A LITTLE LAND 35 



AND A LIVING 



-THE GREAT WHITE WAY" AS SEEN BY RICH 

 AND POOR. 



In one of my rambles up Broadway I passed 

 the Metropolitan Opera House just at the time 

 the carriages were discharging ladies exquisitely 

 gowned and resplendent with diamonds and jew- 

 els, and gentlemen in evening dress. They, in 

 turn, were being ushered into the lobby, attended 

 by ushers and policemen, while, at the same time, 

 groups of men, women and children, attracted 

 more by a curiosity born of envy than mere idle- 

 ness, were ordered to move on. Some passed on, 

 and, as though they, in their poverty, must have 

 the same kind of entertainment, entered one of 

 the slot-machine parlors which furnished amuse- 

 ment for as many pennies as their patrons can 

 or cannot afford to spend, and whose pictures, 

 for the most part, are not fit for young people 

 to look at. These people appeared to be fam- 

 ilies of workingmen who were, in their way, see- 

 ing the great white way, and these slot-machine 

 parlors were their avenues of entrance. 



THE DANCE HALLS AND THE STREET. 



Then again think of the hundreds and hun- 



