Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24

good 1ellOW make TOOL OF himself IN
that way. He'd just stick to him, see
him up town in good shape, and then
turn in. Gripp paid for the drinks,
and the two started out, but at Four
teenth street Gripp discovered that ne
hadn't smoke about his clothes, and
as Sand had but one, he proposed that
they go into Brubaker's old place for a
cigar. Sand insisted on paying for the
smokes, arguing with his friend with a
roll OF bills in his hand, and gaining his
point Gripp slipped around the parti-
tion while twenty was being changed
and ordered bottle of beer, which
Sand was, perforce, obliged to help him
drink. Gripp liked the beer so much
that he ordered another bottle at Sands
expense, and then Sand bought
another bottle himself, and when
they again struck Market street the
big City Hall clock was pounding
eleven. The crowd on the street
was thinning out, being mostly made up
Of well-dressed young men bent on
making a hole In their weeks salaries,
with an occasional husband or wife,
hurrying homeward from belated shop
ping expedition, and here and there a
/ female of questionable type, well-known
to all frequenters of downtown streets
/ after $40 of a summers evening. As
/ Sand and his friend walked leisurely up
street, more THAI one attempt was made
to attract their attention, in quiet and
discreet way, but beyond "how-do'
girls" from the irrepressible Grip, as
a couple went by, there was nothing
wrong.
Atalley nine, where Thirteenth street
ought to intersect Market. it suddenly
occurred to Mr.. Sand that he could eat
a bite, and Mr. Gripp acQuiescing in a
suggestion to that effect, the Buffet was
visited. "a little plain whisky" at the
bar, paid for by Mr.. Sand, out OF
a fragment Of the bursted twenty,
was followed by trip up
to the dining room, and an order for
another Of the same," by Mr.. Gripp.
When the check for twenty-five cents
came, Mr.. Sand, who felt a dim con-
sciousness that he had mission to
treat fellow white" and who said as
much, airily told the waiter to ''charge
it in the bill" won't you let me DO
something?" said Gripp, with handful
of silver. Nav" said Mr.. Sand, with
unnecessary vehemence. "Smy treat;
what'll we eat?" After long inspec-
ton OF the menu an order for porter
house and mushrooms, potatoes la
FrdncQtse, and accessories, was given,
and while the order was out Mr.. Gripp
made feeble effort to order couple OF
BOTTLES Of beer. "Beer's no good" said
Sand, decidedly. bad stuff; let's
have a bottle Of wine" Mr. Grip
said "Wine goes" and suggested
Mlmm, but Mr.. Sand was in a mood to
be critical and particular, and made the
order a quart of Pommery. He got it,
arguing 10 himself, as the colored gen
tleman filed the glasses, that he didn't
often buy wine, and he'd never miss
the 81 out of his months salary:
and by the time it was halt gone the
supper was on the table Mr.. Sand
nibbled at the steak and ate a mush-
room or two, but he couldn't muster an
appetite, and as the wine was about
gone he ordered pint of claret to keep
Gripp company, and the room being
warm he gradually dozed off to sleep.
Mr.. Gripp finished the steak and the
wine, and when the check for SS.25
came in he obligiDgly awakened Mr..
Sand by playfully knocking his dicer
down on mis- ears. Mr.. Sand came TO,
got his bearings, paid the bill with
ten dollar note, gave the waiter
quarter out of the change, and at ten
minutes of midnight the two were again
on Market street, putting at a couple of
cigars which Gripp had prevailed upon
Sand to allow him to purchase.
As they sauntered up Market street
Mr.. Sand found fault with the cigars.
"BeaStly weeds, Gripp; don't see how
you can smoke 'em. Jess wait a min
ute n I'll get something good" Mr..
Sand was at the Mcclure cigar counter
in a moment, with request for 'Snice
imported, yer know" and left a dollar
for six, comforting himself with the re-
Election that il wasn't so very eXtrava-
CANT, for he could keep four Of them
over Sunday. With fresh cigars lighted
the two friends stood at the Twelfth
street corner for time, and then Gripp
suggested that they get little beer.
1t was after twelve, but they knew a
place which was open at such times,
and there they had several beers and
smoked q couple more of Sands cigars.
When they got outside they didn't know
where 10 go, and after prolonged
wransle over the effects Of the McKin-
ley bill on the size of beer glasses, they
went in and asked the bar keeper about
it-and got a couple more drinks.
After this, things got trile misty to
Sand. He recollected going out, losing
Gripp somewhere on the sidewalk, fall
ing in with a stranger who first asked
him the time, and then stood treat
couple of times; then he was dimly con-
sciOus of getting into carriage with
the stranger, of breaking his umbrella
getting out, and giving the remains TO
he driver; of meeting several ladies in
remarkably light and airy costumes; of
getting bill broken in exchange for
beer; Of having an animated controversy
with some one about something; Of
striking d man and getting hit in
turn; Of cries for the police, and
run out into the street; of making
long and vain search for Gripp, which
began and ended in a saloon; Of losing
his overcoat somewhere, and finally of
going to sleep, of being roughly shaked
by someone who turned out to be a
policeman, OF dim consciousness, when
he got awake, that the sky was growing
bright in the east, and of turning cor
ner and making his way with labored
steps into his boarding house hallway
and up what seemed to be an intermina-
bic flight Of steps into his room. He
was too tired to undreSs and threw him
self on the bed, in his damp and
muddy clothes, where he found him
self about noon, yesterday, attired in d
sadly rumpled dress suit, minus his
noonth's salary withOnt his watch and