Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1911 — TALES OF GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALES OF GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES

ARMY OF 250,000 TOILS AT NIGHT

NEW YORK.—With an army, conservatively estimated at a quarter of a million of workers who are employed partly or wholly at night, New York city is fast becoming as busy industrially and economically between the hours of 7 :00 p. m. and 7:00 a. m as pre other cities during the hours that from time immemorial have been dedicated to labor. The glitter, the glimmer and the glamor of the "Gay White Way" and its environs must, from their very noise and brilliancy, attract attention to the exclusion of all other considerations, after the sun goes down and the myriad imitation suns come up. But that quarter taillion of workers Is there—not so accessible, not so easily stumbled upon, and far less noisy: It Is hard to corqplete an accurate list of all those occupations which are carried on at night. But here is a list,

,which gives an Idea of the enormous number of people who earn their bread In a manner that our staid forefathers would have considered "outlandish.”

Milkmen, postofflce employees, policemen, firemen, railway employees, employees on the surface, elevated and subway lines, night watchmen, waiters and cashiers in the all-night "hash houses;'* then comes that other class of waiters and attendants in the fashionable restaurants, who only begin to bustle about at night; newspaper men, telegraph operators, bar tenders, hotel clerks, bell boys and the "raft" of other hotel employees; hackmen, chauffeurs, night dentlstSr physicians, surgeons, barbers, cigar store clerks, drug ‘store employees, telephone girls, newsboys, news dealers, actors and actresses, crews of the ferry boats, certain sorts of structural workers, tunnel workers, musicians, nurses; there is a small army of men and women who enter the big department stores after they have closed for the night, and work the night long cleaning and fixing them up ship-shape for th? next day’s trade.