Evening star., 1901-11-09
ELECTION AFTERWARDS.

Inc freak efectlou DeI ep1ocmlc nit new
York hard during the campaign that closed
on Tuesday in the crushing of Tammany," !"
said New York travelling man Some OF
the idiotic things that the upholders of the
Tammany end of 1t will have to be doing
for the next few months to square their
bets will unquestionably make nuisances
of the performers and get not few Of
them into trouble with the police. For In
stance, a well-known comedian. perma-
nently located now at Broadway theater.
will have to take up his stand at the cor
ner of 23d street and 9th avenue and pam
handle passing male pedestrians for two
hours In broad daylight. There will be a
lot of fellows passing along that corner
who will not know the comedian in his
street clothes and who wouldn't appreciate
the fun of his little pan-handling game if
they did recognize him, and he looks as II
he's going to have gloomy two hours.
A pulp-headed young chap employed In
the New York water department will have
to peroxide his nice. wavy hair and make
1t a bright golden TINT or stand confessed
as welcher. He bet a Low man on these
terms, and ne was due to do the touching
up of his locks just soon as the news
of Lows election was confirmed. The man
he bet with had fiaxen hair, and he was
to have his hair dyed jet black in case of
Lows defeat.
Another Tammany office holder made a
Det Win Il Low man, the terms OF WnlCn
will require him to sleep in a cushioned
coffin in the back of uptown undertake
erS establishment for three nights week
for three months.
Three young Harlem men, ardent sup-
porterS of Tammany, are probably on a
speedy hustle for wives just now. They
agreed with three fusonists to get married
within week after the election if the Tam
many slate should be beaten, the Low men
agreeing to do the same in case their ticket
got keeled over None of these chaps It
seems. is a ladies' man and none of. them
has girl picked out life mate. So that
there are bound to be three somewhat sur
prfsing Harlem marriages before next Tues
day If the three Tammanyites stick to
their imbecile bargain
another Tammany man will have to
maui little toy lamb on wheels by a piece
of string from 14th to 42d street on Broad
way next Monday afternoon. and the Low
man with whom he made the bet is going
to hire brass band to accompany the un-
fortunate on his silly march. Innumerable
Low men will be trundled about New York
in wheelbarrows by losing Tammanyites-
and, by the way, I'd like to know what
sense there Is in a bet of this sort. It's as
bad, II not worse, for the winner as for
the loser, for the winner is obliged to make
an exhibition of himself along with the
loser. Moreover. l never saw a perform
ance of this sort. yet that the winner
wasn't repeatedly dumped out of the wheel
barrow by the inexpert and often inten-
tionally malicious trundler thereof.
"A middie-aged man in the New York
tax department will have to go down to
Coney Island three times a month during
the winter and take a plunge in he cold
sea water each time.
"A well-known bookmaker who took the
Tammany end will be compelled to wear a
huge Gainsborough hat, trimmed with big
ostrich feathers, up and down 9Th avenue
on Sunday afternoon and he stands a first
rate chance of being run in by the police
for masquerading on the Sabbath
another man connected with the horse
racing game-he is a trainer-will have to
attend variety show on Sth avenue, tax
ing box and fondle big doA throughout
the performance, in full view of the
audience. The dolls head is to be a plaster
cast of the head of Mr.. Low, the triumph
ant fusionist mayor-to-be.
"A prominent wholesale fish dealer of
New York, and man old enough to know
better-he is nearly sixty-will have to put
on pair of roller skates and make the
best of his way along the middle of the
road from one end of Riverside drive to the
other He never had pair of skates of
any sort on in his life, and the fun that the
Low people, not to speak of the small
boys, are going to have with him will
make him sorry before he gets through
with his little task
ANY number of losers-out on the Tam
many ticket will have to eat elaborate din
ners backward, from nuts to soup Now,
this doesn't sound particularly easy, but,
as matter of fact, it's good deal ha rider
even than 1t sounds. 1t takes a man with
a pretty strong stomach and lot Of nerve
to eat full-course dinner back-end fore
most. and I've seen numerous chaps be-
come pretty pale around the gills while es-
saying the job.
"A well-known restaurateur who owns a
famous roadhouse will have to assume the
makeup of secondhand dealer in cast
off clothing, and stand at the junction of
Broadway and 9Th avenue at Saith street
and solemnly ask male passers-by IL they
ir,Cr hot lie IS
dispose of. He will be thus occupied. If he
fulfills the terms of his bet from 12 noon
until in the evening of a weekday, and
it's 20 to l that he'll be ready to swear off
on freak election bets by the time he gets
over the guying that is bound to be his
portion at the hands of the Low men who
know him and who will be on hand to
make him miserable as possible
"A Tammany inspector of paving will
nave to hold down job as laberer on
the underground for four days, and he, too,
ought to be prepared to be good when he
finishes that little stunt Several young
persons, with seaweed instead of gray
matter in the skulls. will have to walk up
and down Broadway for various periods Of
time arrayed in linen busters and straw
hats. A Tammanyite, who keeps a sport.
ing goods emporium In lower Broadway
Will have to sell penny yellow journals at
the New York end of the Brooklyn bridge
1or three hours running. and when the
scrappy old women newspaper criers at
that point get through upbraiding him for
infringing upon their territory, he will be
about ready to forswear being funny in
wagering on elections.
Slews of Tammanyites will have to walk
the main thoroughfares of New York as
sandwich men. Their Sandwiches will be
placarded with such announcements as T
am the cheapest man on earth Il have
went way back and sat down., 'Hooray for
William Travers Jeromer L won't do
Where am / at?' and so on
"A well-known Tammany cafe proprietor
whose place is across from Tammany Hall
on 14th street, will have to wear a No q
hat for week in all sorts of wind and
weather. This man Is noted for the size Of
his head, and his ordinary headgear is No.
8 size. '
"A Tammany leader Of Broadway thea
ter orchestra will have to take his violin
and serenade about two dozen Low men in
front of their homes "
THE proprietor of 9th avenue shoe es.
tablishment will have to wear a pair Of
the heaviest one dollar brogans that can be
procured In New York, and he will have to
wear them for a month.
THESE are only few of the monkeyish
election bets that l heard about while cir
culating around New York during the ma st
couple of months, and there are probabIv
scores OF others equally senseless''
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