Evening star., 1901-02-02
stripe surely appears to have . knife In
his sleeve for Tammany.

stripe surely appears to have Q knife In
his sleeve for Tammany.
where Politics Pays.
Meanwhile. 1t pays pretty well even yet
to be a Tammany district leader. The
writer was present awhile back at a Tam
many ball given 'in honor OF a youthful
Tammany leader whose district lies up
town. There were no fewer than 500 men
and women Of the district present at the
ball. which was given at the Lexington
Avenue Opera House. At midnight there
was prearranged pause In the festivities,
ana the 1ammany leader (who was a plum
bers apprentice but a few years ago) made
MS appearance upon platform. Then one
OF MS neutenans appeared beside him on
the Platform and euiogized the great young
man for fully twenty minutes
Inc lieutenant told the Tammany leader
(who preserved the modesty of greatness
as he stood first upon one leg and then
the other and rammed his hands into his side
pockets) how eminent his pubic services
had been, how solicitous he had proven
himself IN caring for the interests of his
"constltootents." with what affection he
was regarded by every man, woman and
dog Of proper political training in his dis
trict, and so on, and so on. Then the lieu
tenant handed the leader a present, which
had been subscribed for by al, hands IN
the district 1t was a SNOWY and expensive
Saud consisting of shield OF diamonds
about four inches high and three inches
wide. The Tammany leaders name and
his title as an oficeholder of the city gov
ernment We're spread over the shield In
good-sized diamonds, and at each Of the
Tour corners was a Suberb four-karat blue
white diamond: The thing cost between
5000 and 5000, and 1t was worth the
grateful acceptance of a brilliantly suc-
cessful general returned from the wars.
One left that scene with the Idea that,
barring any instructive objection to being
soiled in the arena. municipal politics of a
certain kind In New York city contained
for the prospector pay dirt In large quanti-
ties.
Speed of Automobiles.
The speed at which automobiles travel I'm
Washington as compared with the gait at
which the horse.ess affairs hurtle-hurtle
is about the only applicable word-in New
York is in the ratio of the crawling of
those old Anacostia one-horse cars and
the flying of Brooklyn trolley train. The
New York chauffeur is a begoggled demon
who seems ever to be bound for some
great fire. carrying Il passenger the
proprietor of the biggest building being
consumed by the flames. A list recently
published by a protesting newspaper OF the
persons killed and crippled by the auto
mobilists in Greater New York and vincin-
ity since the beginning of the automobile
craze made heavy reading.
Il Is not alone on the Speedways ana
boulevards of New York that the automo-
the same clip righl on Broadway and on
9th avenue. in the most crowded sections
and 1t Is a beautiful study in sidewise
ricocheting to see a New York automobilist
curling his machine between the pillars or
the elevated structure when he Is pushing
he apparatus along at the rate, say, OF
TWEEN ly-five miles an hour. An au omobilst
who should skim along the Brightwood
road in the District of Columbia at the
rate the horseess carriage drivers here
push their machines on the most thronged
I, co.. Io halI Inv
somebody or o.her. in or out of au hority,
at the point of a gun. One Of the annual
reviews" al the Casino once had song,
sung by a chorus of uniformed ambulance
surgeons, something to this effect:
Look at the ambulance, a-comng down
the street
When We cut their legs off, don't we do 1t
neati'
They're singing those lines on the streets
of New York now, with the word .'automo-
bile substituted for ambulance"
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