The evening times., 1898-09-07
BARBER ADAM Is blue
He Wanted to Go to the klon.
dixie With Schramman.
HIS WIFE STOPPED HIM
Now He Learns That SchramWnn
and-His Other Pals Struck II Rich
ard VIII Come Bnck With Mil
Iions-lIc Tells His TnIc of SORROW
10 the saloon Man.
lFrom the New York SUM


shop yesterday bemoaning his fate. He
| had read in the Volkszeitung how the
Suns correspondent in the Klondike had
forwarded a dispatch to New York an
| nouncing that Peter Schramman and his
| fellow-Germans from Sixth Street had
| discovered gold in the klondike region.
Adam also read that the members of the
Schramman Kiondike Gold-Graeber Tn
terstuetzing Verein all had good claims
/ in the new Pine Creek district. He read
the story over a dozen times, told il a
thousand times. and then wished a mil
lion times that he had never been born
When the forty-four East Side trades
men left Klein's beer vault at 522 Sixth
street on February 3. for the purpose of
nnding gold in the KlondIke Adam. the
parDef, was one of the proudest men in
the party. The goldseekers had fare
Wen festival before leaving Avenue A. and
Auam was one of the principal speakers
4hree brewery wagons. gayly decorated
with flags and bunting. carried the deli
catessen men and bologna butchers to the
railroad ferry at the foot of Forty-second
street. The German band of musicians
played ''Ow der liebe Owgustie.' The
crowd sang the song. and none more loud
er than Adam. the barber. He had just
started on the second chorus with oh
/ der heber ow'-but got only to "ow..'
/ when his wife appeared and dra gged him
from the brewery wagon, yelling:
You shall not go, You will NOT, stav
home NIT me for der family to support. =
She brought him back all right. all
/ though he told the crowd he would meet
them at the ferry later But he didn't
! meet them. Mrs. Adam had something to
I say about that
so yesterday when Adam read the story
or the good luck of his companions in the
klondike he really wept.
Ach, my, how bad | feel h. said tn
| saloon Keeper Klein. who was getting a
shave in the Avenue A shop. You know
! Nhat. Mr.. Klein? If l we're a single bach
eior would be a millionaire long time
oeiofe- But my vife-she-she dided it,
! She we're fool. A damn narr! Dot is il,
A narr,"
Adam, 5 wife poked her head out from
The Ettle room in the rear of che sbnn
and said:
Did you spoken about me "
No, SAID Adam Il we're talking abou.
myself, l said va: fool we're. Here #
stands in der paper Dot Peter s. hram-
man und der boys from Avener A htr
I -'N- 'A- ~ iN+eA"4lht. DsN are carving
! ~ oudt In Ousheis-baske.tuls. poo,y ~ n
! dey'H have all out what is In. und when
! dey home come dey will be richer as
/ Aanelbllf. / yuSt Eost two million dollar
! by you ven you pulled me der wagon out
dot day when we're 5oiong nit de boys.
| Vel / ddn't believe dey would ge- no
gold. said Adams wife Why didn't
! you run away from me next day? II we're
a man | would Vent anyhow"
Ind be - lowed NIT a woman? I guess
not. You made ME poor forever"
"Me?"
You; dots vich, said
'Du rindskopf,''
Stop dot" replied Adam. Dis is a
public place. You got no right to talk to
me inside der shop. Get behind der
| kitchen; Go you hear?"
Bang went the door and Adams wife
! was gone.
You see he continued. addressing ne
| customer in the chair dot Is What a man
must stand when he is married. | ought
% be sailing on my Steamboat yacht
| now instead Of being here. Ach. my, how
had I feel. Schramman found der newest
! gold mine 0ud, yet"
Who says dot?" says Klein
III stands in der paper" replied Adam
! Then, picking up the newspaper he
| handed It to Klein. saying: Here is it,
Klein read the story. and. sitting up in
the chair, tod Adam to cut off the bay
rum and powder.
| You needn't make my hair. either -
| he said, 'cause 7 am in a hurry. | want
| to tell der boys in my saloon about IT,
Won't Beezer be Wild when he hears it?'
He vii suicide hisself,'' remarked
Adam
"Und Vitte." said Klein. 'he also Will
| be crazy because he come home TOO
! soon
/ ..T9,,r s--a,, ,-t'r y,a ~. ,,-a,;,,- >, ,,5a
the barber. He didn't had no wife TO
hold him. but he backed oudt anyhow.
| Good-by. Mr.. Klein, I viii see you sooner
! in your pace. I'm going to close my shop
und get full Ach. my. how bad l feel
Adam the barber was not the only one
| in Avenue A who felt badly Yesterday
after reading the news Kessel the butch
! er felt worse. He was angry, because
Herman, the bologna man of Cherry
| Street was Peter Schramman's first lieu
tenant. and one of the big four who
struck it rich in the Klondike. Kessel
| went around to Klein's saloon early in
| the afternoon. He found a big crowd
gathered there in the little back room.
''fust think how stucked up dot Her
man Will be when he comes back" said
| Kessel. He will believe he is more as all
| der peoples in New York He we're, only
a bologna butcher. anyhow"
| when he brings his gold home he can
make bologna factory for himself said
| Klein. He Won't be a wagon driver no
| more
"Oh. Mr.. Klein said a little girl who
| had come in for a pint; 'oh. Mr. Klein,
my mamma wants 10 know If it's true
that Mr. Schramman found ten million
| dollars in Klondike''
] Well, l believe it," answered Klein,
| "for IL stands in der newspaper from to-
| day morning."
| And mamma wants to know If Mr.
| Schramman is going to give any gold
! away when he comes back" continued
| the little girl.
"Mebbe," said the saloon-keeper. but
| he didn't telegram no news to US yet"
| And my sister Emma wants to know
If MIR. Schramman is murried,' added the
| child
NO said Klein. che is vet a single
| batchelor, but / supposition he Will go to
EUROPE and marry some Queens daughter
| ou: dere''
MY brother Charley says You must
| give him bigger pint this time cause
! there's two more mems in the poker
game" said the little girl
"All right" said Klein. Dots a funny
neighborhood, anyhow. When more mems
comes in der card game dey must have
yet more beer, but dey don't say anything
| about more money"
| The next customer was an old Irish
woman with black shawl over her head.
They do be tellin' me that they're goin'
ter call We Gold Dollar Klein" said the
woman.
The saloonkeeper laughed pleasantly
as he said:
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