The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-02
REFLECTIONS As to New York and
OF CHAMES Are Are and aft Are Not Not.


understand you. For instance, de big
DE kind dat is raided. or de kind
dat raids?" butts in Mr.. Paul.
"Bote kinds" Whiskers says. Most
, of our big banks is run by men who
came here from de provinces"
OATS dude Iangwudge for long grass.
Besides de banks" Whiskers goes
on, our hotels. insurance companies,
municipal ofhcing and odder money
making institutions is run for formers
from over de sea, or beyond de Bronx
What do New Workers do. asks you?"
We'll" says Mr.. Paul. Il see dat you
| will be answered. Some New Workers
go to South Dakota. and some to New
port; but de main push goes to de
| races if dey is sporty. or to New Jer-
| sey, if dey is domestic. We is mostly
too strong to woik, and too bored to
! see that we gets fair deal; so farm
ers from de tall timber comes in and
i rakes off de pot, kitty and percentage.
Derefore de city is going to de dogs
| IS fast as it can find kennels to hold
itself. Strangers in New York is de
| only ones. dat gets any good out of de
| city. All dat most New Workers gets
out of de city is DER trunks"
But we should stop in New York"
says 5Whiskers, getting a mad on.
I'VE would stop in de city and
browse if we had de run of de pasture.
| but we refuses to be stalled" says Mr..
Paul.
"Nonsense!" says whiskers. 1--WE
has underground rapid transit almost
ready"
"Chames." says Mr.. Paul. toining to
me. you has been seeing de city
| how is rapid transit going on?"
Its getting on so swift" l says dat
| if dey don't take a wrap in de reins
and pull UP Bit" 1 says. deere is
babes alive at dis very minute dat will
live to see daylight" l says. "and some
OF EN- may take ride on de loop" L
says.
whats dat about a loop?" he says.
81 was talking about rapid transit"
| "Dey is bote ringers for each odder."
| says. Main lines. trunk lines. side
lines. double tracks, terminals-de
whole bunch is loops when dey comes
! out of de slot machine. When de
front of somebody's house slips into de
| rapid transit hole-in- background de
| Rapid Transit Board calls de Rapid
| Transit Mayor, and all de odder wise
mugs dat has Rapid Transit bugs, and
| dey all says. Let us get rapider.'
| Sure says de Mayor. Let us put
| in de loop below City Hail.
Den de Comptroller says, No. he
says, let us loop under de East River,
| five times and repeat, best tree in five
| to take de money
| Not a bit like it., says de Chief
| Engineer. Let us all get togedder and
loop from de old bridge to de new
! bridge, wit pretzel twist around de
| StaZ Sighton building for beer
| wit dat de Brooklyn Borough Pres
| ident makes holler. and he says, De
| foist loopde-loop dat is to be looped
is to be to Williamsburg and back
| Why back?' says de Mayor Dere's
| plenty of beer and teeatres in VILLAINS
hITr NEXrH 1dlx i
Den dey all resolves to loop over and
under and around all de bridges and
| rivers dere is. and de meeting adjolns,
| and reports progress. OATS de only
progress dat goes ahead"
Noting doing?" asks Mr.. Paul.
| only loops I says. When all de
| loops is done you can run around in
more kinds of scicles dan dere is in a
slice of raw onion. Dere will be thou
sand-nlile tickets for sale, and you can
ride EN- out to finish. and never get
half mile away from City Hall. Gents
| dat puts up scream to get to Harlem
| can do as dey do now: telephone to
WHEY to meet em half way; and dey
can dine near Long Acre Square AMI
call it a draw. De loops is coming for
fair, but de uptown tunnels, when dey
is finished is to be cut UP into sections.
and rented out for hotel wine cellars,
and ratskillers.'
! w ELI CHdIneS, says WHISPERS, att
er he'd taut while. You don't draw
hopeful picture f
Excuse me, Sir 1 says, if it's only
hopeful pictures you're looking for I'll
fetch you dope book on Rapid Tran
sit called Report of Progress. Tree
sure winners wired every day ain't in it
alongside
after ALL says Mr.. Paul, T suppose
dere isn't no longer any use for rapid
! transit out to Harlem. Years ago,
when desc tunnels was foist started,
folks still had to hike out to Harlem to
sleep, at least. Dat was before we de-
cided to build twenty-story hotels on
every corner, wit few chucked in be-
! tween for good measure
"'Wit all of de middle of de city COW
cred wit hotels dere is no more need
for a Harlem dan dere is for a public
clock in de Tenderloin, where every
man has a watch and no woman cares
what time it is
SAY, when Mr.. Paul gets talking fast
! he only says woids, not sense