Evening star., 1903-08-15


pile of camp stools. Then he addressed
the crowd In mild tone.
Ladies and gentlemen" he said. IT beg
to request that you will all. with the chill
dren retire. within the saloon for a brief
period There's little work to be done
here and space will be needed"
The terrified people didn't quite grasp
what the young mans idea was, although
they probably suspected what he had in
mind. They all got up and passed quickly
into the saloon. In the meantime the ruff
nan was gazing at the sinewy young man
Win an expression of mingled amazement
Wot dyouse t'ink youse is goin' L do.
Algy! ne inquired of the young man, who
stood Quietly waiting for the forward deck
to be entirely cleared
Il m going to knock your block Off lack,
the young man. whose shoulders somehow,
iooked heap bigger in his shirt sleeves
than they had looked with his coat on.
calmly replied, and then I'm going to
stun you in a little dark room down be-
low. where you'll have a chance to rub
yourself and think it over"
which, 1t is delightful to record, was no
sooner said than done. The Cherry Hill
IihAeo-aier made tremendous rush for
the young man and swung at him with both
@ .lands at once. but the young man hap
pened to be elsewhere. The shirt -seeved
young man then proceeded to trim the
grant Dully much after the fashion with
Whlch a scientific pugilist Ike Kid Mccoy
would trim longshoreman The ruffian
never got within two feet of hitting the
quiet-spoken young man. and every time
he leaped forward to make a landing he
caught right or left handler on the face
or head that sounded like the cook pouna-
ing steak with the rolling pin Inside
of two minutes he looked as If he had been
toying with the young affections of a
brooklyn trolley car going at full speed
Just as it could be seen, the young man
in his shirt sleeves intended that he should
look before getting the finishing jab. Then
the young man gave'a splendid exempIifica-
ton of the famous pivot blow, known only
to the most skillful boxers. 1t landed on
the Ioafers chin. and he went down like
an improperly stacked heap of lumber
overturned by sudden squall. The young
man bent over. picked the unconscious ruff
fan up as If he had been sack of salt.
threw him over his shoulder, and toted him
down to the glory hole" which was point
ed out to him by one of the steamboats,
omcers. The loafer was kept there until
the boat reached Rockaway Beach, where
he was thrown. still more or less "out,"
into hurry wagon and conveyed to the
lookup
The young man resumed his hat and
coat and sat down and enjoyed the fiddle
and-harp music for the remainder of the
ride He had plenty of offers to dip into
savory-looking lunch baskets all over the
boat but he wasn't hungry
His name was Lionel Barrymore brother
of Ethel Barrymore, and son of his dad
from crown to heel. which is about enough
said, considering the fact-which is not
generally known-that Maurice BARRYMORE
the now insane actor was once the cham
pion amateur pugilist of England
A Moral Question.
There is a current and widely distributed
notion in this country that women. taken
as whole. are more honest in money
matters than men. This may we'll be- 1t
seems to be certainly true with regard to
their payment of just debts-all collectors
unhesitatingly declare that women are far
more punctilious in the matter of satisfy
ing their creditors than men. But in the
matter Of petty pilfering, an affair that
occurred over here the other day has an
odd look One of the largest department
stores in New York discharged, at one fell
swoop. nearly all of the saleswomen en-
ployed on one of its vast floors for thievery
carried on on small scale.
The devices the women reSorted to in
order to drag down small bits of money in
making sales had to do with the alteration
of slips. and that sort of thing. The de-
.tectives who worked on the case made per-
fectly certain that they were right before
the pilfering girls were let out in body.
They presented an elaborate report as to
how the thieving had spread on that one
floor after having been started by a couple
of girls of former bad records in that re-
Spect Catch methods were put into play
all over the establishment to try out all
of the employees. and it was found to a
tainty that the stealing was confined to the
one floor, and, worse than that, exclusively
to the saleswomen, although there were
many male employees at work that one
floor. This is not set down here with the
idea that it proves anything. except. per-
haps, the old adage about the one rotten
apple in the barrel But it is sufficiently
curious in it's deviation from the accepted
notion with respect to the superior honesty
of women to be worth recording, If only
as an item of news.
|. To be set against the story, however. Is
this fact, which the writer stumbled upon
the other day: All of the Broadway cigar
dol larG ynn hnr rod ftni.
statesmen and put saleswomen in their
places report that not only have their
sales vastly increased, but that their stock
takings tally with their accounts to
nickel-something that never happened, it
seems, when the statesmen were in charge
of these stores. The proprietors of these
Broadway cigar stores were asked If they
attributed these facts to the superior hon
esty of the women employes-for 1t was
imaginable that the increased sales. at
least, were due to the presence in the stores
of pretty and attractive girls behind the
counters To man the cigar men replied
that they attributed the whole business to
the superior honesty of the saleswomen
A Park Row druggist, about month ago,
discharged the ten young men who drew
soda water for the hordes of customers
who fiocked into the place for such regale-
ment and employed girls In their places
This is drug store where no check or cash
register system is used. The druggist found
that on the day following the installation
of the girl soda water drawers his soda
water receipts increased % per cent and
the same ratio of increase has been MAIN
tanned ever since.
Because of the attractiveness of the
girls at the faucets?" he was asked by this
writer the other day.
''No-because the girls don't knock
down." was his instantaneous reply.
And there you are-you pays your money
and you takes your choice. Z. Il. =.
Concerning Baths.
From the Philadelphia Record