New-York tribune., 1901-03-10

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ness went 10 smash, and he was left TO his own
support lie had been accustomed 10 sasa ana
luxury He Was a polished .oung son Of wealth
Then he came to America, aai has he-n here f.
over twenty years. Fate has at last landed hin,
as a fruit pedler IN Harvard. John WON'T sneak
10 him. John doesn't recognize any mans right
90 sell fruit at Harvard. But Beninati does
sell fruit and wins friends. Men must choose
between the Italian and the Irish John has
trad-lon on ms side. That counts for much al
harvard But Benlnau has energy and fresh
frlli'.
John Lorott or John the Orange Man. has had
a most interesting career. Ills life has been rart
OF Harvard lie is Z link between the past and
the present lie knew President Eliot and saw
him chosen as president. He knew and remenl-
I. beT5 John d. Lons. Roosevelt. Wood. William
r. husseA ana was a personal friend to Long
fellow, ASassiz and Lowell. He mas seen Har-
yaTd grow from a college Of three hundred or
four hundred men 70 FIVE thousand
Johns memory is peculiar. Ii is hard 10
understand his talk You have to learn his
dialect You ask him if he remembers anything
or anybody. and even though the dat. d., a cen
tury back, he answers, i member"
over fifty years ago he Was living in County
kerry, ireland John decided 10 come TO Amer
lea Two brothers had come before him And
wiki little red trunk (even then he bad y
Harvard colorl filed with potatoes and oatmeal
ior hls journey he walked 10 Cork. From there
ht took steamer To Liverpool. and then sailed
70 America. He landed in Boston All that he
had was has empty trunk and a shiIIelah He
has that shilielah yet
For d few years John worked ahau, Ca,r
bridge on odd jobs Then one day when the
Harvard baseball men We're playing on the old
common, John watched the game IL was hot
ana soon the men stretched themselves out
under the Washington elm for a rest. Some
body asked John. red checked young Irishman.
10 bring some water. John got the water but il
80 Aot pam water ii Was molasses water,
with ginger and vinegar in it, Irishmen and
farmers know the drink. But it was 10 the
Harvard boys. II quenched the thirst. and they
began TO ask John questions. His wide brogue
pleased them, as ii has generations since. They
found that he Was poor and of work They
tO.g nlfn TO get and sell AT he
doors. He did il. and that was his start. Soon
he was John the Orange Man. and John the
Orange Man he has been ever since.
II Was not until The eighties that the men be
gan 10 take him about : a mascot once. in
- ~ M-hl GOWN 10 N@H-hoFk on the Fall
hltef poat lie began To sing his pet version OF
''f.r.N-tfo- Rragh.' The mate told him 10 keen
quiet or h would be put down below. The mat,
had not reckoned With his host The host Was
the 300 Harvard men aboard Loyalty they
came 10 his aid and John remained on deck and
sang Erln-to- Bragh.' verse after verse, till
scorns the old music and words Bur he sings
il rarely now. His voice fails him. Yet when
ar,iieially happy he often pipes out his own
John is a Wit. Two stories viii show it, one
day some visitors asked what the Christie Il
Eccl-sis-" on the shield Lleant. Johns answe~
names TO he'll wild Yale
Ana that is Johns motto. John viii go into
r. a. ;7"inG man viii point L. another and say,
That is Yale man, John" John will al once
haA NlolN. lie N4il shake his fist tn.
fac and inutter: Yale good. To Eel MID
Yale" But a. h. leaves the room he viii smile
and say, An right frin'
IN the Early HU's John got a donkey from rhe
class. =" MAS too feeble 10 push his own cart
Since that he has had carts and pungs
aim, 81 annually III showed his Wit a-Ain hen
D." named his little donkey "Aunix- Ka.lelcf'
because as John explains she is the only che
of her Sex admitted to Harvard.
And 50 this 90 link i gradually being pressed
out II business 10y smiling Italian gentleman
In hard luck. i;ut John may be DIVIDED 50 that
he can never ind a customer But John viii
always be John, and nobody ever take his
parc
Musical notation would be inadequate to de-
scribe the tune Of Johns only song. but here
are the words Of one of the many verses OF his
version:
A. first in youth Oi was cuttin the land
10 the brOgEes Oh M feet and sT.iade in me
hand.
Tho people they say twas pity to see
SGch a hansome young man cuttin turf in Tralee
50 pl butther me- brogues, and shook hans w!d
sl'hade
An wint to the fair lolke a dashin' young blade
Az he gave the shillin held in his lsht.
Erin -GO-ISragh shilelah an al,
My heart il De nid ye poor Erin-Cio- BraGh.
''Ci know yere a Pat by the cut OF your hair:
Oh know ye'Ie a Pat by the cloes that ye wear"
II Oi D" a Pat. phwats that 10 you,
Il Oi be the diViI that's nothin' YOU
The blackthorn shillelah O held in me fisht
Around ais blg napper Ol made u TO 1VlsiIt.
The blood from his NAPIER Di quickly did draw.
Al showed him the game Oud Erin-GO-
BraSh.
SEEEING HENTiL ESCAPE.
From Puck