New-York tribune., 1900-05-11
THE PASSING THRONG.

In the worst part Of the thunderstorm on Tues
day night automobile came tearing down Fifth
ave. manifestIy making for shelter.
WHEN Between Thirty-fifth and Thirty
RUBBER sixth sts toing up the slippery,
TIRES SLIP. rain soaked ascent, came Ordi-
nary hanson. On account of the
peing rain the driver the auto too late dis
covered the proximity of the other; he tried 70
swerve to side, but the rubber tires slipped on
the oily pavement. and with crash the old and
new forms of vehicles came together. There was
a jingle of broken glass, a feminine shrek and
masculine objurgation. and then the driver of the
hansom picked himself up from the moist asphalt
and after his horse. which, minus the hanSoh,
was rapidly disappearing In the direction of Cen
tral Park. A policeman, for wonder, appeared on
the scene and arrested the driver of tine automobile
in spite of his vehement protests that IL vas the
other fellows fault and the male passenger clam
bered and tried to straighten matters with
the policeman. In the mean time the crowd stead
ily grew and was of quite formidable dimensions
by the time the hanson cab driver returned with
his recaptured horse. Outwardly he was covered
with mud and inwardly chock full of i'll feeling
and profanity. Judging from his remarks, The
male passenger drew him to side. whispered
a word in his and at the same time
thrust the card OF we'll known Wall Street broker
into his hand A broad smile irradiated his mud
besmeared face as the driver OF the auto clam
bered outside and the male passenger inside the
automobile and it stole off into the night. 'Shure.
its meseIf wish they'd smash up again he said
seated IN the s'' auto tr indferent. 1o all appear %
ances. to the collision, to the curious crowd and
squarey up the avenue. and should it have started
could only have been stopped by obstruction or
by the running down of the motive power
Some years ago George Jay Gould and a
panion came down town one day on the elevated
road and standing the
RATHER platform of the Mr.. Gould,
A Personal after selecting cigarette from his
REMARK. case offered the case to the guard
That worthy took a cigarette. and
with thank you slowed it away in his pocket.
oh take than that. Mr. Gould urged good
naturedly. Take a half Dozen No. thanks
returned the guard, 'one will do me. It's lucky,
though" he added. an afterthOught. that I'm
not old Gould You wouldn't have got off easy.
He'd probably have taken all you have. and the
we'll"
Gould and his friend looked at each other silently
for a momert and then burst into uncomfortable
shrieks of laughter. The guard looked suspciously
first and then at the other of the laughing
pair and then apparently coming 10 the conclusion
that he had fathered an Unexpectedly witty speech.
Joined in the mirth and intervals said TO
the Other. That's pretty good crack made.
Hanover Square, called the guard. and this being
9e o y66f he 9hr Web s being dome he
pressed it into the hand of the man as he got off
ride with me again Then ne glanced at the card
turned a pasty. notified white. his jaw worked and
he seemed to essay speech as the train drew out
lit like fate commented the other man.
that of the two million to whom he
could have made that remark without i'll effect he
should have made Ii to one of the very few with
do anything to him.. of course | WON'T replied
Mr.. Gould Hes punished enough as it is" And
enough. he didn't
The morning papers" said John Moore of Phila-
delpha. at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday "aII
have dispatches effect that
GRANTING one of our COnsuls has been deco
OF FOREIGN rated by a foreign potentate Anv
DECORA- one holding office under our Gov
TIONS. ernment may be decorated ever SO
often by white ruler or duskv
king. if il pleases the latter but his acceptance
of such decoration is another and quite differ
ent Article l, Section 9, of the Constitu-
tion of the United States reads: No title of no.
bty shall be granted by the United States: and
person holding office of profit trust under
accept of any present, emolument, Office or title
of any kind whatever from any king. prince or
foreign State.
Under the clause of the Constitution YOU can see
that Consul could not have accepted the
ration conferred upon him but the phrase without
the consent OF Congress means that Congress may
grant permission If IL nit, and each year a num-
her of joint resolutions are put through TO allow
officers, diplomats, Consuls and other Govern
officials to accept decorations and favors
them in recognition and acknowledgment of some
service favor shown them. In far a deco
ration is concerned, Ii has always struck as
Tommy rot for an American to have it,
but lots of them do. the records of Congress
amply show