The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-11-01
STORIES OF THE DAY.
Topics Talked About Around New York
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Topics Talked About Around New Yerk
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In a quiet old fashioned saloon ON
Sixth avenue at moment in the even
ing when trade il usually quiet a sinewy.
clean shaved man, whose appearance de-
noted familiar association with horses,
leaned across the bar with glass Of old
ale beside him and conversed pleasant
~ in q north Of Ireland accent with the
bartender. At small table by the stove.
in which a fire is kept burning these
chilly nights, sat young man who
wore long wavy blond whiskers and a
very long and rather shiny frock coat.
Enormous cuffs almost covered his
hands, and his luxuriant crop Of hair was
carefully parted in the middle. He had
finished his day work at the great dry
goods store on the block above and had
dropped in for glass Of beer and half
hours rest in the little old fashioned
barroom. He held paper covered book
| in his hands and had become so deeply
engrossed in it's contents that his glass
Of beer stood untasted beside him, and
it was not until he CHANGED to overhear
remark made by the bartender's friend
that he looked up with show of inter-
est in his face.
Eyes," said the man leaning against
the bar, "it'd be pity if couldn't tell
horse when see him, for was head
coachnian to his lordship when he kept
40 hunters. You can say what you like,
but man that's the like of me, who
knows his place and does as he's told,
can get along better in the old country
than he can here. It's not that the wages
are so high, but there's so many per-
quisites, and if you're in big house
where there's plenty Of company you
get big tips. And then in the right sort
of house you live we'll in the servants,
hall. There's always a barrel of ale that
you can go to when you're dry, and the
food is fine. / tell you some of those
noblemen and rich men spend lot Of
money. When one Of them would come
down to us for weeks hunting, he'd
always bring his own valet with him
and maybe groom, and there were
some of them that brought two Wallets,
but they were Australians or from the
city maybe. The prince came down to
us three or four times while was with
his lordship, and he always left $40
note to be divided among the lads in
the stable He's good man across coun
try
How many Wallets did he bring with
him?'' inquired the bartender.
"Oh, he never brought any He used
to come down by himself, and his lord
ships own man would lay out his things
for him.
The young man with the long whisk
ers and the shiny frockcoat uttered
sigh of despair. The ivan Bibber"
stories, his psalm of life, fell to the floor
vorite idol had been shattered. He must
unlearn what he had learned and begin
his studies of swelldom all over again.
The prince could travel without his man
An observant newspaper man of long
and varied experience spoke Of the arti-
Gle which appeared in The Sun, IN
which the author who represented him
self as a competent and we'll tried news
paper writer, described the sufferings
and hardships which he had undergone
in his attempts to obtain work at his
profession in New York.
II read that article carefully said
the old newspaper man, land 1t inter
ested me because it bore on its face evil
dence of its commences. At the same
time, l could not help seeing why it
was that that man failed TO obtain work
in New York. 1t was because he was
never really fitted for the profession
which he claims as his own. He tells
us how long he has been engaged IN it
and mentions the good places which he
has held, and yet he shows in this very
article that he is destitute Of many of
the qualities which are absolutely es-
sential to success on Park row. To begin
with, see no indication of the humor-
Gus sense, and l can tell You that
would not myself give employment to a
man who did not possess it in high
degree. Then just think Of the expert
ences that that man has had here in the
city and of which, according TO his own
account, he has made absolutely no sort
of use. For my own part, l fail to see
how q man could stay in a hospital as
long az he did without getting material
for scores of articles-provided he were
capable of writing them-which almost
any New York newspaper would be glad
to use In New York hospital there's
! a story in every bed"
twenty-five hundred dollars is very
large pay for writing a book" said q
theatrical man, whereas $25, 900 is not
great pay for producing successful
play. That is why so many literary men
are always haunting the anterooms of
the managers, at present more than ever
before. But there are several reasons
why play is the more difficult work to
produce. First, publisher can tell
} whether he will get the cost Of produc-
ton back by the quality of the writing
or the fame of the writer, but no man
! can ever say whether play will go un-
til he hears the decision of the public.