The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-11

Thers came, piping hot. to Newspaper
Row the other night the news that there
was peaos between tho Paul Kellys and
che Monk Eastmans. It came from every
quarter Of tho great East Side. Police Head
auartsn retold It. The Tenderloin had heard
rurnors Of Il. A voice from Hoboken begged
70 know II IL were true.
There was no escaping that news. Tho
tslephons wires humn1ed with 1t. 1t hoateo
up through tho windows from Park row.
and Q breathless courier. rushing upstairs
to TIE Gun Office. announced:
Say, dey're drinkin' high hats In Tom
sharkey's, an Paul an Jack shimskys
rive each odder de glad nit. An youse
wantsr put It In de pape dat shimsky said
faul done him fair
There came many and copious details:
How Kelly and shirnsky. meeting IN
Bovery saloon, had said to each other this
and that; how Mr. Kelly had subsequently
done Mr.. Shimsky In the third round IN
m improvised ring. marked out with beer
kess, In the cellar; Of the preliminartes
thereto and OF tho peacemaking thereafter,
begun by Mr.. Shimsky saying:
you done Inc Idu, eu ""As0'
Whatu y have2' i.
Then more details At the importance OF
Mr., Shinsky az tho heavyweight right
bower OF the redoubtable King Eastman;
Of tho gentlemanly demeanor OF Mr.. Kelly
In receiving the advances Of the conquered;
and, finally, of the slinking suspicion IN
high places that the expressed good IN
tentions OF the Eastmans might be only
q stall until they got The victorious keuys
In a tight fix.
And in the midst Of tho crop Of reports
from the front arose the query: VINO ~
Paul Kelly?'
THE sun reporter who went to Mulberry
street to find out was directed to dirty
staircase leading to a room over saloon
across the way from the green lamps OF
the police station. Tho windows bore In
clumsy lettering the legend, Paul Kelly
Association
.Dat's where de gang hangs out said
the proud small boy, whose thumb was
ierked from his pocket to point the way.
It was not a pleasant room. It was as
dirty as the staircase leading to it. Its
sole furniture was a battered table and q
few more battered stools.
It's door bore the marks Of heavy boots.
It's walls were ornamented solely by an
nouncements Of balls, by cheap Autographs
and woodcuts Of prize fighters and Of vari-
Gus East Side politicians. The countenance
OF the Hon. Timothy D. Sullivan, Congress
man from the district which embraces the
Bowery a. well AZ Wall street. occupied
prominent place.
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combined with many indescribably more
evil smells, filed the place. Hall a dozen
youths, several Of them obviously not yet
Of voting age and all somehow conveying
tho impression that their chief aim In life
was to look tougher than they really were,
sat quarrelling over pack Of greasy cards.
Mr.. Kelly was not around. It was ex-
planned that he had other hangouts.
He might be In the Italian restaurant In
Broome street near the Bowery. or again
at Diamond Tony's up the street, or even at
the Occidental Hotel, the Bowery's Waldorf
Astoria. But he was not.
In his absence, though, there was dis
closed great easerness to win reflected
glory for the gang by getting the gang leader
into the paper--if he got in right That Is,
Mr.. Kelly's picture could be had for repro
duction, with full particulars OF his weight,
muscle measurements and fistio prowess in
back room fights which never found place
in the sporting columns; but no details as
to his origin, means OF livelihood and man
ner Of life were forthcoming.
The curious will find an excellent picture
Of Kelly in the Rogues Gallery at Police
t. -
produce it here. 1t was taken In December,
two years ago. when he was sent to the
penitentiary for nine months by Recorder
GofY after conviction for assaulting an In
toxicated citizen In Elizabeth street and
robbing him OF his watch. and it Is con-
sidered good but not fattering likeness.
That it should have been there long before
II cheap crimes counted-the robbing Of
helpless men; the enticing from home md
the damning for future usefulness Of boys
who otherwise might have become re-
spectacle citizens; the leading astray Of
silly girls who didn't realize what It really
meant to be bad-all these things any
policeman who has done duty on the East
Side will tell you. They make tho story
Of the Paul Kelly gang, which Is very much
like the story OF any other East Side gang;
and they show how the tough youth, while
usually cheap braggart and potential
coward individually, can become In the
aggregate IN all pervading nuisance and
q source o. terror even to law abiding
community.
This particular gang leader ID . short,
olive complexioned. black haired youth,
who may be any age between 20 and 30. He
wears clothes which the Bowery accepts
as the pink OF fashion and gentility. pointed
patent leather shoes Of the type still stylish
In that region. some fashy jewelry, and a
watch which by right Of possession, at
Least, IN his own.
Ishere isn't anything in Kelly's face to
indicate tho nationality which that hon
oraSle name implies. 1t Is an open secret
In tho Paul Kelly Association-or gang. as
the police records have it-that its leader
real name Is Paolo Correln and that he is
an importation from sunny Italy, though
now az American citizen with the right to
cast vote.
Nothing helps an East Side gang leader
moro than . suggestion Of romance and
mystery. The gang has thrown mystery
about tho early life Of Paul Kelly When
tho beer flows freely. "a around election
time, it 10 darkly limited that in Italy before
the East Side got him he belonged to the
aristocraoy, but was forced into exile by
an unfortunate affair Of the heart with a