Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-14
KNIGHTS AS HUMoRIsTs.

How They Fought the Public, tho
Railroads, and Their Own Men.
NEW YORK June Ill always thought
that anarchists we're idiots, but / never
knew that knights OF Labor were numor-
lists until recently. They are without
doubt the most howiingly funny set OF
men on the face OF the earth. You may
know this when | tell you that railway
corporation bas no more sense Of humon
than sense or soul, and these Knightd
have made the Third Avenue railroad
laugh along it's iron tracks from end tos
end. The Empire Protective Benevolen7
Order of Tie-uppers ought to start q
comic paper and put nothing into il
but their official acts, and every rail-
road manager In the country would
laugh himself into mysteries in a
month. Some Of the acts OF the KnIghtsi
are equal TO Munchausen or Grimm. They
wanted to stop the Third Avenue by a
strike, and they made it impossible foH
any strike to affect the Third Avenuel
They wanted TO deprive IL Of drivers, and
they brought in new and better men,.
They depended on public opinion. and
with the keenest sense OF bumor they de-l
prived the public of all horse cars. They
wanted TO get rid OF the police, and they
got bill passed adding 800 new men td
the force. They knew that their only hOpa
was In holding their ignorant dupes In 3
solid mass, so they disgusted them with
management. They wanted 10 better thei
condition OF 800 men on the Third Avenue
road, so they deprived them Of stu ationa
and drove them to other cities. Thew
wanted to cripple the road, so they mada
IT. independent Of strikes.
JehOsephati when the Knights started
in by selecting chiefs with the names oG
POwdeTly and Irons, knew they were
humOrists, and the next thing / expected
TO see was committee appointed ofbricka
and cart runRs, but 1 never thought Of
anything 30 funny as this board Of man
agement fighting the public, the authors
ties, the railroads and its own men simul4
taneously.
The amusement season In New York isl
folded up and put away In camphor.
The best and brightest have come in like
chickens TO roOst, and you can see the
astral arabs on Union square in radiant
apparel between II and 3. Not many Of
them are buying yachts this summer.
/ Charley Stephenson, i believe, has re-
| trenched 10 a cat-rIgged yawl, and Kate
| Forsyth will have TO put up with canoe,
which, from all have heard, she can pad
die herself. There Is Grape on tue door of
the BijOu Tor the departed Dixey. A monu-
ment Of bricks has been erected In front
of Daley's 10 the memory OF Ada Rehan.
! cOult NuMtIN AIt bhIOWH every AAlAA bAi
the grave OF Wallack's. The grass isl
growing on the Academy stage and toad
stools are out every morning 10 the ma
room boxes.
Refined ham fat broke out a. the Union
Square for a few nights, hut II broke out
OF the frying pan into the fire. 10 refined
itself away % a mist, and presently waa
missed altogether. Dauvray l. gone. The
star mas set. The japanese Village folded
il tents aud hid It's intents. Mather sits
at the window Of the Union Square HOte1
in blue thinking Of the Pacific coast.
Robson and Crane are drying their nets
at Cohasset. There Is the faint friction of
! a syndicate at Nibio's getting up "Ihe0-
dOra,D "agn Befnhardt." A little ken-
tucky girl named Ware comes TO the SUR
/ face In n week at the Grand Opera House.
| But Il IL all languid and late. With tho
/ lilnes comes indlep0altion % do. Even
| Beeeher refused 10 die to accommodate
I the telegraphors, and the Rrcsidtnt
wouldn't trOt bis bride out "fOr q cent,
/ la thls stagnatlon / had counted heavily
on the knights. ! thought they would ia
something knightly or even hourly. II
was my fond dalusion that they bad the
pexang 10 make Things lively. What 4
deiusipn. One little policeman ifaYorsiuH
two wards has closed tnom np Ike fAE
liocAaWnY CLANS. nNn CniNki.N.