The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-01

NEVER HEARD Of DEWEY.
THE ADMIRAL UNKNOWN TO SOME
OF NEW YoRK'S CITIZENS.
People in Great Metropolis Who
Are Much Behind the Times-"He

With ali tAe flags. the pictures in win
60ws, the RACES in the papers Il would
seem impossible that there could ne ! man
or J woman Oh Manhattan stand VINO
never heard of Dewey.
Such people exist. Last Sunday ard
Monday and part Of the Saturday before
reporters u tha World searched f0r such
4 person. Trey found net one Dut several
- whom the name Of Dewey n3eaat aoth-
Ing. They ARE:
Angus, Nelson, No. 10 Pen street sew
eE;y-flvs Yeas old,
Dominica Douao. Ne. - Mulberry street.
slXty-nlue years Old
Raphae. Martini. No. y James stsrret
SIX ty-seven wears oit
B-aggio Cfulisno. Nc. . E,izsb street.
tAirty-seven years cid.
Buckheardt Bentz. No. 9 Mulberry street..
forty years Old.
Eliza BurggaEten. No. 5 Peu street, one
hundred and two years old.
Raphael Martini was found in his home
AZ NJ. - James street. He IS i boot
black.
lie has been IN this city ten years. COM
ing from Italy. He neither reads 1or
writes. and never Went 70 school.
Martini did not even recognize DeSeys
portrait.
On Worth street. just of Mulberry Bend.
at aged ragpicker came totterinz a.ong
manner about business ana the weather
urtu he vas in laxative mood He was
theR asked II ne knew Dewey
Dewey Dewey? / don't know no Dew
ey. Who Is he?"
August Nelson is the name OF this rag
picker. He i seVcnty-iive years old and
lives a. No. ~ Pen street, where he has
been stopping FOR foar years. He has been
III New fcrk th.rty-four years He is q
Dane from Copenhagen. He never voted
AMI says he does not wan, 10. He knows
how 10 read. but his eyesight has been SO
poor for a year CT more that he has net
locked 4 newspaper He is a Jolly old
scni. and readily consented TO pose for mis-
Photograph after being assured that the
Sunday World men were not election in
sre ctors
Dominica pomo IL the name of another
man who knew absolutely nothing about
Dewey. He is sixty-nine years old and
hNts with his wife and i've children at No.
- Mulberry street lie was found coming
up Raxter stree, carrying a large bundle
q Wool On his back. lie set his burden
down TO rest and the Sunday World report
or eLg1ged him In conversation through an
interpreter
He declared that ne never heard OF any
man named Dewey. He was taken 10 The
store at NO. - Baxter street ana there
SHOWN large fraguei portrait Of Dewey
Domo has beer In this country four years
! III going 10 be American citizen" h.
said. land I'm going to vote and he az
good as any OF you"
Al Ne. Psll street a rap at the door
was promptly answered by an old colored
lady.
Dewey she answered tn the reporters
question. why, wnat Dewey
This remarkable ola lady is known on
Icli street as "Auntie." Her name liz Eliza
Btrggarter. ard she has watched 1ra wears
roll by. She passed the one hundred and
second milestone last April. She was born
In New Orleans and in early life servef; a.
a slave.
visit was made t. the lodging -house
No. Mulberry street. There were thirty
five or forty men abou, the place All
were questioned 10 their knowledge Of
Dewey, and II seemed az II the man wanted
could not be found.
Yee sitting IN the corner smoking a nine
was n rather young man. who seemed q
give Httle attention 20 lie guests He WAS
fairly well dressed and wore a well-clippei
hrownisa beard.
DO you know Mr.. Dewey" he was
asked
Mr.. pewey?" he replied. Y 20 know
him"