The herald., 1898-11-20
DOWN the LINE


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Callaghan Byrne, the amiable young cap
italist who owns the Byrne building among
other possessions,
Cal Byrne will be here this
Called Back week, after an ab-
| sence of a couple of
years, most of which time he has spent In
Europe. He will take an active part in the
horse show and may offer a gold cup Tor
saddle animals, a class of equnes in which
he is himself specialist. He will spend the
winter here, which will add to the general
gaiety
Governor-elect Henry I. Gage finds his
ranch near Downey no longer a retreat,
since the reporter
A Penalty and the ofiice-seeker
of Greatness have become familiar
with its precincts
When the Gage children are playing about
the house and see stranger coming, they
sing out to each other, Run kids, run;
here comes a reporter, and at once take to
their heels. Lucille, the youngest Of the lot,
ard one of the sweetest little ones imagin-
able, however has become used to furnish
ing what one of the newspaper world in our
shop talk calls human interest stories, and
can give as good an interview over the long
distance phone as her father; better, i'll
fact, for he is the hardest man to make talk
for publication | ever tackled.
Dan Kevane, who has been in this county
for twenty eight years and who knows
weather signs per-
Not fectly. yesterday
Jeremiah laughed at the dry
year talk. You can
set me down in print" he said "as know
ing that we will have at least seventeen
inches of rain this winter and that it will
come down hard this month. | think that
on Thanksgiving day we will have corking
good rain and | believe that it will COM
mence in IA day or two. | know what | am
talking about, and yon can bank on it
More power to your gift of prophecy, Dan;
there is no one who wishes you to be mis-
taken.
The town is wide open" Why this is
so after the campaign has closed no one can
tell, or rather those
In Flagrante who do know do not
Delictu wish to tell. The
II o'clock closing law
is obsolete: there is hardly Spring street
saloon that cannot be entered by the thirsty
at any hour OF the night or early morning,
and the scarlet woman sheds her scent OF
patchouli and rice powder anywhere she
pleases. | was coming down Broadway last
night and a policeman in full uniform was
standing in front OF the privileged saloons
at nearly half past twelve, when man and
woman showed past him and entered at the
front door. though there is a side entrance
10 the place for just such patrons. | am not
arguing for or against wide open" policy
that IS for the people OF the city to de-
cide-but what is the use of making an
hypocrisy of the law: Ii YOU don't want
law enforced, wipe it off the books: don't
make it a scorn and derision TO law-breakers
Every man about town knows that what
say is true. Every member Of the police
commission knows 1t, or if he does not he
has no business to hold his place. Why
not be honest with the law: Either enforce
or repeal IL.
Mrs. J. Dowrey Harvey is wintering at
Alpine tavern because OF threatened poor
health. Mr.. Harvey
"A Oo"nsy is in the city, though
Bowdlcr.zed many of his friends
viii not recognize him
on account OF his lack of hirsute ornamental
tion. He does not wear much hair on the |
top OF his head and recently he has shaved |
off his whisllers. Nothing can spoil Dow |
ney's good looks. but he has come as near |
the limit as is possible for him in this ex- |
pertinent. Now that he is here all of the |
pranks OF Peter Martin and the other kids |
OF the California club will cease. Downey
does not tolerate any such levity, although
his likeness to II. k. H.. the Prince OF
Wales, has been shorn by the barber.
Little Lucille Gage was at q dancing
school class one day last week. VIXEN she
went WALKING around
Varltas with another little
Vanitatum girl OF about her own
age, and she confded
II her new friend: Say, | ike you very
much, for you have lots OF sense. Al the
,ther kids keep talking to me about being
he governors daughter until am sick and
red OF the whole thing. 1t isn't my fault
ny father was elected and | don't think
'ecple should bother E.e to death about it,
ONE on, let's play
y o o
The Evening Express yesterday refers to
me OF my stories about a nickel-in-the-slot
machine, which to
Everything the magic touch Of
Wide Open George Arnold re-
sponded to the
mount OF six or seven dollars to his nickel
,lay, and says | should have told police
nan. P>h. Tush! If the Evening Express
eope cont know that the machines have
cen paying cash when they lose, it ought 20
AXE some information tonic. The machines
re whirring merrily without any interfer-
nee and the wide open situation is about
he same as in the sporty days when Tom
uddy was chief OF police. Laws that are
ot enforced against Poker Davis wheels.
.hlch never lose and never pay, are not of
much avail against any device for separating
eope from their money. Those who play
lther are fools, but as the wicked Lord
in Sowing the Wind"
ays, There is nothing in the world that
1ill cause so much disaster as a fool" There ,
re whole lot OF things that any reporter
ould tell a policeman, but what's the use
hey know it all, and great deal more al