six o'clock
One thing he did at once for Eugene which was very helpful : he admired his work . He saw , as had others before him , something of his peculiar distinction as an artist , attended every show and one day he gave him a suggestion which was the beginning of Eugene 's successful magazine career . Eugene was working on one of his street scenes -- a task which he invariably essayed when he had nothing else to do . Shotmeyer had drifted in and was following the strokes of his brush as he attempted to portray a mass of East Side working girls flooding the streets after six o'clock . There were dark walls of buildings , a flaring gas lamp or two , some yellow lighted shop windows , and many shaded , half seen faces -- bare suggestions of souls and pulsing life . `` Say , '' said Shotmeyer at one point , `` that kind o ' looks like the real thing to me . I 've seen a crowd like that . ''