Evening star., 1902-08-23

system or business basis He became an
institution. known to all hands In any way
connected with the city governments Of the
past ten years. Before he took hofd Of The
business the sick In Bellevue the paupers
the prisoners, the mildly insane who read
newspapers, had TO trust to chance 10 pct
their reading matter, or 20 the thoughtful
ness Of friends-these that had any friends
The youngster perceived this, and started
his business
On this afternoon. ten DAYS or so eeo
then, when he stepped of the city boat
ana calmly announced to his friend the
cop on the dock. that he had sold hiS last
pape' he had a pretty good record to lock
back upon for lad Of eighteen In adai-
tion TO this good record to glance back upon
he had the tidy matter of just ten ttoii-
SAND collars. pat, tucked away in one OF
the stanchest banks I'm New York
L m too big geeZer L be sellin' pones
no more, was the way he put II. Mes f'r
a plant o me own"
So he sold his route for an amount I'm
four figures to a full-grown man and he's
now getting his plant" in order. II ia
line plumbing establishment wen To-
Gated on fine business street up town
Hes going 10 be boss plumber although
ne doesn know anything much about the
Plumbing trade. His end of il will he al
right, however. for he has secured the
promises OF scores of CITY officials that they
VIII give him all OF their plumbing jobs
nile ne Is going to he the proprietor OF
the plant, he is not going to be too ,,rnud
10 don the jumpers and oyeralls for a few
years and work as helper for one Of his
own employees. in order 10 master the trade
OF plumbing himself. For a half day every
day he'll devote himself TO learning The
trade The other half he will devote 10
taking In the money and keeping track
of il.
Those who foolishlv maintain thai all ~
the opportunities for self-made individuals
disappeared long time ago are invited 10
reflect bit upon the history of thls plucky
gamin.
pe-Smoking Town.
Next to London. Brooklyn is perhaps as
big pipe-smoking community as there
Is In the world. The thrifty BrookIynite
Is probably not King Cole so much from
choice as from motives Of economy-for
the building association fourishes in Brook
iyn like a green bay tree. and Rrooklvn's
proportloEate contribution to the census
Is annualy greater than that of anv other
great American city. according to the sta
@tlstleai @ snarps' However it may be. along
toward the hour when the hundreds of
thousands of Brooklyn men are hustling
toward their New York Jobs on the other
side of the water I'm the morning, you'u
see as great confiagration of tobacco I'm
the powlS or pipes of every type and de-
gree as the world affords Nine out of
ten OF the Brookiynites then have their
cuttleS or the equivalents thereof aelow
anu thefe Is a mixed fragrance OF nicotia
on the streets OF Brooklyn that ought TO
be of tremendous disinfecting effact
Wei, up To about ten DAYS ago the
eierated railroad companies of Brooklyn
that, during the rush hour I'm the morning,
run their trains from all parts Of Rrook-
Iyn straight over the bridge to New York
mad provided the Brooklyn smokers with a
smoking car on each train. This was a
great comfort unto the Brooklynites The
fun they had in stuffing and rcstuffIDp.
their dudeens and putting away as tbay
read their papers on their way to work
on the Brooklyn Il trains was something
that they Dragged nightly about to their
New York friends. who have eyer been nm
provided with smoking facilities on tho Il,
trains on Manhattan. Ten days ago. for
no given reason, the L companies sudden
~ Withdrew the morning smokers and the
thousands of putting BrooklynItes who
swarmed onto the /. platforms ono rnorn
ing were roughly ordered by the station
attendants to cut ont dat fumin' wit hav
IN dem punk pipes That morning the
Brooklynites reluctantly. very reluctantly,
obeyed. and went smokeless unto their
labors on this side of the bridge They
groWled good deal to each other on their
way to work however, and not few OF
them evinced disposition to light up their
pipes IN defiance of the Withdrawal OF the
smokers. on any all OF the cars
on the next morning after the smokers
were Withdrawn. however. the pine smok-
ers, all of the smokers. in fact. took a very
direct course indeed. They crowded SQUARE
in TO one of the cars, the rear one as n
rule, lit up their pipes just as IL the car
they chose had been a smoker so lesignat-
ed by the company, and smoked away in
great contentment. When the L guards
ordered them to desist they smiled cheer
fully. How could the l. guard at the end
OF the car force a whole ca rful of robust
men TO stop smoking if they showed a de-
cided determination to smoke? The L,
guards valued their hides and they did
not attempt to enforce the order. At the
end of their run they simply reported the
state of things to their superiors.
On the following morning too. the
Brooklynites quietly seized unto their own
purpose one whole car on each train and
smoked in the same to their hearts con-
tent. Flaring signs greeted them on the
station walls to the effect that persons who
smoked on the cOmpany's cars would he
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
law" and such other rubbish, which
amused the Brooklynites a great deal. The
companies invoked the aid of the Brooklyn
police, and were fatty Informed that the
police force was not maintained by the
taxpayers for the purpose Of enforcing the
rules and regulations OF corporate inter-
ests. The companies next tried the scheme
of putting onto the lines during the morn
ing rush hour smoking cars inconceivably
filthy, their idea being to disgust the
smokers. but this little plan failed, too.
The smokers politely but firmly declined
to ocupy the dirty smoking at all.
but went right ahead with their scheme
of seiZing Of the clean cars on each
train for their purpose.
Five days after the companies withdrew
the smokers they put them back. They
had TO. The people Of greater New York
are truly said to be like sheep In that they
will stand for more outrageous imposi-
tions than any other people in the world,
so that ii is refreshing TO see them get to-
gether once in a while and accomplish
even minor victory as that achieved
by the pipe putting Brookiynites. c. l.. c.