Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-09
CORRESPONDENCE.
"A Tale of Two Cities"

"A Tale OF Two Cities"
New YORK, Jan. g. 1887.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
The New Year. and | know the hot
Tom and Jerry season is on now in
Frostburg. I'll wager that, as | write
this, Tom Dillon has ont the big china
bowl and the gilr-edged mugs. and the
residents of Eckhart and Hoffman are
hurry ing over the The Flat tinging
with the ley blast sweeping down the
big, broad pike. AS is it's wintry wont,
and said Hoffman followers and
Eckhar'ltes give lock up at the
twinkling lights ahead aud step ont
livelier to make that mile between
Eckhart barn aud the St. Cloud in
thirteen minutes. as John DeVore did
the night Martin Hartig was married !;
the hot Tom and ferries the incentive
to urge them on to record breaking
This town isn't much on Tom ard
Jerry. Hot SCOTCH. the which is a
whisky that tastes as If made of resin,
is the pet nerve tonic for wintry weather
Pay day in New York city comes
once a week, and in consequence isn't
appreciated as uuch as the monthly
day of rejoicing in Frostburc (or is it
semi monthly now p | don't think
there is rs much fun pay days here as
there, anyhow. There was always a
fair going on pay week either in Meats
or Ravenscrofts' Opera House. and the
wheel of fortune was five cents a
paddle and fifty cents to the winner ~
And there was dancing, too. One
cannot have as much fun or fighting
here in this town, and | wish | was
back for a week or two in Frostburg
seeing old friends and participating in
old pleasures.
do not know whether | can write
much at this time of interest to the
readers of 'the great paper Frost
burgers, "like angels visits, are few
and far between" and they burn an
thracite here, which is cleaner, but
doesn't revive old memories worth a
cent. thought sure | saw Joe Bear
at the Grand Opera House during a
performance of IA Milk White Flag"
early in December. II it wasn't Joe
there is a gent in this town could buy
large quantities of clothing at whole
sale on the likeness. | saw Charlie
Relchenbach here year ago and
Charlie Wright last Christmas, and
they have been all of Frostburg repre-
scented in this great and marble hear ted
metropolis for some time to the best of
my knowledge and belief
Bob Mcmahon, son of the Hon.
Frank, the King Pin of Pompey
Smash, is city stenographer of Long
Island city, and private secretary to
Mayor Gleason of that bailiwick, and
is doing well. Herbert Griffith, Frank
Little and Frank Williamson, all Cum
berland boys, are in the employment
of the great leather firm of Fayer-
weather & Ladew, of this city, and are
right in line for promotion with that
rich firm.
In journalism the big Sunday papers,
with their colored supplements, are
killing the old-line comic weeklies such
as Puck and Judge, and competition
between the aforesaid big papers make
the journalists life a happy one, for
the time being, at least.
There is a big split in Tammany
Hall and it looks as though the repub-
lican party would hold control of the
town for some years to come. Fire
bugs and free Cuba are the general
topics of conversation and people who
voted for Mckinley as tho advance
agent of prosperity" have come to the
conclusion that his show has disband-
ed. Although billed here for long
run from the first week in November,
it has played no dates as yet. How
ever, better days will come; when
they do may old Frostburg feel them
first and have them longest, is my
wish for the old town in the New
Year. Roy l.. MCCARDELL.