Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-07
turned thereto for visits after prosperous
Years OF Tammany connection.

The party of actresses or chorus girls
about 10 embark and their inevitable train,
add life 70 the scene They are usually
about equally divided between the weepfil
ones and the jolly ones They all look
more or less fine-!rawn from much ante
S"iiihg celebrating. and the train of men
ara women who assemble to give them the
rieht KIND of a send-cn look. rs rule to
be little better than wrecks. The ingenious
youths who are maily in love with depart
ing ensemble ladies' Chats the way
Youv We got 10 speak of a chorus girl when
in her presence. you know stand over in
corners with their sobbing inamoratas and
ms end OF ii is all very touching and
tender-to them.
The gray-haired old dodgers on the dock
Slnil" saiurninely when they witness these
affecting scenes. however ana appear To
be mentally barking back to the days when
they TOO. We're idiots.
Toe Tired to Laugh.
The comedian who almost always makes
ore of the gang assembled to give the ,heat-
rical crowd hon voyage endeavors to he as
eXcrnciatingly funny as possible. with much
mock play, with handkerchief that he has
previously soaked in water. but most of
The party appear 10 he too tired to fall into
the spirit of his fun
The departing actresses are barely able to
squeeze into their cabins for the flowers
that have been stacked IN therein ouJ
these floral emhlcms of the appreciation
in which they are held move them 10 ears.
and their noses become quite red and their
eyes puffy. end hey look very different in
decd without their makeup on. anyway.
TIE whole bunch kiss each other goodbye
imparially, and it is all, oh, very sad,
They Are Very ObIiging.
lovely, svelte creature. who figures
pretty largely in Il Broadway burlesque
house during the theatrical season. had a
big send-on the other morning When the
vessel was moving out she appeared on the
raj nearest the dock waving her handker-
chief. Then she leaned over. made a funnel
of her hands and shouted this afterthousht
to her friends on the dock:
Say, if any OF you people happen to meet
up with my husband | wish you'd tell him
I've taken this steamer. viii you?''
They all promised in chorus Stage folk
are so obliging in these matters:
The Exodus of Jocks.
Every departing steamer nowadays takes
to England some midget of an American
jockey, who. tempted by the success with
which Sloan, the Ref lads Rigby and
Martin. not to speak of a number of jock
eys who We're third-rate on this side. have
met on the English race courses. is go
ing across to try for success in the saddle.
too. The encourages of these daredevil
midSets are always very funny. They are
made up of men who own and train horses,
raft of the paddCcks. The midget dressed
to the mines a.:d generally pulling away at
a siX-inCh black cigar, a la Tod Sloan,
makes a queer. eerie picture of precocity.
and his encourage al but fall down and
worship him. When the stable-mry, envi-
ous-eyed lads of the paddock get too close
to him. however. he grandiloquently waves
them away With his bediamoned little
hands. and then talks out of one corner of
his weakened little mouth to some grinning
giant of horse owner about how he's
'goin' I make dem English jocks look like
a plate o biscuit COW RANCH and run
over dem and show EN- up" and in gem
eral drive them out of business.
They've Studied Up.
The inevitable party of school mistresses.
most of them enabled to make the voyage
by right of majority of votes in most
Observation-Disclosures contests. are al
ways and forever alike on the pier. They're
all in sailor hats and shirt waists, of course,
anu they're always in little groups to
themselves. eagerly scanning their Baele-
lers even before their ship has got out Of
her slip. They have got everything down
pat. They know how many revolutions per
minute the propellers of the ship CO.
ing to make; they know to a dot what their
cab fares going to cost them when they
get to Liverpool or Southampton. and in
general. they've got the whole thing
cEarted out pretty accurately. They never
leave each other for an instant. being evil
strength in union, and they regard the
horrid, vulgar actresses who
rounded by the glded youths and fashy
men with tip-tilted noses.
Grand Opera Singers.
When many of the principals and most
of the chorus-nearly 300 in number-of the
grand opera company departed on one Of
the French steamer while back the
scene on the dock was full of fun. The
tai.
principals. men and women, ignored the
presence of the poor, shabby, understood
members of the motley chorus was a queer
thing to Many of the chattcrinS
chorus women had two or three children
along with them, and their shrieks of dis
may and their rataplan of fiery Italian and
French and polyglot speech when the
youngsters ventured too near the edges of
the dock Were really not musical at all.
Husbands and wives would become sep
arated the pier, and they would rush
about madly in search of each other. When
they found each other they would rush into
each others arms with wild cries of af-
lection and delight. and caresS and pet
each other. and jabber their mutual fears
that they had thought they were lost to
each other forever my Giuseppe! or my
Giulia' and so on. The dock hands
wat ched these scenes with sheepish grins
on their faces. and muttered things about
"Dagos OATS always up in de air. and
"Ginneys OATS always eatin' each odder
u.''
Detectives and Prisoners.
1t is not often that one of the big liners
pulls out without carrying some despair
ing looking chap who is brought to the
ship before the arrival of the big crowd,
In charge of a detective two. An Eng
fish absconder. who is collared in this
by an English detective and es-
corted across the sea by the Scotland Yard
man, doesn't fare well by a long sight
as the fugitive who is taken back to the
scene of his crime by American detec-
tive. A young Englishman, who was cap
tured in San Francisco while back by
Scotland Yard man, went out on an Eng
lish liner the other day. The detective who
had him in charge-a beefy, pompous,
thick headed looking fellow he was-didn't
have the good feeling to put his man
aboard the ship in advance of the arrival
OF the big crowd of departing voyagers
ana pier spectators. but he took the flush
ing young embeZZler-who looked like
even If he were thief
on to the pier when the crowd was at Its
greatest with one of the captives wrists
gyved to his own. There was no occasion
for this thing at all, for the Scotland Yard
man had his captive in New York TWO days
before the vessel sailed, and the embezzer
could easily have been taken aboard with
oft hot pnn1ipitu