Evening star., 1894-03-26
SOME STREET KODAK
4 Star Man Has q Talk With Five
Characters
SellinG Songs, whiskeFs and violets-
black - Duncoed With violets.

Star man took q stroll last evening.
| and these are some Of the sounds he heard:
"Awl de lates' an mos popler songs o. de
dsy-'Dey'r Aftur Him. Shade de whiskers
On de Noon Daisy Belle DO. Do. My
Hucklsberry. Do. Do"
This was the song he sang. and the singer
was fakir. who was earning his bread by
the sweat Of his lung. He was postured on
the curb. and his voice was ware-worn and
| rasping. His appearance indicated that he
| had never set but a foot within that holy
circle OF swelldom. and that his path had
been more strewn with railroad ties than
roses. He had not bathed since the close of
the regular drowning season. and he was
not a neighbor to godliness. In the lingo Of
the street he was his uppers. A heavy
| batch Of blanket-sheet pages, printed on one
side with songs of alleged popularity, rested
| on his right shoulder. These were the wares
| he cried.
The Star man touched him for q talk and
| opened the conversation with Good even
ing. sir"
Hello dere yerself; how's dey coming?"
was the answer true.
"Awl de lates' an mos -
Yes. my friend" said the reporter, 'T
guess I'll take one.
What sort OF living can you make out
of this?" inquired the scribe.
! Purity tough. 1 tell yer wot times is
| hard, grub Is scarce, an de doorsills amt
furnished wild spring mattusses. Ef de biz
| is on de boom, an de people wants ter buy
an er feller gifts down ter knuckle-hard an
root-hog hustle. he kin make about two
balls er day. but dis tune amt ter be pulled
| off ebery day. A feller on de dead square
| can't make moren seventy-fve cents a day.
| an no man orten ter kick on dat. He kin
lib high on dat income Dat gives him tree
| hfteen-centers o. hash, a long smoke a
| bunk an a dime, ten cents, fer ter salt fer a
/ off day"
What manner Of meal can you get for
| fifteen cents?" innocently asked The Star
man, as though he had not eaten them him.
I self.
Bean or Vegetable soup, one meat, two
veg tables. pie or puddin',. tea, coffee or
milk. wild no repeats; but den wen yer has
! ter. yer kin undercut desc taxes. Fur
breakfas' yer kin git a bowl o. grits an
cows milk fur five cents; fur dinner yer kin
have er glass er milk fer four cents an er
cut o pie fer tree cents; an yer kin eat yer
fill O. baked beans at night fer five cents
Den yer kin saw wood fer de sleep. Desc
papes cost er feller half dollar. filter cents
er hundred. an wen yer kin sell um yer kin
do it at five cents er lick. Sadday night Is
de best time fer rushin' de racket. Stor'
girls buys um. bud de jays wot wants ter
be actOrers Is de bes' guys fer ter work
De bes' stan is in frunt OBJ a vryety theeay
ter Day goes in er string. Nobody wants
ter buy till some feller makes de lead, an
day awl ketch on. Dat pal er mine wot yer
seesn git inter er crowd an come UP ter
me an buy a pape. an de udder fellers take
de tip an buy, too. 1 tell you wot, times Is
hard"
kind friend. will you be so kind as to
give me little assistance. I'm d stranger
| town and n
He was walking along in the same ,iirec-
non as The star man, and edged up TO him
gently. SO that the policeman on that beat
might not see the attack.
The man was young, strong built, talked
well and had an energetic cir about him.
said his lines in a business-like way, had
tightly at the throat and carried his hands
in his pockets.
Come In here and I'll buy you lunch"
said the reporter. '''Why is it that there are
so many Of you people in town and that
every one of you tells the same tale about
being a stranger and out Of work.
There wasn't anything doing up home,
and when a feller sees that ne has got to
get down to hard pan to keep body and
soul together he don't want to go on the
bum in his own town, so he makes 1 sneak.
If he stayed where he was known he
would either have to beg or starve. and it's
a great deal better to tackle strangers than
home folks. If you get turned down by
| stranger you don't mind.it so much. That's
why he gets out of his own town. AS soon
as he takes to the road he begins to hear
| wonderful yarns about Washington city.
| the capital of the nation, the city Of broad
| streets, great buildings, splendid parks and
| warm homes. The treasury is there; the
places where they print the money is there;
\ Congress Is there; all the great people that
| one hears so much about are there With
| all this before the mind Of stranger it
seems to him that he ought to be able to
get something to eat in town Of that
| kind. Then he heads this way. He finds
| work just about as hard to get here as else
| where, but, although the people are char
table and liberal and have done a great
| deal of good toward the under ninety. they
have been imposed on much by the pro-
| fessional tramp, who stops here while vi
brating between the north ana the south,
| that you are suspicious of everybody who
| wants to touch you for something to eat.
| I've had to sleep out most OF the nights
| because the municipal lodging house was
| full 1 don't think any more about the
1 future; my main concern is to keep from
getting hungry. Hunger is a mighty nice
| thing when you can feel hat there is a
big dinner waiting for you and thar the
more appetite you work up the better that
dinner will taste, but let yourself get hun
CRY with no dinner in prospect and the
sensation Is gripingly uncomfortable"
Here you are! Musaches AMI siders and
English don't-chaw-know whiskars that
you can put on and take off, blond black