The evening world., 1894-09-04
PANTATA. THE MONK.

Letters and bill heads and orders and
envelopes were scattered over the floor
a ledger was damned in a waste-basket
that was turned upside down. and all
the small furniture and accessories of
high and low.
There was no smell of fire, and the
window was not broken to admit the
wind. The porter was lapsing into a
state of bewilderment. when he heard
a chirp overhead. CHANGING upward
he saw, sitting on a gas fixture, an OBJ
ject which. although small. struck him
as being of such dreadful mien that he
backed out of the Office.
Others of the firms employees arriving.
and also seeing the object on the fix
ture. the porter decided that the joys
OF Labor Day had nothing to do with 1t,
ii down.
1t was little Brazilian monkey, with
long. hairy tail. The men at Patter-
sons fed the creature, and were won
dering how IT got there, when Dixie
Hines, the editor of The American
Wheelman. at % Park Row. two doors
away, arrived and claimed him.
As soon as Mr.; Hines saw the monkey
he exclaimed: You wicked old pan
tata," and the monk, apparently. wild
with joy at seeing his master. made the
illOSt cHeTBetlC CHORUS 10 TedCn nlI1l.
Pantata-for that is the monkeys
name-had been on lark, and the bill
Of costs has not yet been rendered.
His spree had covered the whole Of
Labor Day, and his capers in Patter-
sons store, from which he. could not
be released yesterday, furnished amuse-
ment for crowd that stood at the
windows nearly all day long.
Mr.. Hines was at work as usual in
his office yesterday morning, and had
just written a heavy editorial that
would burst pneumatic tire, when the
about the office, suddenly flew into a
tantrum. He grabbed the editorial.
stuffed 1t into his mouth, flew up the
steam-pipes. and leaped out at the top
Of the window.
Mr.. Illness Office is on the third floor.
The monkey caught the window ledge
of the floor above and ran along until
he came to an open window in the Cd
joining. house.
From there he descended the stairs to
Dennett's restaurant. and burst into the
little CHAPEL where Mr.. bennett makes
girls had Just finished the exercises.
and thought, when they saw the mon
key, that an imp of the old boy had
been sent to warn them and they were
almost ready to pray again.
The restaurants cat was neither so
devout nor superstitious. and seeing an
The monkey has teeth almost good
as the cat, and a tail-hold with a twist
TO it that brought from the cat wild
squall OF pain. The monk bounded away
leaving the cat with its mouth open and
its tail out of plumb
From there The little animal got into
Pattersons through a broken window In
the rear. He seemed to have forgotten
that he might get out as he came in
and spent the rest of the day and al
last night maxine wreck of Patter.
sons Office in the front. He was a great
show for the throngs on the walk. who
could see him very plainly through the
plate-glass window.
MIR. Hines says that the monkey frs,
came under his notice the fourth
| prize in championship bicycle race
| He was won by Buffalo man, who
! to Mr. Hines.
| Mr.. Stage, the manager for Patter.
son Bros, took Mr. Illness address and
said he would send him bill of dam
ages az soon as he learned their extent