San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-25
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

| TIC I-tOptc say
Even the EXPIRES" catches the
rhyming fever and makes the head of
its Interview with our returned city
executive jingle. 1t runs this way:
, "He is back from Paree, but on the
bread sea
He saw Tom Ochiltree.
He says all the French papers declare
The Dutch Emperor as mad as a
March hare"
Thus Is brought to a close one Of the
most remarkable episodes in the his
tory of our city government. The
LIGHT has been faithful to the public
in giving information and in discuss
ing this extraordinary escapade OF our
mayor.
One fine summer day, Mayor Cal
lag han informed the city council that
he desired leave of absence; Alder
man Lockwood smacked his lips and
asked If five days would do?" The
mayor replied he wanted no limit Oh
his time. 1t was granted, of course.
In the course of few more bright
sunny days the mayor packed his
grip and left, nobody, not even his
trusted official servants, knew his
destination.
1t was given out from official circles
when the LIGHT announced that he
had sailed for France, people thought
we were romancing.
But, the mayor is home again, and
has been interviewed by the Express
We must look to this interview for
some authoritative account of his
wanderings.
The interview says he brings back
"benign smile, the latest cut of
Partisan cloth and plug hat that is
the acme OF style" The tax.bur-
dened people of our city will smile
back, as they look over their old
clothes, and review their slim purses.
When asked what he had seen, the
mayor tells his official interviewer, II
saw go much that it is hard to tell
the tenth OF it and be any way accu-
rate.n
But he ventures to enlighten the
public upon the characteristics of the
French people as compared to the
Yankees The Frenchmsn takes
several hours to eat his dinner while
the Yankee guIps it down in three
winks of a sleeps tail.
X
The taxpayer hasn't time to get in
an exclamation over this bit of COM
parison, born of foreign travel and
close observation, before his honor in
forms us that while Paree is far ahead
of America in art, we beat it in bust
ness.
Of course our taxpayers will put up
their depleted purses and consider
that this compliment max es the &C.
count square.
The mayors experience with the
| GaTlSldu udChm dD W de uulI6 amusing.
His honor wanted to go somewhere
"hackeyn wanted his dinner, which
would be ready in seven minutes, and
| he excused himself in the most ap
proved Partisan French.
|
We can all imagine how Bryan
looked, and what he said in broken
English to this hackman who evil
IDENTIFY did not know that he was adj
dressing lord mayor.
~ find the Frenchmsn does not
love the German, and when you ask
him which he thinks the greatest
man, the young emperor or the dis
carded chancellor, he replies by say
ing he wishes both at the devil" 1t
was not necessary to travel all the
way to Paris to find out how the
| French regard the Germans, he
might have picked this much up from
the papers But our voters are thus
informed that his honor has an eye
on international politics, and is pro
pairing for more lofty flight than
simple mayor.
We must defer the balance of this
interview for further review