Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-13
DIARY or DARIUS I. SKINNER.


DIARY or DARIUS I. SKINNER.
Bill Nye Has Some Experience in the
American MetropoH..
FIFTH AvENUE HOTEL, NEW YORK,
Dee. 81, 1S5j.--lt hardly seems possible
that l am here in New 0rk, putting up
at hotel where it costs me S. TO IS a day
TO just simply exist I came here from
my iar-away home entirely alone. have
no business here, but ! simply desired TO
rub up against greatness for awhile. /
need polish, and I am smart enough TO
know IL.
Il write this entry in my diary TO en-
plain who am and TO help identity my
self case ] should come home to my
room intoxicated some night and blow
out the gas.
The reason I am here is, that last
summer while whHcking bulls which ls
really my business, ! gruo-staked Aionzo
McReddy and forgot about 10 till j gol
back and the boys told me That Lon bau
struck a First National Bank IN lat
shape of the sarah Waters claim. lie
was then very low with mountain fever
and so nobody felt ike jumping the clam.
Saturday afternoon AlOnzo passed away
and left me the Sarah waters. mat
the only sad thing about the whole bust
ness now. am raised from bull-Wheck-
aug to atfluence, bat A ONO is not here
How we would lake in the town together
IL he'd lived, for the sarah Waters Was
enough to make US both we'll liked.
Il can imagine Ions look OF surprise
and pride as be looks over the outer
battlements OF the New Jerusalem and
watches me paint the town. Little did
Lon think when pulled ont across the
fiat with my whiskers iull Of alk3li dust
and my cutele iull of raw agency whisky
that inside Of wear J would be a nabOb,
wearing billed shirts every single day Of
my life, and clothes made specially for
me.
Life is full Of sudden turns, and no
one kn ows here in America where he'll
he in two weeks from now. ] may be
back there associating with greasers
again as OF yore aud SHINING the same
bulls that : have heretofore skun.
'Iast evening ! went to see The
Mikado,' a kind Of singing theatre and
Chinese walk-arOund. 10 is what | would
call no good. tbs acted out by different
people who claim they are Cinnamon,
j reckon. They tectter around on the
stage and sing in the Engheh language,
but their clothes are peculiar. A hOmely
man, who played that he was the lord
high eXecutioner and chairman OF the
vigilance committee, wore a par of
wide red bandana pants, which cane off
--sl4i~- the first act. He was cool and
collected, though. and so caught them
before il ~as evcrlastingly too late. He
held them on By one rand while he sang
the rest of his piece, and when he left the
stage the audience heartleBslY whOOped
for him to come back.
"'The MikadO' is not funny or instruc-
tive as general thing, but last night it
Ii a..llv l.
much singing and not enough vocal
music about it. There is also an over
plus Of conversation through the thing
shat seems like talking at a mark tor 81 a
week. II may be owing TO my simple
WAYS, but 'The MikadO' is too rich for my
blood.
1--WE live well here at the Fifth Avenue.
The man that owns the place puts two
silver forks aud clean tablecloth on my
table every day, and the young fellows
that pass the grub around are 50 well
dressed that it seems sassy and presump-
tuous for me to bother them by asking
them to bring me stuff when I'd just as
soon 90 and get it myself and nothing else
IN the world 70 do.
Il told the waiter at my table yester-
day that when he got time l wished he
would come up to my room and we could
have game Of old sledge. He is a nice
young man, and puts himself out a good
deal 70 make me comfortable.
81 found something yesterday at the
table that bothered me. It was a new
kind OF a silver dingus, with two handles
10 it, tor getting lump OF sugar into
your tea. ] saw right away that it was
for that, but when l took the two handles
IN my hand like a nut-cracker and tried
10 scoop up a lump Of sugar with it / felt
embarrassed. Several people who were
total STRANGERS to me smiled
After dinner the waiter brought me a
little pink-giass bowl of lemonade and a
clean wipe to dry my mouth with,
reckon, after / drank the lemonade. / do
not Spine for lemonade much, ANYHOW,
but this was specially poor. 1t was Just
plain water, with lemon rind and no
sugar into it.
zone rural rooster from Pittsburg
showed his contempt for the blamed stuff
by washing his hands in II. / may be
rough and uncouth in nay style, but |
none will never lower myself like that
in company.