Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-19

reads of the one cent coffee stands. 1t
sounds very well. A cup of good coffee
for one cent! But these booths are in
the open air, and the thirsty customer
must stand up to drink, while the grog-
geries offer a warm room and chair
True, the charge for the glass of beer is
five cents, but the buyer is entitled to q
! plate of soup, or some sort of free
luncheon, quite enough to keep body and
soul together for several hours. The
good ladies, therefore, must try again
The saloon keeper will continue to
gather them in so long as he offers the
tramp more for his money than the phil
anthropists do, and king alcohol is on
his side.
THE AsTORs.
The Astors do great deal for charity;
yet when it comes to the management of
their real estate they are business-like to
the utmost. AS you walk along the
north side of Twenty-sixth street, a few
doors from Broadway, that is to say in
the very center of this great city, nearly
opposite one of the richest and most
fashionable churches of the metropolis :,
you see a low, solid building, neatly and
substantially constructed of brick with
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pied as business offices, which are
nearly on the level with the sidewalk;
hence the basement, as it is termed in
New York, is in reality a cellar reached
by a winding iron staircase. OF light
there can be but little, of good air still
less, and yet this cellar is inhabited by
family consisting of man, wife and
several children. few thousand dollars
would have put another story on this
building for the accommodation of these
people who have charge of the premi-
SEES, and then there would have
been no necessity for these human beings
to inhabit an underground retreat. Pos
sibly the estate was pressed for money.
These offices are those of William B. and
w. w. Astor.
SHE FIRED MIKE OUT.
The conversation of two gamblers as
they stood in front of a hotel gives a
sharp view OF a humorous phase of New
York viciousness.
''I met Lizzie Dearborn to-day, Jim. "
''You did, ehI How is she?''
Reformed. Got a mission -
GA what?''
racket, and Is preaching to the girls. [
'Hullo, Liz, says 1. 'HuIlo, Billy
says she. 'How's things says 1.
We'll, you knew l had a mission, didn't
you, says she. No, L didn't, says ].
'Wen, have, says she. I'm trying
to tell the girls how to go. Gall, isn't
it, for woman that's made a fortune
in the business. Well, now IN give all
the Doodle I've got to the work. so l m
good for that much anyway where's
Nike, says [. i fired Mike out long
ago., says liz. and 1 ought
to have done it, too. I took
care of him for ten years, and
he never brought one cent to me. He
dressed and drank on my money, and
you know well enough l treated him as
well as any man was ever treated. One
day / made up my mind he was playing
me. / had him followed, and learned
that he went straight from my place TO
J ennie Livingstone's. Then | knew him
for what he WAS. l got into Jennie 8
one night through one of the girls, and
had proof with my own eyes of what
Mike was. went straight home and put
his trunk out on the sidewalk. He is in
Denver now, and L hope he'll
stay there. And then LIZ wiped
q tear out of her eve
and told me she had got to hurry as
there was an afternoon service at the
mission and she must be there to talk TO
the girls -
We'll, now, Liz was always a queer |
one, and no mistake, - said the other |
gambler, a sentiment with which 1 |
heartily agreed.
''DowN ON HIS LUCK.
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