Telegram-herald., 1889-05-19

several bright young horses having been
named after me, can ~ The whole length
u Broadway without affecting business ID
any gppreciabie manner.
I have never drawn attention % myself
on the streets - New YORK bat once, ant
Do not speak OF this because l feel vain
about IL IL was on the B0wery during
great fire. last sumner, when many lives
were lost 1 heard the shril alarm, and
having once been hreman IN laramie city
Ia order "a avoid beng a luror-f0r 1 felt
when l0oked 40 the juror We had that
was not worthy-sO Of course the alarm OF
IRE. even though conveyed by wire, stirred
my young blood. and l went along with
some other gentlemen % the press named
Hastings and Crawford. need hardly say
that the fire heud with his forked tongue
was engaged Ia licking bis chops as we ar-
rived Inspectors Williams and Steers
were there They greeted me cordially, and
asked ssH5w's tricksi" We all conyersed
a. sorae length regarding the FIRE, and
spoke of 10 several times as the fire iend
without .ttractny attention, but that is not
strange, for both Inspect0r Williams and
Insp~ctor Steers sfterward told me that
they did not care a continental for fae word
painting.
By and BY asked Inspector Williams
ff there would be- any need 1f my remaining
any longer. Hs SAID be thought not, bat
would ask Inspector Steers. II was finally
arraug ged that should 70 II l desired very
much ID do 81. l moved quietly toward ,.e
Ere lines. being deliberate in my move
meuts 10 order 10 avoid alarming the crowd.
Just then a roundsmaa named O'Rourke
asked me IA 4 profaae way what I was
- fars k~rr rfr.~-
himself O. some q the dark meat inside the
sleeve of NY coat. re was very rough In
his treatment. but was 80 much the taller
Of the two that be could not club me, hav-
inz forgotten 20 briog ris step ladder with
him. His language was earnest and Jet high-
ty yornsmentsd He spoke IN thcpatois OF tho
sanGGls os Limerick He now jerked me 10
aud FRO and rudely hustled ne. Inspector
Rtesrs aud W liIams both saw 1t al as
Afterwards learned, but whenever looked
oward then they were earnestly l0oking
A. the IRE. SO were Messrs. Crawford and
Hastings
I told Siguor O'Rourke that came OF a
good family and though / had been inside
TIE lines I had not been robbing the dead
But be was excited and flushed, intoO Gated
By Ia own breath. no doubt. and SD 1e
hustled me some more. Tho immense
crowd seemed 70 enjoy n, aud l heard a
nsws5oy say. "Yay, B,llyr' was now out
side tho lines, and one word have thought
that the COP would have Jet me alone, but
be kept on couversiug with ne Till one OF
the newspaper men came mp and talked
% Don Giavoni o EourSo ia way THAI
made ms blood ruu cold. | then escaped,
snd though eucorod by three or four thou
sand people. I refused 20 70 back When
I got horne I found large dint in a silver
dollar u my pocket. which had IN somo way
been struck BY the policeman. II Is not the
first time that q dollar uas saved my life
under similar circumstances.
But - return to che subject. The picture
papers hava 80 faithfully reproduced the
portraits ~ So many well Known men from
time 20 tiuo that az very unexpected mo-
rcuts we come upon those whose names
are ideutihed with the history OF the c0un-
trY IN some way or other.
Starting on a pleasant day bY myself,
win q large pad % paper and a soft nc
diam pencil thJ old repo rtorial instinct
came back with th~eo-foid power As jour
neved onward. aud concluded 90 accumu-
Iste column of bright, uowsy personals