Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-01
BRODrE AT THE TOMBs.
Crowds Follow the Pluoky Bootblaok
Evorywhoro--Ho sits for his Portrait,
NoSy York star

Steve Brodie, the hero OF tue rouftl
ward, was bigger man yesterday thar
he had ever before been In all his life
Only man who has done something /
good deal out OF the common can be
hero In the Fourth ward, Brodle knew
this when he first thought of making hi
big Jump, and he did not forget It whel
he nung suspended in the air from thu
Iron glrder OF the bridge. The newsbo!
slept soundly in his cot at the Tombs un
Ill Z O'Clock yesterday morning, when h,
woke up and called for something to cat
While breakfast was being prepared
he dressed himself in the new clothes his
wife had sent him He att
heartily, and then sent for Frank Oliver
his counsel His wife came In at thi;
time with the three children and younl
lady irlend Jimmie Sheridan, bosom
friend OF Brodle's, also came In,
Az II O'Clock Justice kilbreth called
the court to order, and remarked thai
the room looked more like a beer garden
than court Of justice. For an hour be-
fore the opening he had been porting over
pile of law books trying to find just
l n4ANh AiAlNN DiuNiH nav ihAAllIAAAAh hNi
how he could be punished for It.. His
face wore look OF disappointment
/ When the case was called on tie bridge
/ policeman handec him a copy OF the
| printed regulations stuck up In the bridge
entrances This did not seem to have
any bearing on the charge, and ultimately
the Judge decided to adjourn the hearing
to Wednesday, meantime holding the
rlsoner TO $1,000 bail.
"Where can get as much as SCOOP
muttered the suddenly abashed hero,
After conference his counsel sent for
Alderman "Patn Diver, and that cele.
brated politician came In and bailed
Brodie out. AS the hero came In sight
from behind one OF the big futed columns
the crowd that had been waiting cheered
heartily. The crowds idol halted q
minute bewldered. Then his face lls up,
and he went down the steps into the
crowd aud over to Frank Divers law
office. lie was surrounded Not Fourth
warders alone, but many people of prom.
lnence We're among the oheerers
Brodie went from divers office, &C,
| cOmpanlod by Tim Brennan aud Paul
Butler, straight to his Chrystie street
home, aud from there to Grand street
photographer and had some tintypes
taken In the costume he wore when ne
| jumped from the bridge.
To Star reporter Brodle said yester
day; so, yes; feel first rate, There's
nothing the matter with me. My ches,
muscles are little stitf aud sore, ant
my ribs are, too, whore the doctor
! punched me, but that's all" Then the
plucky young fellow went ON and told o.
his exploit very much as II was given In
yesterdays Star. lie had jumped from
| High bridge twice, he said, and he haC
made up his mind that he could iumI
from the brooklyn bridge just as well a'
from lower one. lie observed that 4
Odlum had kept cool and had not beer
bothered by tho police he would hay,
come out all right also, When aske,
what he was going to do, he said h
hadn't yet made up his mind. "lIay
1 you had any museum onersr" he wa
asked.
ayes, two, The London and the Glob
museums have each offered me 500
week TO show myself, but have had
better offer What II Is | can't give ava,
at present"
Butler, his companion, said he knew
Brodie had lost Sl0l5 In five weeks at thu
races, and had still small bank account
Mrs Brodie, he said, had dressed her hus
band for the jump and baudaged his leg
tightly, He had prepared for IT entirel
ut home,
Every time yesterday afternoon that tn
young bootblack went on the street h
was nearly mobbed, Wherever he wa
recognized a crowd followed and sur
rounded him,
Brodie spent last night receiving tn
congratulations OF his friends In Tn
Fourth and Tenth wards. AT Farley
saloon on the Bowery he was sur
rounded by an admlring crowd 70
hours. Although he received iAnumera
BILE invitations to drink, he often re
fused, and when he did take anything
was settler or something equally harm
less. Later he went to DIVERS, wher
the same programme was gone through
with. Iandshaklngs and invitations I
drink, 'interspersed with "Bully boy
Steve,n was all that was done.
81 want to contradict the statemen
published in The afternoon papers," h
said TO Star reporter. 81 have no
received an offer OF 500 week fror
Manager Morris OF the Alexander Musee
nor have made any engagement yet"
j. T. McCaddon OF the Colossal Ele
plant, In Philadelphia, sent hin a tole
gram yesterday, Offering him 500
week and all expenses. EX-pedestria
h, II, Hulskie OF Boston offered hi,
$3.50.
al made the jump to make money,
said Brodie, "and IN take the bigget
Offer II ] ever make the jump again
will be for more than 500, you can be
on that"