Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-20
CORRESPONDENTS.
Bright Notes from a Bright Boy
Whose Christian Name is Roy.

Whose Christian Name is Roy.
New York, June 6, 1891
To the MINING Journal.
The JOURNAL comes a welcome
guest each week. And each time it
comes a moral young man, who used
to be a Frostburg boy, glances over
its bright columns and plans to write
letter to that paper from the metrop-
oils, as he has done from the Sunny
South. So that old friends who remem
Der him as kindly as he does them may
know that he is still in the land of the
living. Not as handsome as he might
be, or as rich as he could wish, but
still alive and hearty, and with many
pleasant recollections of happy years
among the mountains of old Allie
gany.
1t has been just four months since |
landed in New York. | had very
pleasant trip from Baltimore to Phila-
delphia with genial Joe Bear, whom l
met by happy chance at Camden sta
ton, and with whom | smoked cigars
and snapped lies all the way to the
Quaker city. We went to the theatre
that night and had a good time to-
gether before we parted. He is the
last Frostburger | had seen, with one
exception-until Nose Jandorf walked
in on me yesterday, smiling like a
basket of chips aud glad to see me.
Nose lives in New York and likes 1t.
But like all Frostburg boys he talks of
trips back and of Welsh Hill girls.
The Bowery is great street of con-
n.k he lie Iiy,na h fpa o,,l
saloons. | often walk that way to
study the evil effects of incompetence,
for more drunken men can be seen on
the Bowery every night than at Clarys-
vile on Sunday. | know this state
ment will be doubted by the prohibl-
ton party of Eckhart and Parkers-
burg, but it is true, nevertheless.
think my old friends, Stineman, Cron-
ley and Darby Nelson, of Eckhart,
would like the Bowery. A dozen
Frank Brown clubs could be organized
there in single night.
About New York so much has been
said that description by me would be
out of place after portrayal by bright
err pens. Suffice to say, it is great
town and one has to live here to like
it. One popularity is-how few A mer-
leans live here. The town is overrun
with Italians. All the policemen are
Irish and all the saloonkeepers Ger
man.
Apopos, they tell the story of an
Irishman and Dutchman being fellow.
passengers on their way to this coun-
try in an ocean steamship They had
a fight on shipboard and the Irishman
was vanquished.
"Niver moind,' said lie, "I'll have
me revinge."
They arrived in New York on Fri
day. On the Sunday following the
lrishman arrested the Dutchman for
selling liquor on the Sabbath. One
was policeman, the other saloon
keeper in that short time. The story
is SO near possible that it seems the
truth.
Maggie Murphy's Home'' is the
popular song in New York just now.
1t is sung to nightly encOres in Har-
rigan's latest success, REILLY and the
400" the best play this season. 1t
speaks so TO a certain phase of New
York wOrkaday life and the waltz
time is SO catchy that it is no wonder
it has achieved an immense popularity.
| suppose it has already reached Frost.
burg though, and the air as familiar
on Main street as on the Bowery.
It's a great song. Even Comrades"
and "Sweet Katie Conner" the latest
melodies, are not in it with "Maggie
Murphy's Home"
The latest sensation in New York
was the acquittal of pretty Young
Italian girl named Pasquilino Robert