The evening world. Newspaper, July 5, 1913, Page 7

i Tg hel! . “OAM ir iit ie iS “ "HE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 5 THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT Broadway Called the Street of Opportunity . A Story of New York in July By Novelist Vance, Who Deals With Its Types — By O. Henry —— a aS ae Wongrigh?, 1911, by Deubieday-Page Co.). URING the recent warmed. | |, Over epell,” said my friend Everybody Gete What He Can Out of the Great White Way—It Has Its Temptations, but a Per- eon With Strength of Character Is as Safe There as He Would Be On Main Street in His Carney, driver of express ‘wagon No, ‘a good Many opportunities was had of observing human nature threagh boo walsts. “The Park Commissioner and the ner of Polls and the Forestry lesion gets together and agrecs to fet the people sleep in the parks un- tH the Weather Bureau gets the ther- mometer down again to a living basis. = “gue raved v THe Movies” So they draws up open-air resolutions He Town. ~ and hes them 0. K.'d by the Secretary ‘ Of Agriculture, Mr. Comstock and the BY CHARLES DARNTON. Village Improvement Mosquito Exter- minating Society of South Orange, J "When the proclamation was made opening up to the people by apecial Srant the public parks that belong to ‘em, there was a general exodus into Central Park by the communities exist- {ng along tts borders. In ten minutes after sundown you'd have thought that there was an undress rehearsal of a Potato famine in Ireland and a Kishl- maseacre. They come by families, angs, clambake societies, clans, clibs and tribes from all sides to enjoy a cool sleep on the grass. Thom that didn't | have oll stoves brought along plenty | of blankets, so as not to be upset with | the cold and discomforts of slec; outdoors, Py building flros of the shade trees and hitdiing tozether in the bridte | paths, and burrowing under the grass where the ground was +0 m1 n battled against the nisht air in Central {round the organ-grinder and the rent Park alone. pald for a week—what does a man want "Ye Know I live In the elerant fur- 1 Site |) eatin ‘And then comes this ruling of the Becca ee Ceted {6 potis driving people out of thelr come he New York Cen. |fortable homes to sleep in parks— ‘twas for all the world like a ukage of them Russians—twill be heard from gain at next election time. “Well, then, Officer Reagan drives the w ROADWAY ie to be clapped be- tween the covers of a book, Much of its life qnd more of its types have been eelzed upon by Louis Joseph Vance in the name of “Joan Thursday.” Mr. Vance once lived in a suburb, so you eee he has perspective. Moreover, he looks at Broadway through steady glasses and talks about it calmly and eensl- bly. “Heaven knows—if it te at afl tnter ested in the matter—that I don’t eet myself up as an authority on Broad- way or anything eles,” the uncommonly modest novelist hastened to say. “But I've lived in New York for twenty a aneat [ic'e vaudeville shstch that euseendag | (HPLEM OP TO SauAD ELE MEINE omen T've been thrown among people Who! heara that shopgirie @o eometimes wo would feel they had been cast into outer darkness if they were obliged to leave the Great White Way. And new let me make a confession: I once lived in a euburd. That's where I got my dramatic inspiration. One, night } missed @o many trains out of New York that when I got home I feuné my wit Lours & vANwe® deh “are YE THE PARI COMMISSIONER?” | ASHS : # 3 i if te iad $ | = i iye ail ut i § e & 5 Sis “dant iaahi ¢ i I with her feet in the bosom of Antonio Spigzinelll. “And Mike O'Dowd, that always threw peddlers downstairs as fast as he cam: upon ‘em, has to unwind old Isaacstet! whiskers from around his neck and fe lot of us to the park and wake up the whole gang at daylight. g i { lie I ; that all hands must turn out and in the ‘park, 9 ing to the fn i + 1 conettting com: ara, added: “Dreeimeg ‘opportunity. the City nave si turns us In by the secrest gate. ‘Tia But there and there some few got ac- adit’ hegiaoe ‘as I was allowed te te t= che Sraveee Goa wena os ean out of it. tng, Returfing and Soddin Ghee eaiee thee eee anti ones ya Patsey Rourke, ‘and a-per al and overtoowed tne discomforts | join in the conversation. ‘I'll write been coon on Brostwen| And Breatwag Gecm't ill nor cure, of a couple « fF sets up to holwing that they want) spiring in me own windy .o the joyful mn ere was five engage- | vaudeville sketch about it” Rot saying co—please ‘2 to =D @ the tetivideal, Of course, o rity to so home, noise of the passing trains and the| mente to be married announced at the nts hegan: to pack up ell pass the night In this atretch | smell of liver and onions and reading | flats the next morning. . rubber boots, strings |% Woods and scenery, ‘8 Officer or the latest murdor in the smoke of} “About midnight J gets up and wrings hot-water basa, portable | Reagan, ‘Twill bo fine and imprison |the cooking is well enough for me,’ says| the dew out of my hair and goes to the Fasdaa: art: ec of cant to tae Ment for insoolting the Park Commts- jo, “What is this herding us In grasa| side of tho driveway and sits down, At Along for the sake of comfort, The {#io=er and the Chlef of the Yeather | for, not to mention the crawling things | one side of the park I could see the sidewalk looked like a Rursian camp in| Hureau If ye refuse, I'm in charge of | with legs that walk up the trousers of Kenta tho atreets and houses, and I|tne worst vaudeville eketoh I ever GuGia line of watch, ‘There was acres between here and the |us, ‘and the Jersey snipes that peck at | Waa thinking how happy them folks Was | saw,” he declared. “Juat.ee I wae be: Walling and lamenting up and do’ n Monument, and T advise ye to! ys, masquerading under the name and| Who could chase the duck and smoke 4 ginning to think an usher would have Galva from Danny Geoshesan's Tis sleoping on the|qenomination of mosquitoes, What Is it| thelr pipes at thelr windows and kesp| ty carry me out and let the wind blow isi Vaudeville did Mr. Vance another good turn. It.was at one of the vaude- ville-and-moving-picture houses that hi discoverda Joan, the heroine of bie novel. ‘She played between the movies in gf t Hy i Hi i i it Py | f i 4 © e if ! | 1 i | il HH i : i | i j i | : ee broke ef Ver] Ge were, co far ap Tenn cen Recent the top floor to the apartments of | ave been condemned tolait for, Carney, and the rint going on cool and pleasant like nature intended | on me the girl in the sketch interested haps T'd better keep that to mayest” | ty, ¢ atrites ea, thre hes devs @ large Missia Goldsteinupski on the first. by the authorities, Yez'll be permitted | just the same over at the flats? seer tea ths aapeciad 46 xb A 6b 48 Tranqullly the dlscrest povelist guided | Uratn prided por “For says Danny, coming |t?,!0ave in the morning, but ye must!” weeps the great annual Municipal ust then an automobile stops by me ® type, She was ob-| ager from life. He t #0 good-natured Dack to his heroine, whe hed teem ieft y actress but retoorn ve nigut, Me orders was silent | preg Night Outing Lawn Party,’ says bah a isa looking, well dressed man| viously very new at the business, and| that I'm sure he won't mind, 1 saw| waiting all this time on the subject of bail, but I'M find out) 7, given by the polls, Hetty Green and | ® pfeil i thing about hi i she had| nim lose his teroper at rehearsal only| “he,” he explained, “le ene type of te ttle rea and there'll be bonds-|the Drug ‘Trust. During the heated} | Oi) Man. seth he, ‘can you tell Me! received her dramatic training in a de+| once, and that was after he hed totd| successful actress, Her wondertul [Meee ene wRte season they hold a week of It In the] iY all these people are lying around on | partment store. I remembered having! an actor our times to stand beside al stinot for selt-preservetion enables ter no lights except along principal parks. ‘Tis a acheme to reach srass in the park? I thought it was y isi fe . oe ‘e neb st the rules,’ te drives, us 179 tenants) that portion of the people that's ‘Twas an ordinance,’ eaye I, ‘Just SSM 1 aan es a et eta gaye? NT" BSS" lass “eels Deariment ae] Weg, Lew Fields SINGS, iy 4 - us . |ratied by the Turf Cutters’ Associa- “Din by order of the Polis |T82!€ forest. Them that brought] +1 can't sleep on the Broun’ SAY8! tion providing that all persona not care Ha sledvibnd se ubin Commimsioner. Turn out every one of | MAnkets and Kindling wood was best | patsey, ‘wid ry'ng a ilcenso number on thelr rear part in ‘Old Dutch, the composer of ‘\yes and hike yerselves to the park.’ off. They got fires started and wrapped | hay fever and the rheumatism, and Me¢| gyieg ghall keep In the public parke| Playwoers who have witnessed per Leg ER capa aged ees ‘twas a peaceful and happy) {"@ blankets round their heads and | ear ts full of ants.’ until further notice, Fortunately, the|foTmances of “Ail Aboard” the past| Tan Tae V py ecco ese Pispcaciee t all of ux had In them same] '@!4 down. cursing, In the grass, There} «well, the night goes on, and the ex-| orders comes this year during a spell | Week, and who are at all familiar with tion with three other principats—Ada Beersheba Flats, The O'Dowds and the| “*® nothing to see, nothing to drink, | tenants of the flats groan and stum-| of Ane weather, and the mortality, ex-|the story of Lew Fields’s past life, havel 1 oie John Bunny and fva Davenport Atetnowltzes and the Catlahans and the| Nothing f} do. In the dark we nad no! ples around in the dark, trying to AM4) cept on the borders of the lake an@|been amaged to see that comedian, Jit) 1 think they were, I told Victor that I Cohens and the Spizzinellis and the Mc-|¥@ Of telling friend or foe except py| rest and rec The/ qlong the automobile drives, will not be| before the fall of the final curtaln, Manuses and the Splege!mayers and the | *¢ling the noses of ‘em, I brought | childher ts 1 had never sung a note in my life—not camming with the coldness, | any greater thun usual.’ burst into song, For the better part of | sven ‘we Won't Go Home Until Morn- Joneses—all nations of us, we lived like | 0S mo last winter overcoat, me] and the janitor makes hot tea for ‘em) “-wWho are these people on the alde|a third of a century Mr. Fields has en- virial occastons—bui ia one big family together, And when the| tooth-brish, some quinine ptlls and the | and keeps the fires going with the slsN-| of the hill? asks the man, fJoyed the unique distinction of being He ome taoas mn Tor two ecoaien 1 hot nights come along wo kept n line) Te! quilt off the bed in me flat, boards that point to the Tavern and) gure, says I, ‘none others than the | the only musical comedytar who never | studied, I went after voice culture with bf childher reaching fzom the front door], “Three times during the night some-|the Casino, The tenants try to 14¥|tonants of the Beersheba Flate—a fine |has sung a note. all the enthusiasm of @ budding prima to K@lly's on tie corner, passing along! 2°4y rolled on me quilt and stuck his|down on the grass by famliles In the for any man, especially on hot| “Yes,” eaid Mr. MMelds last evening| Gonna, I would get to rehearsals an . the cans of beer from one to another knees against.the Adam's apple of me. | dark, but you're lucky If you can sleep May daylight come soun!’ when questioned regarding th! - | hour before any one else, and either Vic- without the trouble of running after it.| 474 three times I judged his character | next to a man from the same floor Or} « “They come here be night,’ mys he, | ling innovation, “I actually sing, and/tor or our musical director, Louls Gott- down and r: to the jani of me co ‘m the dirty Uke Jerom Y trouble ¥ Matters like thin instead of — “Whint!! says OM sidewalk, rapping with sin his blue yarn socks | ‘ehould T be turned ments to | ¥ li a it, ref z 3 ; isés ny benefit, I have the! “And with no more clothing on than|>¥ running me hand over his face, and | belleving in the same religion, ‘and breathe in the pure air and the|it in the first time in my entire stage) schatk, would have me sing the scale fa ay Cy oy I dave always told fs provided for in the statute sitting | three tlmes I rose up and kicked the in-| “Now and then a Murphy, accidental, | fragrance of the flowers and trees, They |carcer that I have done wo. I enjoy . ‘They were them mat jay to gain experiens® in all the windles, with a cool growler|tTuder down the hill to the gravelly | rolls over on the grass of a Rosenstein, |do that,’ suys he, ‘coming every night|it. I have never troubled myself to tie about the quality te t otart with the chorus, That i in every one, and your feet out in tho | walk below, And then some one with| or a Cohon tries to crawl under the} from the burning heat of dwellings of | learn the lyrics. I know it is @ Chinewe| possibilities of my voice, Reflection what Iam doing myeelé. I'm practising Air, the Rosenstein girls singing on the)® favor of Kelly's whiskey snuggled | O'Grady bush, and then there's a feel-| brick and ste song, and #0 I make up my own lyrics. | after the lapse of years leads me to sus- what I've been fire escaps of the sixth floor, and/up to me, and I found his nose turned | ing of noses’ and somebody is rolled| “ ‘And wood,’ says 1. ‘And marble|1 think of all the Chinese dishes I have| pect that they wore kidding me, tut I wih the Patsy Rourke's flute going In the elghth, | UP the right way ‘Is that | down the hill to the driveway and stays | and plaster and tron,’ seen on the bill of fare of chop-suey| didn't know \t then. Two days before fun ous ‘and the ladies calling each other syn-;¥ou, then, Pa ‘It is,|thore. There 18 some hair-pulling| “ ‘The matter will be attended to at and I string them tog the opening of ‘Old Dutch’ I was singing Tt is very pleasant mental| the scale pn the piazza of my summer It amuses the chorus girla,/ home, I was very much in earnrat. ' y onyms out the windies, and now and|Carney. How long do you think it'll! among the women folks, and everybody | once,’ says the man, putting up his then a breeze palling in over Mister] laat?’ spanks the nearest howling kid to him | book. Depew's Central—! tell you the Beer-! ‘I'm no woather prophet,’ says 1,| by the sense of feeling only, regardiess| ‘Are ye the Park Commissioner? 1] and doesn't affect tho harmony to any | Suddenly I huppened to look toward the wage gheba Flats was a summer resort that|‘but if they bring out a strong antl-| of its parentage and ownership, ‘Tis | asks. appreciable extent.” lawn, and there I eaw my young daugh- Goeen't . mede the Catskills look I!ke a hole in, Tammany ticket next fall {t ought to| hard to keep up the social distinctions| ‘I own the Beersheba Flats,’ sayshe.| ‘some years ago," continued Mr.|ter, Dorothy, and @ dozen other little! @trie peeping at me trom behind bushes | cne can the ground. With his person full of get us home in time to sleep in a bed] in the dark that flourish by daylight In| ‘God bless the grase and the trees that Deer and his fect out the windy and his! once or twice before they line us up at| the Beersheba Flats, Mrs. Rafferty, | gives extra benefits to a man’s tenants ol4 woman frying pork chops over a! the polls, that despises the asphalt that a Da ‘The rents shall be raised fifteen per Ghercoal furnace and the childher| ‘‘A-playing of my flute into the atr-| treads on, wakes up ia the morning | cent. to-morrow, Good-night,’ says he.” Tom, P. liceman and Fireman, Though a Cat, Ba < < ; street and the bluecoats in the Mast \ 7, Sixty-eighth street station will tell you Unlike Napoleon and Jeffries and He Launched an Insult Paris Style in New York |, 02x sos pete ot 2) icone etn tana tse —_+ right hand on his shoulder and snap) Grav him by the wrist, Twist It to the) Joe," sald one of the songsters, back, Everybody in West eventy-thind | Aine ® saronade on ® back fence at 2 your fingers a couple af times. right and pack into him, holding on, All ‘Then there's the hat tric policeman, fireman and watohman. If “Noyoay but boobs fight Amertean| “geich time you snap, say: “That for| you gotta do then is bend and toss him [imp ~ ively. ‘Try it on his hat brim, Na wees A cuban | palioninnns Greene atyie!' you, you big stiff! When he raises his | over your shoulder!” ‘Phat gets him sore and your hand is in and) watehman tnatead of 6 fein pi plow to American fighting methods rose hand to punoh, why your hand ts ready. “But suppose something goes wrong, 18 bos piace. The hat trick always gets he would have teen diechareed } ago over the straine of a battered piano and if it " the other night Whereupon the song men guyed him poppy eel eg meapp sea wa id ‘with joy, ran into the houses, s ' Pgoa ane ; wot 0 ve dhe bawls of @ vninfer tue erence | 1Rne Troubles of the Two C. H. Stolls): ‘The ‘Voice’ that uttered this death months ago at a fire Tom discovered: Deals Taian: theese: antacedlia’ tail Union for dereliction of duty. He has| bone and dropped it front of Tom, anne 4 ee ae postebrse tee At intervals could be distinguished: yn Oe {up Broader Aisil, “Fay alee Onesien |Wideeahoubared airanger with the bul eae away three months without leave. | Three years ago Jest Marsh the taine wob intan eound ta thelbusiaine Reta R “Why if you ever started anything In and many of my friend# know me that | ner-thrower, Joe spotted him a ben ust come bac pallaeman, Gretoan 6e men but they let him alone After the the Apache quarter——" HERE are two well known New| yo 1 ie 4. ‘Tom | minus some decorations, but he! a kitten, He appeared outside the office rs he was mised, It was feonel Ant— York lawyers named C, H, SiO. "2h.6, use your middle name in full. so that big guy? Just watch me put has annexed others. He returned with-! of Arrens at No, 6? West Reventy=ibie ee Pog Bd pave EI “Get your fore broken before you start- So tar as they oan discover, they|y— 49 Hawksworth call yourself | it over on him, Then you'll see how it's out a collar studded with brass police | street meowing plaintively. ° @4 the punch." are not related. Both, however, have ” < ae r | me I nh im w Arrene missed him greatly. Tom Charles Hawksworth or C, Hawks: | done tuttons and a silver plate bearing his | ian took him Inside, furnished him with “Votce' to meet him every night at 8 o’clook at Geated at the table with the “Voice” | their offices in the downtown secilon| worth Stell,” ile ¢he) hie siraneer looked on Ii nage presented to him wy the police of | some milk, and from that time oo FOr the Seventy-second street station of the were three w and devote a gcndly part of thelr time) wai right, I'M do that. Only my | amazement Joe of the tango went up to the Hast Sixty-elehth street sation In| Atrens adopted that name~made his} “1 in Columbus avenue and trot along The voice belonged to the man who first | to corporation inatters. The confusion| miggie name ien't Hawksworth, I'll hint and flicked him once on the choul- recognition of hit services ax a feline | None there, but only at nights at bie olde to Arrens’s office. Wrought the tango to Lanny You have | resulting from their similarity of names) ogi) myself Charles Henry Stoll.” der, contributing the “big et pe cop, The decorations he acquired during | On three ove mons Ag Sioaeres movie ee ie fie te Soe Ee in seen him throwing ® lithe creature | has annoyed both of then greatly, j/ |" No, no; that'll nover do,” erled the |pliment. Drinking and truttiug stopped | cop, Aires in the neighborhood, | Be founs Serres, See, Vee ee ee about the stage In a cabare x mbar | he other day the Mr. Stoll whose Of-|cejar street Stoll, “My name's Ch as trouble Was scented, ‘The alr was| While tho polive ana| smoke coming from the hallways @ | him. Th © mystery to him even © galled “Danse de. Apaches.” Member (#2 18 At No, 183 Broadway called uP|ttenry too, and we wouldn't be tense as Joe smiled broadly at his com: | Henry Arrens, « watchman, hls master, | Just aauatted down and meowed as If] oy, “e name ts aoe a Foe Gent rere him |Mr. Stoll who holdy forth at No, 43] peter off.” panlons warning them to be ready for] were pleased when T ame back, | be Mas lat ain esis [fe S788 308 Go, if you ever see a striped cat gols the rest, i Cedar street and asked if they could! And they are no nearer a solution | the fun F their joy cannot be compared with th fee, eee id the reat by turning in and out of basements in the n “Well, Joe, what's the answor?” asked ‘not evolve some method of keeping yet, You'll And ‘em both in the dire And he flicked again. of San Toy, a dog born in Yokohama, | 4m alary [who lives in leream and delicacies at Join, | ‘Tom became such a favorite with the 0, 6? West! police In Mast Sixty-etghth street that Beventy-third street, When San Toy, they clubbed tn and bought him @ collar, | yw Tom, heretofore his bosom com-| Which he wore with seeming pride until jganion, he Jumped aij ever aim, Garked | bis disappearance, That cocusred three @ of the song m “E learned this in Paris and it's great," . h pi 0 i Like @ (lash the ‘e iigit hand! out of trouble, tory or the telephone bovk. Both |, f “Al right, \Charles H, Stolls and both lawyers, |!@nded flush on Joe's Jaw, dropping ni iy | said Joe. “You go up to the guy you Both would like some one to come eS eine aneneiias followed came| wast te Uek and Ox your thumb and long and tell them how to distin: ' the cry from the table: age: ton eusgpiag. Pus peur _ "Ha noi that won't do,” interrupted Wiad sremocives from each ones, Go am, Joo! Tez, the bas tries”, en cr hn rn brine pian atin ee iaibh sideline