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Folks wuz in a full snicker and a giggle by this time. "Oh, no," sez he, loud and strong, "you don't want to part with me till I git you a fashionable dinner, and we both cut style. "Tenderloin of beef a-tryin' on" a-tryin' on what, I'd love to know? style, most probable, this is such a stylish place." "Will you be still, Josiah Allen?" sez I, a-layin' holt of his vest.
A rather famous district in its way, where once the city's tenderloin put forth its red shadows. But now as you walk, the night stares evilly out of wooden ruins. Stretches of sagging, empty buildings, whose windows and doors seem to have been chewed away, an intimidating silence, a graveyard of crumbling little houses these remain.
On July 17,1912, I stood beside the body of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, as it lay in the coffin in the parlor of his house in the Tenderloin. My newspaper had sent me to "cover" the funeral, and I managed, because of some previous knowledge of the household, and by giving the impression of a mourner, to gain access. The murderers had not yet been caught.
And in the spacious rooms of the Western Trading Company the usual business was now moving on, while a detective sat on guard in Clayton's office, and another in his deserted rooms, where the Danube picture smiled down upon the callous stranger, who murmured, "The old story, 'Cards, women, the Tenderloin, Wall Street, and fast life! Another man gone to hell with his eyes open."
The private detective had been able to get no slightest clue as to Maria's whereabouts. Moreover, Bobby's description of the stranger who had entered the cafe with her merely suggested a type familiar to the Tenderloin. For purposes of identification it was worthless. Always followed by the car from Smithtown, they went to the hotel where Paredes had lived, to a number of his haunts.
Behold all! You know so much as any gentleman of Nouvelle Orleans you have the tenderloin of trout?" After breakfast Eddring strolled over to the box office of the Odeon; but though he made diligent inquiry of the young man who met him at the window, the latter could give him no satisfaction beyond the mention of the address on the Esplanade where dwelt Madame Delchasse.
Sam had not found his golden girl, and now he knew she did not exist. He had not seen the places called by the preachers the palaces of sin, and now he knew there were no such places. He wondered why youth could not be made to understand that sin is foul and that immorality reeks of vulgarity. Why could not they be told plainly that there are no housecleaning days in the tenderloin?
"No, you don't not for me!" she muttered, after a minute, shaking her finger at the tenderloin on the table. "I haven't got any 'hot coals, and I thought a 'gridiron' was where they played football; though it seems it's some sort of a dish to cook you in, here but I shouldn't know it from a teaspoon, probably, if I should see it. No, sir!
Five minutes later they sat at a table in the palm room, while Abe ordered two whole portions of grapefruit, a double portion of tenderloin steak, soufflé potatoes, coffee, waffles and honey. "Now, listen to me, Sidney," he began. "You shouldn't got mad at your father just because he licks you oncet, y'understand.
Each succeeding restaurant of the name has moved further downtown; and the recent Poodle Dog stands stands or stood; one mixes his tenses queerly in writing of this city which is and yet is no more on the edge of the Tenderloin in a modern five story building. And it typified a certain spirit that there was in San Francisco.
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