Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26
KEYS TRIP WEST.
The Eye-OpeninK Experiences of a
t.'''' New York Man.

Inc Eyc-Open1nK Experiences OF q
.'''''' New York Man.
From the New York Sun.
"You know my brother Ikey, of course?"
said the man who was treating couple of
friends to boat ride to Coney Island.
| Likely and have been partners in business
for twelve years. He has always stuck to
the desk. while 1 have done the travelling.
| Ikey had an idea that New York couldn't
run day without him. He also thought
himself the cutest, smartest man in the
| big town Other New Workers. who never
get ten miles out Of town have the same
idea Things happened to me the road
now and then and I told Ikey about 'em,
but l never could get him to believe that
there was a man outside of Gotham who
knew enough to rake in a poker pot with
straight flush in his hand. A few weeks
ago l got hurt, and key had to go out or
lose customers. When he finally concluded
to go. he went with his hat on his ear and
a pocketful of tifty-cent cigars. He was
prepared to dazzle everybody.
key, says l. as he ready to go,
look little out for gum games. You'll
| run across chaps who know a crowbar
from a clock
BAH says key. he picked up his
grip and started off with a smile of con-
tempt his face.
well, I'm nearly dead of laughing over
| his adventures. He got off at Albany and
was luSS1nS MS grip uptown WlGn a boy
steps up and says:
Hello. senator! Glad to see you. I'll
carry that grip along and make no charge
1T tickled key to be taken for a senator.
and it tickied him to save dime, but the
boy got away with the grip, and Ikey was
hung up for two days until the police found
1t. AT Rochester. as he was standing
around the station. stranger fell against
him, and said:
g. Beg pardon but amt you the man who
is going to build the Panama canal?'
=" L m thinking of it, says Ikey, sober
a judge, but three minutes later he finds
his watch gone.
I'm Buffalo, as he came out of his hotel,
stranger asked him if he wasn't the gov
ernor and then added: Excuse me while
l knock that fly Off!
Likely rather carried the idea that he was
the governor, but the stranger had got his
diamond pin. In Cleveland one of our old
customers set out to make things pleasant
for my brother, and after dinner said to
him:
Say, key, we've got new game out
here. and maybe you'd like to take hand
in? It's called poker. and there's a great
chance to show your nerve by bluffing.'
"A new gamei' says Ikey, as he throws
up his hands. why. we've been playing
poker in New York for the last two hun
dred years.
"And Ikey took hand in. and when the
Buckeyes got through with him he was
$40 out of pocket. Getting along to Toledo,
man worked $25 out of him on a bogus
check, and in Detroit he was let in as a
sure winner on horse race, and lost $35
more. That same night thief entered his
room and stole all his clothes, and he had
to telegraph me to get others to get home
In. While he was on the way a pickpocket
got his last dollar. and he couldn't even
pay car fare home from the station It's a
sore subject with key, and you fellows
| must handle him gently but 1t will do him
heap of good in the end. The swelling in
his head has gone down by third already,
and he is almost ready to admit that he
isn't infallible'