. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . ringswith color. Doyers and Pell streets are gay, but MottStreet is loud. Especially is this true when there is acelebration of some saints day, say, that of Saint Michaelthe Archangel. Then there will be a huge baldachino ingold and colors erected in front of some buUding, withawnings above and effigies of the Madonna and ChUd be-low; there will be a procession, with a band playing Ital-ian airs, and rows of fire-crackers for many blocks thatrun up and explode with a tremendous blast in front ofthe Madonna; there will be prayers
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . ringswith color. Doyers and Pell streets are gay, but MottStreet is loud. Especially is this true when there is acelebration of some saints day, say, that of Saint Michaelthe Archangel. Then there will be a huge baldachino ingold and colors erected in front of some buUding, withawnings above and effigies of the Madonna and ChUd be-low; there will be a procession, with a band playing Ital-ian airs, and rows of fire-crackers for many blocks thatrun up and explode with a tremendous blast in front ofthe Madonna; there will be prayers and ceremonies andgoings-on for, perhaps, days at a time. During thesecelebrations all the doorsteps, windows, and balconiesfor blocks are thronged with people in bright dresses;there are flags and banners and festoonings in many colors;the curb below is lined with push carts showing brilliant-hued fruits, vegetables, or dry-goods; while scarlet andviolet and saffron shawls and shirts go by in bands andbunches. The color is more astonishing than Pl. oo. -Pi^.si Office from St. Pal l?? Pouch THE EBB TIDE 159 One emerges from Mott Street with his impressionssomewhat confused. It is a strange tangle of people,shops, signs, carts; and yet out of it all comes perhaps avivid recollection of a quaint old New York doorway withfluted wooden columns and a wrought-iron railing to thestoop, or a fine old church with square tower and heavystone-walls now being occupied by possibly two or threecongregations of foreign extraction, or a new schoolhouseof excellent architecture and superb proportions put downhere by the municipality to educate the children of theseItalians in American ways. It is difficult, indeed, to real-ize that this is New York, so contradictory seems the scene,so unbelievable the mixture of the old and the new. If one turns at the top of Mott Street through HoustonStreet to the east, crossing the Bowery to Second Avenue,he finds himself in the midst of anoth
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