New-York tribune., 1892-01-01
TUF RROOKLYV MN.


We have long held that Brooklyn men display
a really phenomenal capacity for getting INTO
trouble We cannot account for II, either
Broohlvn men, 10 We sec them about town in the
DAYTIME, seem pcaccable and quiet When they
Get on OF this end of the Bridge in the morning
there may be n slightly confused air about them
but this is apt 10 be seen in any one when he
arrives in a great city like New-Iorh. The
Eroo,xlvn man does not have that hunted look
,een or the face q the dweller in the suburban
Villages which comes from the cycr-gnawing fear
hat Ae is going TO miss his train, for tho Bridge
lands always ready for the Brooklyn mans re-
'reat at any moment. But when he mounts the
Bridge at half nast o'clock in tho afternoon 70
retlrn home. there is an air of resolution, with
perhaps a touch of gamiuc>s, about him which
convinecs us that the Brooklyn man must bc an
cnl RELY different sort Of a person at night in
brooklyn. Whether this comes from the night
or from being in Brooklyn. We cannot say. since
il is never possible 10 catch Brooklyn man in
town after p. m. Any how. we believe that nj
homo after sundown the Brooklyn man is sly
doc.
The latest instance in which Brooklyn man
has got into trouble involves Ludwig Thoms
and n certain William Eggcrs. Mr.. Eggcrs
charges Mr. Thoms with attempting to draw
pistol on him. 1homs, it. appears, is "A teacher in
.ome sort Of dcnomnatonal school, and Eggers
. n trustee of Tho school The other day Eggcrs
called upon 1homs and told him that his services
rs teacher had become a supcriuiy. At this
1homs so Eggers says, placed his hand on his
pistol pocket" Mr. Eggers conceived his life TO
ic in danger and ran from the house. Subsc-
oucntly he got out warrant for the arrest OF
Thoms The officer found him seated at the piano
vigorously SINGING " Home sweet Home in Ger
nan lie was Just making Some remarks down in
his throat in regard TO his lowly thatchcd cottage
when the officer placed him under arrest and
took him 70 the Lee Avenue Police Court Here
Thoms Indignantly explained that in making the
move which the frightened Eggcrs interpreted as
warlikc he had simply been reaching for his
handkerchief.
This suggests that Brooklyn should profit by
the experience OF Arkansas For many years the
Arkansas rcntlcma.. habItually carried his tobacco
in Is pistol pocket The habit greatly raised the
state rate Of mortality, as frequently when man
reached for his tobacco tho personal friend with
whom he WIS convcrsng would misintcrprct the
rive and shoot him down. After while it
b came customary in Arkansas before reaching
f,r tobacco 70 wave thc hand slightly and re-
mark "tcrbacler,' This did very well. but the
form was sometimes forgotten, especially in the
heat Of debate in the Legislature, which iina!ly
impclcd this body, after losing several good
| Speakers. TO pass a law requiring all persons TO
carr their chewing tobacco in their leit-hand
| ya-t-pocllet. Brooklyn, we say, must borrow an
idea from Arkansas. Brooklyn men must when
| they doi.'t mean business" remark "handker-
| cbief!1 in an explanatory tone. better plan
yet would probably be to have city ordinance
! compiling all men TO carry their handkerchicis
| elsewhere. The position Of the Brooklyn hand-
kcrchief must not menace the safety of the public
| IL is altogether likely that. in the case oelore
w. had Eggers been armed he would have repiied
| 10 the supposedly hostile move Of IhQms, ~