The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-08
A GRANDEE
Spaniard Has
Experience.
PET OF SOCIETY
Becomes the Heavy Villain
in Cheap Melodrama.
(From the Chicago Reeord.1

doorway. His Panama hat was decid-
eddy out of season, and his patent lea
Their shoes were not meant for winter
wear.
''Caramba- a-a-a," he chartered
Are you cold?" asked the cheek
ed Chicago man, who was smoking a
cigar, and waiting for a car. -.
Cold and sad" replied the other,
speaking with a foreign accent
You are a stranger in Chcago?"
Worse than that"
How can that be-
Il am Spanish brave"
Indeed! Well, the war is over and
you are safe here. If you are in need
the proper committee will give you soup
tickets
"Ah, it is not that I am shamed
Inundated, heartbroken. You may re-
member shat l have been in Chicago
before"
II can't say that 1 do remember it"
'Ah, my brother! How soon to for
get Only five short years ago did
come to your grand, your beautiful Co
lumbar exposition! The silken banners
of CASTLE and of Arragon waved above
my head. l Wore silk hat, and in my
lapel was a bunch of yiolets costing
two peSetas. Your officers of the law in
DlQe ana SOlQ peat DdCh ITe single al
mission hoi polloi who tried to crowd
upon me and shake hands, so that they
could go back to Artichoke Center and
Lemsiquoddy and tell how they had
touched the flesh of genuine royalty
Il believe 1 do recall something of
the circumstances"
''Ah. trod upon roses and lived in a
spray of champagne. When L appeared
in the court Of honor, did not the band
play the toreador song from Garment
All. and the lunches! Think of those
lunches and how they appealed to one
who had been living on green peppers
and friJoles. When I would so to
lunch with Senor Higinbotham, he
would ask me: Senior, which will you
have. oysters or clams% If I hesitated
he would say to the waiter: Bring him
BOTH Then he would ask: Which do
you prefer, the red or the white wine?'
and unless l responded at once, he
would say to the waiter: Bring him
both One day, after lunch, the wait
er asked of me: Which is it you choose,
large or a small cup of the black
coffee" Away with YOU cried Senior
Higinbotham, bring him both All.
those were the days when the Spaniards
and the Americans kissed each others
hands and wept with fraternal joy
Now that you mention some of the
details. / do remember that we gave
the infanta and some more of you folks
lust about the limit" said the Chicago
man.
1T is truly what you call 1.-THE limit
When the infanta came! All that day,
Men who never had silk hats before
We're wearing them that day The
populace knelt in the gravel 1t was
supposed to be the proper thing. The
women in the ladies' building or the
ladies in the woman's building, I forget
which, cut up 200 yards of red and vel
low ribbon into Spanish colors, and one
woman who was personally presented
TO Eulalia tainted and had to be carried
out"
We We're doing the best we knew
how, said the Chicago man reflective
lyA
All. but when the caravels came,
Already the good senors of Chicago had
paid the Duke of Veragua's bills at tbe
Auditorium Hotel end erected a pri-
Vate throne for the infanta. but when
me cI-HaVeis came, can you ever forget
that day."
What happened?'
On, bands, soldiers, flags beautifuI
ladies! Senior Palmer met us when We
came ashore from the Nina. the Pinta
ana the Santa Maria, and he said that
the Americans loved the Spaniards as
brothers. Then Senior Sherman. the
senator, made a long speech It was
What you call here in this country a
jolly He said that America had oht
such burning affection for the Land
OF ferdlnand and Isabella, which had
sent the great Colon on his triumnbant
voyage to the New World"
es there was a great deal of that
kInd or talk served during the worlds
falr, said the Chicago man.
Yes but here. here was the honor
aoIe senior the secretary of the navy
benor Herbert. He stood in front Of
capt. Concas and told him-oh. sucb
thlngs! Wait and l will read to YOU. 7
have it here" w.
The Spanish brave fumbled in \
pocket under his military cloak ana
pIoushI OUT a small clipping, which he
held so that the light from the arc
lamp at the corner could fall on il -
Listen! he said. This is what
Senior Herbert told to Cant. Conras =,
And he read as follows. 10
GU have been entertained at other
american cities, but I am confident in
SAYING mat chicago will not lag be-
hlnd. This will be but another bond
OF friendship and amity between Spain
and America H'''i'
Is this Capt. Concas the same"-be-
gan the Chicago man.
An -h-h at Santiago. poor Cant
Concas. He jumped overheard. His
ship was sinking. His coattails N-ere
American navy-the same American
navy. Not Senior Herbert may be. but
some other senior. And every time he
took shot at poor Can't Concas he
said: This will be but another bond
or friendship and amity between Spain
and America "
"Oh, well, it's all over now. and Won
might as well stop hollerin," said tho
Chicago man. you brought AM This
trouble on yourself, and / think we've
treated you pretty well-after licking
you"
1T is not for defeat that I mourn.
said the brave, putting his right hand
out through his cloak and laying il on
his heart. "A brave man does NOT fear
death in battle, and he does not shrink
from honorable defeat But my pride
my only remaining asset--Caramba!'
What about it?"
When was here before the club
doors stood open to me. | could ride
in Senior Armours yacht or on Senoi
Cations coach. Seldom was | compelled
TO buy meal. In the morning when
awoke there stood black slave with
four kinds Of cocktails. l was taken
out by Senior Hobart c. Chatfeld-Ta
Tor, and the American senorita threw
herself 10 entertain me. Now the clubs
are closed TO me and society will not
admit that / belong"
Then why are you here? What are
YOU doing in Chicago in zero weather?
why aren't you picking grapes in Ma
laga?"
II knew that question was coming
knew that l would have to confess the
fun measure of my degradation l. a
spanish brave, once the real thing in