New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-20
big BILL" OF PUMP FAME.
HOsc DeUery Has Enlarged the Eng
ESh Tongue bY His Phrases.

IN spite OF his defeat the primaries last Tues
day. William 5. Devery, ex almost everything IN
-he Police Department announces his intention OF
running for Mayor on the Independent Peoples
tickat. HC does not know when he is down and
out" and under the emblems % the bug" and
The pump he viii go into the fight under pressure
p the handspring o. desire 'to put q crirnp into
T@r1narv." rs De SAYS After his behavior In the
-Nth Assembly District when ne saw that he
beaten hv "a Tammany combine, his aspirations po-
Iucauy do not deserve q second thought but the
man and his language bizarre and picturesque,
may ue dvclt upon.
Tho same week that saw the real opening OF his
wonderful campaign he discovered that his fame
as p language maker had crossed the Atlantic
Even -he most conservative English magazines are
SEEING upon his slang TIE National Review,
~ London. spoke Of him the other day as "our
friend RW Deve-y." and quoted him as saying
- some one Hes dead 'uu' That this particu-
lar phrase b. not in Big BHs" vocabulary need
not worry The National" he STANDS FOR"
great deal more than he ever 'moutned'
As n 81 was not enough Tor him 20 be taken up
-, the English. this week his friends made
the discovery that he had broken into the new
est dictionary. A supplement containing all Of
he newest scientific terms has been ISSUED for
Che Standard Dictionary. There, 9inong the dig
r.fod array ~ words from aut0car 10 radium. is
pig Blrs" own beloved 'chesty." The dictionary
has % thus:
-.Chosty-chcst-y. pronounced chesti. q tslang
United statcsD: manlfestinE aggressive self-con-
eet buuipl0uaucss. affected pretensiOns"
credit g. not given 20 him who coined tho word
or az least pgt t iase circulation. Is the CIR
oumstauce o. Its birth recorded. u came without
warning one day from that mill OF new words and
strenuous phrases which Devery used 20 run in
MulbeFry-st lie had reduced Captain George Nc
Clusllv and sent him from the head 81 the de
rectlVe bureau 70 the basement OF the Grand Cen
trol Station. which holds the Twenty-hfth Pre-
circt station house. Asked his reason, Devery re
uIieE: "Oh. he's too chesty"
Ii was early in 1901 that 'Deyerylsms" began
20 reach The public ear. ana stick there. DeVery
was deputy police commissioner AT the time and
The real head OF the metropolitan police force.
once week hc held trials at police headquarters
and there delivered himself Of some OF the most
remarkable language that ever spoken
when he finally lost MS grip on the department
q police and went into politics. be continued 20
talk after a fashion entirely his own. Now that
he Is running for Mayor he Is taking more care
20 speak correctly. far as the grammar OF IL
IS concerned Yet every now and then new words
irresistible. distinctive. highly original turn
old crops
4 amt making language" Devery insisted the
other afternoon. and 7 Amt going 10 write no
dictionary when ] get this Mayor business over
with I just speak plain everyday American. I
belong the people and talk Ike the people under
stand. a lot OF the sayin's charged ID 10 me
LsnN true 5lls-I never said err. but that don't