Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-11-10
SCENES ON BROADWAY.
some of the sights New Workers
never observe.

u rs Street, Dut tie observer secs IN ~ "A
panorama Of life embracing III phases and
embolylng more representations Of diyrsl-
fed humanity Than almost any other street
10 the world. One afternoon tins week
nybody could have seen, starting from Citg
Hall, sheriff Grant strOSinG his blonde
beard aud wondering what TammanY could
do for itself iu the coming city election
Jolly, fat Tom Cosligan stood far away in a
spasm Of polt cal delight over the pos itlon
Of the counties. These are Two men thor
onghly representative Of New YoTk's many
sided democracy, aud as though TO ill the po-
itIcal vacancy Colonel s. V. r. Cruger came
'trolllng along, pulling his mustachc and
looking like the clean-cut gentleman he is
The three almost met although none Of the
hundreds passing noticed the fact but then,
New Workers are seldom observing on Broad
way.
A little further up BroadwaR three men
walked abreast who were as distinctlvely
Southern 10 looks as they are in reality.
They were ex-tsx collector, exregistrar aud
tx dozen other offices. Charles Cayanac,
Of New Orleans; ex Coroner DR.. J. r. Fin
ney, also Of Washington, the inventor Of the
famous brown-stone preseryatiye which tine
national government lately adopted. All
these men are known from end TO end OF
Louisiana aud each has hundreds Of friends
IN New York. "Charlie" Cavanac il probab-
/ ly best known in New Orleans as having
knocked out nearly q dozen policemen who
| tried 10 arrest him for reseniing an Insult
| offered TO his wife His friends aided him,
| aud there WIS a small riot, which ended In a
victory FOR the CaYauaes. Mr. Cayangc was
also a member Of both the famous returning
| boards of 1879 aud 1876 These gentlemen
walked along and from Blocker 10 Twenty
| nth street each one saw more on Broadway
TO notice than New Yorker would see IN a
month.
SEEN NEAR UNION SQUARE.
Just below the Morton House srolled ex-
| Assembiympn Tommy Sheridan, the Young
| Napoleon Of the Twelfth ward, Brooklyn.
| True, Tommy had bis day four or five years
/ sgo but he knows everybody yet A famous
story told Of Tommy is TO the effect that be
was always popular with the sQuAtters who
still inhabit the docks and dumping grounds
Of South Brooklyn. Sheridan would nx
friend, who IN turn would write out and tack
up "dispossess notices" on all the squatters'
shBntles. The next day Tommy Sheridan
would "happen aloBg,n see the notice, ask
who put It there, express unbounded indIgna-
tion, tear il down aud declare that be would
TX things and that the squatier could stay
where he was, rent free, just so long as he
| wished. The scheme always worked, aud
Tommy held lie affections Of his constitu-
cnis with grin Of steel. He has left politics
now, but is inst as full Of lr.eks as ever.
Ez-Assisiant United States Treasurer Chss.
| J.. Coon stepped from a car IN front Of tie
\ Fifth Avenue hotel lust in time 10 shout to
/ r4r hHaAPff haf 8Fa aI1fhlTIgafl the
| fake interview given out by the democratic
1 hippndrome literary bureau, which asserted
that Mr.. Coon felt doubtful about New York Z
going repu Jcau. Efen the conductor on the
car kueW Mt. Coon aud rclared him mice
fellow who was strong for Harrison AID Nor
TONI
IN front 81 the big plate-glass doors Of the
hoffman house stood half dozen Of New
| Nusks visiting country cousins. Arthur
Dickinson Williams aud some fricuds bet bot
Ties OF wine on what the couutrSmen were
looking Al. Nobody guessed rlEhtly until
"Bl Edwards, the Hoffman house peace
maker. who had interviewed the couplrymen,
Informed Tie wOndcTcrS The countrYWen
we're looKlHC at tie myriad Of little short
scratches on the glass, near the edges Of the
doors, aud wondering why the proprietor
didn't run things better. When Edwards
told them thas the scratches were made b.
the diamond rings Of the club men who con-
siau,ly went 81 AMI out, they didn't believe
him, because, as they said, il would take
enough diamonds 10 buy haif dozen farms
10 make all these scratches. When Billy per
| sisted The visitors thought be was guyIug
them and went away angry.
HRs. JAMES BROWN POTTER APPEARS.
| A lady wearing an intricate wrap aud &C.
compBuled bv q slender little man. with hair
that needed touch 81 Tom MOrrow's shears,
whirled around the corner of lhriieth
street into Broadway, iu hanson. They
had started from the stage door Of Wsllacks
and were bound for the Breevort House.
The pair IN a hapsom we're Mrs. James Brown
Potter and kyre Below.
Right across FROM Nallack's stood subway
Commissioner Theodore Moss, David Dodd,
the venerable eNpressInau, and hall dozen
Kindred souls Mr.. Moss, whose mustache,
by the way, was not as glossy black as usual,
Look up right In front OF you,m said the
Commissioner, land tell me whether you miss
any familiar sight,
Everybody looked and everybody declared
that the landscape seemed unchanged.
Mr. Moss sighed
Such Is fame. Right before your ewes
stood until to dav the largest sign in New
York city, IL was but one word, and the
word was Wallack's' Alas poor Lester
Do you KNOW Cunning 10 Dodd) that those
letters we're twenty -four feet longi Yes, sir;
twcntv-four feet from top to bottom, and
there has been $500 worth of champagne lost
, on bets as TO their size You have seen them
every day for years. and vet don't miss then
be another sign, but 1t will be Palmer's,' moi
'Wallack'sih
Here Mr.. Moss's righteous grief oyercamC
him and the party disappeared behind two
doors thst swung suspciously behind theil
mcditaiivc forms. They vent in to SIT down
and think.
In a little room on Thrty-fnurth street
under the stage OF Harrigan's Park Theatre
sat Dave BrRham, the man who has writer
SO many songs for New Workers that ever
Ned Pond can't keep tally, Mr.. Braham look
, little older than he did when he wrote thu
"Mulligan Guards,n but not whit less Jolly
His mustachn and hair are grown a littlt
lighter, but he swings HIS baton just rs livei'
, ps ever. Dave was ENJOYING his watt a
the end Of the first act and a pipe at the sam
! time. just as he was about 10 tell how h
happened to write the music for "Padd
DufTy's Cart nthe bald -headel man who play
the bass drum came in and said, 'Se CONF
aoi,n and Dave had 10 go He promised Z
, tell the story later,-N6W York Mad aud Ia
press.
; Lovely Woman.