Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-06
As TAMMANY SAW III.
"Why, Say, You Cant Get . Sandwich In
Washington After Midnight

"Why, Say, You Cant Get . Sandwich In
Washington After Midnight"
From the New York sun.
Tammany braves came rollieking back to
town yesterday. A good many OF them were
hoarse with colds. Some OF them walked n
little as il they were tired. There were not so
many high hats IS there had been the day the
braves started. There were two or three dam
aged eyes. But taken altogether the damage
Wa Insignificant.
1t wasn't only the braves who got home yes
terday. The railroads never did such a bust
ness on Sunday transporting people into the
city. There were special trains every half hour
or so from early in the morning to late at
night They were still coming in when the
Sun went to press.
The Baltimore and Ohio road brought the
first Of the braves back to town. Train A of the
Tammany specials, after a wrestle with a biz
card out in Jersey. which included a struggle
through huge snowdrifts that tied the train up
for two hours, got into the Jersey Central
depot at 10:15 in the morning. 1t brought the
first, thirteenth, and fifteenth district con-
tingents, under John c. Sheehsn, Daniel E.
Finn, Louis E. Munzinger, and William G.
Byrne. They we're a weary-looking lot of men.
what kind of a time did you have?'' Mr..
Sheehan was asked.
Mud up to your neck, and. say, you couldn't
even buy a sandwich in the town after IL O'Clock
at night"
NO. not q sandwich" chorused a dozen
others.
"And the Arlington Hotel bar room had
sign as big as the White House on tie bar
room door: This bar is positively closed. There
is no side or back door"
And then the congregation took it up and
sang together:
"Oh, what shame it was! Not even q sand
wich"
The braves made things lively for everybody
coming over on the boat.
Train on the Baltimore and Ohio got into
the depot at 1880 o'clock 1t carried John E.
Donnelly's party from the fifth, ninth and
tenth districts
big timer queried the reporter Of Patrick
Farley, and Mr.. Farley held his hands up and
squeezed his head.
dozen braves with battered hats who we're
swinging uncertainty along behind Mr.. Farley.
Great" said Mr.. Farley, breaking the
silence at last; but. say, do you know you
can't even buy q sandwich in Washington after
midnight"
John Hilly confirmed the statement: 'sNot .
dang sandwich
Train c was fifteen minutes behind train B.
1t carried Police Justice Mcmahon, with the
twelfth. nineteenth, twenty fifth and twenty
sixth district braves.
"They don't even sell sandwich in Wash
but we had . great time. The Washington
people treated us finely. 1t was an immense
parade-siush up to your neck-but it was
great. Big crowd? Smashing. Too big for
the town"
At this point another uncertainty swinging
crowd came along shouting:
Keep ss sETshin' and ashOvin' and .pushin' and
Till you push dem clouds away.
And they pushed everybody away as they
went along. "Three cheers for Richard
Croker" shouted a man, and in a moment the
depot rang with cheers Three cheers for Dave
Hill, shouted another, and there were more
cheers. who is Dave Hip demanded
another. First in war, first in peace and first
in the hearts of his countrymen," came the
chorus. THE boys had a great time" said
the justice, as he adjusted his silk hat.
Train d came in little later with Police
Justice Welde and the twenty-eighth, twenty
ninth and thirtieth district braves. The justice
got aboard the ferry-boatin time to avoid being
talkedto to. "How about sandwiches" suggested
the reporter to a tall-hatted thirtieth district
man.
Say" was the instant response sit was the
darndest thing l ever saw. Do you know YOU
couldn't get a sandwich in that town after IL
O'Clock! Why, man would die with thirst
there before morning. It's fact
One of the other Baltimore and Ohio specials
brought home the delegation of business men
who acted as personal escort to President
Cleveland They were only 100 when they
went away. They had increased to 800 on the
home trip. The extra men had been picked up
in Washington.
The absence Of sandwiches in Washington
after midnight was noticed by the men who
came home by the Pennsylvania railroad. 1t
even went tar as the members of Gov
Flowers own party. The governors car was
attached to the delayed second section of the
Keystone express which arrived in Jersey City
shortly after Z o'clock. A. B. De Freeze vas
one of the first men to get off the train and
the very first words he said to the sun reporter
were:
GOOD time? Yes, but it's tine cussedest town
ever was in. 1t shuts up at midnight. Why,
say. you couldn't buy a sandwich there after
midnight, and d'you know the Arlington Hotel
had sign up the door of the bar room,
Il his place positively closed. No side door
You know nobody would believe that the place
was shut up tight and they had to put up the
positive sign. There was too much of a crowd
down there for comfort. There amt room in
the town for a blizzard and a crowd at the same
time, and of course when both were there the
place was congested.''
Gov Flower and his wife were almost the
last persons to leave the train. They were ao-