The record-union., 1894-09-20
MADE HIMSELF AGREEABLE.
But the Other Pleasure Seekers Paid
the Bill-Who Was He.

But the Other Pleasure-Seekers Paid
the Bill-Who Was Hes
In an uptown cafe, one night last week.
three theatrical men met three news
paper men. All of them are we'll known
In theatrical circles and to the readers of
newspapers. They made a night of it.
They did not intend to do so when they-
met, but they drifted into it. There were
the usual features Of all such nights-the
flowing bowl, the sparkling wit, the
merry laughter and the funny story.
one of the theatrical men, c., had
just signed a contract for next year at a
larger salary than he had ever received.
The newspaper man, D, had won Sl5O
that day at the races, and both were ceIe-
brating. Neither would allow any Of the
others to pay for anything.
In some unnoticed way E. who was
a stranger to all OF the party, Joined them.
They were moving from place 10 place
without any object other than making a
night Of it, and they had no objective
point or prearranged plan of procedure.
Under such circumstances it is not un-
usual-as all who have ever made night
of it will bear witness-to find stranger
in the party, and how, when or where he
Joins nobody ever knows and nobody
ever cares. 1t was SO in this case
Whether they met MIN in the roof garden,
or at the tamale stand, or in the chop
that they visited, no one could tell. In
fact, no one gave the matter thought
The stranger was whole-souled, iolly
fellow, and what more could one want?
No one stops TO look up commercial or
social ratings when making a night of il.
The stranger addressed ali Of them bv
their names. His own name was soon
known 10 them, as he brought it out in a
story that he told of one of his own ad-
ven lures.
By the time that they sat down to a
midnight supper they seemed to have
known the stranger for years. He was
at home in all matters theatrical, and
from that the newspaper men inferred
that he was some friend OF the theatrical
trio, while the latter assumed that he was
an old chum of one or all OF the three
journalists, as he talked freely of his
newspaper ex periences in Chicago, Bos-
ton and elsewhere. He paid tor nothing
He did not offer 10 pay Tor anything, but
if he had he would not have been allowed
to paw, for the affluent c. Was Setting
'en up'' whenever the lucky D-w wasnot
depicting his roll OF race winnings by do
ing the same thing.
What a Jolly night they had and what
a wholesouled lot of good fellows they
were! They slept an hour or two in the
Turkish baths and they breakfasted to-
gether in the morning, and they kept it
up all day and went TO the races and then
TO Coney Island, and. afterwards, they
made another night OF it-a more hilari-
Gus one than the night before, and next
morning they parted, accompanied by
headaches that cocktails would not cure
and remorse on which time only could
have any mitigating effect.
1t was not until the six festive ones
met two days later and compared remi-
niscences that they discovered that the
stranger who had so freely ioined in
their festivities was not the bosom friend
of any of them, and was, in fact, un-
known to any of the party until they
found him aiding and abetting them in
making a night of it.
This is a mere incident of New York
life-a fact crudely related. There is no
moral to it.-New York Times.