Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-14
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The May Flint Great Ship-Parsimcny
Of Fifth Avenue Mil.ioraires.
A Cooked EST Spins.
Especial CorrnSlou,'ence.l

Especial Cores ,O,M'encel
1t is strange that il las phenomenal
~ unpatriotic city anything which
would seem to indicate that we are still
| III the race with other nations in the
foreign carrying trade is apt to excite
interest. Thus for the last week or SO
hundreds of persons have daily visited
the American full rugged sip May
Flint, which is now in port, and all
this because this vessel, which was for
merly the British steamship Persian
Monarch of the Wilson line, is now the
largest sailing craft flying the American
flag. She measures 8, $40 tons.
After having been pulled off the Long
Island shore near Eastport, where she
! was stranded about two years ago, Flint
& Co. purchased her, and, having ex-
pended the requisite amount in this
country in rehabilitation, secured an
American register.
The ship has four masts, and the up
pearance of her bluff bow, which is
provided with q hugo steel bowsprit,
makes her a noticeable object among
the craft now lying along South street.
/ There is no f1gurehead, but rallied
| gangway extends from the forecastle
deck to third of the distance out on
the massive spirit, and steel braces take
the place of the forechains. The ar
rangement does not appeal to the eye Of
| the sailor, but it is serviceable.
Uncle Russell Sage and tho Others.
Circumstances frequently rive man
| a reputation for some predominant char
acteristic to which ho is not really cnti-
| tied Sometimes this reputation is not
all enviable one, and it frequently oc-
ours that the stigma imposed attaches
! itself to ono person who is thus singled
out and made the target for sneers and
! ritlicule when he is but one among
scores Of others who escape opprobrium.
Thus Uncle Russell Sage has the rcpu-
tation of being the most parsilnonious
of the 1nillionaircs that live in Fifth
avenue, but there are others. Within u
stones throw of Uncle Russell lives one
| of those self mado millionaires who
have managed to obtain for their sulls
and daughters matrimonial alliances
with members of the ''swcll" set Oh
both sides of the Atlantic.
Not long since the family butler re-
| signed, and ali advertisement for un OK
pcricnccd butler with the best refer
ences was inserted in one CT the daily
papers, There wero not many answers
to the advertisement, for servants of the
"lSO" are posted on the saving habits
Of the wealthy. There were IL appli-
cants all told. They were received by
tho head Of the house. He asked a few
questions, but the main test vas wheth-
or the livery worn by the last butler
would fit The man whom the livery
fitted got the position, and tho Wall
street banker did not have to draw a
check for u nav livery.
Between Eating and Drinking.
'See that mall driving that ulb?'
said tho bronzcl inspector Of tho stage
line. "He has been patroling the ave-
nue. for dozen years and knows the
American aristocracy US well as Ward
McAllistcr did, though in a different
way. That cab driver there, Ryan, a
year and half ago was driving for the
family that lives ACROSS the street. They
have lots of money and give lots of big
dinners, yet what do, you suppose was
the reason he left? Couldn t get enough
to eat. There's lots of big bugs skimr
their servants.
AFTER Ryan left there no got OH the
police force. Got broke because Il rounds
man caught him drinking beer. It was
on election day, too. Driving a cab now
for $12 week and working seven days
in q week ut that. That's what call
pretty hard luck-losing ore good job
because he could not get enough to eat
and another because he could not get
enough to drink. y
Novelist Howells' Antitipping Crusade.
Ever since William D. Howells, the
famous novelist, attacked tho rapidly
growing American practice Of clipping"
he has been the object of much atten'
ton from the BARRIERS, one Of whom Is
said to have seriously proposed that the
members of his craft boycott the author
by refusing to shave him. He was OF
course laughed down. Another tonsorial
artist attempts to justify the acceptance
Of gratuities thus wise:
"I'd just like to tell Mr.. Howells a
few things It amt our fault. It's all
the Italians. There's that Italian shop
across the street. They started in and
charged 10 cents for a shave, and 1 had
to do the same to keep my business. A
customer here gets q Is cent shave still
and pays 10 cents for it. If he wants to
give us nickel or dime more, why,
we're going to take it. -
The Cooked Egg Spins.
A we'll known sea captain was eating
his luncheon of boiled eggs at down
town restaurant when he surprised those
at the same table by calling to the
waiter:
Waiter, what do You mean by bring
ing me uncooked eggs?''
''The eggs have been boiled, sir, y
said the waiter.
BOILED? Nonsense!' said the cap
tain. "See here. They won't spin, y
! o,d xuhi1o ynonv loOka6 on he SnaDDed