Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14

desk, or rushing around with pencil be.
hind his ear over the river in New York
somewhere. There is about one man visible
to every 80 women. 1t is the women and
children's day. The men are off hard at
work to earn money to pay all these Sun
day-go-to-meeting clothes. l.
The Whole City Goes Idle.
The tradesmen of Brooklyn, however, are
at their doors or front windows, or out on
the walks looking at the children. The lat
ter are thrown out by regiment, brigade and
divisions on the side streets half the day,
and block up the walks. There is little or
| no business being done anywhere in Brook
| lyn this day. If you go in somewhere for q
| glass of beer you'll find the place deserted,
| the beaming proprietor out on the curb, and
his bartender standing on the bar to get
better view through the window or over the
screen. No customers for the ice cream
saloons either, and the pretty cashier and
her walters are out on the sidewalk, taking
| in the make of the Bible class girls new
hats.
The butchers and grocers' and District
Messenger boys who must work on this day
of days have forgotten all about their er-
rands and are trying to goad some half
grown lads, who carry blue plush banner
Inscribed in letters of gold with ''We Are
His Lambs" into coming around the alley
for scrap. And the '1ambs' look as if they
would like to accommodate them; only
there is teacher keeping sharp eye-two
sharp eyes behind glasses-to see that no
such inharmonious event occurs. There
seems to be an understanding arrived at in
spite of this watchfulness that pair of
"His Lambs will be back there later
"when the procession broke up" to settle
matters
Their First Long Dresses.
Then these self-eonscious school girls in
the aforesaid hats-of course they don't see
the ice-cream girls and the pretty cashier,
and if they do they have no idea what they
are thinking about; but they turn side
and rear view every now and then, as if
merely in the course of conversation-just
as the boy turns his guidon so that people
can read the wording from various diTec-
tions. Some of these girls have put on long
dresses for the first time this morning, and
are momentarily in fear of stepping on. the
front breadth or that the rear section may
not hang right. The big, red-faced mem
bers of the German bands-there are; 20
bands lying around the side streets this
morning-look longingly toward the nearest |
beer place, but recognizing possible preju-
dice on this score ON the part of their SUM- |
day school employers, refrain from their |
fayorite cup, or seek it around the block
The little tots are just wild for the march |
and music to begin. . One little pair of |
beauties, dressed as George and Martha |
Washington, walk coolly around under |
couple of thousand pairs of eyes, and are |
unmoved by the loud and incessant mani |
festations of delight.
New York BlissfuIly Ignorant of It
Well, well; if should tell half the anus
ing and instructive things L saw at the |
Brooklyn May walk, 1 should become
wearisome. When the parade was over-the
little folks filed into the great churches,
where icecream and cake and oranges, ETC.,
rewarded them for their fatigue. And then
the 60, 900 children, or so many of them as
survived the occasion, went wearily home
with an orange each, to be put to bed early
by the 30, 900 tired mothers, and half
million other church people and their
friends of Brooklyn, who had witnessed the
parade under various disadvantages, de-
clared it was the greatest Brooklyn ever
had seen, and then fell asleep also.
The New Yorker, as a rule, never heard
of the 'sMay walk" or if he has, it was
only a casual allusion in his daily paper
which he skipped. The event took up
about as much space as common drunk"
before police justice.
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.