{"id":239,"date":"2023-07-16T20:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T00:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=239"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:07:13","slug":"bowling-saloons-and-living-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/bowling-saloons-and-living-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowling Saloons and Living Statues [published Jan. 29, 1882]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/bowling.jpg?resize=206%2C135&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-240\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everybody knows how popular billiards are to-day in New York. But comparatively few people perhaps remember the fact that at one time in this city billiards were at a discount, and bowlin\u2019 alleys were more numerous and more popular than billiard saloons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of the goody-good people of the great city tried to protest against this fondness for bowlin\u2019 alleys. In fact these \u201cscribes and Pharisees, hypocrites\u201d went so far as to get a \u201csnide\u201d law passed that people shouldn&#8217;t be permitted, under certain conditions, to play at nine-pins. But the law didn&#8217;t amount to \u201ca row of pins\u201d in this case, for the proprietors of the saloons just altered the number of the pins in the game, makin\u2019 \u2018em ten pins, instead of nine-pins, and the \u201claw\u201d couldn&#8217;t interfere. \u201cSome\u201d things are always to be done, as well as \u201cother\u201d things, you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bowlin\u2019 alleys used to be the very places to find anybody in. Country merchants, city clerks, rich Southerners, seedy Northerners, Western greenhorns, used to meet on the \u201ccheek by jowl\u201d principle. The great majority of these bowlin\u2019 alleys employed regular decoys or stool-pigeons, who got their drinks and lunches free, and weren&#8217;t charged anythin\u2019 for any games they wanted to play or happened to lose, on condition of roping in greenhorns who did pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The bowlin\u2019 alleys, or saloons, were very fine and showy affairs indeed. Some of them had as much plate glass and fancy furniture as if they were \u201cgamblin\u2019 hells.\u201d They opened about noon and didn&#8217;t close until long after midnight. Several of these places contained as many six, or even eight, separate alleys, goin\u2019 most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A young swell named Clement Parker used to be a great bowlin\u2019 alley \u201cexpert,\u201d as they would call him now. He played a splendid game, and knew all the points and regulations about it. So it got to pass that his word was law, and people would refer to him about every dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He was a queer sort of a chap, and though by no means a high-toned fellow, on the contrary rather of a mean sort in ordinary affairs, he was as square as a die on everythin\u2019 about ten pins. You couldn&#8217;t have tempted him to give a wrong decision for the world. Every man has his strong point as well as as his weak one, and bowlin\u2019 was the strong point of Clement Parker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; William T. Porter, the sportin\u2019 editor, was another crack bowler, and had his own particular style of playin\u2019, very different from that of Parker. \u201cFrank Forrester\u201d was very fond of ten pins, and played the game pretty well. Parker and Herbert used to play generally either at Frank&#8217;s, on Barclay street, or Graves\u2019s saloons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/williamtporter.jpg?resize=206%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">William T. Porter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was somewhat strange, but although one would think that playin\u2019 ten pins was simply playin\u2019 ten pins, yet hardly two men played the game exactly alike. Parker, for instance, used to roll his balls very strong, yet very easy. Herbert would dash his balls along with a good aim, but a good deal too much force and fuss. Clarke, another noted player, rolled his balls gently, just a little too gently, while a chap called DeWitt Thompson rolled his balls sort of sideways, and so on. No two rolled exactly alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/herbert.jpg?resize=224%2C331&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/herbert.jpg?w=224&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/herbert.jpg?resize=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Henry William Herbert, aka &#8220;Frank Forester&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bassford&#8217;s billiard saloon on Ann street, and Otis Field\u2019s rooms up Broadway, were the two \u201ccrack\u201d billiard rooms then, and the competition between them and Graves\u2019s and Frank&#8217;s bowlin\u2019 alleys was very keen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Horace Greeley once had a hobby for playin\u2019 ten pins. Somebody told Horace that it was a very \u201cbracin\u2019\u201d game\u2013quite as much so as wood-choppin\u2019, and a great deal more excitin\u2019. They gave it to Horace, too, that bowling was such a \u201cpure-minded game\u201d there couldn&#8217;t be any humbug or imposition about it. So Horace one day tried his hand at a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He might have played pretty well, too, if he hadn&#8217;t been for his pantaloons. You see, Horace didn&#8217;t believe in wearin\u2019 suspenders, so his pantaloons dropped down on him as he pegged away at the balls, and so interfered with his movements that his balls, instead of rollin\u2019 straight rolled every which way, puttin\u2019 the boys who \u2018tended to the balls in bodily fear for their legs, one of the boys threatenin\u2019 to \u201cresign if ever that ere cove Greeley bothers those balls again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Doctor Collyer, who made quite a hit in introducin\u2019 model artist shows, was considered quite an expert at billiards. But findin\u2019 more money in legs than ivory, he turned his attention from the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There had been plenty of model artist exhibitions in New York before Collyer\u2019s time, but then these had been all men. Some then dressed \u2018emselves, it is true, to look like women, but there were no women known in Gotham as \u201cmodel artists\u201d till Collyer brought a lot over with him from London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course all the female \u201cmodel artists\u201d were ugly. A really handsome woman had somethin\u2019 better to do than to show herself for fifty cents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But they took for a while like a house on fire. New York couldn&#8217;t get enough of \u2018em. Then the police raided \u2018em, and then popular taste for \u2018em died away. New York didn&#8217;t want any more at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/livingstatues.jpg?resize=281%2C203&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Living Statues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The first man who introduced model artists into New York\u2013male model artists I am now speakin\u2019 of\u2013was a chap called Frimbley. He was a little Englishman, and had been all sorts of things in his life, dancer, fencer, sailor, Jack of all trades. He had a pretty good figure, and by putting flour over him and padding\u2019and fixing up, and then throwin\u2019 himself into all sorts of attitudes, he contrived to imitate the \u201cdyin\u2019 gladiator,\u201d and all the rest of the \u201clivin\u2019 statues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For a while Frimbley&#8217;s style of show made money, and he might have kept himself alive in comfort by it, if it hadn&#8217;t been for his fondness for drink. One day he had a big audience, but as he was \u201cposin\u2019, the liquor he had been swallowin\u2019 all day began to tell on him, and along with some unhealthy stuff he had been eatin\u2019 gave him the colic. He writhed about in agony. This rather helped him in doin\u2019 his dyin\u2019 gladiator business, but it when he came to tryin\u2019 on \u201cAjax defyin\u2019 the lightnin\u2019\u201d it didn&#8217;t do a bit. Instead of defyin\u2019 the lightnin\u2019 he had to bend so that it worked as if he was afraid of it. He spoiled \u201cthe illusion\u201d completely and disgusted his audience. And then instead of repentin\u2019 and reformin\u2019 he went and got drunk worse than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pretty soon he could not \u201cpose\u201d for a cent. All he could do was pour bad liquor down his throat. He had to give up his model artist line of business, and as he wasn&#8217;t fit for any other line of business, fate soon settled the business for him by lettin\u2019 him die of combined hunger and <em>delirium tremens<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everybody knows how popular billiards are to-day in 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