Evening star., 1900-05-26

riage alongside. and they made sundry and
divers remarks as to the appearance OF the
pair. who belonged to New York's 400.
DO youse t'ink she'll go de distance.
ChimmyT one Of them asked, solemnly. of
the boy beside him.
II guess she belongs Z de stake class. all
spliced to looks like he ought t be purity
good on de sprint hissclf. Say. I'd like t
git me bundle bunch O. togs like she's
got on. wouldn't youse?''
''Naw-me bundled git 'em doity sweepin'
of de front steps. Me Mag I'D look like
toity skents in dat rig. anyhow" .tc.. etc.
When the carriages finally pulled through
the crowd the women and girls standing
the omnous portent of breakdown so early
in the matrimonial game. and the bride and
groom and the wedding guests looked as II
they were thinking things with reference 10
automobiles that the joyousness Of the oc-
c&slon alone prevented them from giving ut
terance to.
New York Fakirs.
Washingtonians will remember how, dur
ing the progress of the Spanish war, three
or four large. leather-lunged newsboys. get
ting hold of many copies of some red-inked
New York yellow evening paper, containing
some piece of manifestly faxed war news,
would band themselves together and make
the uptown streets of the capital hdeous
with their shouts of Extra! All bout the
great Ddltle. etc. w WaSnlngIOnlanS SOon
tumbled to that scheme, SO to speak, and
long before the war was over they declined
to so much as open their front windows to
find out the cause of the uproar, much less
buy the New York papers purveyed by the
boisterous newsboys of larger growth. This
wise population, however, permits itself to
be bitten frequently by the workers of this
scheme, and in piping times of peace. at
that. Three nights ago. along toward lO
o'clock. the residents of many of the up
town New York streets were quite unable
to hear themselves think for the tremen-
dous hubbub that was raised all over town
by full-grown men selling of the even
ing papers of the yellow brand. These
chaps with the bull of Bashan throats
travelled in sets of fours. and the uproar
they made was little short of maddening.
The burden of their bellowings was: "All
bout de terrible wreck on de New York
Central!" The New Workers bit by the
hundreds and thousands, and the papers
sold like hot cakes at treble the usual price
charged for them. When the purchasers
dragged their ''yellows'' inside to the light
they found. after patient searching, in an
obscure corner of the paper, four-llne
account of a $1,000 freight wreck on the
even jeopardized. Probably nine-tenths of
the New Yorkers who took this bait with
avidity, and who go right on taking similar
bait from one years end to another, are
in the habit of alluding to the folks who
live elsewhere in the United States than on
Manhattan Island as good things and
easy marks.
Something New.
In New York when your ears are greeted
by the stirring windings of a horn, upon
which military calls are played with pre-
cision and effect. you need not rush to the
front windows, expecting to see bravely
arrayed tally-ho coach. piled high with
gilded youths and beautifully dressed wo-
men and hampers and things, for If you do
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decked tally-ho, etc, you will see bulky
scissors grinder, with his apparatus swung
to his back. footing on battered old cor
net for the purpose of calling the attention
of residents to the fact that he Is I'm their
midst"
A Bold Outrage.
Monday afternoon last being warm and
balmy a young man in the final stages OF
consumption. who lives across from Central
Park, swaddled himself up in an overcoat
and tottered over to the park. where he
sat down on bench to enjoy the air and
sunshine. 1t was the first time he had
been out of his room for long time. AS
he sat on the bench unconscious OF any
danger, a couple Of brawny rufflans came
up behind him. One of them garroted him.
while the other went through his clothing
and removed his watch and chain and wal
let Containing only matter of few dol
lars in silver and then his cuff buttons.
Then they yanked the poor chap to his
feet and peeled his overcoat from his back.
That done. they started to take off his
shoes, when they saw a policeman swinging
his club and looking at them a bit Of
distance down the walk So they leisurely
abandoned the job of removing the con-
sumptives shoes and walked away with
the booty they had already secured. They
didn't run away-they just walked. Then
the policeman strolled over to the bench
where the consumptive young sat
gasping and asked him If there anything
wrong The pair Of thieves were still in
sight and only walking, but the policeman
didn't go after them. Instead he berated
the consumptive for coming out alone.
But l needed the air. the consumptive
replied, plaintively.
''Well. l guess dem gezabos needed your
Shoes" replied the cop. and then he was
good enough to call a cab and have the
young invalid sent across the way to his
home c. L. C.