New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-16
GETTING IN THE FIRST BLOT.

IT HELPED OUT WONDERFULLY WHERE THERE
SEEMED TO BE NOTHING TO DO But FIGHT
litt:e incident the other evening seemed to Illus.
trate two points one OF them that Richard
Harding Davis in making Of his characters
remember one and only one OF the rules Of fight
TO get In the first blowild service 20 fact as well
az 10 fiction The othc- was that the traditional
Jokes about policemen are founded on fact as well
as on fiction
People are 20 taken with the bicycle craze nova
days that some Of them bicycle at night, in ~
day and at all times On the night when the Incl
dent which ls 10 i.,ustr1te sonething happened
New Yorker, his wife and her two brothers were
eaving an uptown bicycle rink 10 walk over to their
house in Fifty-seventn-st They were met on the
ridewalk-or. moro properly speaking the Sidewalk
was obstructed for them--by four young men who
had been drinking enough to feel that II they did
not own the earth they al l"as- owned one side
walk on 1t. They were big young men, strong young
mon and. as before said. Their cour'G" was a!co-
holicaly fortified 70 the siege Of Saragossa point
A. the par;icula" moment when they no. the four
peaceful relatives the young mer dld not seem 20
much 10 care to advance on their way as 10 pre-
vent the happy bicycling family from proceeding
on their way. The four young men. who. besides
being big. strong and alcoholic. we're aso "touSh'-
looking formed rnsh-Iine across the Sidewalk ana
offered wha. on n football field might have seemed
pretty piece Of Interference. but which In street
Ney York - cay ''' east. 4 illF tl0pylNs
Now waen q woman Is unde- the protection Of
men they can't always stop 10 argue what Is best
to do The thing DO Is to ID something and 70
d, II quickly ana as nearly successfully p possos
This was the iiei OF Big Brother AT any rate. VINO
isn't such very bis brother after al but Who
nevertheless. Is much bigger than Little brother
who is bog not long on, OF Enickeroorkers h
f,r the hubbard. he was clearly out ~ 1t IN the
eyes OF Big Brother. for his psce was With his
wife and as for Little Brotnerweli. he had 10 take
MS chsrccs.
You take Bes, out Of this sni walk her across
the street" said BIG Brother. and IL see what
| can do with these fellows
or course II was very foolish for Bic Brother 70
think Of attacking four we-built. knockaoout RUIZ
fans with nobody to help him except 1.-the bro'hel
whose very proper duty (; to run away snouA
war break out But you see. there WAS the ss.ei.
II she could get out OF II safely man cou'' n"a
that much satisfaction. even II he had TO admit NH
he had done a very foolish thing And OF course
she had 10 he got out ~ II In some way. NOV"
1dn't take Big Brother 60 long 70 think al TINS 'ut
a. IL takes 10 tel II. So ftr that is concerned
he afterward said in a rather foolish way "heh MS
wrist was being bathed In cod water ana MS
knuckles creased with vase.ne. that ne didh oe
lieye he'd though; much Of anyt hins save thai q"
brother-in-law would better get his sister out OF
Well Big Brother isn't tan and he isnt very ".,y
heavy out he Is muscular and quick. ana ne ~
verv hard That is What ne did this time lie picked
on, rho biggest Of the four and without any pre-
lIminary talk or without the aUiab!e haalshdnr
which il customary IN the prize rlns' ne ~ I'm h,
very hard He hit him so hard that ne knochei nin
down He hit him 80 hard that RS deNotei ser
across the street heard the crack or the dow
and screamed out that murder. arson hish"a! roS
mi,y,oi rig Rrother meanwhile had sailed into
the next biggest man and was making u warm los
him He lid not have to druo the tnird ana iouila
men. FOR they ran away NO ioup' Ie se'"''' A 10,
So since one man Knocked down TWO ndl run
away and the other was no match for Sis brotnsr,
there was an end OF the night. Win nothihS he'oe
done. ,,.,,- M, r...,..
was p,aying that his second mans face was bass-
drum the man who had been knocked down got 20
his feet and seeing "A good opportunity 20 attack
Big Brother from the rear ne started LOT MN. P a..
If little Brother isn't strong and II he cant ny
so hard as Blk Brother. he has the PUCK o. w
family I'm him. and h. landed on the Fellow pdoA
Ike wildcat. ,,.- - al,
the world in screaming voice about LOT OF nlu1sis
and things that are going or sooner or later ponS
man s,rol;s up When the policeman hove IN Sient.
no more anxious 10 get 10 the scene or troune tnan
10 go before the Lexow Committee. but nevertnee.
less making Roadway. the rest OF the alchoIc ol1
four vanished. That put an end 10 the hsht' an,
one point Is illusrated-that first dow WAS sg93l
Brother A chance reason with another. ana u
convinced two others that they were SO weak ~
pugilIsc logic that they might just as wei go nome
and go to bed , o.
\ woman had screamed. there had been hgnt 7
policeman had come to the rescue. four men Weir
running away one man was ON the red OF ac1 TS
stl full OF lght''-and there was BOY. Inv
bro her in law a sister and 81 10 convince the polss
man that the boy had not robbed n house, cut tne
throats OF the inmates and set IRE TO the whole toe
| And this is submitted for Point Number Two