The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-18
BABY MEETINGS FOR LOW.
LITTLE SdLLr MATTERS RISES IN
HER MTUHT % LOC.IL

HER MIUHT FOR LOC.fL sue
who but CIT Orators NouId Trot around Town
Addressing the ~'rinbiea nm our Biock''t-
Tirree Oratarr TO Two voters the uRtIo
ut last Nights Grand Fast side nniiy.
This isa plain story OF the Low boom booming
on tho East side. Tho Low campaign ia on
eide tho EreninD Post IL you don't believe it
and tremendous progress Ia being mndC. lnr.
ticularly among the ovcr.numcrors infant
population OF tho East River tcncmcnts.
Many earnest and real nice youths are
engaged in making the boom boom. In
years to come, whom they grow mp. they will
look back upon these savory East River lights
with pleasant debating. society recollcctions.
Tho infants whom they are educating will
certainly vote for MIR. Low IL they remember.
some eighteen or nineteen years hence. the
pleasant way in which they were soothcd to
slumber. and have feelings OF common graft.
tude.
But this Is anticipating, and, besides. Mr.. Low
may not be II candidate n score of years from
now. He will, however. have served a useful
purpose; there are q great many infants on the
east side. and they are wakcful these warm
nights.
Nursery Talks is not tho name by which tho
Citizens Union folks speak of the campaign
meetings" they are holding on the east side, but
really and truly 1t is graphically descriptive in
InOTb ways lltu u lew. lucy Ia Olc luSt
night at Tbirty.third street and Second avenue.
They had others, perhaps. but this is the one
under discussion. All the meetings arc as
good MS the one they held last night at Thirty
third street and Second avenue. so tho young
gentleman in charge said. 1t was advertised to
begin at 9 o'clock. They have Low headquar.
tiers" for the district one door west Of the ave
nue.. A fire escape at the first floor windows.
called II balcony by the young mon, is tho stand
f.1,, ,,h;,b ,lo h,ll;.x rat<,r Jianonan chat,
pearls OF wisdom. Every Tuesday night they
have q grand outdoor rally" As before men
toned, they had one last night. This is tho way
It happened:
TP. M.-Lights lit.
T:1o-A fat man with eyeglasses. a boy in
shirt sleeves, and IL young man with a brown
mustaeho hang out five Chinese lanterns. .
7:1l-Tho infant population draws near.
crawling on belly. wheeling in .perombulators,
according to that state in Which it has pleased
their mothers or their nurses to leave them.
luck, having been detailed to keep order at the
meeting when'otberwise they would DO sleep
7:so1Mr. Charles a. b. Pratt arrives with
his earnsstncss overreaching his collar.
thai TiaI NJ p,a seer;s IS n 1 S5n8HncG Of 'onI ibs biE ol
S:55-Mr. Charles F. Travis arrives. Con.
hdential announcement that he is Il third cousin
7:s6 to s::liS-.AbsoIutely nothing but anxious
COnlGEcuCts OSI"tViI III " ~ ohhe IV0
They study iintently a hSndbiii which reads:
Hier Euren Namcn Elm The neighborhood is
almost exclusively Irish, SO they have hopes of
s:I6-Onc of the Chinese lanterns falls down.
Great excitement among six babies. five small
girls, and four small boys.
s:ls-The fat man gives the shirt.sleeved
and touches a match. The glare lights up the
lager beer signs on the three corners. Tremen-
nfns sp from Firs tor sv hqw; u three oS S{rls some snd T s1e
babies come around the corner.
s:2I~The fat man, the boy. and the secretary
take up positions in the street opposite the fire
escape. and. gaze ixedly at the window. The
babies; the boys and the girls group themselves
.s:22-Mr. Pratt starts to say something. The
aged iaborers sitting on the curbstone get up
ana 60 into the saloon.
s:24-The sound of music.
Every daisy in the dell.
k knGy vet ny ! d ssSes not t ssli' 1t well;
= Sweet Marie!
Forty-seeond street, where much valuable time
e eoa1 S'e e th hsy slo eisn 81 sps Mr.. lows lssti Is spe 19 a in
watching, the parade Of the Century wheelmen.
lifts his voice. viii he give US cake, mother"
ubhS hLilo Sdily- "hleTs, IN II Snrlll voice, De-
tween two of Mr.. Travis's periods. Hush,
dear;go to sleep" says the mother. The child
sleeps.n ~
s:55.-Mr. Travis declares, we have all of us
too much work to do in this mad eternal scram-
bio for dollars" Enthusiasm for Low reaches n
volcanic pitch in the breasts of two shaggy
gentlemen who have Just come out of the side
door of the saloon across the street. Their en-
thusiasm frightens three very young children
who have to be taken home, and Mr.. Trayis's
audience is sensibly diminished.
9P. M.-The children get tired and wander
away All the babies on our block are carried
home, with little Sally Waters fast asleep.
Tho fat man. the shirt sleeved boy, ana the sec
rotary are left alone in the middle OF the street.
The babies did not, know that Mr.. Robert
Winston, the. labor agitator; Mr.. James
Mason. the labor %aRitator; Mr.. John Brooks
Leavitt, tho any-old-kind OF aRitator, and
other agitators of note were yet to
speak Whether or not they did only the
cobblsstones and the faithful there know. The
policemen moved away. At no time. by the
most careful searching. were there found more
than two men of voting age in the grand out
door rally. outside OF the attaches of the head
quarters." By actual count three were thir-
teen infants In arms. baby carriages, and on the
pavement eighteen small boys and fifteen small
girls.
'The east side is ablnze for Low" said the big
policeman to thu little one, as he saw the
Citizens Union man set off II little more red fire,
In the hope Of collaring another small boy. or at
least a new baby.
."Aber nit" said tho little policeman to the