The evening world., 1889-12-13
RETURN OF DAN M'GINTY.
THE WIDELY MOURNED MAN TURNS
UP SAFE AND SOUND.

He Disproves tho Prevalent Impress
sion That He Is At the Bottom OF
the THE New Song and
Where 1t Can Be Hcard-McGinty's
Statement.
II there is a man, woman or child in this
city OF New York who has not sung,
hummed or whistled Down Went Nc
Ginty, ho or che must lack q musical soul,
and what IL more. be without a sympathetic
chord in his or herheart Mournful men and
lachrymosc maidens have bewailed McGin-
tvs untimely falls and sadly sighed when
~ruefully contemplating the malrcatment Of
poor Nc. Il ~faultless apparel.
III Berry Walls forty pairs of trousers
were torn to tatters. or-heayen folefend-
had Baby McKte's g~randparcnt found him
self minus his unmentionables when freed
from the ruthless rushers Of the WINDY
City" it IL doubtful il 80 much general in
terest would be felt i'll the matter concern
ing either gentleman.
What, then, must be the feeling OF those
who have chanted McGinty's sad story when
they learn that, like many other affairs in
life, McGinty's troubles were only imagl-
nary oneS.
The truth Is now out McGinty in person
has returned to tell OF his adventures. and
the public mind may be set at rest regarding
that hero's troubles.
Yesterday, while the clerical force Of
Brown IL Pulverman were busy, and the
genial Oscar Schonficld and Theo Hagen
were telling funny stories to the boys, n
long, lean. ianky individual, with carrotty
hair and rnbeScent woody viii skers OF the
Galway order entered. disp laying as, he
AfrpIa a fni1ltlauG unit Of llail aIl "a uhtt
ing tile his shirt was clean, his face dirty;
his necktie was red and his cheeks ruddy
there was a dangerouH light. i'll his eye aud
an element OF tragedy i'll his voice as lie
THE top OF the mornin' to viz. gintlemen.
lis plain to be seen that I'm a stranger
amongst yiz. but whin l tell we that Pm the
much mnligncd McGinty whom evil report
bad luck to it!-las placed in the bottom
OF the say, and otherwise disposed of in
various ways, to the great d%etrinent to my
good kar-akter; the total dismemberment
clothes, aud that am here to deny these
tales, You will, ! believe. believe me. / am
here in the flesh to deny all these divers al
Before those present could make their
escape from the impending calamity the in
truder, had smoothcd down his Galways,
cleared his eBophagus and commenced to
SING:
M'GiNrY's RETURN.
Friends Wish a word with you. but before I got
You've heard Ihe boys all Sa%il about the top of the
end hoy wo9 i've collars from Mccain.
You've heard that let 40. and when l landed down
That Fn, n ! broke my poor ribs ribs; hack and nose
Nor did l wear my best suit of clothes,
Chorus.
Boys am Dan Nc Ginty, I returned here to-day;
S %9sn ! I,ln n%gGS ssfa ! a ssTHs sCu 1nf ground
But once more pray let me say lin an incidental
That / didn't wear my best suit of clothes.
1 was bound to win the five. whether dead. MANNED
And i knew hcCann would never let me fall.
No iSnped down like a man. and l laughed at Pat
fRsr$ %s;s I Iaii an pls s%S@'' iii 4 : heard heard a young
Tsa Pit hon I" as sp / SiG sisS # T Sas se ,smbl.a into .
And was covered with a ton then and there.
h'iH 90 Chorus,
Yes down boys I went. to the bottom of the hole.
Big Mark LAnigan had my five,
was more dead than alive,
But. though. in that situation, Ihave still the
That / didn't wear my best suit o; clothes.
was taken home by McGinnis, the kid was chris
My WIFE iisSf Sar Hsnn.' didn't dare to skip.
b E"ST from Went ;ps DO so iS,l . Te5 SS ,E ICSE thin srs or PALE PAL :Din
In o9Ld Erin landed square, am bought the
For tho John Doris whom the world knows.
HI place it in New York, just outside OF Central
And give Chicago my best suit of clothes.
Chorus.
So you see hero is McGlnty, l am not in the say;
And ii / want my wet,
can get 1t, you can bet;
! have saved my reputation, I'll be honored by
the nation
When Chicago gets my best suit of clothes.
Soft az the sweet signing of IL Summer
zephyr mis- voice died away, bone on the
circumambjcnt breeze. which, when it ell
tered the Office. did 30 i'll advance of Mr..
John b. Doris, the popular museum man
aggr. Ayol it envelopcd Doris, tno~not
only enwrapped his figure, but followed it
a. II entered.
Doris soon saw the turn things had taken,
or, in other words, he recognized McGinty,
and ON the spur OF the moment engaged him
to sing ':McGinty,s Return " at the Eighth
Avenue Museum for u period covering sev-
erpl weeks, mud to do so while arrayed i'll his
best suit of clothes.
The genial manager, who had entered
Brown & pulverman's for the purpose OF
placing his :" ads i'll the daily papers, hap
ncned III inst III time to catch Dan McGintY.