St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
ONE NIGHTS OUTING.
Five Hundred Dollars Expended in the
Pursuit of Fun by a Young
Man.
Complete Record Of His Gorgeous and
Expensive Spree in Wicked
Gotham.
How the Visitor From the Interior
Went the Complete Round of
the Town.
His Detailed Letter TO Friend Re-
lating the Metropolitan Ex-
perience.


letter. evidently written by young gentle
man from the interior to friend at home,
the New York Sun declares that it violates
no confidence:
HOFFMAN House. Thursday Morning.
Nv Dear Bow: If you knew how my head
throbs and my legs ache this morning YOU
would believe the fact. Of which | beg to
assure you. that / had bigger time last
night than we had at the AriOn ball two
years ago, when we came down from New
Haven for the express purpose of having a
big time You know the old gentleman
gave me $500 and a check for $500 more.
TO come to New York and have a final
grand blowout before going into the firm
and settling down to business. You remen-
Der the Tank, don't you--the fellow who
was expelled in his senior year for eXplOd-
ing bomb under old Growers bed? Well.
/ had an invitation to spend a week at his
house: but, as | wanted TO be very noble.
decided to have an outside headquarters,
and so | put up at the Hoffman house to OBJ
tain the refining influence of the art gal
lery. l aTived-bY jove. it was only yes
terday morning | arrived, and it seems as if
it was week ago. i came up to the doors
in cab in great style. with two trunks con-
tanning all my morning suits, so that |
should not suffer the ignominy
Of appearing twice in the same APP
parel, as well as my afternoon and
evening raiment. and all my walking
sticks done up together the way that Eng
ishman's was who cut such a dash out
home last winter. l had two or three hat
boxes and the dressing case my sister
brought from Paris. and my outfit was COM
pleted by tub strapped up. in leather
Sase-very English. | fiatUer myself that |
IL, N.,.1~
hotel clerk, and you should have seen how
nobly registered. aud the nonchalance
with which l downed a cocktail before /
telegraphed the Tank that I'd arrived.
After that / went over to DemOnico's
for breakfast and left orders at the desk
there to retain any mail received there for
me. That's the proper caper, you know.
and | left that address with all the girls at
home because it indicates familiarity with
places that to them seem hallowed tradi-
tons. you know. Well, the Tank came
down toward noon, and went home with
him to Luncheon. / found that his sister
had grown up into young lady. and as
there was another pretty girl visiting her /
invited them to go to Wallack's
to see 'Hoodman Blind in the
evening. 1 found that the Tank was
broke fat, and he was so nervous
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loaned him 500, and made him promise
solemly not to spend a cent for anything
all day. Do yOu remember in the first part
of THE Dynamter' what the tObacconst
says about G100-with difficulty it will sup
port you for a year, and with somewhat
more difficulty you can spend it in a single
night? Well. | spent the equivalent of
e100. which is just about S4S9. last night,
and didn't have so very much difficulty to
do it, either To be sure, | gambled 500 of
it away, but the rest | spent legtimately,
and my head tells me this morning that
got my moneys worth.
As | happen to remember the figures, I'll
tell you how | got rid of it. To begin with
L paid S25 for box at Wallack's. Then
the Tank made an engagement for 5 o'clock
with two awfully pretty actreSses-Baby
and the Princess he called them-and we
met them at Ferdinand's at o'clock. and
at O'clock we were all four eating deviled
kidneys and, drinking absinthe drip. Beau
tiful combination. The man who said that
absinthe makes the heart grow fOnder
builded better than he knew, for felt 10th
TO leave the girls. and when / reminded
Tank that it was time to go to dinner he
BANKED the family table and sug-
gested that we all dine together at
RccadOnna's or Morettis. ! said that
we'd better go to the Hoffman or
Delmonico'S, and the Tank said that we
might see somebody we knew there.
thought that was rather cruel right before
Baby and Princess. but they didn't seem
TO be altogether crushed by the implication.
Well. paid for what we'd eaten and drunk
particularly the latter. The bill came to
a little more than 81, and told the waiter
to keep the change. ! got the full value of
the tip by the obseQuious manner in which
he skipped out TO cali carriage for me.
opened the door when it arrived, and made
ObeiSance after US when it rolled away.
On the way to Riccadonna's Baby hap
pened to look at the fraved tip of the finger
of her glove, and predicted so prettly that
she would not be able TO get another pair for
a month that | ordered the carriage to stop
at store that happened to be open in Union
Square and got some. | wanted to let the
girls see that | was regardless of expense,
and so | bought her q dozen pair of any
number of buttons that were $40 a dozen.
Then bought another dozen for the Princess
at the same price, and the absinthe had
assimilated made me feel so benevolent that
j was Oh the point of telling the clerk to keep
the change out of the 500 bill | handed
him. When we got to the restaurant gave
the cOachman a 50 bill. and he drove
away without giving me any change.
but | didn't mind that. The table d'hote
dinner at Riccadonna's is not very
expensive but with two kinds of wine and
cordial the bill came to Sl5 with what gave
the waiter. By the time we were through
dinner l saw il would be impossible
TO dress and get to the theater in time to
see the first act. and the Tank imDlored me
to give up going that evening and let those
COMPOUNDED girls-by which term he of
course referred to his sister and her friend.
and not TO the ladies in our Socety-go
some other time. OF course, that wouldn't
do, and insisted upon his keeping the en-
gagement. and finally took him away.
We promised to meet the girls at Roster
& Bial's later in the evening, and paid
cabman dollar to take them home mean
while. Then we had a rush to get dressed
and to the theater. l called cab and told
the driver that If he didn't get us to the
Hoffman house in less than five minutes I'd
break his neck. felt little heavy after
the deviled kidneys and the Italian dinner
with so much liquid accompaniment when 7
got into the musty-smeling cab. but the
Tank took me into drug store and called
for fifteen drops of aromatic spirits of am
menia in a glass of saltwater. Ii made
my eyes bulge out when | drank it. but II
stopped my head from whirling, and | felt
ready for renewed efforts. / called bell
boy up to my room at the Hoffman to help
me dress. and the Tank sat on the bed fun
ing at my slowness and reminding me that
he would have to dress after he reached
home. cursed the bell-bOy while he was
helping me dress, and then gave him dol
lar to heal his lacerated feelings.
Then we rushed into the art gallery, and
each dashed off verIuouth cocktail to
brighten US up. and | gave the boy the