The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-06-07

running in full blast, and people were
coming and going constantly from |
carriages to barroom and back again,
shaking their own thirst and bringing
glasses of foaming beer to the emales |
in the hacks. Each and all, except |
parhaps those in deep black occu-
pying the carriages next to the hearse,
were laughing and joking and guying
one another, reminded me of pic
mic rather than funeral.
1t struck me 'twould be interest
ing to know what the spirits of the
seorpses inferred last Sunday in Brook
lyn thought about the fun the mourn
ers and their friends were having over
their respective funerals.
NIX
If your Winston swells want to be
really English, they must carry their
respective left hand buried to the
wrist in their respective left trousers
pockets. All the dudes IL New York
have taken to doing it, and everv
chappie met on 9TH avenue after the
Wednesday matinees this week was
actually lop- sided with the exertion
of reaching the very bottom seam of
his left trousers pocket. If you can
let the tips of the fingers of pair of
tan colored gloves be seen in iuxtapo-
sition to your left cuff just
at the mouth of the pocket
you will thereby proclaim your
self one of Wales strictest adherents,
ye knaw. Don't, as you value your
reputation for swellishness, put your
right hand in your right pocket, for
this is as much breach of good form
as it used to be to carry your gloves
with the fingers pointing aft instead
Of forward.
| have been studying the "puller-
in" this week The 'spuller-in" is in
digenous to New York, and its most
luxuriant native growth occurs in
Baxter, Division and Grand streets.
In Baxter street the puller-in is Of the
masculine gender; in Division street
it is of the femme gender, and in
Grand street it is neuter, or both. [
went through Baxter street twice,
right past all the clothing empori-
ums," on purpose to be pulled in. But
the pullers ON the sidewalks and door
ways eyed me askance, and made no
overtnres. They tackled couple of
sailor looking chaps on my last round
however; seized them first gently,
then as the victims resisted the pull
lers used more force, until they got
them inside the store where / could
not see them. I stood watching the
place, expecting to see somebody en-
gage in fierce scrimmage, as the sail
or chaps had resisted the pullers to
the best of their ability and looked
like hard customers to handle; but in
ten minutes | was quite dismayed to
see the sailor fellows come out of the
store each carrying suit of "hand-
me-down" wrapped in brown paper,
and apparently beaming with salts
faction at their purchase, although
they had no intention of trading in
Baxter street when they started tc
traverse it. In Division street every
store is millinery shop, and all pull.
lers in are young women. They stand
at the doors of their respective estab
lishments every day in summer OIL
winter, and they stop nearly every fe
male who chances to pass. IF tht
passer-by dosen't respond to theil
spoken invitation to "step in and se'
the great bargains" these young la
ladies won't scruple to seize thei
victim by the arm and forcibly com
pei her to examine the aforesaid bar
gains 1t is wonder to me that
case of assault isn't frequently rad
out against these pullers- in by tn
people they use so roughly; but it is I
fact, on the authority Of the police
that no puller-in has been convicted
of assault, while they have severa
times won complaints of assault
againt some of their victims who
: have taken the trouble to knock 6
: puller-in rather than submit to beinj
forcibly hauled into store that the,
: didn't want to enter. Another thing
/ in this connection that has made m
wonder is the fact that no matter ho'
much a man or 4Soman resists thes
coaxers at first, in eight times out c
} ten the victim vito is once gotten int
one of these stores becomes purchs
: SER At Rosendoff & Sons shop, o
Grand street, recently, puller
seized the wife and sisters of Mr.. Et
! ward Ferris, of rs w. SO street an
s. had almost succeeded in getting th
e frightened and screaming ladies int
the establishment, when Mr.. Ferr
himself came up. and grabbed Il
n puller. in by the throat. The latte
!? let go of the ladies and went tooth an
toe nail at Mr.. Ferris, knocking OIL
I and smashing that gentleman's gla
e eye. Mr.. F. had the fellow arreste
: and tried, but he was acquitted, tt
y justice holding that the prisoner W;
e defending himself from Mr.. Ferri
It assault.
At the conclusion of the ceremoni
e attending the laying of the corn
!. stone of the Confederate monumel
4 at jackson, Miss. Miss Winnie d
h Wis was handed Masonic silv
n crown to be presented to her faith
b Jefferson Davis, on his eightieth brit
q day, June Sd.
r The Supreme Lodge, knights
t. Pythias, Of the world will hold
st next convocation in Cincinnati, b
ginning Tuesday the 18th of Jur
I Mr.. j. a. Bonitz, of Wilmingto
s. will attend as one of the represent
ts tives from North Carolina, Mr.. E.
Z. Harrell, of Raleigh, being his ct
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