Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-20
BOSTON Still ON Earth.
Once Familiar Negro Character
the Hero Of Newspaper
Sketch.
Boston Green Making Life a Bur-
den to the Omaha Police
Authorities.
SD:-l.1nl " Mr: .
Picked in Liquor. He May Live a
Hundred Years. to Omaha's
Regret.

livery resident OIL tAitfSlailtONI slSi
teen or twenty years ago remembers
Boston Green. Boston ia q co.ored
man-highly colored. He was short and
fat and was supposed TO be old during
the years he shambed along the streets
of Marshalltown with his bootblacks'
kit and swept out saloons for the
drinks. Boston was eyerybody's friend,
and even the policemen and the jailor
liked him, altho in his later career here
he made them considerable trouble
considering the quantities of bad liquor
Boston used to spill tis old acquaint-
lances Will be surprised to know that he
+ Is still on earth, drinking whisky and
lgetting arrested. He IS d notable citi-
Zen OF Omaha. and tie News of that!
lefty presents the following character
/ sketch:
= Twenty years ago there drifted into
Omaha from Marsha ltown. la, q little
old negro scarcely mDfe than four feet
thigh. He had a shamhling gait and was
somewhat stopped from the weight of
years and two heavy grips. and his
lprotruding lips were pokered UP in a
peculiar manner as Tho ne We're expect
ling to kiss hls dusky Sweetheart. That
was Boston Green.
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8 chrani,. conai.;or he meyer fails 10 r.A-
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q rearas+ saloon M
Boston is no, particuiaf as tn style,
ST n nd when Ne 9r,l.a kesga change Of rail-
J. rne,,t II ia MOI MAI Dame Fashion has
Idee,eed If bur because his clothes re-
Efilse Ia hang III his BODY any longer
l,rhen the same friends, that feed him
Ecn,,ls. 10 his rescue. With cast.off 10th
ing. He is rot hard to PLEASE and any
Il garment will fit him. AL present he
wears a pair Of No IL shoes which
4 turn up four inches at the toes. ard
La Prince Albert coat which touches his
s. ankles Boston always had the nappy
Il faculty of finding a home. Years age
} he used to make himself a nest IN tbs
needs in the lower end Of the city. H.
had 4 couple of blankets and conlforters
and unless the weather VAS severe hi
Ipasssd a comfortable night. There Was
onls one drawback to this open-aii
N abode and ,llat was the possibliity g
, others occupying II whlie con net Wa
absent.
ON various occasions fostnnreturnet
| TO his roost at night and found SOM
tramp. who had accldentallss slullpiFs
I onto the place ana occupied it iorthWi'h
I a "e,.'n aferca ton alwaNss ensuee ans
usually ended by the tramp refusing Y
'lyacate. This always brought Boston II
Fl hot haste 10 the police station With tht
Information that some Wufiess Vas,
was in his house and refused 70 get our
Then policeman was sent out 10 az
TEST the tramp, and Boston was restored
TO his rights Boston continued TO oc
2 cupy his nest for several years, but ont
might he found bulldog had taken pes
session of it and the old negro becam'
. IGisgusted and sought other Quarters
For the next three years ne made M
bed under the front porch of a house Of
! Ninth street. and he nov Injuries II
ia coal Office, where he Is permitted Z
!, ilS1aap an the floor.