New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-06
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.

ALWAYS oUT-TwO KINDS OF ARCHITECTURE -
MINING. BILLIARDS AND THE BAR-AS kQUINE
RHAPSODY.
see DO reason why peder or nOsegays should
,ot write for the press it is only difference oe-
tween flowers of fact and flowers of speech. | hear
For twenty-five years have been padding the
hoof.r as my friend Detective Gol1ing wouid say.
buttonholing people-with a rose. some other
posy-and that is half the art of interviewing De-
sides it is retaliation.
How many foolish questions too have asked OF
myself, whether am very poor. or am rich miser
or was ever converted or how many times nave
signed and broken the pledge. and IT am not
foreigner of title in disguise. being eccentric ana II
get my sleep by day. or not at all. Some years
ago got to that point of the thermometer-when
things was O billng'-that kept nv own horse
and buggy and it increases my mystery with the
present generation, which has run that Que horse
up to a four-in-hand. Only yesterday young man
told me at the Windsor that he had often seen me
drive it over Murray Hill and saw that to contra
dict him would be to sell no flowers so asked why
be revived o recollection like that to such poor
fellow as l. aud if he hadn't little more OF that
feeling he had Away been 80 distinguished for
whereupOn he bought me out and said, JOHNNY
don't take it hard!" A little mystery is the making
of O tramp; it ought to be encouraged by every
statesman.
Now, to tell you q secret and preserve only one
fragment of my Importance and it is the worst thing
about me-my education. l disguise 1T all L cap,
but traces of it will break out and some day 1t VIII
ruin me- as mu CHI if my bouquets should be found
artificial As long as o man is the vag-l beg
pardon as long as fine vagrant preserves his street
slang and bchoy style. there is the touch of nature
about him that makes everybody his kin, and they
buy his flowers and say. Johnny Bouquet Good
boy JOHNNY Take bouquet from him, fellers p
But il should come into hotel, the opera,
or the private circle with flowers to sell.
and speak superior English and behave with q
modesty address creditabe to me, they would say.
Horrible! An educated beggar! Must have stole
his flowers! Can't be trusted~
No, gentleman, there is language among men
that takes you further than Frecmasonry but 1t is
aot the language of society
OIL CAN GO ANYWHERE.
Every man. woman and child in New-York knows
me. and know little of everything. but keep 1t
down. Why. boys, can 60 in anywhere-paS' the
policeman ut any door or show,-becauso bring a
flower. II little mouse would creep into many a
bOudoir where enter, bold sewer rat, the young
ladies would stand on the chairs and scream. but at
me they hardly wink and say It's only Johnny
Bouquet" Yet was beau once. and have cut
many fine looking fellow out ) but am harmless
now. The confidence they give me has taken all the
wckedness out of me and has made me like little
child. because. nobody meaning me any harm. my
weapons are all useless and it's rather good thing.
since my govt is hanging on me heavily these DAYS.
Oh. was sport!
It's beautiful thing to know great rich city
like New-York from top to bottom, from the LenOx
Library to Stuyvesant Square, to know it like phi
lOsODher and never be suspected nor enved by any
human being In 1T! To be fifty years and more of
age and received everywhere, like the poor worth
less, creduOus prOdigal son at home, who means no
evil and can come to no consideration think 1t all
over, lonely as am in many things-no wife, no
chiok-but safer than poor mans daughter or
rich mans bones. and remember the promise every
body else in New-York seems to forget: Blessed
are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth I"
Yes. can walk up to the great nose of Commodore
Garrison when he feels well and put bunch of vio
lets in bis lapel or tackle Addison Cammack when
he looks grave statesmen with tearose they'll
take anything from me when watch my chance
In the evening when the whole man is cherry with
dinner and has made his additions. washing the dirt
of the world from his soul, l peep In serious as an
assassin and say: take chance. General, in this
here stunning bouquet thatll just please madame to
death ~ "Why, Johnny, are you alive YETI |
thought you was compostv' "No. Judge, ] find old
Eew-Yorl my best friend, sure you're born! tried
that in WashintOn City month"; Why, them
statesmen gets all their bouquets from the GUY
ment. come nigh starving there, Admiral! And
Fidelity amt no BETTER the Quakers don't appre-
ciate flowers like New-York. Here boss e'me fix
this Marshal Neil into your buttonbole Why.
you'd mako your wife jealous. if you looked like
that every Dag. You git younger you do. with every
flower you put on. It'll Spite you if you want
level-headed, Majorp And this being about thor
own opinion Of themselves they say. Z" J0bDu',
you're man of Intelligence; why don't you open a
little flower store or dollhouse. JOHNNY" "Why,
Commodore. if did you wouldn't never come in,
and that couldn't stand, nohow-not to see you"
FORT SHERMAN AND The AsroR OFFICES.
Well. do yeu want me to show my paCes how
con writef What shall we begin on-buildings
There's the United Bank Building as somebody
has called it, Fort Sherman. at Broad and WALL My
friend Mulett, the architect of the Post Office.
passing Fort Sherman last winter when it was all
lathed in to protect the masons and sonecutters,
and nothing of it could be but the two brown
stone ends, turned up, of the great portals that it
looked like two dOnkeys carrying great square
load of lumber. Said Mullett. who was poor and out
on the world: Now look there at that dem fool of
O thingl How can respectable architect get bread,
Johnny. when they spend million on design like
that" You SEQ Mullett has no Gothic sense about
him; his studies were made from the English archl-
tects in the Stuart regns-he being English born
with sudden leap over two centuries INTO modern
practical renaissance. The want of cheerful ex-
preston aud of something at strong and light
free and fantastic. and the influence of modern Eng
land and Germany upon American builders-the
Hebrew. too playing great part nowadays-has
resulted in q rapid Gothiczing of Broadway Fort
Sherman is a building of eight stories treated as
thrce-four stories appearing as mere assures be-
tween the tall brick examinations of a Romanesque
sort which maintain the attic story; and the two
stories above the great tai base of the building are
INTELLECTUALLY one, being barred by rough blocks of
the sandstone which supports and ornaments the
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