Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — Bowery Pistols. [ARTICLE]

Bowery Pistols.

Pistols are almost as plentiful on the Bowery [as shoes in a shoe factory. The secondhand dealers, the pawnbrokers’ salesmen and the hardware men almost literally festoon some of their windows with them. They make fringes and frescoes of them and pile them in heaps. They sell them for from half a dollar upward. A pistol seems to be the first thing that boys buy when th6y get a little money, and the first thing they and the east side sports part with when they are hard up, and the Bowery is where they nearly all seem to tiny and sell them.