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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK1. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1907.

8.. CAFE LION D'OR, MANHATTAN. LITTLE HUNGARY, NEW YORK'S BOHEMIA. Clarendon Bestaurant- Holds Its Laurels. The Clarendon is distinct among Brooklyn restaurants and will never yield its laurels to any of the newer places.

It is the famous lunch place of the borough. I served in the' evening, but the luncheon counter on the main floor Is the popular place. It is about the only lunch counter In the city where women go, and they like It. There Is a quieter air about It than the counters where men eat their lunch in the time it takes to spin about on the stool. Department Store Bestaurants Popular.

The department storo lunch room Is eloquent testimony of the growing tendency amoag women to cat their midday meal downtown when they are Bbopping. Every housekeeper knows the Joy of having a meal set before her without the bother of planning or preparing it. The largo department store now has Us lunch room, and every one of those lunch rooms is usual ly crowded around the noon hour. The larger Brooklyn department stores 1HH.I 1fy Hi iff' "41 iw, i WON DOR: it a a hi It" fly! Awt. rtf IeH WTtym THE FOUNTAIN with a cuisine that has long been noted.

but the restaurant is something more than a mere place to eat, It Is neadquar-! ters for the most modern and active I forces of Brooklyn, the gathering place, of politicians and men prominent in all kinds of activities. Men go there not merely for a hurried lunch but for a chat I over some crisis of the day or the po- litlcal situation. Most of them are reg- ular patrons and they usually know many of the men at other tables. The Clar-, endon is attractive In Its furnishings and decorations with an atmosphere of good tasto without lavishness. One of the older places that has hold Its own in Brooklyn for many years and that has not been influenced by the uptown trend of things is Gage Toll-J ner's on Fulton street, in the shopping I district.

It is one of the conservative i reliable places with no attempt at l'-ow of any kind, but where one Is very sure-of getting something good to eat and ot having It wall served. It is especially fa- HOUSE on the Hill BROOKLYN Chop House WILLIAM SIEBERT, Prop. exclusive oyster and chop house Brooklyn really 4040 Orchard. if through tb 5. room to catch the rorlng eye.

Beautification of Eating Places in Compliment to Women Patrons. Murray's Is evidence enough that New Yorkers like their dinner served In an elaborate setting. It is the climax In sumptuousness in cafes, toward which all of. those built in the past twenty-five or thirty years have gradually The disposition to beautify the public eating-place Is undoubtedly the Influence of the presence of women In restaurants and dining rooms. It was not customary for a man to take his wife, or for a younger man to take his girl friend, to a cafe to dine until the past few years.

But, when woman began to frequent the cafes, a new note of decoration was introduced and has been growing more and more elaborate with each place that has opened. It Is largely to women that the restaurant keepers of New York owe the fatness of tholr pockotbooks and that they are become such lords of creation, strangely in contrast to the humble hosts of the taverns and small eating-places of old. Catering to this growing fondness and real necessity of women for the occasional meal out it Is still not bo accustomed as to have lost Its charms to many of us special lunch rooms and tea rooms for their pleasure and convenience have been opened and are busy places during the for dinnor and lunch, its cozlness and the attractiveness of Its decorations simulating a grape arbor, and tho excellence of the food won a popularity for it. Thon there was tho downtown Murray's, which still flourishes nt the corner of Thirty-fourth street and Broadway. That is one of the strangest of New York cafes, a rambling hit of an underground place, with innumerable mirrors that magnify its size to many times and that make It a mystic maze to newcomers.

Thero Is a suggestion of the Greek in the architecture and the decorative scheme, and tho musicians play behind a beautiful fountain, and the tables are lighted with low, mysterious lights. There Is some hint, though a very faint one, in this older Murray's of tho new one that has taken-New York by surprise. Tho Forty-second street placo in a bit of ancient Greece and Rome transferred to this city. The oxtorior of tho building is a replica of an old dwelling in Paris, aud is wonderfully Interesting and unusual In design with its many balconies and a largo panel over the central door representing the Horses of the Sun. It is hardiy the sun, however, that one worships In Murray's, rather the moon and the stars, for thl Is a night-tlmo palace, with lights Riving the Bilver glow as of the moon and with stars bllnkng in a sky overhead and Boft clouds floating lazily by.

The first Impulse on entering tho place is to catch one's breath with The Only 359 to 365 FLATBUSH Brooklyn Exclusive Oyster and Established in 1878. NLY those who have visited the Chop House AVENUE, Fountain House realize what an up-to-date Telephone vw 1 has It haa heen in business under me suprrvitioii 01 in djud i- nt the tew remaining old style "chop houses." The entrance to tho Ladies' Dining Room Is at 83 and Flotbunn avenue. It is a Korffsous room, a droam In dainty decorations. An orchestra which discourses pleasant melody entertains the patrons durl'n tho dinner and sunwr hours, oven until 1 o'clock In -the morning. A rule ot the manaser prohibits a man from sit- tine in the ladles' dining room unless has a woman companion with him.

This rule enables female patrons to enjoy an i.uJ i. i.ih i mh.r roatnuirtint. Ttwi Orlll Hoom la entered from r9 Btbush avenue. each have their lunch room, and at noon are bumming places with their crowds of women. It Is getting to be more and more the thing for Brooklyn women shoppers to lunch downtown.

With many it Is a necessity when the shopping list Is long and the home Is far awav. Abraham Straus has both Its table d'hote and a la carte rooms, which are filled to the doors at tho lunch hour. poeser's restaurant is a place where women like to lunch. Its restful groen furnishings and the general comfort and attractiveness having an appeal as well as (he good faro. Mattbws' has a popular lunch room, and Batterman's, on Broadway, Is a favorite with the women who shop and work In that section.

Of the Manhattan department store restaurants, which are countless, Simpson A Crawford's Is typical of the popular lunching places, with Its tables always filled with busy women from the Sixth avenue district and the hordes of shoppers that find their mart there. Women's Lunch Clubs. The most Interesting places where women eat their lunoh. and one of the developments brought about by the presence of business women In such large numbers are the lunch clubs formed especially for their convenience. There are several of them In Manhattan and their enormous success has proven that they filled a need among eating places.

Most of thorn are strictly lunch places, though a low serve dinners, too. There Is a membership list, but those that are not members are by no means prohibited froragolng. There are Beveral of these clubs in various parts of Manhattan, the best known of which being tho Clover Club in West Twenty-first street, and the Princess Club, which has one place in Nassau and another in Broad stroet. Thore aro a number of restaurants that have their particular Interest and their specialties for which people, of different tastes aro the habit of patronizing. In Manhattan, Shanley'a Is one of the old places that many an epicure would not desert for any other.

Thero are three of tho Shanley establishments, the oldest-being on Sixth avenue, Just ahovo Twenty-third street. Cafe des Ambassadeurs. In Thirty- eighth street, between Sixth avenue and Broadway, Is one of the newer places that has been very popular since It opened throe years ago. It Is, as Its name suggests, entirely French in Its atmosphere and named for the famous cafe in Paris of the Ambassadors, while Its graceful decorations, menus and at mosphere smack of tho boulevards. Some Popular Oyster Houses.

Jack's, on Sixth avenue, Is one of the typical places of New York, a place that could not be matched In any other country In the world, nor perhaps In any other city. The tinsel and the gaud and the glitter of New York Is to be seen there In the late evenings. It Is a place to study types and to watch life. For thirty years Jack's has been on its present site, though the one-time chop and oyster house has had to grow considerably and renovate and change to meet the growing demands. Its proprietor was John Dunstan.

whom everybody came to know as "Jack." Another old oyster house that dates bock twlco as far as Jack's and that through the years has clung to Its old conservatism and quietness Is Dorlon's, Twenty-third street, Just off Broadway. Dorlon's has for sixty years been one cf the favorite places for shell' food In New York, ever since It flm Btarted as an oyster house In Fulton Market and" at tracted to It such men as Cornelius Va'i- dorbllt. Judge Roosevelt, grandfather of the President, and other notable New York men of older days. Dorlon's Is a great lunch place for men whoso offices are in tho Twenty-third street district. As the theaters have moved farther and farther up Broadway toward Columbus Circle, restaurants have followed in their wake and have won a large patron age.

The Pabst Circle restaurant, at Fifty-ninth street, attracts many of tho theatergoers from the Majestic and tho other theaters in the neighborhood of tho Circle, and is as well a favorite placil for dining or for late supper with many who livo In that part of the city and for those living fartHer uptown who transfer from ono car to another at the Circle. Relnenweber's, near Fifty-ninth street, on Eighth avenue, is one or tne eatao- ished uptown places. Healy's, at Sixtieth street and Columbus avenue, is one of the well-known restaurants of New York, attracting the crowd that likes its dinners and suppers of the best. It was established ten years ago and has always boen a favorite place for dinner and after-theater suppers. One of the new features of the restaurant Is an African Jungle room arranged especially for private dinner parties, 'and TPICRL It Is also an elegantly furnished room, whero chops, steaks, rarebits.

Yorkshire and Golden "ucks together with numerous i other chop house and chafing dish specialties, aro prepared and served In the most tasty appetising manner. The Gentlemen's Cafe, at 361 Flatbiwh avenue. Is a homelike, luxuriously furnished room, mm tne oisunc ve American coonmu. uio wood and served In sliver mug, to the large cold bottle, every detsll is Intended to make the guest comfortable Here men may meet and -while awav social The present location and original buildings of the Fountain House were formerly tlie homo of the world-renowned Fountain Gun Club, which was composed of the greatest marksmen In this country. The restaurant has accommodated 1,000 people In one day.

and as many as 2.G0O In one week. 1 Caf OULEVARD, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5, THIS SECTION. politicians and stilt holds Its own In public favor. Favoiite Luncheon Place for Women. Still farther down Broadway whore the hum Is a day-time hum and there is little blaze Of lights after business hours Is the old St.

Denis, where famous dinners used to be served and which still holds Its favor with a large clientele. It has become one. of the favorite luncheon places for women shoppers from the neighboring stores and for men whose offices are in the wholesale district close at hand. One of the relit-3 of the past Is the old Hotel Brevoort at the lower end of Fifth avenue, where notable guests from across the seas and especially from England used always to stay, and which still Is sought, by visitors for whom the quiet reserve of the place suggest ive of other days has a charm. The Hotel Lafayette In University Place where Martin's used to be, is under the same management as the Brevoort.

and has much of its air of old-fashioned dignity. Its table d'hots dinners and lunches are famous and never fall to attract a large element of the qfinservativo and discriminating patronage. New York in Its "New Yorkiest" at Martin's. Wlien a New Yorker has a friend from out of town who conies to the city for a first visit 'ind wants to see the city at its New Yorkiest. he takes him to Cafe Martin for a tble d'hote dinner or for a lobster after the theater.

Martin's is one of the places where New York dines in its happiest mood. There is everything about the place to suggest Paris and its boulevards, and yet the atmosphere is Jti3t little old New York in its play-time humor. Martin's table d'hote dinners are famous and the night is never too hot in summer nor too cold in winter for a throng to gather at Its tables to eat tempting courses to an accompaniment of exquisite music, which is one of the charms of the place. On the first floor of the building at Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, extending through to Broadway, is the Empire room, a beautiful room in rcse and damask and gold. This is the dress-up room, the state room of the cafe, so to speak, but it Is the table d'hote room on the second floor with its attractive balcony that is th-s more popular around the dinner hour, and the cafe on the Broadway side of the first floor sees the after-theater crowd at its liveliest.

Martin's Is one of the places that grew HP from a modest beginning. It. started as a humble little cafe at University place and Ninth street, in the heart of the French quarter, and was chiefly patronized by. ihe French, who dubbed its proprietor Peter Martin, said to be a loyal citizen of Ireland, "Monsieur Martan," and Monsieur Martan he became. Bon vivant3 found it one of the best place3 in the city to dine, and fashion and fame began to claim it.

Five years ago the restaurant was moved to its present building, where for so many years Del-jnonico's fed the hungry fashionables. Rector's is a popular after-theater place In New York, the place where there is icore variety and effulgence to the crowds. where the foam and the froth and the glitter of life is at its height. At 11 o'clock the streams begin to pour into the doors of the Broadway cafe, which is right at the mouth of the theater tide that flows from Forty-second street, and at 11:20 every table is taken and for an hour or two the place is aglow. One is always very sure of the best things to eat at itector's served par excellence.

New York is loath to admit that Chicago can teach il anything, but when Rector's was started by a man who had already made his name famous in Chicago. New York accepted the offering and indorsed it. Rector's has been one of the leading cafes in the city since it opened. It is one of the show places of New York on New Year's eve. Murray's Gorgeous Dining Palace.

The most daring and unusual thing in the way of a restaurant in New York is Murray's new place in Forty-second street, which threw open Its doors to an enthusiastic public in midsummer, aud whieh with the returning tide of people this fall has attracted a stradily growing popularity. The public had come to expect the unusual from Mr. Murray, but it hardly expected In the hew place that they watched building next to the New Amsterdam Theater to be quite so bizarre and'oiher-worldish as they found it when it opened. Murray's bepan in a restaurant at One Hundred and Second street and Broadway several years ago. one that became a with the uptown dwellers which has been In great demand since it was opened a month or two ago.

Its walls are outlined with rough bark suggesting the jungle and there are many wild animal heads and horns, and war trophies and sticks, a strange and weird collection that a man might not like to look at after too convivial a stag party. There aro numerous uptown restaurants that have come into recent popularity, those of the Ilolleclalre and tho Empire hotels, tho Ono Hundred and Twenty-fifth street Tabst and many others. Brooklyn eata Its lunch out frequently and likes an after-theater supper, but usually dines at home, so that the restaurants cater more particularly to noon and late evening trade. There is an increasing number of those, however, who Second Ave. and Tenth Street.

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Convenient for After-Theater Parties to hOTEL KlTChEN Residents. TD Brooklyn x' like an occasional ca'e dinner, whero ono can dine according to the tastes of the most fastidious. Each of the restaur ants has Its own atmosphure and lis own clientele. In the past few years with the i after-theater supper Becoming more anu more a habit, the restaurant center has moved farther up Fulton street, while it used to bo in tho neighborhood of City Hall Park. Now the places that are especially popular for late supporB are In the neighborhood of the Orpheum Theater.

Those close to the bridge have become more strictly banqueting and lunch places. SOUTH surprise, the transition Is so great and so sudden from the bustle and the yellow glare of Forty-second street. One is conscious of a flood of dim blue light and of a great globe in blue mosaic glass and mirrored walls and soft carpets (ike the dwelling place of some old Pompeian noble. Everything emphasizes the impression. Just to the right of tho entrance is a small ladles' reception room, and beyond is a great court or the atrium that servos as the main cafe, a court magnified to twice its size by the many mirrors and with a atartllngly splendid fountain in the center.

The sceno is too detailed to take in at once. Little by little it comes to one that horo Is some beautiful garden with vino-embroidered trellises overhead and with festoons ot flowers and foliage all about, a luminous sky overhead through which peep tiny electric stars and over which by some deceptive arrangement white clouds float like veils over the sky. The fountain is a beautiful temple on a Roman barge, and the water tumbles down many steps incrusted with glass mosaic. About the room supporting the balcony are Roman columns and caryatides, and thero are statues and various trophies such as a Roman general might have brought back from his conquests In foreign lands. Around the wall is a bas-relief frieze representing scenes of war and victory, and many globes of mosaic glass haqglng from the ceiling at different heights, and on many of the tables are Individual lights: Through ihe effective arrangement of the lighls any extravagance of color or garishness of effect Is avoided.

There are many graceful paintings on the walls and beautiful pilasters and columns 1 )R. C4. 4 (. Itv-Kf -i tit'' Pfll.t1GfiRDEN-7HEMU.DCRFfo noon hour and In the afternoon. They are restful little usually, with more thought given to their daintiness and charm of decoration than to the elaborateness of their menus.

The woman shopper or the bU3ine33 woman that drops In for a bite can alwsys be sure of some-thing tempting or appetizing, but never very heavy, In these places; and she can count on her afternoon tea being served in thin, delicate cups on an attractive tray and with a vase of pink roses or a fern" on her table which means much more to most women than the brand of the tea or the size of the portion. Popular Tea Booms. A few years ago when tea rooms were new in Now York they were strictly tea rooms and gave little thought to lunches, and it was long before they became really ipopular. Then New Yorkers were not so accustomed to afternoon tea as they have become of late, but tho habit 13 growing, and with the added advantage of lunch at noon, too, tea rooms are growing In number and favor. Thirty-third street, around tho skirts of the Waldorf.

Is a great tea room district. There are four or five within the block between Fifth avenue and Broadway, and they attract many women to whom their quietness and charm appeal. "The Sign of the Green Ten Pot" is one of these Thirty-third street tea rooms that is one of the bc3t known, its very quaintness of name attracting. It is a cosy, old-fashioned bit of a place with a colonial air to It, with fresh ferns and plants to lend rest-fulness, aud with many exquisite bits of antique china and furniture scattered through the room. One has tea served In the most attractive way, and the neat est of waitresses to bring It without any rush and bustle.

Across the way from the "Green Tea P-ot" Is the "Colonia," a most interesting little place In all white with the simplest of furnishings after the fashion of early days, and with the place lighted by the glow of small candle lamps. Closer towards Fifth avenue there Is The Fernery, another pleasing place where one has luncheon or tea ia surroundings of ferns and rose3. One of the most charming of all New York's tea and lunch room3 Is the Rip Van Winkle Inn In Fortieth street. Just off the avenue. It is one of tho newer tea rooms, but it has a patronage of women of good taste who like the cosiness and unusualness of the refectory.

The place was decorated by Miss Elsie Ie Wolf, who was responsible for tho decorations of the Woman's Colony Club on Madison avenue. It bears the stamp of originality and fine taste. is very simple, almost without attempt at decoration, the high wainscoting of wood in gray and the walls in the same tone decorating themselves. There are brackets for tho candles la hand-wrought Iron find the lights on the tables glow under hammered brass shades. The place has the look of a cellar and suggests the dsys of Rip Van Winkle.

It is delightfully quiet and removed from the noise of outdoors. rurcell's, on Broadway, In the neighborhood of the stores near Eighteenth street, is one of the older lunching places that women shoppers claim for their own, though men stray into it, too. Purcell's has a largo dining room on the second floor, which Is crowded at luncheon noon nd where a good table d'hote dinner is THE NEW PLAZA HOTEL. Ut Ii ems Hr rin 42d nr. BROADWAY.

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