The sun., 1900-12-30
NOTORiETY CHEAP ~ EEy YORK.
Way, IN Which Public Attention Has Been Held
for o Time In This city.

"Notoriety I. the only really cheap tl.ng
IN the New York market" said a man who
has had his share OF II for more than thirty
years, and yet the majority OF people who
seek it miss II because their method arc
conventional. complete lit O.! ready
yell-knoNn New Workers would iaC!ude u
bartender, various prize hshtcrs. many
people who become known because OF sue
cessful endeayors In ths field of literature,
science or business, Il few people WHO have
inherited places IN the public view and
comparatively large number OF PEOPLE who
either b. accident Of design sue etded In
doing something that made them o! general
interest New York will welcome n new
human freak quicker than any other ctv
In this country Ii will. however, extend
lust a. warm a welcome TO new genius and
the one becomes a. we'll known as the other.
The late Police Justice Patrick Gayan Dufly,
peace % his soul, told me few car, ago
that he was tho best-known New Yorker Of
his time when / doubted his statement
he proceeded u prove IT,
There Is hardy vaud"' lie tea In
this oouutry,' said the little judge proudly,
that doesn't somewhere ia it. act bring
In my name Iver, body has heard Of JGogs
Duny. The stories have been quoted bv
every paper in Europe. Think OF that Isn't
that fume?'
Judge Dury obtained his fame partly by
accident and partly by design. lac had "a
Irish Wit Of rather crude sort. and the Police
court reporters did the reat. Whenever ono
Of them want ID 10 wIlle u humorous story
lie would credit 1t 10 Judge Quay. Tho latter
enjoyed this growing repu'a'ion 50 much
that he would rather discharge an old offender
than lose Il chance t. make a Joke. IL was
not long before Duay's fame lad become
iess than nftcca years ago the bes,-known
man ia New YORK was u citizen who contrib
utod TO - saycty by the coigegusnsss of his
TO see tha Battery and then this naa, who
was reoo oEnized a. the champion dude ot tho
United states. When he went 70 Washing;
ton or Boston his movements wero followed
as closely as II be were President ~ the nitci
states. writer on sew York newspaper
mans Clothcs, aud within a fcS weeks all
New York Wa talking about him.
A bartender With skili IN tugglinG glasses
for them was another newSn1pcr-mad" WOLF
known man. His liquid humur was "a novelty,
and 10 a less degree he h"cama famous ike
first man who alleged that Ire juinIcd FROM
the Brooklyn BRIDGE without iuurIr4 llm-
which las supported him ever sine. ma
might jump from the liridf" now IN the most
sensational fashion and week later l,i- name
might be forgotten, except bv thc police.
Two brothers beCHm" ,ouSI i'uoEa lcrc
few wears ago imply ,he'au-" lI"y
wore mats oi 4 D'cl'T blotR, lH'F Nrf"
otherwise well dressed of course ur tirir
hats would have attracted no particular Al
tention. There wns n -ho"mUier IA tLi- city
who had stuck 10 business steadily aud VINO
was known only TO his customers and -uull
clrclosof friends unth n friend of li' Gco'u"l
to make him public character and succeeded
In doing 40. The humoT Of 1t was in the tact
that tho shoemaker had no uii" To- faur.
Fame came to him however and he accepted 10
80 seriously that he gave u formal dnNcr 20
his admirers who called Themselves his 900.
He was for several years one Of the well-knoNu
men In this city and unlike the others he had
never done ANYTHING particularly freIkisa.
N pleased his discoyorer 10 make him famous
and he did It,.