The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-28
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HIS EXPERIENCE
AT GALVESTON.
A New York High Roller Was Strapp-
ed in That Town.
ARRIVED AFTER A VOYAGE.
His Pockets Empty When He Arrived
A Yarn Spun by Member of the
-. Harlem Club Of Former Alco-
hoIic Dcgenerates.
ARRIVED AFTER A VOYAGE.

swept by a wave OF memory" said MEM
Der No Of the Harlem Club OF For
mer Alcoholic Degenerates. Not that /
ever put up there. That isn't it. But
once saw the outside OF that hotel struc-
ture under such peculiar and | might al
most say, narrowing conditions thai
HOld on there minute interrupted
member NJ. l. who is sticlSler for the
carrying out OF the clubs plans. lis
mere any hard luck IN this as d result OF
alcoholic degeneracy2'
No. . regarded No. with an aggrieved
gaze.
"have ever yet" he inquired "since
the organization OF the Harlem Club OF
Former Alcoholic Degenerates sprung
any Sunday-Schoo ones about the good
little boy and the bad little boy, or have
l ever
ON. we'll" replied No. :, settling back
IN his seat, If you re going TO conform
to the club rules Of course all right. go
ahead. only l couldn't quite see the con-
nection between the Beach Hotel and
Shut up. Seven. said all OF the MEM
bers at once Nine has now got the
deck Nine, shoot il out"
"On this occasion that | started 10
speak about resumed No. p Il remem-
Der regarding the rather handsome eXter-
Tor Of the Beach Hotel with such bitter
feeling Of unjust disapprOvul that
Rule No. 1,1S4. Don't begin a yarn in
tho middle or at the end" quoted No. T.
Il correct myself" said No. .. There
fore. / begin al the beginning. Every
thing begins and ends here In New York
This particular jag began here IN New
York In the month OF August-lers see,
IN 1850, II was. Yes. / remember now.
IL was In lss0, the year after the biz
zard, on which occasion ! slept under
seventeen-fCOt bank OF snow over in
Hackensack for two days
As you were saying, IN August, 1889,
you'-again interrupted No. I.
4 LONG SPELL
In August. 1850 continued No o. y
had been sober for fullv five months
Consequently / had too much money and
too many good clothes. Moreover, five
months or straightaway work contains
SO many possibilities of monOtonv-hut /
need not dilate upon this. You all know
how damaging f9 me Inspiration aH unin-
terrupted period Of five months work Is
bound 10 be. Then the 5000 that | had
soaked away produced within me- a very
tired feeling. Now. II I had only re-
mained here In New York with that $500
we'll / could ha' had a two months whirl
easy, with hospital money besides for
the finish. But on the very next MORN
ing after the jag began-why. I woke
up on a boat saw d be- ever wake up on
a boat after . night without knowing how
you got there? It's queer feeling, sure
enough. OF course ! had the head when
1 came 10. and the first thing | did when
] woke up was 10 look around for but
ton 10 push. 10 struck me then that the
room / was I'm was pretty small, also,
that II swayed a good deal. l sat up
and looked around. and then, burned IT
didn't hear the chug-chug OF the pro-
peiier. It's a boat. all right, | thought
but what kind OF bOatt l guess l
must ha' waded aboard one Of the lower
bay fishing steamers yesterday afternoon
and got screwed up, and they put me 10
bunk Yet when ! looked around again.
the blamed State-rOOm didn't look Ike
ffHh ffaar ECO saHn pa Fla-r n nm
there was no sea i'm the lower bay Ike
the long swell this craft seemed 10 be
piOughing through. Well, l thought
I'm Just taking a little voyage 70 Europe
for my health That must be It, The
mystery Of the thing WAS worse than thc
head. which was bad enough. / jumped
out OF the bunk and did the old act-went
through my clothes 10 see II nad as
much as 50 cents or so left / went
through all the regular pOckets-not
sou-marquee. This is nice | thought.
I can't do the Continent. II that's where
I'm bound, on my face. Moreover. ! need
a drink pretty bad right now. As a last
resort / reached into my inside vest pock-
81. where | had never put money. Ny
hand struck the wad. J pulled u oui
brown and green ones still there. ! count
ed f. Five hundred and eighty-four dol
lars,
BEYOND FIGURING
Talk about your chaps getting picked
off like RATS I'm mid-Ocean, or course,
/ couldn't figure 10 out how ] had hung
on to it, I haven't figured II out yet.
Neither have I figured u out now my
trunk happened 10 be underneath my
bunk but there II was I kicked 1t ac-
cidentally. and when ! looked down tnere
was the trunk. I opened II no. ~ was ait
nicely packed, ana hadn !ri' amy s ,,,l',5
behind I thought n was AN a dream
and I wondered why | didn't wake mp.
saw button on the wall and / gave "
a shove just 10 see who'd snow up am
TO find out whi-her bound ana so on. -
darkv with clean white coat ON an
sveres the button ] yelled ar him 20
come IN. and IN he came asked MN 10
tell me. on the level. where happened -
~ 7 know I'm on a boat said I, but
70" .Yo' ali sut'nly was cheeahful las
nirht. suh-sut'nly cheeahful,' said the
darky 10 me. grnnlng-. .ue.,,
That's all right about tne cheTll ul-
ness said I. but what want 70 know
IS what kind OF packet Is TINS ana
WHY said the darky- dis yeah
steamuh'c de Comal o. de Mallory Inc,
got unduh way las evcnin'. suh-an yo
an was out on De deck siRgln oniH
o'clock dis mawnin. 60
No. I'm damned If ] was saws ] 10
tho darI,v but ] knew he was telling me
truth an the same But WASH going 10
mako any damaging admissions
"VeU. I had the man bring me tnree
bioh ones to sort o. ger me around 10
p dpon-water way ~ thinking. Alttr
cot the three high ones down J hau lihh1.
Strengthened ont I'm my mead. why nJ
tho Cowal9 What was the matter VIII
the Comal? What was the matter WIN
Galveston? Might as well be- on my WY
10 Galveston as any other old place. 20
touched the button again had the pd,-
her come and shave me IN my ounh,
dressed. took three more hign ones ana
got out Of the state-room, ,.,,o,
"cav There We're about three dozenfei-
lows longing around the decks anu
ffr~ed ~ every one OF EN- difn say 10
me- when / showed up on deck .HeNo
There palr or How are YOU, Blli or
How're you making u this mornhs,
cbur, - or something ike that ! dldh
49,. a one Of 'em from my aunt In
Maine that I never saw. but they were
tifsior'n fhfovcs with me. And II an
peared that I had been the same with
-, ,bn rioht hefo-o in the card room
and around decks. Funny game that,
cunny game. They were all pretty nice
cbaps too-most Of EN- New York drum
rners setting ont for their fan campalgns
I'm the southwestern territory. we mo-
threa high ones. the whole bunch right
on and the voyage down 20 Galveston on
bogan 10 strike me as a heap or GOOD
ioh Along toward afternoon | took II
in.o nv bend to climb the foremost rope
ladder leading up 10 the main yard.
climbed A. and started 20 swim loNouSiy
go, tho ward by nv hands There was
a biz sweet on, and the Comal was hsl-
Inc over about thrty-three desfnes 70
stsrbo,rd and 10 port In the swell. ana
-, Looked down 10 the deck ! saw
IN band- leaking uD with white mugs. |
decided 10 descend then. ana when
got down | found the skipper VITA pair