Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-28
.PUGILIST,s PATHWAY"
A Brand-New Title for Upper Broad
why, In the Metropolis.

Il Will give you a new name for upper
Broadway, New York. said Washington
sporting man to a Star reporter, land
while it may seem trifie severe upon that
fine thoroughfare, 1t will at once be recog-
nized as most opposite by those Of us who
have visited the metropolis lately, and by
the jewellers therein.
II will dub it 'Pugllist's Pathway
LAS each heavy weight champion re-
tired from the ring. usually the result Of a
well-directed blow of his opponents fist on
the angle of his jaw, he betook himself to
upper Broadway. Here he set himself UP
in the saloon business, was set I'D by
somebody else and his name used. continu-
ing to use his jaw, though mainly as a
medium of advertising himself and his
place. Then the electric light letter sign
struck him in the solar DleXuS. 1t was a
hard blow.
Standing on the corner of Broadway and
AID street. and looking down town, the eye
encounters enough electric letter signs of
pugilists strung up and down the fronts of
their respective buildings to give tmid,
non-combative man bad scare.
1.-The first Is that of Tom O. Rourke, the
hacker of my friend Sharkey- Then the
poetical cognomen of Kid Mccoy, on the
other side Of the street, hits you left
hand counter on the left eye. The Kid he
of the delicate looks and awful punch hav-
ing short name and long gall, undertook
to stretch the fascinating title at right an
giles to his place so that it would string
way out over the sidewalk to the gutter.
This piece of pugflisttc nerve made the
other pugs so mad that they were going
to lick the Kid in bunch. 1t made the
whole tenderloin snort. for that matter.
Even the police took a hand in the mill,
and with several managers of nearby thea
terS who wanted some Of Broadway left
out Of the clutches of the KIDS delicate.
baby hand, as seconds, came near having
the youngster UP in the police court with a
judge as referee and a heavy fine as a
stake. The boy finally consented to plas-
ter his gilded letters back close to the wall
of his cage.
Farther down CLEANS the name of gen
tlemanly jim. and the word 'Corbett's,' is
a reminder that the young man who was
being knocked out in the ring may be seen
inside and his good health drunk for Is
cents drink.
"And at the tail end Of this glistening
procession is the name Of the immortal
John L. The old hero Of a score Of fights
hangs out here as does his So 600 diamond
champion belt hang over the head of the
cashier. 1t must be big temptation to that
cashier. A funny thing about John LIS
place Is that 1t Is adorned up stairs and
down with huge replica of the paintings of
Dante's inferno. 1t must be funny, because
the artist l was with said 1t was. l fancy
that John would lick that artist, because
1t is a serious proposition to John.
II was told up there by a newspaper man
that New Workers were dead sick of running
up on cross-counter on every block with
a pugiliStS Illuminated name, but that in
order to reach them, all Of the signs of the
restaurants and theaters would have to CO.
too, so they had to grin and bear it, and
devoutly hope that Sharkey, Fitzsimmons,
Rubin, McGovern and Jeffries, when they
are respectively knocked out, won't come
with big Illuminated electric signs in front
of their places