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Title: The personality of American cities
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hungerford, Edward, 1875-1948
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lmost end-less affair — generally a fearfully hurried one. Butlunch is far more serious. Lunch is almost an institu-tion. Fifteen minutes after it is fairly begun it is gain-ing rapid headway. Thin trails of stenographers andclerks are finding their ways, lunch-bound, through thecanyon-like streets of lower Manhattan, streams thatmomentarily increase in volume. By the time thatTrinity finally boor^is its twelve stout strokes down intoBroadway there is congestion upon the sidewalks — thefavorite stools at the counters, the better tables in thehigher-priced places are being rapidly filled. At twelve-thirty it begins to be luck to get any sort of accommoda-tions at the really popular places; before one oclock theintensity of grubbing verges on panic and pandemonium.And at a little before three cashiers are totaling theirreceipts, cooks, donning their hats and coats to go uptown,and waiters and buses are upturning chairs and scrub-bing floors with scant regard for belated lunchers who
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NEW YORK 31 have to be content with the crumbs that are left afterthe ravishing and hungry army has been fed. Orderafter pandemonium — readiness for the two hours ofgorge upon the morrow. The restaurants and lunch-rooms are as quiet as Trinity church-yard and some-thing like three quarters of a million hungry souls havelunched in the business section of Manhattan south ofTwenty-third street — at a total cost, according to theestimate of a shrewd restauranteur of a quarter of amillion dollars. You may pay your money and take your choice. Theshrewd little newsboys and office-boys who find theirway to the short block of Ann street between Park Rowand Nassau — the real Grub street of New York — areproving themselves financiers of tomorrow by dickeringfor sandwiches — two cents apiece; three for a nickel.They always buy them in lots of three. That is busi-ness and business is not to be scorned for a single in-stant. Or you can pay as high prices in the swaggerrestaurants downtown

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