New-York tribune., 1901-03-04
THE PASSING THRONG.

p. A Chiffon. of Cleveland. Ohio. in speaking q.
an incident of his youth at the Waldorf Astoria
yesterday. told the following story.
FOURTH When was small lad" said
OF JULY Mr.. Chiffon. my father gave me
CELEBRA- an old fashioned double bsrral1a5
TlON hintlOck musket 1t was the prt1a
Of my life, and also temporarily
the cause of my undoing- AS long as 1 had tba.
musket in my possession I never could ro.i,
wandering in the woods on a fine day. somavh,t
to the detriment of my education at that time So
persistent was the report that my teachers sent
back 20 my governor of my being absent ssa Sens
recitattons that he became at length tired OF Ta
of reformation He knew we'll the TealSn RS promise
so continuously played hookey. and on that account
and tenth report from teacher of nv havirS
TSen Pee aJssnr "i'a9ut permission he called into
and when had brought it to him he took IL .d re
against the pump He then burned oy pn sFkng TIE t
ana ana tod me 20 put the barrels away in the garrett
Ihat was the bltteTest day Of my life. Later n
fancy he was exceedingly sorry on his own account
when the following Fourth of .f,lv CANA a-o,,.
aavins paw ny that time recovered somewhat from nv
nFSs th disnpPoinsm1ent ;r decided to make use Of
boys converted them into sort of miniature can
We mounted those wretched gun barrels On n
crude wooden gun carriage and trained them against
mud fort which we had built on
1T ENDED IN the other side of the yard In this
a SLAUGH- fort were all the tin soldiers that
TER OF we could rake and scrana togo+h
CHlCkENS. We personally to be the at
tacking force, and our ancient and
honorable musket cannon was the artillery with
which We intended to batter down the walls Of the
fort.
My grandmother at that time used to raise
chickens: she must have had some one hundred
and fifty Of them. and it was her custom and
amusement to feed them herself The chickens
were loose about the yard, and just previous
unDeknOWn hal
come out with a pan of chicken food for their
this. out the bulk of this food as we were soon
sadly to discover she had thrown just in the rear
or our fort. There. of course, the chickens had
assembled. and were busy picking up their daily
emohsd tb hred fdI s G5 sTn 6 IN GTs aS % b %
the remains of that poultry. We must have killed
hood lived on chicken for a week that is ali the
netShbOrhOod did but me- and lived for that
period of time on bread and water"
George Ruggles. OF Washington, d. c.. when seen
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday said of the
coming inauguration of President
THE DISCOM- Mckinley: II always fly Wash
FORTS OF ington duri:s inauguration be-
THE INAUGU- cause the city becomes crowded
RATION at such times to be positively
uncomfortable. About week be-
fore March the city begins slowly 10 fill up.
The people struggle slowly in until about two
days before Inauguration day. and then the real
rush begins Every train is then crowded and as
many specials as the railroads can run are crowded
in between the time of the regular trains Every
spare in the capital is taken. The streetcars
packed You wait an hour or so for your
table in restaurants. You can't get seats at the
theatre and in any and every way the surplus con-
tributes To make The resident population tnorousnl{
uncomfortable Every on" at the capital when l
left praying for a good day 1t seems that an
unkind fate always provides bad weather Tor an
inauguration. Unfortunate Presidents in the past
have entered their of office with red noses
and WatCry eyes. in consequence or colds con-
tracted in reviewing the parade in snow and sieet
President HarrisOn's inauguration day was a good
example. 4 more raw. sleety aud generally dlsa-
greeable dav could not well be imagined The
weathe~ in Washington holds warm. however and
the only DANCER seems from RAIN. Inc asl-
tated question to whom the President will ride
with ne has finally decided by announcing that ne
will have as carriage companions senators Jones
and Hanna. chairneu of the Democratic and Re
publican national committees, respectively. lt mas
been suggested that he might have gone step
still further and had the Editor of The Com
mOner' occupy the extra seat
'.While / have flown the inauguration, fnd
New-Yorkers do not take to ii so kindly as they
might Just now / met Walter Murphy, who his
brother Edgar told me he expected would JON hlm
I'm Washington Aren't you going 70 washington
TO see Mckinley inaUsurated| asked MIN ~
will be YOUR last chance 'Oh, don't know about
that last chance, ne airy replied Getting lnaugu-
rated seems 10 be rapidly becoming a haoit WiIo
Mckinley.