The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1890, 1888-08-04
THAT MAN FROM SALEM.


HE GOES INTO SOCIETY AND DER.
REcATEs THE oeELlsk.
New York City Done Up in Crisp Sen.
tenoes-scene ON Lower Broadway-Ped.
dlers on the Curb-The Battery-several
Great Men.
Went to afternoon reception 1T friends
house. Stupid piece Of business Lots OF
folks wandered in. Didn't seem to know
what they'd come for. Didn't seem to
| know what to do when they had come.
Talked thus: $50 glad to sec you "
What weather we're havingl" "Have
you seen Smithy?' LET me introduce
you to Mr.. Catoninetails. Happy to
%aks y9%F yhen a'qn@intanee sane M to
ass" 1.-TWO years @ from kD% 'o neRs June. 5u see
'.Dearl dear! Why, we shall all be dead
them" "Hope you will" Thank you. +"
$50 kind of you. Have you read the
last thing out, The Fair Bog Trotter?' +"
mo. Can't read. Never learned" I'm.
deed! How much trouble it must save
you'll" 1T does. Save money by it,
Been sick?" Eyes" "What was the
matter7" "oh, several things, doctor
told me. Forget the names. New com.
plants, you know. New Styles Just
imported from Paris" "You say you had
bad cold7" "Yes." 1--WE never have
colds now. We call 'em vitalic suspen.
sions."
That's the way they ratified on and
finally ratified out. Took abundant stock
1fE
ent. What were twirled thumbs looked
amiable, sheepish and tired. Jagged out
after their feminines like little dogs after
their masters. What helpless, hopeless
being man is in q shoal Of petticoats on
such occasions! Looks as If he wanted
somebody to put an end to his misery.
oBEL1sK AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES.
Saw the obelisk. Doesn't compare with
bunker Hill monument; edges Clipped
and worn. Why import stone from Egypt
when we've so much of our own? Quincy
granite just as good; geologically just as
old. Visited park museum. More an
tiquities in stone; regular stone yard;
statuary from Cyprus. nicked. banged and
dirty.
Visited Second avenue and East Side
generally. More Germany than in Boston;
more pretzel. bologna sausage and Gam
brinus; more children to the square yard:
more smells, more cats, ash boxes, swill.
ancient fresh fish and human bawlin9 ma
chimes peddling them.
Visited the Rialto, Union square, swarm.
ing place for actors looking for work
Pavement strewn with talent foot Deep
Full Of future stars Bareheaded statue
OF Washington near by on horse, with
arm extended. Seems to say to the his
frt0nIN
west" Statue of Lafayette ditto. dane.
ing pas seul for Wash.
Lower Broadway Bustling at noon.
Everybody on the dead rush. All sorts
Of men. Sad men. Solemn men. Run
down men. seedy men. Hungry men.
Men whose legs can't carry EN- fast
enough. Men with all their minds mile
ahead Of 'em. Men working, rushing.
sweating, shaving like poems, making
money, while the woman is spending it az
fast if not faster two miles up town.
Terrible street to cross. Drivers merci
less. Wagon tongue threatens ones
back Ditto going for your front. Men
skipping everywhere. chased to death or
near it by teams. Newspaper offices
piercing the heavens. Street corners con.
gested with crowds reading bulletins.
More sunburned Italians trudging along
with bales, bags and boxes. Every third
basement beer tunnel. Mad car drivers
Raving, bowling teamsters. Teeth gnash-
ing cartmen.
PEDDLERs ON THE CURB
Serene policemen playing solitaire with
their clubs. Gimcrack. shoestring and
shirtstud peddlers on the curb. Sun
baked, cake, coolSy and candy peddlers
ditto City hall park benches full of
nnnfd 1@s,n
have now nothing to do but enjoy them.
Court house. Full of law, LAWYERS and
lost souls. City hall. Justice on top
weighing out legal prescriptions. Was
shown William M Evarts. Dried, but
not yet smoked. Necktie slowed. Won
derful limb of the law Not much left Of
him to bury. No fat. All gone to brain
If cremated, won't burn. Nothing olea.
ginous on him to kindle with. Am told
he is chronic objector. Objects to
everything but his fees
Went to the Battery. Crowded with
foreign fathers and mothers of our future
presidents. Don't speak English at pres
ent. Some looking over to Communipaw
thinking it Nebraska
Went to restaurant near Washington
market. Attacked at table by ruffian
= AAeu Out W w b "alLer. impressive
language: Beef steak, gilt edgedi A cup
Of coffee, milk outside Ordered broiled |
shad. Waiter fired plate and all at me at |
four feet distance. Wonderful precision.
Coffee cups half an inch thick. Nicked |
about ed &c. Pieces probably bitten out.
Visited The Herald office. Full-of
editors waiting for jobs. Their spring
suits not yet ready. Was informed most
IF 'em had been furloughed for writing
brilliant articles. Sent down stairs to
nave sharp edge taken off them
Was shown Chauncey Depew. Nice
nan. Genial. Eight day speaking clock
IT public dinners. Never runs down.
stemwinder. lmpromptu
speeches built by the mile like Maine
'chooners, and cut off in various lengths
% suit customers, times, places and op-
rtunities.-Prentice Mulford in New
York Star.
An Unsinkable Steamship.
11Ae new lnman steamship, the City Of
New York, is warranted by her builders
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