The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1913, Page 8

The Human Side of the “Village” and Well Make It Famous—Old Time “Volunteers” eerieretepeaae ‘iver te Sixth Beginning Montay, o04 Gresnwich Village is to have am Old Fieme Week Inasmuch as mest “O84 New Toskers” have been in town Ger net more than tem years, they tmew Greenwich Vil- lage merely as a tradition, ‘They look down at the old Jewish jut iif : ¥ quiet, must make a trip down here come day. I hear there are aome nice little restau- Famts te be found here.” If Gey ore on the other aide of the ein they eve the gilt letters on come ii e rf te itz zeae ( i the two of them ts taking turns to run the burdy-gurdy piance asd fhuckstere off the street te keep ‘Fhe Alderman put on @ts coat his ‘at. | Quatntest Section of irst to Celebrate--A . Mves The Neighborly Old Lower West Side Community All Decked Out for Its Big Festival, Which Begins on Monday—“ Welcome Home” the Slogan for the Week. Loom Big in Programme. EF relieve aickness, starvation or flowed. GAVE WAY TO Wa a sight.” soely The henchman weated hag th arn at Che O12. Time Siue tan, devause they thought there was a) Of Fifth av @rime outbreak coming. “4 ” P , . plaid ood Gen Bloat have Spencer Witherbee and Lispenard where and the Alderman down below wanted the noise stopped.” ONCE IT WAS SAPPOKANICAN CUT OFF FROM MANHATTAN MAINLAND. The boundaries of Greenwich Villag are dlastic, There was once an Indian village on the dan! Abont where Gansevoort Market now affords apace tor white-covered garden| "Cention truck vans from Long Island and New to iuminate the Whole square, or Rob- Jersey. It was called Sappokanica: ‘It was partly out off from the reat of the settlement movem Manhattan by a cresk, which was, after | /rof and Mr the English occupation, called Manetta| the Old Home W Water, ‘The eaaterhmost branch of this | festival and for a lesson tn real Green- stream rose from a epring east of Fifth | Wich Village nelah @venue and Twentieth street, and it meandered down to Union @quare, and thence to @ point near Twelfth street fs bed Avenue, twlating back to ington @quare and then diagonally across to the Hudson, with ite mouth| THEY'RE ALL PROUD TO BE between Chariton and Houston ‘The other branch of the creak atartea Just north of the present crowded de- Partment store district on Fifth avenue | his window in addition to such decora- and joined the bigger etream at Fifth | tions as may be spread to the breezes @venue and Eleventh street. etreams are etill running, confined by sewer pipes, which Greenwich Village contractors sometimes break through, to their Anancial damai @orrow. Onee tro tT have striven with eac) 1 entifully and pipes ‘and geese were| With the ald of hiv able assistant (and They have never hesitated to | set in the marshes through which it |4ls0 smiling) M. Hit call om each other or any resident of the meighborhood for any help that coulda be given. PARTY LIN NEIGHBORLINESS, THEN. @everal years ago there was an alder- man whose name wee Prendergast, whe had certain constituents im Greenwich Village, in whose precincts he was a realdent, A henchman came te:nim one| island. night with @ merry tale “2 was down the way @ Dit, Alden man,” he said, “and I aaw the funniest sight of my life in Fiftewnth ef the Hudson Both and profane | teriously siniing M. Ortelg may even caught from In the Gaye of Wouter Van Twillor— | Branchard, f and for nearly two hundred years there- | t!on, eeulptury after—there was no need for any mar-|the Bohemian Hfe at N ot or anywhere ton Square, would say else, The teolated euburd, connected | {ol her that she was not of Greenwich With the business centres at the Bat- tery and the residence districts about |!nto the fountain with « b dohn and Vesey etreets only by a rough the garden epot of the|Malf a century ago 4 Ite crops and its flower gar- ens, later when it became the fashion-|Ye¥ bed of the old creek @dle summer resort and country rent. | “infested by ferocious negroes.” dence district for the rich soctety folk, | Nave deen Were famous. THIG 18 NEW-COMERS’ Week, [Now Orleans back str: JUST LIKE OTHERS, But the present Old Home Week ts Rot confined to the narrow lMmits of the Bossen Rouwerle, bounded by the t at Ganaevoort st wagon road, w (the | Hrowdway and Hudson, ts one of the Dutch name for Manetta water). Ans- body who has caught the old noigh- dorly spirit which crossed from the Hie big family helphim cook and ser: the meals for guests, who may be the engineers of nearoy bulldings, artists from McDougall alley end Washington Mewa, budding authors from Washing- ton @quare and taxicab ghauffeurs or quaint @allora trom the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Just as welcome is the cheery Bebas- tiano Russo, aid to the street cleaning Fas Old Josep’ =~ i hi ttme. Branchard avenue just below Washington place. It would never in the world do to bar William Butler Duncan or Paul Dana Just because they live on the other side on the east eife of the underground Manetta Water. They have Just aa much right to put out flags as | Stewart and Pierre Mull, on the other aide of the street. So has former Mayor George 1. McClellan, though the munict honorary Ughts were taken down from his dogrstep when he moved to Princeton; he ts at least an honorary ‘Villager. And who would Mut out Charles W. Gould, who out of his store of ancient 4 modern lamps hanging tn his deep d furnish enough ert W, De Forest, one of the leaders of which under Simkovitch, has planned ok for both a general Iness to the thou- sands of foreign born folk who have crowded into the village in the lant thirty years, They have been too busy earning livings for themselves and their swarming families to get the old ideals. KNOWN AS VILLAGERS. If Lem sires he may hang an extra fla out of by Monsieur Ortelg, both at the Bree- voort, which looks Nke a hospital stranded steamer backed up in an eddy against Eighth street. Aecorate the old Lafayette if he kes It {# painful to think of what Mme. ter-motlier of poetry, Journalism, painting and 61 Washing to any one who Hage, She would doubtless chase him n, The solemn Now York handbooks of ibe Minetta Lane, whose tortuous lines follow thi But to-day tt bs and as merry and as easy-going as a and the strum. ming of banjoes and high-keyed laugh- ter and the fluffy gowns a de » the south and east for 0 ar to Canal street, betw k's “Little Ttatios,) y of them, tt has been inany of New As crowded as w where he wes 4 comparatively clear ef crime. ‘To y know wh ) eoing, warm, rich soll within the creok to all | sure, tho melodramatle tusdeab robbery the territory west of Broadway ia| was plotted there. But for the most Welcome to join in. Max Pause, who Part polleamen have Uttle to save) OM Farm restaurant in a| to keep the curb clear and stop too Universit: place basement is welcomed.| kuud and over-heated conversation in| forties, when ft was disbanded, but not front of the wine shops and the #ro-| a few of them were born in the village and have lived there all thelr lives, Not are corles, “JOHNNY LOOK-UP” A VETERAN EX-OFFICIAL MOURNER. | dwellings and new ware houses of the district are hung with symbolic bunting, some kind soul of the older generation Will think to place aj wreath with a bow of crepe, or els a broken colur house where “Johnny Look-up" lived, He may have had another name. eyes fastened the micknan r-_ A| He wa queer habit of alwaye upturning his| advooa =_———_ _-——— ew York— Greenwich Village the fosters of Art and Literature that “Jounny Look-up" did net follow He would try to get Into a hack; he was not particular about being invited. | him und Hut if the worst came do the worst he | younger 6 would trudge beside the hearse to the; Mr. Coward’ © was never a funeral went out reenwich Village in his difetime | sete down to business every day. He has dropped the allk hat because he EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 17 morn after St. Patrick's Day. Michael ¢]} found his sweet temper dissolving on eration. He sells shoes st cobbler shop and dares very grave and coming home eome kind | any whippersnapper from the east side soul lke Kerin Walsh (who atill alts in| or Yorkville or Washington Heights or the counctis of the elder statesmen of | Manhattanville or Morrisania to keep the village in Charles Ahearn'’s cigar | up a better showing for the house than atore at No. 68 Eighth avenue, and de-| he does spite his seventy-five years still drives @ hearse) would jive him a ltt back Also at Ahearn’s cigar store, ranged about inside and outside the door on They say that when Barney Clark | old chaira from which years of aervico (ed, the widow aent out for “Johnny | ax benches of eages have worn most of Look-up" and explained to him that) the paint, one may find any fine eve- ing him at the funeral, muke her nervous and more unhappy in her great grief. She would gladly give Johnny @ sult of Barnoy’a clothes and 850 In cash if he would stay at home, It was more money than Johnny ever had in his hands at once. He considered with a writhing soul, No, Mis’ Clark," he anid, “I need the money and I'd ike to oblige, But I know my duty and J wouldn't go back on Barney.” So he went. Johnny iived in a house in Greenwich street near Perry, abut- ting which was part of the wall of the city prison, which was the queer pride of the village for many years, The prison burs are atill bedded in the stone of the windows. When Levi P. Morton came tn froin the country to be a clerk in @ dry goods store he went to board in Gree! wich Village. There ts no record to sup- | !port the statement, but ft te the tra- dition of the settlement that he ran with the volunteer firemen of his youth and made good at the pumps. There is a goodly number of the fire men left, Only day before yesterday the Exempt Firemen's rooms in the upper part of the market building were |as busy with them as so many beehtves, Among the ancient former firemen who eet as often as they can get around ind tell of the daye when Mr, Morton award Van Dusen, Sam Gates, James G. Watkins, John Terhune and former Foreman A. Galvin, All of them belonged ‘Dwelve Engine, @ “frontier com- pany, which had run from far up in the ran with the hose re to a one of them is under eighty-three old and at least three are eighty-five LIGHED THE HIGH HAT VOQU! Out In the front rank of next week' merrymakers one will find Michael J. Fitaxerald. Idleventh street, and hi Michael's youth measures seventy years. nd practice the British cu He liven at No, 249 West/interest in polities. His int: el Ell Quigg, a date comer, de- |%h@ was a bit superstitious about hav-| ning, John Humphries with his G, A. R. At would | button conaptei ly on the flap of his { coat lapel, the keys of the New York Savings Bank jingling in his pocket and | sparsely allvered brow. simplicity of the Greenwich Village democracy that the counsellor who |usually occupies the seat next to Mr. H of seventy-five cheerful summers, who ‘8 the secretary and treasurer of the bank and who Is always ready to dis- agree with the custodian of the building | as to the date when the Original Hounds \had thelr rat fistlo dispute with the | Hoboken Turtle Club, or of any other j event tn village history, Mr. Pence was | | for years the owner of the cotton press | | which stood at tho foot of West Elev- [enth street, and re-baled the broken |shipments which came up from the | south in ailing packets and sidewhee} ocean steamer JOHNNY KEENAN WAS CHARIOT PILOT FOR BARNEY BIGLIN. Nobody knows just how old Johnny enan te except himself. Johnny will! be‘ Jiggered before he'll tell. He is stili j able to hold his own against the impu- | dent and owdactous youth who try to ‘bump him off the seat of his wagon as they cut across his bows and clip his hubs with their brighter painted and more brilliantly harnessed equip- ag Gecretly, Johnny has in his soul the knowledge that he could run an eu- tomobile with a gingle lesson in the way to control the divvie Wor years and years Johnny was « trusted driver for the Custom House stores expresses, That was when Bar- ney Biglin, by virtue of ¢he elder Van Cott an@é Thomas Collier Platt, team- mates in the politica of the last genera- It 48 to be hoped that, while all the’ VILLAGGER FITZGERALD E8TAB-|:ion, held @ monopoly of immigrants’ baggage transfer and some other fancy trucking, | Dick Van Cott has low his inherited at in his lived there |livery and automobile stables works on ) against the wall of the| since before the time he can remember.!an eccentric wheel. If you have a . |char@e account with Dick and, after the the firat man in the village to| manner of Greenwich Village, let it run jabout pine months or @ year without to him,| tom of wearing a high hat by day and| answering polite letters “believing you even then, in the earty hours of the wt have overlopked, &: why, then, he flood of comments of the feventy-five years reating lightly on his; | It Is an indication of the good will and | fame eave be represents Dieke house for uncle comes around and says his cient |has just bought Dick out and in obliged to close all accounts forthwith, ‘The next time you get a year or eo behind the same man comes around cepresent- ing Dick and informs you that he had bought out the uncle and must find out what accounts are good for cash, Care- leas, profilgate descendante of the good old Boussen Bouwerle Dutch—those Van Cotte John R. Voorhis of the Tlection {Board has been living at Greenwich jand Bank streets for sixty-five years. He moved into that house when he was seventeen years old, He had a jelty Job five years before that, He hae been a Commissioner of almost every board in the city government and it is his boast and pride that he gets down to his office every day before the of- fice boys, even now. He can almost remember the yellow fever plague of 1822 and 1823, which drove thousands of persone up from the crowded city [below Chambers street into the vil- lage. COMMERCE BUTTED IN WHILE FLEEING FROM PEST, There was a general belief, made good by the event, that the yellow fever could not cross the Minetta Water, It never did. Whole sec- tlons of the financial and commission istrict moved their offices out to the green lanes and clean rolling gardens and fields of Greenwich Viliage, and stayed there until the pestilence was one, ‘Thus Bank street gained ite name and thus the pastoral ideal of Green- wich as @ suburb wae destroyed by the entering wedge of commerce. The estates became mansion plots, The mansion plots were broken into city lota, The wandering streets which had followed cowpaths or the w: beside the banks of ¢ ‘cams gained wooden and then brick sidewalks. Only the tradition of g00d nature, neighbor- liness and helpfulness, even to the atranger, survived, Mr. Voorhis 4s by mo means the only sprightly veteran who bas lived in one nearly 4 Sebartiane Russo, street cleaning- foreman {the life of a man breathing less whole- jsome alr than that of the Greenwich slope, Sam Deane has lived at No. 6% ‘Bank street for more than sixty years, and there 1s no indication that he mi not Uve there for sixty more. ‘The same 1s true of Jim Going of West Tenth street, and Jimmy Barr, who lives not far away, on West Fourth street, just beyond the spot where they cross. There 1s even talk of making a feature of the tournament a boxing or a single stick match ‘twixt Pop Devlin, who keeps at No, 88 West Fourteenth street, land hie good friend—at times—Jim Sturges. TOUGH CLUB TO VIE WITH THE AVONIA IN DECORATION. | Two of the gayest fronts next week in the whole of the village except that of the Greenwich Settlement House, in Jones street, which is in charge of the whole show, will be the home of the Tough Club at No, 43 West Fourteenth street, which is not tough any mort nd never was, even in the dolsterous and oastful days of 183, when tt was organ- ted in @ basement at Fleventh and Bleecker streets, and the Avonia Athlotic Club, whieh, after similar movirgs from basement to basement up and down the village, has blossomed out likewise with ‘a house all its own at No, 64 Hudson street, The Avonlas are of the younger generation which went to school under Principal B, D, L. Sutherland at old No, 3, Grove and Hudson atreets, in the days when there etill were horse stages Hudeon atreet. One wandering across West Tenth street on @ hot summer afternoon te likely to hear a t uproar as he pproaches Gre avenue, There 1s « crowd of yelling youngsters and laughing men in front of the fire house, Up and down the sldewalk Tod Acker- man’e ball pup Bade, like her father before her, te Aghting the hose etream of No. 18 Engine, propelled into her face with full force, ‘The Evening World wanted a picture of this feat, but it was too cold, and instead of risking pneumonta for the pup Ted kindly obliged by showing how ‘he occasionally hes Babo with o glase of beer. IVILLAGE HAS ITS GOSSIPS IN SAME OLD STORES, Greenwich Village, clean as pine, where Such good citizens as the good Alexan- der Neri, from out of the tals of his Uttle shop in narrow Christopher street, will sell you cheeses ¢rom Italy or rad- shes ¢rom Staten Island, oranges éram Florida or otle from Palermo, with ait the free advice in ¢he world about wens derful and simple ways of cooking apa- ghett! it whould be cooked? {a no place else than Greenwich which could offer such a charm @ wineshop of the Téguoris, whteh has another name on the signdean. Here, because of past kindnesses of the good couple to @ friend in hard heok, sometines visite the great Enréeo Caruso, and the notes of his goléen voice rise through the windows of their back Uving room end float through ¢he velvet night to hearten and cheer ead on aleepless doarding- Dillowa, waiting for the uncertain starting of another day, Many @ youth weing home with bitter distiiusionment and disappointment amd despair in is heart has stopped to talk to kindly, gen- tle Mra, Liguori and her great, sunny- hearted husband, and has gone to bed smiling, though without his supper—@ut not this last if Jake end his wife know It. PROGRAMME OF OLD HOME WEEK IN THE VILLAGE, This is the formal programme of the publo events of the week: ‘To-morrow—Gpecial sermons at the churches in the evening, with services be arranged by the pastors with ret- erence to the history of the village Monday—A general celebration cen- tring @t Hudson and Chasiton etreets, in Pubdlio Bchool No. 9, Tuesday—-Merchants’ Day, ‘Wednesday—Social Service Day, with celebrations at the various settlements, hoapitnis, clinics and institutional de- partments of the churches, Thuraday—Church Day, with spectal social gatherings in the parlors and Sunday school rooms of the various churches, Friday—School Chilfren's Day, with flag parades by the pupils of all the achools of the village. Saturday—The pageant of the hislery of Greenwich Village, from the Sage ‘wae allotted agaa’ [Whe atl tel of Gro great shops gf pangosk Indiang to Megor Gayate,