Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
THIRSTY GOTHAM|TES
Dry Sunday for Patrons Of
Excursion Boats.
CAME BACK PREPARED
RAGE FOR PANAMA HATS AS
FIERCE AS EVER.
An Automobile Life Preserver-
Georgetown Lad Lionized-Girl
With the Walking Stick.
CAME BACK PREPARED
of The Evening Star.

| NEW YORK, June Is, 1902.
! Steamboat excursionists in these waters
| had peerless, and consequently cherries,
day Of it afloat on Sunday last, and the
futile means of the thirsty were narrowing
even unto the non-sympathetic ear. Tens
Of thousands of those New Workers who,
during the heated season, rise to their
greatest heights of maltous enthusiasm
while blowing the songfu tide as Sunday
excursionists, were thrust into the very
| nethermost caverns of gloom over the po-
lice outrage. They assembled a the piers,
| filled with high hopes of a fine, sodden
day of it, and went over the gangways of
| the excursion steamboats, like little, care
free children, so naturally certain were
they of the joyous, berry prospect in front
Of them
But when the steamboats, pulled away
| from the piers and the crowds of deep
water jag-enjoyers repaired below to seek
| out their old accustomed place in front of
the steamboat bars, the shock they expert
| enced was almost heartrending.
"Pop'n' ging rale n sasprella." was the dis
NAL word passed over the bars to them by
the Sour-iooking barkeeps.
Most of the disappointed ones at first
thought they were being mildly fooled by
the sulky-looking drink dispensers, but they
soon found out that there was no joke
whatever connected with the matter
The captain Of the harbor police had
placed a couple Of his cops. in plain clothes,
on board each OF the MISUNDERSTANDING,
incredible as the statement may SEEM even
the Coney Island boats-with instructions
to see to it that the enforcement Of the ex-
else law should be Of the strictest.
When this terrifying fact burst upon the
throngs on some of the steamboats, their
CONSERVATION took the form Of rioting, and
on these particular vessels the plain clothes
harbor policemen had about all they could
do to save themselves from being chucked
into the heaving surge by thtrst-infuriated
and desperate passengers.
Came Back Prepared.
The consequences Of this queer step on
the part Of the captain Of the harbor police
were precisely as, might have been looked
for in the circumstances. When the
parched excursionists arrived at their des-
tinations they raced for the nearest grog-
geries like SO many desert wolves making
for spring. By the time their boats were
ready to start on the return trips to New
York the passengers with the continuous
performance thirsts not only had large
black bottles snugly slowed away In their
rear pockets, but many hundreds of them
We're in possession of edges that made
them feel as If they'd little bit rather
see their boat scuttled or blown into the
circumambient than not. Such scenes as
ensued on the return trips of last SUNDAYS
excursion boats have probably not taken
place anywhere afloat since the fine bar
barrie orgies of the buccaneers of the seven
teenth century after the sacking Of an is
Just why this edict should have gone
Iortn last SUNDAY TO put oorks in the
steamboats, jugs is more than mystifying.
In view of the fact that right on the main"
land OF Manhattan about every groggery
from the Battery to the Bronx was wide
open on the same day, with no sign wha t.
probably method in the madness of the
captain Of harbor police who issued the
order He's a Tammany captain, and the
resumption is natural enough that he
wanted to seize the opportunity to make a
rev thousand Tammany votes at the pext
election. There seems to be little donht
q tna H. ne succeeded in his willy scheme. for
II the savage talk that went through the
steamboats, on Sunday morning last with
reference to the present municipaI regime
had any meaning at all it was that the
1t as his inalienable right to get az lirnnL
as he elects, and that woe is to betide anV
old political outfit that attempts to deprive
him Of this right.
An Automatic Life Preseryer.
While on this topic of boats, the police
and the like, the ferry boat employees sailing
on slip-to-slip crafts hereabouts have had
troubles Of their own during the past week
In picking certain determined and busf
ness-like young woman out of the water
She executed her first hop over the side
1Ioui OAc VI the w iii street FERRIES The
cry Of alarm was raised, and the boat was
backed to the young woman, a line was
thrown to her, and she came out of the
water quite handily, hand over hand. She
was about as clipper and smiling would
be suicide as ever was. She had no sooner
been rescued from a watery grave how
ever. than she began to expatiate to the
solicitous passengers who assembled around
her upon the merits of the "infiatable vest
which she wore. 1t was neat-looking con.
traption, a good deal on the order Of a
mans waistcoat, which automatically filled
itself with air upon contact with the
water. thus easily sustaining the winsome
young person who was thus uniquely push
ing 1t along In an advertising way. She
was permitted to go on this occasion, but
the next time, when she jumped over the
side Of one Of the Pennsylvania ferries in
the North river, she was arrested upon
the boats landing in New York II was
too manifest that she wasn't attempting
any such foolish thing as suicide however
and so the mere technical charge of disor-
derby conduct was made against her. She
paid her little fine with a cheerful smile
and since then she has been thrown a line
on no less than three occasions, when she
was blithely slid over the rail of fulI-speed
Terry boats for the purpose Of exhibiting