Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-27

hOtSam and letSam which set in upon the
kind-nearted Consul Hawthorne. 1t is now
occupied by one desk set on dangerously
high and spindle legs; one boy who squints
terribly as he whistles worse, and severe
man in chin whiskers, a pucker of stern but
hesitant decision in his lips, and clothes
that strongly SAVIOR of the stable, whose
office sign presupposes its owner to be one
James WinStanley. Team Owner''
Big, hulking fellows, with rasping, stuffy
voices, with coats slung over their arms and
feroclouS but harmless whips-for Liver
pool lorrymen never strike their horses,
more honor to them !-doze and lounge
within. There are two huge but diminutive
paned windows overlooking Brunswick
street. Two more admit the light from
Back Goree. All of them were made
double. to exclude the deafening clatter of
the once busy locality. In one corner, across
the angle, is a little iron fireplace with fan
tastic ornamentation. The narrowest little
mantel in all the world is above this higher
than ones head. Next to this, set liz the
thick wall. is safe like Dutch oven. and
its iron door is as wondrous in bolts hinges,
fit and finish as the door of Il frontier cow
shed. Really curious old appointments are
these, and they were made to remain.
Between this outer Office and the rear
apartment was, and is, little covered en-
try-a box large enough to hide and hold a
From this a small door opened into Haw-
thorne's private Office, or, rather, opened
into another little box of an entry with two
doors. One of those opened into Haw-
thorne's room. and the other gave passage
to and from the hallway. Hawthorne never
entered the latter door ON arriving at the
consulate. He always came into the outer
Office. with great promptitude of mornings,
and, after cheerful greetings, passed to the
little closet. where he deposited his outer
garments and Immediately entered his
private APARTMENT.
If too closely pressed by forlorn stran-
gers, obstreperous sailors, officiouS cap
tains, or more unbearable lion hunters, he
gently opens his door to the little closet,
donned his hat and coat noiselessly and dis
appeared through the side door into the
hallway. from thence making his exit into
Back Goree through a narrow and unfre-
Quented side entrance. When the coast be-
came clear Wilding always knew his mes
senger would find him. either wandering
and musing in old St. Nicholas churchyard,
conveniently near. or in a certain bakers
shops, reached through one or two narrow
back streets. where there was a lunch
counter at which one could stand and eat
excellent bread and butter and cheese and
where the lad Julian might usually be
found with his now happy father.
There never could have been a more
quaint and tiny room than Hawthornes
private Office. Honest Joseph Corkhill,
Tug Owner, }" occupies it, and he is now the
proudest man in England to know, that his
Mersey tugs are for hire in place so rife
with associative interest. Above the wide,
low door, iron bars stout enough for a Jail
run vertically through transom so narrow
that between its edges you could scarcely
press the fingers of your hand. The fire.
place is hardly bigger than mans hat, but
a,,,; al
nelings of pine, and the fine old escutcheon
nearly cover the entire side of the room.
Though the latter is scarcely twelve feet
square, Stucco cornice runs around its
ceiling edge heavy enough for lord may
or's banqueting hail. Two windows of ex-
traordinary size admit light, air and
rugged sort Of perspective of ancient ware
houses and storage buildings on the Oppo-
site side of Back Goree.
l have never found in these the Old
World countries more characteristic win
dows. Their frames are splayed in the
most interesting manner. When sitting,
ones head is below their lodges. These
and their sides are splayed inward at an
extraordinary depth and angle. The side
splaying runs through the ceiling cornice,
where the splaying is at once reversed in
an outward and upward angle, a window
treatment l have never previously seen,
the latter odd arrangement having almost
the effect of skylights in admitting to
room the upper and almost zenith light
from the sky. The glasses are cut in mar
row panes, the sashes are slender and hung
ON all but slender hinges, and quaint lit
tie cross section, necessary to the usual
outer opening at the top, is adapted to both
the purposes of ventilation and antique or
nament
More curious than all else is pine cup
board standing between the fireplace and