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Title: The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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yellow colorings. Eating and drinking, instead of beingthe satisfaction of a physical need, is here a social function.The drawing feature is not so much the food as the crowd.That is why the fashionable restaurants are fashionable, —why they are always crowded in spite of high charges. The two famous restaurants, which somehow alwaysfind their way into print as though they fed half thepeople of New York, are only a small part of thefood-supplying establishments of the city. The numberof restaurants, cafes, lunch counters — places where foodis cooked and served — is something amazing to strangers.Some of the side streets are lined and dotted with eatingestablishments; all the railway stations, departmentstores, sky-scrapers, apartment-houses, have kitchensattached to them, and the hundreds of hotels often gathermore profit from transients than from their regularguests. Besides these there are large hall-like places wheretable dhote dinners are served, with music, to miscellaneous
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Pl. 4S. — Sherrys (left) and Delmonicos (right) NEW YORK BY NIGHT 219 parties; cafes, French, German, Hungarian, where whatis left of Bohemia hkes to assemble and drink foreign wines ;oyster and chop houses, where nomads drop in and eat insilence; dairies and confectionery shops, where women gofor lunch or afternoon tea. There seems no end to thetraffic in cooked things, nor to the places where they aresupplied. The stranger passing from restaurant to restaurantin up-town New York after seven in the evening, wouldbe very apt to conclude that most of the city had givenup house-keeping and was taking its meals out. Andhe would not be far from the mark in his conclusion.High rents for houses and the constant irritation overservants have driven many thousands to seek sleepingquarters in flats and eating accommodations in hotels andrestaurants. The social conditions in New York are notfavorable to the development of the domestic household.Even some of the very wealthy people in the city

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