Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-04
BOSS OEvERYS TRAIN.
Wild Orgies on Trip to
Saratoga.
BOOZE IN ABUNDANCE
GoTHAM'S COAL SHORTAGE
GROWS VERY SERIOUS.
Animal Prize Fights at the zoo-Ap-
palling Record Of Crime Dur
ing September.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

carried Big Bill DeVery ana MS CO.
horts of "de mint up to Saratoga
on Monday morning last Many thou
sands Of curious New Workers purpose
ly took the Monday forenoon off for the
purpose Of repairing to the New York Cen
trail spur at 18th avenue and 33d street to
watch the departure of the motley crowd of
Deveryftes. The delegates from the other
city districts to the Saratoga convention
exhibited their gratitude toward Devery for
one thing at least, and that was because
Devery had the forethought not to start his
gang from the Grand Central station There
would probably have been many a broken
head had the Devery outfit and some of the
other assembly district delegations got to-
gether at the Grand Central station Devery
was wise enough to know this, which was
why he had his big special train run on to
the spur on 18th avenue
from the looks Of the outfit the Devery
party had apparently remained I'D all night
SO as 10 make sure of catching the train 1t
would be hard to duplicate such a sodden
plear-eyed gang of rooters for and idolators
OF politician. They swayed and roared
around the point of embarkation for hours
oelore the big special was booked to get
under way. Each of the Deyeryites seemed
TO nave one or more large black bottles nro
truolng from rear pockets. The bottles were
handed around with great hospitality while
ene gang waited for the train. and many
scraps were started, all of which the bnge
ex-chief stopped in their fnciniencv nv
mere oaleful glance Of his awful eye.
Two Carloads of Booze.
Two OF the cars Of the special train wer.
sven over 10 antl-temperance purposes,
bars running the length of these cars were
ee' ny ana furnished after the style of the
conventional New York groggery. A bag
gage nil o5 ~
beer and ale and boxes of ease goods"
and whole corps of toueh-Ioolxinp har-
Keeps We're kept busy attending to the
CROWD .wd with the quenchless thirst Big Bill
llstailed huge bouncer in each car to
maintain order and to chase ont such If
Devery's "constitootents'' as eyfnced dc
position to anchor themselves permanently
IN the rum cars, thus keeping others enti-
eleu TO the privilege of the free dispensary
from extfnguishing their inward fires The
bouncers had their work cut out for them
from the moment that the cars were
thrown open, before the train left the sta
LION ana long before the special got under
way the car aisles were filed with leerine
rooters who had all they could do to stand
up. Devery and his carefully selected
ounch or choice spirits kept one Of the cars
mint began the game known as "openin'
Wine at just about the time that many
new Workers were taking their morning
coHee. At intervals Big Bill would walk
other. correcting the over-enthusiastic
bawlers with a few short words growled
out or one corner of his mouth squirting the
sergeants-at-arms Of the booze cars and
exercising general supervision. The big
prass band that played hot ragtime melo-
dies for couple of hours before the train
started continued its exertions in the vari-
Gus cars, and the wing and buck dancers
Of the outfit had glorious time of 1t in
the aisles.
Hat Tossing Diversion.
A feature Of the ride which appeared to
be vastly enjoyed by the Deveryites was the
hat tossing. They found it immensely d.
verting to suddenly snatch the hats from
the heads Of each other and hurl them out
of the windows of the speeding train, SO
that the main line of the Central must have
been Uttered with a queer assortment of
peanut" derbies Of the Chuck Corners
block all the way to the springs. The train
couldn't help but remind the unprecedented
onlooker of special train bearing a gang
Of sports" to a surreptitious woodland
prize fight. When the train pulled into the
Saratoga station the springs hackmen
reaped harvest. They were able to make
their own terms with the ex-chief too, on
account of the large number Of his followers
who weren't in shape to navigate to the
quarters provided for them at the Spa. The
incapables were incontinently dumped into
the calashes, and, most of them singing
happily at the top of their voices, with their
legs stuck out of the vehicle windows, they
presented an interesting picture to the CON
sentative all-the-year-round residents of the
springs. Not since the day or The renowned
John Morrissey, prize fighter and politician,
has Saratoga been swooped upon by such a
remarkable parcel of roaring individuals as
the Deveryites. and, greedy as they are up
in Saratoga for the money of Sojourners
good many Of the Saratoga folks have ex-
pressed the earnest hope that the democracy
of New York will hold its future conven-
lions somewhere else SO long the party is
saddled with the impossible Devery outfit
Lack of Coal in Gotham.
Washington is apparently being hit pretty
hard by the coal strike, but the Distress
present and prospective, down there cannot
be a circumstance to the trouble which i'm
Ponds In New York owing to the lack of
coal. They have stopped talking of the coal
strike in testing terms over here, for, with
the cold weather drawing nigh and the hum
dreds of thousands of poverty-stricken folks
in this town, the situation looks pretty seri-
Gus. Occupants of the tenements who buy
their coal by the bucketful now paying
for 1t at the rate of more than a cent a
pound.
Boarding houses are being closed by the
wholesale, the proprietors and proprietresses
of such establishments being unable to get
a livelihood out of their business with coal
at such prohibitive figure. The ordinary
rates for clearinghouse entertainment have
been increased by about one-third SO that
persons who give up keeping house for
the sake of lodging the coal problem find
that they have only jumped out of the fry
ing pan into the fire. Flat rents have
never before been put at such stiff figures
and there is an unusual exodus of families
to the Jersey and Long Island and West
chester suburbs for this season Of the year
Dozens of failures of retail coal dealers
who contracted last spring to deliver large
quantities of coal at the prices then cur
rent are being announced. Many of the
schools will have to close their doors as
soon as the chilly weather sets in, 1t is said,
owing to the lack Of coal.
Use of Peat for Fuel.
One of the odd manifestations Of the stu
alton Is that peat, which has rarely been
used as fuel in this country, as it is in
some of the old countries. has come into
great demand, and the owners of the Long
Island peat boys are consequently making
big money and naturally are roofing for
the longest possible protraction of the
strike.
The city departments are so shy of coal
that the employees thereof have already be-
gun to growl over the dampness and the
lack of heat in the city buildings, for the
chilly season has set in unusually early
over here this year, and what coal the city