Washington sentinel., 1901-06-08
"SHOOMAKER'S"
n Dream Of Dreams.

seated IN this bacchuS place
| mingled with the joyial race.
Royal fellows, bright and gay,
Cheered me every night and day.
Brilliant "bloods" of long ago.
Wits from old Newspaper Row."
There's Perley Poore and Little Mac,
And Johnny Coyle--"old brick brack,
And Major Carson, brave and true,
With Colonel Boynton OF the blue
Nestor Shaw and Charlie Murray
Charlie Towle-s hustling hurry;
franklin Morgan. always truthful,
Nearly eighty, looking youthful
Bully Annin-Western gopher
Closest chum of Major Stofer,
And Garfield, royal in his way,
Was ever full Of fun and play.
And Hosford-Snyder, working chums
Ecstatic, witty, brilliant "bums."
Who live alone for virtues sake
Ia midnight hours they take the cake
There's Bailey, OF the Lone Star State
Aud Edwards, equally as great,
| Rapid, lofty, current thinkers,
But, more than all, fantastic drinkers.
And Charlie Hamilton by name
Is known TO love and wit and fame,
And for good nature can't be beat
Is always ready to Retreat
There's Copeland, Butler, Preston,
Clark,
All boon companions after dark.
And George Adams, fat and gay
The counterpart OF John c. Fay
With Billy Dickson, slim and tall,
The joker of saloon and hall,
While jimmie Young shines in between,
With royal Rsmsdel in the scene.
And Major "Shoo," with Herzog fat,
Are Jolly as bubbling vat.
Poker Parker and Charlie Jones
Have long since laid away their bones.
And old Beau Hickman moves along
Extracting 'chips" among the throng
While Billy Florence browns his thirst
Before the play is first rehearsed,
And John Mccullough, wild and free,
Is ever ready for a spree
With Scanlan, Raymond and Toe Emmett
Who play Old Bacchus to the limit.
Young Schade, OF the Old Dominion,
VIII take his beer with good opinion,
And sometimes with a cocktail lush
He'll oyer-call Anheuser Busch,
While Heurich aud his Maerzen beer
Enthralls Gambrinus through the year.
1here's Captain Brady, prince Of wits,
Who never deals in halves and splits,
Who lonely plays a royal hand
Against Old Bscchus and his band.
Thefe's Nicholson. our commodore,
Auayai hero to the core
Who'illlge ID fame forever more
Aud drink on yon eternal shore;
Mcbride and Gath and round Mclean
Hume these festive halls again,
Men OF mind and magic merit.
Yetnone compares with our Bill Sterret.
There moves along old General Rucker.
McFeelv and our own Bev. Tucker,
With Major Blackford, round and Jolly,
And verual as Virginia holly.
There's ohm Paul Jones and Pennebaker
Unlike sober, solemn Quaker.
With Darwin and Delaney Gill
Who daily work the fluid mill,
And Chapman bland, mild and serene,
Appears upon the festive scene
And all are never full of booze
Because there's not enough at "Shoo'sp"
Sprigg Carroll too invades the scene
RiRged out in gray or velvet green.
A hero OF the day or night,
A Dandy in a crowd or fight.
And Rufus Darby, bland and queer,
Is always bringing up the rear,
Relating jokes. and pokin fun,
And pays the 'check )" when drinks are
done
Tom Somerville and Colonel Niche
Are arm a nd arm with gay Joe Hickey,
Who gave his name to a decoctiou
That's sold at every bar and auction.
There's Johnny Gibson and John Small,
And old Wash Nailor on the "call"
For drinks, without the least offense,
OBJ liv-i o to the expense;
And there comes Hatton OF the Post,
AT banquet boards the Laugh and Toast
Because he lives and loves the most,
Here's to his noble, Sainted Ghostl
And there is Burke and old Mullany,
Still peddling rum, although it's rainy;
Ano how they cut Bacchus dash
For filthy lucre," ready cash
And Perreard with cold 'egg noggs"
Still represents the Land of Frogsr'
And there goes honest Fred ID. Mussey
With Whine and Jolly John D Hussey
Talking, gassing all day long
And happy as the birds OF song.
McSween and Decker laugh and sing,
A Jolly pair upon the wing;
With "quips" and gags their nature
swells,
They lead the gang with cap and bells"
There's Ben lie Fevre never glum,
With Justice Wells and Colonel CIum,
And Hutchinson so mild and nice
The man who's ever cutting icel
There's Belknap, Vorhees, Sunset
Cox,
General Sturgess and William Fox,
And Darlington, so neat and plucky,
With Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
And here, Mark Smith as warm and CAV
AS his own Adzonai
And, there's McDougal, Yates, and
Pueh,
The Senatorial royal crew,
Mat" Carpenter and old Jim Beck,
And Gardner Smith, so fresh on deck,
Triumvert grand, without blotch,
Who bathe in Bourbon" "Mumm,"
and Scotch
There's Crane, Of Texas, bIithe and
brave,
Long may his memory fash aud wave.
A "splendid fenowI nipht or dav-