New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-11
DUDE-POLIIICIANS PICNICKING.
woRsHIPPING TIE sUNFLowER AND CONSUMING
FLOWING LAGER.

As the gay light OF the evening came mp from the
west. and settled like mosquito netting over Lion
Park the farmers ia the ncIghbOrhOod. who cult
vate the exuoerant cabbage ana the modest carrot,
heard gentle pattcring about them Then they
saw multitude OF forms whose salient features
we're mighty hats auu lofty collars pass Ike cloud
of locusts | he farmers sprouts had been need
lsssy protected by Parsgreen the Impending
plague was simply picnic OF DUDES. They were
not the ordinary dudes but dudes who
were digniied by Republican politics into
Sixteenth Ward politicians They did not
come for a wild and hideous orgie on milk crackers
and cider but they called, with an unseemly disre
gard for the tencts of dudednm, for unlimited and
never ceasing beer. The beer demoralizrd the
dudes for as the froth began to work they became
The unaduterated politicians, and IT was long after
the thin and dyspeptc moon had hid her face be-
hind the elevated railway that the last dudc-poli-
tician i0rs0Ok his beer.
There were nearly 1000 persons present, who
watched with speculative interest tho action Of
four dudes who are not unknown 10 fame. The
picnic like the ghost Of forgotten past. bat he
soon became a painfully intense dude, who nibbled
his cane with the yOracIty of a chipmunk. Fire
Commissioner Van Coli who had the dignity OF his
Office 10 uphold, soon sank to tho level of his fellow
dudes and Aldermen Smith and Morris relinqulshcd
all hope of salvation from their constituents and
glared at tie sunlowers holding IN their button
nOes with all the iDtentness OF despair.
CAPTURE OF TWO CLEVER TR1CKSTERS.
In answer to an advertisement which appeared in
the early part OF July stating that young man
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Chapman II. Scribner of No. llcksst., Brooklyn,
and Joseph +. Saer OF jersey CITY. went to No. %
Chambers-st They were met by IhoodoieiMorgaIn
at so a week. Scribuer paid 500 AZ security for
his honesty to his new employers and Sailer paid
$40. They were gwen stand IN Washington
Market which was supplied with one solitary lamb
and told that they were to be butchers. Sailer
was informed by hlr. Morgan privately that Scrib-
ner was a thief and that IT would be well to watch
him. Scrbner was asu told TO keep an eye on
Saier as he not regarded by his new employer
as an Honest man. TIE two dupes stood in Wash
ington Market for two weeks watching each other,
when they were paid $50 each and discharged.
Then IT dawned upon them that they had been
swindled, and they went to lawyer who sent them
to Inspector Byrnes.
The Inspector sent Detective Hines TO No. 20
Chlmbers-st to answer another advertisement IN
which young man was wanted who had 800.
Hines told Morgan. who greeted him warmly, that
he had fallen heir TO $4,000 in Sehoharis County.
A contract was drawn up granting certain pry-
leges in Washington Market to the Schoharie man
for $500, which tho latter promised TO pay. Yes
terday Detective Sergeants Rutland and Haley
arrested Morgan at his home,No 1G1 Adelphi-st
Brooklyn, and brought him to the Central Office,
whore he spent last night.
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE GILLIAN CASE.
The circumstances attending the incarceration of
John Gillian, OF Bayport, l.. L. in private lunatic
asylum at Amityyille are attracting great attention.
William Is. Arthur, who Is accused OF having him
placed IN the asylum for improper personal motives,
said Yesterday that the statements made by Mrs
Gillian were false IN every particular. / will
not" he declared, attempt now 10 indicate my
character but II II Is rendered necessary will do
at some future time"
Mrs. X. Smith, wife Of Captain w. Smith, who
with Mr. Arthur has been charged by Mrs. Gillian
with conspirrg TO obtain possession Of Mr.. Gill
Jams estate, emphatically denies the accusation
against her husband. She says that Mr. Gillianl's
mind became affected after his wife went to Brook
Ign, and that having no one to attend him lie wan
dered about the streets and Through the woods like