Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-20
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Whatever digs we give New York city
on general prnciples-and most of them
are richly deserved. 1 don't deny-let us
hand the detectives of the big town the
credit that is rightly due Them said a
Washington business man who does lot
of travelling around among the largo east
ern cities. They surely are with
headpieces and with memories stored with
in the same. j saw a pointed instance of
this the other morning. 1 came down to
New York on a night boat on the sound
after run up to Boston. There was a
young chap aboard who seemed a great
deal the worse for liquor. He was well
dressed and had a general look of groom
ing. and he spent a lot of money at the
bar. l noticed that he was crafty enough
TO take exceedingly small drinks; never
tneless he appeared, from the time he got
aboard the boat, to be on the verge of
drink oblivion. He reeled about foolishly
ana several of the stewards offered to help
MN TO his state room bed. lie declined
these offers, and moseyed around the boat
stupidity He invited a number of the
passengers myself among the number, to
take drink with him, but his invitations
were good-naturedly declined. think we
all felt more less sorry for the young
idiot. for even in the eyes of drinking
man who is sober, a drunken man is de-
cidedly woebegone spectacle.
Most of the passengers turned in before
IL o'clock, when the orchestra stopped
playing in the saloon, but the young man
with the jag remained on deck, soggily
studying the stars. / remained up, smok-
ing, until along toward midnight, when
things were pretty quiet in the saloon, and
the only sounds of life came from the
mems card room. Twenty or thirty men
were in the card room, and l noticed the
drunken youth looking them over on his
way, apparently to his state room. Then
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ing and seeming to be confused as TO his
bearings, feeling at the knobs OF number
of the doors. ! turned in myself then and
didn't wake up until the boat was close
to New York. | found when l dressed and
went out deck that there was consid-
cradle excitement among the men paSsen-
gers over a number of thefts of Jeweiry
and money that had taken place during
the night Six of the men who had re-
manned late in the card room had been
robbed. When they returned to their state
looms from the card room they found that
their small baggage had been ritied. anu,
all told, nearly a thousand dollars in money
and jewelry had been gathered up by the
thief. The matter had been reported to
the captain of the boat and all OF the pas
SeEgerS | dare say, We're more or less I'M
der suspicion except those who mad been
robbed. The drunken young man was still
loaded-he appeared to have started right
in drinking again as soon as he got up
and had maudlin tale of lOSS money and
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