The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-26
AFTER THE BALL wASOvER
A RESIDUE OF s~ULJITANs STUCK
TO THE FLOOR STILL.

There Were Three Thousand or Them at tho
start. Politicians, Girls, More Girls. Mere
Politicians. LonEuhoremen, Doctors PriHo
Fighters, bank Cashier, Etc., All Dancing
It was just about put-the-turkey .in.the-oyon
time when tho band played Home, Sweet
Home" in Everett Hall yesterday morning.
Even then the crowd wouldn't go away. 80
Florrie Sullivan, the President Of the Timothy
Dry Dollar Association, climbed up on the gal
lery and said:
"Ain't mono of yez got no honest Do yez
think yez's in a Chinee theatrei'
Just one moro waltz yelled tho crowd and
the band played on. After the waltz the PreSi-
dent leaned over tho balcony rail and shouted:
9TH Teller what lent us tn hall wants 1t back
this week."
Just another square danoeI' yelled the
crowd, and the band played on.
Again the President shouted from the gallery.
This was what he said:
81 want the members Of the Disturbance Com.
mitteo to como up here an t'row tn musicianers
OH the sidewalk"
The boss fiddler grabbed his instrument and
hurriedly put on It's overcoat. A minute later
all of the musical instruments were dressed In
their street apparel. Then the band escaped
and the owner of the hall set ten mon to work
sweeping the floor with big brushes. Here arc a
few OF the things they brushed from beneath
Six hundred empty champagne bottles.
Ten smooth. faced young men in evening dress.
Three red faced citizens In oid-fashioned irock
coats.
Four live Aldermen.
Sevcnty-two ex-Assemblymen.
Fifteen ex-Senators.
Five ward leaders.
Half a dozen tiremen.
Forty-two United States Navy sailors.
Nineteen longshoremen with cotton hooks in
their bolts.
Fourteen brokers.
Thirteen hod carriers in overalls.
Twenty-four Long Island farmers with
op RiaWen 81 s iTh ! dressed esa@SS goar Women.
Three negro banjo players and three banjS sa
mustaches and hair glued down.
Seventeen Chinese laundrymen.
Thirty.three prize lighters.
Five letter carriers, twsenty.six ,overcoats.
nine policemen, three pairs OF, socks, eleven
sausage butchers, five pairs of shoes, four Ger
man delicatesscn men, seventycone six hats,
nineteen professors Of music, five lace petit
coats. twenty-one physicians, seventy four
umbrellas, six bank cashiers and nine hundred
4 Timothy B. Sullivan Association couldn't
have made 1t any hotter eyon II they had 6 ma
Florrie Sullivan led the grand march with Mrs.
Dry Dollar, Congressman, Tom Bradley, the
representative OF the east side of town. marched
arm in arm with Congressman John H.. g.
7yehslage, the representatiye OF the west side.
They pulled big Jim Snltn IN DetWCcn tncHl.
He IL q Greater New York Alderman from Cor
lear's Hook. After he had dropped into line
between the two Congressman Mr.. zimmerman,
the Chambers street hotel man, shouted:
Dose is q sandwich, but no. Raines law
kind OATS. which I would call a Congress,
sional sandwich"
We're the people," said the Hon. John.
mo, we only represent the people, replied
| the Hon. Tom, and the crowd cheered.
After the march the crowd rushed for seats
at the tables. 1t was q thirsty crowd. t table
No. / a party of Cinnamon sat drinking gin.
At table No. 2 q party of uptown clubmen
| drank champagne. At table No. 8 a crowd. of
farmers tackled cider, while at the next table
sat a Bowery crowd that punished beer. Brad
lee Strong, the Mayors son, and Sarsaparilla
Reilly sat side by side in the gallery applauding
the dancers. ,
lam Pontin, the hotel man, sat at one, of the
tables and sang an old Scotch ballad. He was
applauded by Lefty Dunn of the Bowery, who
shouted:
Go ahead, old man. you're a peach-push 1t
out of yer-that's tn way! Go IT."
You wouldn't think he could sing a mouth.
full remarked Jim the Skate, "but he kin, list
TIL same, even II he couldn't play his age In
policy
Not a fight occurred to mar the pleasure Of
the ball. This was strange, and it was re-
marked by somebody that there were 30 many
fighters at the ball that one feared the other.
and all kent Quiet In consequence.