Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-09-18
SIGNED BY WHITING YANKEES.


II AmsrEaans Are ssade
II IEsw York sun.l
I'm Canal street there Is Low, dingy
ilding with a wide door, which in
rm weather is always swung open.
9 interior, as seen through the open.
J, suggests masquerade ball. Fig.
les In all conceivable styles OF gandy
stnme are crowded together; some
shged demurely along the wall, 9TH
standing nose 10 nose and
irking In each others faces as
ough talking In a low tone and ma
iously criticising their neighbors,
lille occasionally there is seen stand
with dignity apart an imposing
1 -, with his drapery wrapped llajes-
E ally about bis shoulders, The variety
costume among these people Is only
zualed by the variety Of emotions
zbich seem to be Inspiring them. Some
e in towering rage, with arms up.
ted threateningly, while others are
& schievous, or sedate, or clipper, but
ID majority seem to be either cheer
lily or sadly idiotic. They fill nearly
the standing space in the little room,
E d even swarm out upon the sidewalk,
lere people gatherto stare at them
. riously from time to time.
Though nearly all these queer speci.
ans differ in complexion and costume,
ley all had a common origin in the
tt ends OF ships masts, and their com
ln mission in life is to stand in front
shops and perpetually offer bogus
ars to passing multitudes, A jolly
ung gentleman was in nsinner room
this Tobacco image menagerie, and
listled softly as he with gentle touches
t perfect blaze of crimson sblushes
on the cheeks of a young lady who
ss brazingly flirting and smoking a
yarette as she did It, - a ~
Il The image business in New York, +"
said, lis not what it was few years
10, because we have lost old Daddy
ooks. All, old Daddy was the boss
Ter and he taught al olt all the cary
wehaye here. That's why we call him
hddy. He used to be down in West
Roadway somewhere. Now he isin Chi
Ego, and he took a lot of the boys ont
tn him that is, he took three or four.
4ere never was over a dozen carvers
re in New York at one time. There
. not over six here now. They are
Yankees. The foreigners don't catch
somehow. but the Yankees take to
opping out wooden images Just as
ey do'to whiting a pine single.
We go down to the ship-yards and
y the butt ends of masts. Some are
or seven feet long, and soma not
er two or three, and we make big
lures or little figures accordingly. Cut
seven-foot stick you can get SAC
lure. We take the stick out In that
ok room first, where we have dirt
or. Here we hew them into some.
ing like general outline. Then we
|ist them upstairs, where we CHR
EN- down until we get to the fine
uches and sandpaper; then they come
wn to me and fix them out with a
lining coat of colors on their wooden
bthes, put them on rollers and
undle them out among the rest
the gang out there, where they
pit until they make a mash and
Q carted away. | also take bat
red and weather-stained figures anG
t on an ear here or a nose there, OF
int blind eye into life again, ris
EN- out in brand new suit of clothes
ID there they are l get anywhere
pm $40 to $40 for the images rarely
er $40 There are only two or three
her shops, and we send images al
er the country.
"Oh, of course styles change, but thu
nuine old rowing rsdskin with bat
e and an ugly looking tomahawk il
s hand is the stand-by-shat is, in tn,
ajority of the eastern and middl
ates. When you get way out ives
ere is quite run of just such fiasl
pwery girls as | am painting up her
w. Dudes had quite a go for while
= have got fully twenty-five dude
anted around in Brooklyn and Ne,
ork even now, though dudes are OF
e wane, and PucKs, that were so popu
r few years ago, are now so mu !
ad wood on your hands. The Scotch
an has gone for good, guess, thong
hear he is still all the go over in Eng
nd. But the plain old war.whoo
wage Of the plains is the only cha
u can, bank on as steadily trust
prthy. Indian maidens do very well
it not so we'll as the fine old gore
thinking warriors, with feathers an
Eeat axes"