The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1912, Page 12

npn VEN DSTI wees tS ER ee pf @teak eounded together in Washington Market yesterday to the confusion and ehants in the Market and as genial a OD MARKET NEN MOURN FOR DAYS OF 5 YES Then Washington Merchants Wore Beaver Hats and | Lace on Aprons. DIDN’T HAVE TO RUSH. Now, With Centennial On, It’s | Hustle and Stick to Stall Every Second. ‘The eresh ni the Tennhauser ever- fre and the price of porterhouse @mnoyance of the customer, who was ‘more interested in porterhouse at that moment than in Wagner. Whoereat Pete Hassett, one of the oldest mer- Yankee as ever clove and sold a beef, wished that Wagner finales did not come just as he was announcing the price of steak to @ woman customer! # whose specialty wae resenting the high | cost of living. The price Pete an- mounced at the time Wagner drowned Bim out was not pleasant to repeat. And while Pete felt that it wee fine to de celebrating the centennial of the miles of flags and bunting and the Mke, and while centennials did not @ome every day, Pete also felt the necessity of atiking closely to business every day—and every minutes of every sent his porter: happy house customer with a gun m po’ @ouvenir of the centennial, Mt different, though, Im the old ti the Market, forty and fifty y when your mother was wea Digtalls and making mudpie: feller could stop chasing the dollar NAVY MAN SPEAKING AT MARKET'S BIRTH DAY; HEAD OF MERCHANTS FJ H. KRACKE. Hi to the Fl eree: Then @ lanuca ‘as sumothing THE EVENIN mad. My, what a mixup with the Jer ‘boys we had that day when the Mut won over our boya by @ score of 47 to Ui! “And the mills we used to see! Shall I ever forget the set-to between Billy Poole and Johnny Morrissey down by the river! Poor Billy got shot after- ward. But that mill was a dandy! The sports certainly put up stacks of green dollars on the leetle argument. And there was an all-fired lot of thease sport- in’ gents round the Market then. COULDN'T THROW A STONE WITHOUT HITTING A CON GAME “You aoe the easy money made in the Market brought all kinds of sports and sharps around. ‘There were teh farmers | by herds who'd bring their stuff to Mar- ket. Th attract all the kin men In | town, unt Jat a dawg uu couldn't throw @ stone | without hitting a dropped | gold bri or other.” “But how about business, Mr. Mas- fett—was your work different from what it ts to-day? “Some. We fellera would get up at 12 or 1 in the morning. Then we butchers ‘ad 40 our own killing and tote the car- cases in quarters down to our own stalls, and we'd sell 1 tourselves. And when @ customer wanted us to cut couple of pounds of veal or beef we'd do it ourselves, But to-d ik at thet dod-gasted thing over ther And he pointed with mixed pride and amusement at @ bright nickeled slicing machine, imported from Holland, that salesman, or some skin layout out the meat in slices of any thinness denired, cut the rind of the bacon, piled the slices neatly and all but delivered the meat to the customer—and did it all with barely more than @ single turn at & wheel from the exuberant George. the way everything {s these wound up Pete, philosophically. “You have some perky machine or other 4@o everything for you-even live for you, by wonh! Not like the old days, when a fellow did all the working and .[all the living himself.” A more sedate citizen of the olden times of Washington Market ta Charite Dresher, the butter and egg man. Charite was a dandy in Ms time, and even to-day he belies his aeventy-eight ye with the spruceness of hi Underneath his checke dayout. gleamed a diamond of the size of a duck egg. Charlie remembered and somewhat mourned the times when Washington Market men made more of clothes than to-day, MARKETMEN CAME TO WORK IN BEAVER HATS. “In those days," mourned Charlie, “every Washingt to his stall for business drsssed in a high beaver hat, long patent leather boots, white sleeves and often with la trimming to his apron, The hat was of white beaver in the summer and of k beaver in the winter. Ah, but were dressers in those days! n Fields over on the to whoop it up for the At- Jong enough to ha bit of sport] of the Ath’ rk and; “And that was because we had some new and then. And, jeter, but the! none of the ballp' re bought [time for ourselves to live in, Look at t was the place and we were the| nd wold as they are to-day, They |!t now Mi eye for sport! “You see, young man, the Market was then what you newspaper fellere @all a rendyvoo for all the sports in the city Money was easy come an’ easy go with us, and every one of us young | fellers had a fast horse and a Brew ster buggy. We'd shut up shop at ebdout noon and drive our girls up old Bloomingdal Road in Harlem or up Harlem Lane. And then some feller would drive up and say what a all- fired fine horse was his, and the first thing you knew it was lickety-split racin’ up the road. with your gal grab- bin’ you around the wast for dear life and you a-cracking the whip over the hoss and the bugsy rockin’ like a @runk and all of you scootin’ like a » My, my, what @ race that my old Sassafras and Hi Tewky's Janemariar!” NO, SIREE, TODAY'S YOUNG- STERS AREN'T LIKE YESTERDAY'S. Pote lost himself for the moment in! the days of old. In the moment of comparative silence that followed, Pete's smart clerk George took occa- aion to let off nome of his exuberance. George, & mero upstart of twenty- wild oats in the pu | usage in your life!’ Pete Hassett regarded him pity- get nowadays, off our ateam by running and fighting On, wal, I sometimes, there. Fighting the 4 “You see, most of us young fellers bilonged to the different volunteer fire | companies. There warn't any other kind | in those days, Wal, some of the boys in | the Market b'longed to Engine 4, or the Cotumbia Volunteers, up on Church street. Others belonged to Engine 20, of the Washingtons, who had their fre- house on Cedar street. “When the old bell on top of the) Market sounded the wlarm we'd drop | our stalls and run for the firenouses, | Grabbing the engine, twenty to thirty of us to a side, we'd sovot the old ma- chine to the fire, trying lke hell-fire to beat the Washingtons, Mebbe we'd get to the hydrant nearest tbe house at about the same time as the others. Then | there'd be Beelzebud to pay. We'd holler | that it was our pipes belonged on the hy@rant and th Washingtons would yell that their pipes would go on the hydrant ‘or they'd know the reason. Then before you could say Peter the hull two com- panies of us would be kerbiffing each other Mke sixty and we'd fight and Aght and fight “And how about the fret” Petr inked blank for a moment. fHE FIRE JUST HAD TO WAIT TILL THE FIGHT ENDED, “Oh, the fire? Wal, now let me see! bout the fire, The fire had to wait till | we'd settled our Mtte dispute. You seo) you couldn't put @ fire out until you | fixed your hose to the hydrant. And | how could you do that until you'd licked the others all holler so they'd let yo connect the pipe. But once the pipe was | on, whole lot’d fall to working the | hand engine. After the fire we'd go back to our stalls in the Market and to | sellin’ chops or butter or parsley or whatever it was. | “ baseball in those days! You) folks are all het up about tue World's a@ lot of you pulling long faces bec your Gi'nte has lost! | Mut 1 ewan, I don't see occasion to take on eo. How many of your Gi'nts jive anywhere within a hunder miles of New York? And all of then: are playing for "im tag care, wren wolbare weiss oo Played for the love of the game, they didnot for money. a | pockethook set-up, or a shell gabe or aN! Market man came | m swoop Ike that of a mail| gy, Poundofbutterandaheadot three bundles into tho commuter's awaiting and already halt- filled arms, clinked the money into the register, stot other sets of bundies into the arms of another customer, and @ fourth and fifth, and then some more. Nevertheless, he found time enough to of times in the Market fifty years 4g0, When the only trains people ran for were leisurely atage coaches—and the people did not run for them. Charile, being @ more sedate epirit, been observed, than Pete Has- in in his youth, recollected more leasures, “In those days, when we young fel- lows Knocked off selling we'd hire a| e or hoard one of the regular ines —there were thirty-two lines of stages way then, a KO off to was our Coney ~and practice shooting at @ tar- wet, or boring at it.” “Boring at tt?" “Yes, One of us would be blindfolded and a brace and bit put into his hand. | Then he would ret out for the place where he thought the bullseye was on the target. When he thought he had it he would bore. He would bore whether he wes up against the target or @ barn door. Ah, those were Jolly times!” Chariie Mieman was moved to remints- ences of the genera’ pects of t ness in Washington Market half @ cen- tury ago. ‘We didn't have to set so close into Dusiness in those days. The market was & dingy, cobwebby, wooden rook- ery at that time, but life and business more Iisurely. To-day the market nitary and up-to-date and all that look at the way we have to huatie!"* “How simple every transaction was. ‘The women would come with their bas- kets; the ysaw what they buying Letters of a Slim-Made Woman to Her Fat Sister Fifth Letter: On the Shining Virtue that Fat Folks Seldom Possess—Patience. Dear Sis:—Jf all people had the virtues others think ¢hey have, this world would be @ para Gn, Vhilowphizingt Yeu, peerishiy, Amd here's the reason, Fat folks are usualiy given eredit for being patient--vut 1 know some whe ere decidedly impatient, Many of my over-flesby marreled at the @reat change in | from a flabby, wobbling mountain plump, and firm « figure g aa any Ww to tell how I did it, In exch cane 1 told them to go to the dmg store and get \ ounce Marmola powder, ' B'% ounces Pepper | & teaspoonful after . And (would you believe Decause they didn't lose as much | meleht week as | have in several months of persistent use of this harmlens prescription, they said it wouldo't do them any good. What do you think of that for the patience of fat people? Of core, 1 told them how sbeurd tt was— Ghowed how ittle it cost in time, and money, and effort—that results were as certain as wun | retold turn their and Ii ft wouldn't hurt them a bit or mache ike some other things had tually forcing some of them to Jo train, a 6.21 commuter who was after 3 train to Leonta dashed up to Ch: counter and ripped o! That war baseball, lost you bet we 5. OPPING CENTER’ Bargains at the Beginning of the Season Greater ihan You Would Expect to Find Even at the Season’s End, in This SENSATIONAL SALE of SUITS at $4095 Actual $18.75 and $22.50 Values This is indeed a rare and remarkable offering even for D. PRICE & CO., who are noted for underselling all competition. But we have determined to make to-morrow a banner day, and therefore offer 1,000 high-c.ass tailored and dressy suits at a far lower price than similar suits have ever before ueen sold for. Sizes and styles for the young miss of 14 to 18; sizes and styl:s for the woman of 32 to 44 bust measure in all the most approved models, the most favored fabrics, the most cesiralae colors; coats lined with guaranteed yarn-dyes satin ; offered in this stirring Sale at $10.95 One Thousand of the Season’s Smartest Coats in a Great Sale at $6.95 Actual $10 and $12.50 Values Included are the smart “Johnny” Coats of zibeline with silk braid bound edges, collar and cuffs of bright plaids and inverted pleat back, with belt; full-length zibeline Coats in black, navy, gray and brown, with rich braid and silk ornament trimmings; full-length serge and melton Coats, with elaborately trimmed revers and cuffs of velvet or satin; in all sizes from 14 to 44. New York's greatest values at $6.95, ve FM, V've come lo the conclusion that if fat fotke bed “any ‘patience they wouldn't be ftat-—they'd I take tl and tt Fi become slen beieas? BETTY,—Aart. Expert Alterations Free Other Great Suit Values at $14.95, $16.95, $18.95 & $24.95 D. PRICE & CO. 6th Ave., Cor. 18th St. Ld G@ WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1912. and took the provisions away them- selves. To-day they telephone for the Sroceries and get them delivered by au-| 2 tomobdile. “In those days the farmer himself drought his produce into the city—the lamb or veal cut up into quarters, his own butter in rolis and all of them in his own baskets along with the eggs and vegetabies straight off his own farm. 14 wrap his butter in piain| Don’t Miss this Upporuniuy! r sell them 60 cheaply ie we Straw paper and put the LT “But {t's all over now, hen lays three eggs more in the weck than the week before the price goes up or gdes down, and every blessed paper Ce ticker in the country yaps about It.| | ter than the old times. certainly @ powerful lot different fr: what they back in *62,' es and butter in such fancy box To-day youbve go! and crates that the packag joxes of candy you're taking st girl. Now, when a well—these times may or not be bi But they’ vere in Washington Mar! B. Altman & Cn. ARE SHOWING READY-TO-WEAR AFTERNOON AND EVENING DRESSES IN THE FASHIONABLE STYLES AND MATERIALS at $32.00, 38.00, 45.00, 75.00 To 175.00 B. Altman & Co." WILL HOLD TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), AN INTERESTING SALE OF WOMEN'S NECKWEAR AT THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL PRICES: ROBESPIERRE COLLARS OF SATIN, WITH NET JABOT, 38c, WITH LACE TRIMMED JABOT, 5(c, FANCY STOCKS OF SATIN . ae! 75¢. SCARFS OF FLOWERED CHIFFONAT . = « + $3.25 THE MILLINERY DEP’T ON THE THIRD FLOOR IS SHOWING A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF WOMEN'S TRIMMED HATS IN SMART AUTUMN STYLES APPROPRIATE FOR AFTER. NOON AND DRESS WEAR aT $25.00 To 35.00 WOMEN'S CORSETS ARE SHOWN IN THE REGULAR STOCK OF THE CORSET DEPARTMENT, IN ALL THE POPULAR MAKES, AT PRICES RANGING FROM $1.00 TO $5,50 PER PAIR YB. Altman & Ca.’ ARE SHOWING AN ATTRACTIVE VARIETY OF THE NEWEST AND MOST DESIRABLE STYLES IN WOMEN'S SILK AND CHIFFON BLOUSES, SUITABLE FOR WEAR WITH SMART TAILOR-MADE SUITS. ALSO TAILORED WAISTS CUT ON LINES FOR PRACTICAL WEAR IN WASHABLE MATERIALS, AND MANNISH FOR EQUESTRIAN USE. SEVERELY SIMPLE A VARIETY OF RIDING SHIRTS THE MOURNING DEPARTMENT IS PREPARED TO {URNISH COMPLETE MOURNING OUT- FITS, IN THE LATEST STYLES AND MATERIALS, READY FOR IMMEDIATE WEAR OR MADE TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE, THE READY-TO-WEAR GARMENTS COMPRISE AFTERNOON AND EVENING DRESSES; TAILOR-MADE SUITS; COATS AND WRAPS; TRIMMED MILLINERY, VEILS, ETC, ALSO BLOUSES, WAISTS, SKIRTS, HOUSE GOWNS AND PETTICOATS; NOVELTIES IN MOURNING NECKWEAR; GLOVES, HANDKERCHIEFS, AND STATIONERY, MOURNING JEWELRY, FANS, BAGS, ETC, MAIL OR TELEPHONE ORDERS WILL RECEIVE, PROMPT ATTENTION, 'Hitth Avenue, 34th aud 35th Streets, Nem York. SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK MONDAY WONDER& les Lord & Taylor Founded 1826 Fancy Velvets Are being shown in the Brocaded, Corded, and Striped effects, now so scarce; also a com- plete assortment of fine Crepe Char- meuse in exclusive colorings at $5.00 per yard. Spectal Black Silks Black C; Ch wae: * a b+ alan Aer yard $1.95 Bi. i ae ae ses .Value $2.60 wie $1.78 Bi. a er on nnaltelt Black Messaline 8 36 inches wide........ Value $1.25 yard, 06 Black Exceptional Values in Dress Goods Colored Broadcloths —in skirt and suit lengths— formerly $1.60 to $3.00 per yard Imported Black Corduroy (fast color), for dresses, suits and coats $1.25 Usually $1.75 per yard 1500 yards Black Broadcloths 54inches wide, sponged and shrunk regularly 83.25 per yard 98¢ $1.98 Discontinued Lines of White Striped Shirting Madras and White Figured Pique At Half Former Prices —Also— White Shirting Madras 82 inches wide, in many striped ef- | fects—formerly 75c, 85c and 5c per yard Wash Goods, White Goods and Flannels 214 to 6 yard lengths At Half Price and Less 18¢ Continuing throughout the week The Unparatleled Sale of Wiluam Liddell 8 Co.'s Famous ‘‘Gotd Medal” Tabie Cloths & Napkins their entire New York stock, aggregating $60,000, At an average of }2 regular value —ooaee ee Important Special Sale of Blankets, Bed Spreads and Comfortables At remarkable reductions in prices, California Wool Blankets $3.65, $4.75 & $5.85 Reduced from $5.50, $6.75 & $8.25 Satin Finish Bed Spreads . . . . Reduced from $3.50 Comfortable . . . . 6 6 6 6 $2.35 Fancy mull top, with plain borders; value $9.59, $2.50 Muslin Sheets and Pillow. Cases At 25°6 Less than Regular Prices, Sheets Pillow Cases 63x09. 5 72x99, 1x00. g Broadway & 20th St.; 5th Ave.;19th St. ———— = ——— — TS wakes little difference what you need—a World “Want" will aot SERIE EER NS