Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-13
TACKLED THE WRONG MAN.
A Lively Time I'm "a Well-Known ALL
Night Restaurant

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You nave seen waiter remove moisture ana
| refuse edibles from restaurant counter. A
rapid folding up of the towel. a sweeping semi
circular motion Of the hand and then cleanli-
ness. The same general plan was used night
or SO ago in what is probably the best-known
all-night restaurant in the city. The gentle
man who for the nonce assumed the functions
OF the waiter is well known in the local liter
airy world, but the individual whom he used as
counter-wiper was evidently stranger The
incident materalized is something like this:
| CRITICISM FOLLOWED BY CATACLYsM.
| 1t was about ! a. m. and some thirteen or
| fourteen gentlemen, few of them morning
| newspaper men, were patronizing the restau-
rant 70 the extent OF light supper previous to
strangers They order something, and while
| II Is being prepared they make remarks about
| the manner in which the literary man above
referred to is disposing of his food. The |. IN.
| hears their remarks and informs them that he
VIII not allow them to criticise him. The
| heavier stranger offers to throw the l. m.
through neighboring mirror and the l. m.
[ 1ntlmates that it would take about three ath
| letes like unto the heavier stranger to perform
| that disastrous feat. They clinch. Then the
| !. m. upsets every table and chair in the long
room with the person of the heavier and more
pugnaclous stranger, and concludes the act by
doubling him up, throwing him on the counter
and then using him a substitute for the
walters towel.
wIPING UP THE COUNTER WITH HIM.
In about five seconds the counter is clean.
The turkeys, the chickens, the hams, the crabs,
the oysters ION which huge block of ice has
been placed to prevent them opening their
mouths and giving away their age), the salad,
the cold slaw. the Holsters and the cracker
bowls, to say nothing of the crockery and glass
ware. cover the floor with thousand frag-
ments. By this time all is confusion The
]. IN. still hourshes the salad-stained form of
the heavier stranger. but at the request of Il
few friends he releases his grip and allows the
unfortunate remains of the interruption of his
meal to gather themselves together and to pro-
ject their dsinteGratcd unity into the darkness
of the night through q side door, hatless.
GREATNESS and tightless. l.. m. turns a table
right side mp, selects chair which has saved
three legs and part Of its back. sits down, and
without any apparent idea that anything has
occurred looks toward the group of scared
walters and says, "A plate of raw, please"
THE MARION RIFLES MEDns.-Twenty-fiv
members of company c, of the Washington
Light Infantry battalion. competed last night
for the honor of representing the company in
the individual drill for the Marion Rifles med
ais. After nearly three-quarters of an hours
hard work Sergeant b. F. Krickner and Pri-
Yates Z. J. Taylor and Ben Isemann were the
twenty minutes longer, and then Private Ise-
mann stepped out.
THE WATER Color SALE.-The lovers of the
fine arts have had an ample opportunity to Sc
cure fine pictures at popular prices during the
past week. The sale will be continued on
Monday morning at ii a. M, 3 and 8 p. H.,
which will close the sale, when many of the
finest works of GAMBIA, Trouibellard and 9TH
ers left unsOld will be knocked down to the
highest bidder, at Dowlings art rooms, 18th
and Pennsylvania avenue.
New YORK INAUGURATIoN CELEBRATION VIA
PENNSYLVANIA RAMRoAD.-FOr the better ac-
cOmnlodation of the large number of people
who desire TO witness the elaborate ceremonies
arranged for the celebration Of the centennial
anniversary of the Inauguration of Gen. Wash
lngton as first President of the United States,
III New York, on April 20 and 80 and May /, the
Pennsylvania railroad company will sell cxcur-
sion tickets to New York from all principal sta
tons on its system between April n and May /,
inclusive. at three go cents per mile. The rate
from Washington for the round trip will be six
dollars and elghty-four (S6.s4) cents, and pro-
pOrtionate rates from all other stations Tick
cts are good only for continuous passage on
through trains to New York from April q to
May l, but no tickets will be sold on MAY for
any trains arriving in New York later than noon
OF that day. Returning, the tickets will be
good for continuous passage ON trains leaving
New York Oh May 6, inclusive.
SEE ADVERTISEMENT of Hill Johnson of
house for sale. The property is offered at
price stated to be below its real value
FLOWERS AT CENTER MARKET.-At the Center
market the flower sales instead OF being on the
B-street side will hereafter be in the courtyard
where in the warm weather, both dealers and
purchasers will have more space and can trans
act business more comfortably. Potted plants
and flowers in their season will be sold in these
spaces, and special places have been arranged
to accommodate persons from the country who
sell flowers of their own raising.
EQUITABLE c. Z. AssoCIATIoS.-Ne7p Issue of
StOcl. This association will open subscription
books April 16 for the seventeenth issue of
stock. The shares are -. 30 per month. There
are now in force 1851 shares. and the assets
are over $1,000, 900. The continued growth
and prosperity of the Equitable. shown by their
report, is the best evidence of the substantial
aid and benefits. i'll Il practical way, the men,
bers are realizing. Information desired con-
corning the working of this association can be
obtained from the secretary. Jno. Joy Edison,
Equitable building, 1908 street.
A RECOGNIZED improvement in character and
color In decoration is shown i'll the new resi-
dence of Mr.. Thos. Kirby, BOB | street north
west recently renovated by the =. Hanson Hiss
Manufacturing Company the well-known artists.
Senator Shermans large house on h street is
also under Mr.. Hiss supervision.
PERSONS contemplating visit to Paris dur
ing the coming summer,-and their names ap-
pear to be iegion.-will be interested in the
advertisement of the famous Bon Marche"
mercantile establishment of that city in another
column. As a spectacle, it is hardly less inter-
esting than the great exposition will be. with
the added advantage. not possessed by the
other show, that all its treasures may at will
become the property of admirng spec
tators, and at prices so low as to be little short
of marvellous to Americans
OPENING Or A New CLoru1NG
HOUSE.