And Paulus--Koster and Bial's first French
importation--to say nothing of Anna Held and Sandow!
A motley company enough, to be sure, and certainly one worthy to form
the nucleus of New York's Bohemia.
Says Mr. Martin: "The most interesting thing that ever happened in the
'Old Martin'? I can tell you that quite easily. It was the blizzard of
1888, when we were snowed in. The horse cars ran on University Place
then, the line terminating at Barclay Street. I have a picture of one
car almost snowed under, for the snow was fully six feet deep. It was
a Saturday night and very crowded. When it became time for the people
to go home they could not go. So they had to stay, and they stayed
three days. They slept on billiard tables, on the floor or where they
could. We did our best, but it was a big crowd. Interesting? It was
most interesting indeed to me, for I could get no milk. I could supply
them with all the wine they wanted, but no milk! And they demanded
milk for their coffee. Oh, that blizzard!"
Mr. Martin, in remembering interesting episodes, forgot that trifling
incident--the Spanish-American War, in 1898.
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