New-York tribune., 1900-12-01
4 BET 1T WILL TAKE YEAR TO PAY
AND "JOE" BRENNAN IS REMINDED EACH
DAY THAT HE LACKS THE GIFT
OF PROPHECY

Joe Brennan for the last twenty-five years has
sold papers at West Broadway and Chambers-st.
and voted the Democratic ticket. Joe is so well
known by the "old residenters'' OF the produce
8nd commission house district that when stranger
getting off an Erie train asks where the Cosmo-
politan Hotel IS he told that it Is up next to
Joe Brennan's newsstand joe hasn't sworn
OF selling papers, voting the Democratic ticket.
but he has sworn or betting on elections. He made
an election bet In the late campaign which it win
take him till the first week in November of next
year 10 pay Of. and every day he VIII be reminded
that he false prophet. Joe told Tribune
reporter about his wager yesterday.
"Shure I'm good Democrat said he, 'au' one
day one OF best customers 0. J. GUIDE. the sign
man. comes up an we gifts to takin' politics I
says 10 him that the countrys goin to the devil.
an the trusts is grabbiu' everythin' that in a
few years things will De tough that the mobs
will be burnin about fourteen hundred million
dollars worth OF property belongin the trusts.
An divi a bit viii anybody care says TO Guide.
Well you know, this IS a free country. an Guide
gimme the laugh an when he gimme the laugh l
says. feeiin' fn me bones that mad a cinch: IN
bet you Bryan's elected An then he gimme the
laugh again. an that made kind o hot under
the collar. and l says: You hain't got no sand
you Republicans. Well TO make long story
No secon' edition amt out yit," said Joe" to
a customer.
ITO make q long story short continued Joe"
Guide says: "Betcher a full suit o clothes.
hat an overcoat that Mckinley wins says GUIDE,
an then I says, I won't bet clothes. but I'll bet
you oil the papers you to git off'n this stand
for year against the clothes that Bryan wins
We both stood at that. I thought
'Y' owe me fur Wednesdays. too" said Brennan
under his breath 70 another customer who
going away without fully Hqudating
Well ! begins TO count on what was goin Z
git an I got cocksure Rryan's Der would
lection, that I says TO Guide. 'Wot's the matter
with t'rOVin' In trip 10 Washington [ see Bryan
inaugurated in case l win? says l. All right, says
Guide. an III t'rOW in silk umbrella an a mack
lntOsh and pairs o pajamas. an a cane an
muffier, ana half a dozen pairs o gloves. an
silk undershirt, an-weil, he offered { trow IN
enough truck TO start gents furnishing goods
store. tickled. Of course. an begins 10
plan the Washin'ton trip. Now an then GUIDE
SAYS: Coin L stand fur them papers fur year X
Bryan's licked. joe? an I says, Sure Nike!
':Joe's'' face fell slightly he continued his
narrative from this point.
The uornin' after election GuGe comes roun' an
looks at me an begins [ laugh-by jmIninyi he
lust doubled up Wen he sees my face. ] guess 4
vgs Iookn' uurty gum. w OF Will il be this morn
IN savs / Then, Just 10 slz the rag on me, ne
begins 10 call off the papers ne wanted and lie
Irha- ba begins on the magazines and periodicals.
an he was gittin' great roast on me. wen ne
TCrbied iIp laughing again, an says, Nell, Joe.
nv pspers will do this mornin guess -
Does ne keep right on getting the papers free!
asked the reporter r,-, +. .o.-
he does, He knows II Ia stuck him I'd taken the
stTag+ ol1fft OF clothes Broadway. / don't rnind
iosfn' the bet ar i don't mind the papers, con.
tTrtiad Brennan. but I git I wonderln now an
,ba1 II n won't git 70 be little biz tiresome before
the mex three hundred an forty days go by