana hear operas in. and to treat and be
treated to restaurant meals in--a place to
skim the cream of paid amusements in.
place to meet ones "crowd' by strenuous
prearrangement. and then to continuously
lose ones crowd by poor arrangement.
=. SO that the other day when ! departed
New forkward to actually visit New
Yorker who lived in house of his owD
ana when / discovered that my host had
thought up program that included no
public amusement no shopping, no restau-
rants, no outsiders from hotels, l had an
awcd ieellng that l was about to see New
h''N 'or 'he hrst time.
IN THE fret ,,,ooo thu ,o,so ,rbor. 7 was
p'"ce' '''o '''"'. w.
VISITOR was on t!ramercy Park. People
still live down there in their own houses. it
seems, still open the park gates with their
own Keys and walk uptown through Madi-
son SQUARE 10 thGir 9musemehts ana slop.
pihs' nhd 'nly plock or Two do"hto"h "
'"Str business. ,,
Ny most mouse was or the later vintage
OF thr eighties, should thlnk. IT must
nave neen zone over ABOUT then' lot the
ereat pook cases IN the ltrary were hea'S
walnut win glass doors, ana me STAR ran
WaS walnut with black trimmings ana ,ns
newer post or heaVy stability that would
grace hrepiug: :,
lhr other house on the park that l paid
u rail IN Was one or thc Original ones, ma
nogahF 19ldlhg doors between the front ana
PUCK pari"r ana u 'corgiah DOW 10 'hc
dihihg room windows ana the DroadeSt or
gray narDie nreplaccs all up through the
mouse 10 exc out a not-very -enectual 1ur-
mace IN the nigh basement.
mat mousse 700; mad an ornamental IRON
balcony running along the long front parlor
WINDOWS, balcony 100 narrow Tor a chalr.
but meant for p0tted plants no doubt IN
summer, when possibly the first owners drew
mer mir from the river across the grass and
trees of the park.
The worry fact rof having n call in Now
York-sjtt;ne nd chattinr with neonle who
we're neither hitheriny nor thitherinp on n
Saturday ,fternoon when nil Tho m1tinees
we're going fnll blast-made me want to
lnupb aloud with sheer nIpasurc. The house
wns fulI of chnrminp old things furnitnre
thni We would cnil. even over here where
we are used to good old things. museum
n;,co. A onoI monv of tbe,n indaad hod
romo oricinnlJv rroh phiIodelnhio 7 WAS
tniJ and ! ohscrvad difrarenca hat wear omr
tyne of old mahogany and the New York.
Cmrs was more scvcrc in outlinc. ouite "a
cI"rnnt md ,erhnps more beautifully pro.
nnrtionoj baronvn lorking ornnmentat;on.
avar, thin, donondod on nronortion and
tnisL N
"" II strucl, mo that ,ba Nav yorl, tbin,s
uoro moro inHuanrod Ly tbe Francb ~ tSo
early nineteenth century. Their chairs were
,nore cnmfortnhls 70 s;t on and Ind curv;nc
~ensrons arms and cnrved hacks and rrnes
,,;,L ;uJuIaant nnno aaots ''>"' "''' .""e''
VII JIowevar tho conyersotio, during tbat
o,iI ,'o, rnt oil ohn,,t fnrnitrro ~. nom
30 .ho "'' forn;i bod ;"ut rnt,,rnnL fra,r i,a,
%. .hH fanny nt' '"Gs ;sorI prta'Ieu troi aurk %
@ " - h"t,' so that on,.o a. a. t' H.,
nan m". ~ 81 ny tbn fnmi~ wos not ;nfreouont ~
nnrt Of the menu. ns the pheasant that vent
WE HAD at that dinner one of the edi
w .ou, 80 ,bo Nov. yorl rrimos o,d an.
ot .bo otiofs H. of ,ront hnoL .rrhi;sh;mn INV
o' ane chie's ", ,aJ and "inop"Dt "ins
nouse anu md .hey he iod;ns "D0 e''u'"' e'e''
k'i'am unu Cor ,.. ol, c"nccrned-for tho uoron
LUCKILY & tcr a biIo iI,erbnor ne" t1e women
"'re ornSoi nS ad;onrnment 70 the library ofter
Jinnor ,,,barc the exceedinplv GOOD conver.
dinner Mnras e%e it ai serts sJ'S f rst hand
satloh prSgresseu m'' az s.s h tt a. .tst ,m,a
news Inc sst .'G the IN aao;S aaetSa u'Gr hi
or the Iatest pe'f pnoa n ~ I've 10 10 us tis
hSsn no"n, % of tho KnioSts nf re,nmbns m the the
phenomenon OF tnt ~, n'isn.s oi |Giusneus' i .' 'nc
interview one oi , ,ar Iirh huu nna shr aas