The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-28
PESHALL'S BUSY DAY.
How the Taylor's Hotel Roose-
welt Spent Sunday A
Picturesque Figure.

A tall, lean man, whose STOPPING shout
ders are surmounted by a we'll shapeo
head and a pleasant face, was a coh-
spicuous figure on Exchange place yes
terday Many of the men h passed
appeared to know him. Some greeted
the tall man pleasantly and others
scowled at him.. The man seemed equai-
ly pleased by either form of notice. IN
deed, he seemed rather more pleased by
attention of the hostile character.
"A cabman who had been standing
across the street from Taylor's Hotel
since midnight Saturday, waiting Tor
the fare that did not come. had been
one of the most persistent observers of the
tall mans actions. Business was so bad
that he had nothing else 10 do. The
first he saw of the tall man was pre-
cisely at twelve O'Clock Saturday night.
Cabby's attention was ATTRACTED 10 him
because he came out of Steup's hotel
wiping his mouth in a familiar manner.
There was a grace about this act of
wiping the mouth that can only be OBJ
tanned by long and faithful practice and
supreme satisfaction Of the inner man.
A DESOLATE SCENE.
The tall man gazed about the dark
t~horoughfare, glanced at his watch, and
walked slowly to Tayior,s Hotel. He
stopped for a moment as IL hesitating
to go in. If such had been his inten-
ton he changed it, for he walked to a
window and peered long and thought
fully into the barroom. What he saw
pleased him. Teddy Roosevelt could not
have looked more pleased at the sight of
an arid saloon on the Bowery On a hot
day.
And yet the tall man did not see much,
in fact, all that he could see was two
black curtains drawn across the barroom
in such a manner as to completely close
the bar to guests.
"Sirnply this, and nothing more" as
the raven remarked.
But, oh. what joy this little APP
peared to afford to the inquisitive tall
man. who slowly withdrew from the
window and took up a strategic position
in front of the entrance to the office,
which adioins the barroom.
A ferryboat at this moment unloaded
a Saturday night cargo of passengers,
fresh from the New York theatres and
other haunts of g~iddyness. Many, of the
men entered the hotel. Two of them
showed visible symptoms of a SUNDAY
morning thirst and they made a pee line
for the sombre curtain that yelled the
entrance to the barroom. The tail man
watched this move with bated breath.
He saw a descendant of Ethopia's kings,
olr,s. head off the two dessicated guests.
A conversation took place in which
anger, disappointment and entreaty were
Illustrated by the facial expression of
| the two guests. and polite refusal by the
oscillations of the coiored gentlemans
spine.
bowed again and again, and the two
men followed him to a room p~artitioned
off by iron net work from the billiard
They'll get a drink in the c ss ! mq r.
soon saw the porter take two glasses
of colored liquids from the darkened
sTwo," muttered the man with the
stopped shoulders, and two were care
note book which he drew from his
recorded, n with a sign OF satisfaction
entered Johnny's Glenn's thirst cure.
Nine" muttered the observant cabby,
as he saw the tall man emerge ten
act with the same old grace, 49,,
mar. And the tail man watched, too.
Intervals for calls at Glenn's.
At four O'clock he saw three men leave
the hosiery. They held each other up
man with the single word, sixteen"
made an entry in his book and then
disappeared. Cabby took a nap in his
morning nothing disturbed him. The
first object of interest he saw Wnen
he awoke was the temperance OF the
tall man, who was emerging from John
Glenn's, wiping his mouth with polished
CALL ON CHIEF MURPHY.
The man glanced towards Taylors
Hotel, walked by it, lounged about Tor a
| short time and then went to Ponce HEAD
quarters, where he said that Mr.. Charles
j. Peshall desired to see Chief Murphy.
The tall man was the famous LAWYER
who did not save Hallinger, and who
is now engaged in conducting a Roosevelt
crusade on a limited scale.
In about half an hour he retraced ms
steps to Exchange place. He visited
Glenn's, wiped his mouth with the same
old grace, ard then accosted the police,
man on the beat. After a few minutes
talk Mr.. Peshall renewed his inspectlon
of Taylor's Hotel. While the Caooy
wondering, he could not help observing
that the scores of men who entered
Taylor's Hotel and Immediately. returned
to the street. had disappointed EXPIRES
scowled at Peshall, as If he had lone
them a personal injury. Nearly all OF
these men sought solace at other hotels,
which they left apparently leeHns HUGH
| improved in spirits.
About a month ago, as The news
duly ~chronicled, Charles J. Peshal VA
as he claims, assaulted Ts by E HofsI and nni
Knocked down in a comatose condition.
He began a suit for damages agaihs5
Reed for the assault and also 1hrea cIoeed
on Sundays. For three Sundays he has
practically done so to the serious man
cial loss of the proprietor. H tation s Wiffh
and when the Board of Aldermen meets