Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-04-03

OF Baxter Street-ViSitS the Bowerv and
Becomes the Leading Attraction Of Freak
Show, After a Record Had Been Made for
Him in Which He Was introduced as "Ore.
son Frank the Boy Scout and and Indian
kIller" York Churches, Stately With
out and Beautiful Within, But Whited
Sspulchres Some Description Of Sights in
the Big City.
The streets in the neighborhood of
the docks were crowded with wagons
and everyone was rushing to and fro.
l began to feel lonely in the midst OF
this great noise and crowd; | was a
child of the Evergreen forests; a
stranger in strange land; 1 knew no
one, nor did any know me. A lot
Of hotel runners surrounded me as |
got on the dock and almost tore my
garments of in attempting to take me
to their particular hotel. A man in
uniform again came to my rescue and
asked me where wished to go. in
formed him did not know where l
did want to go, but thought to a
medium priced hotel. He called a car
riage- driver, to whom l gave my bag
gage-checks, and myself and baggage
were soon whirling up the streets of
New York. was taken to the Grant
House, ON New Chambers street.
After a warm dinner, l took stroll
called Baxter; it was lined with Jew
clothing merchants. One of them
grabbed me and had me inside ard
was selling me suit of clothes before
l could protest. They had just cap.
tured another fellow and were fitting
u coat Oh HIM. The old Jew would
grab the slack of the front of the coat
and tell him to look behind" how dot
goat did fidt him!" Then he turned
him around and took the slack in from
the back part of the coat and told
the fellow to "Yust look, how it did
fidt; it vas as tight as der skin on a
mool." / waited to hear no more, but
made my escape. This was my first
experience with those Baxter street
pullers-in. but not my last.
wandered up one street and down
another. Everyone seemed to be in
great hurry. Men walked like they
were going to make up for lost time.
Every time l would stop some one
would butt into me, and l would be
pushed and carried along until would
get in a human eddy some where,
then out into the current would 60
again. l tried to get back 10 my no
tel and got lost. met one of those
uniformed fellows again and told him
/ wanted to get back to my hotel.
well, why don't you 60 back" he
said. / informed him / did not know
where i, was. He asked me the name
OF my hotel, but had forgotten it. l
! told him it wac named arter a great
General. "Quarntell?' he inquired.
No, l replied. Buffalo Billw No.
" Sitting Bull?" No. "Jesse James"
No. "Well," he said, "these were
all great Generals; maybe it was
WashingtonT No, replied, but
that is just where came from. "Oh,
l see, you are just off the reservation" !"
l finally remembered the name, Grant
House. He said il was about four
miles down the street, and told me to
60 down until thought / was near it.,
then to ask another policeman, but
not to inquire of anyone else, or they
might take me off somewhere and rob
me. After long search / got back
all right to my hotel thankful to be
alive.
That night took a stroll up to the
Bowery. 1t was street eight or nine
miles long, and was lined with theaters
aud dime museums. 1t seemed like
fairyland to me. The great crowds,
the brilliantly lighted streets, and the
music on every side, caused the blood
of yours truly to tingle with excite
ment. 1t also made me warm, so I
raised my hat and let my hair (Which
as I stated before hung to my hips) 60
rolling down my back. then stopped
in front of . museum where great
canvas pictures were displayed, show
ing the fat-woman, the Circassian girl
with a great shock of hair and eyes of
blue that were never still, always
winking. The bearded lady who wore
q set of yellow and slick whiskers and
q mustache curled on ends; and there
was q picure of a woman holding q
couple of tons OF snakes of various
sizes. She was called the great and
only snake charmer. The crowd
around me began to get larger. After
l had studied the pictures on the can.
vas and began TO look At tho crowd /
found they were returning the compli-
ment and we're all gazing At me. /
went to the ticket-seller and got q
ticket and went inside of the museum.
On my right, as / went in, sat a great
big woman, whose arms were as big as
pillows and legs as big as bags of
grain aud about as shapeless; her body
was as big as a load of hay. She $50
the fellow that introduced me to her
said) was Miss O'Houllihan, a German
girl of Turkish parents, who went into
bankruptcy in trying to feed her; they
also broke down their health in carry
ing their daughters food up to her
room, when she was indisposed, or not
able to slide down after it. On the
next platform sat the Circassian girl,
from the Holy Land; she had great
shock of hair, and wore q dress cut
short at both ends. She was very
nice girl. l had quite chat with her.
She complimented me on my pretty
hair, and l returned the bouquet with
compound interest. Her name, so
the announcer said, was Carletia, and
that she was captured in the Garden
of Eden while hunting fig leaves to
construct q tailor-made suit. She had
formed the habit of going fully dressed
vet (Carletia would have created q