The sun., 1903-05-05
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| washington, ~. W. rpo'' '"'''" "P 49,
In the morning does he fee to cocktail
Oh, no. he knows something better, In hi
estimation. What IL II? Nothing but mil
and beer mixed
This is no Joke. Nowhere in civilized
communities save in Washington, ID. C.
is this drink known or used as 'bracer
You nlast pour In the milk first, then I'll
the glass with beer. plain. everyday lage
beer. III you pour in the beer hrst ana th
milk afterward The decoctiop VIII curdle
Now mind. all you metropolitan sports, I
YOU should turn up seedv ~ Inc morning
remember the Washington. ID. e., "bracer
It tastes so they say, somewhat like butter
milk.
why doesn't some wealthy philan
thropist take a trainload ofthe poor children
of the. East and West sides TO the country il
these early days of May"
The question was asked by a bald-headed
chunky man with just enough of an income
each year to toddle comfortably through
life; Il have just returned from a week
junket through New York and Pennsyl-
vania,' he continued. "and my but the
apple blossoms made one think Of heaven
Thousands and thousands Of the apple
trees are now like so many huge bouquets
all tints delicately shaded pnks. and ivory
a thousand times and yet I'm nothing but a
first st-cass pagan.
Wouldn't like to load up train of cars
with the youngsters of the East and West
sides and give 'em picnic that they'd re-
member to the last day of their lives
Thousands of these poor little kddies know
no more about the beauties of the scenes
through which have passed in the last week
than do about paradise. Would day s
picnic picnic = among the apple blossoms brighten
tented with the dismal and shabby sur
| roundngs to which they would return? l
don't know. jim another highbal!'
Many an old-time tavern and inn has
come to life again since the trolley cars
began to swing through the villages and
hamlets of New York and adjoining States
The majority of these ancient hostelrcs
were crumbling before the trolley lines
were open Not a few of the inns had
historic memories and attractive legends,
and this was notably true of those in New
Jersey and Pennsylvania and in certain
parts of New York State where Washing
ton and his armies and the Brtishers made
things interesting little over a hundred
years ago.
The railroads diverted travel to the big
towns and the inns and taverns either fell
into decay or became only squalid village
barrooms The trolley cars have changed
all this, and now on a hundred different
trips you can find the old-fashioned taverns
and inns. with their antiQuated appoint
ments. comfortable and hospitable spots
for a good meal and fine nights sleep
And you awake in the morning to the melo-
dies of singing birds and almost feel the
fragrance Of blossoming spring time.
Hugh Mclaughlin. for forty years the
leader of the Kings county Democracy.
has two fads outside of politics baseball
and pinochle He Is a bit of philosopher
He said the other day
"All things are better in these days. Take
prizefghting for instance. There have
been Just as many improvements in prize
fighting as in machinery. Look back at
the old days of Hyer and Sayers and Heenan
and Morrissey, when they fought with
bare knuckles and then at the spar,ing
gloves are used. Everything Is better,
including some of the politicians. hope"
"When cotton is so-so.- said Southerner
on the New York Cotton Exchange yester-
day, -we drink the drink Of our daddes-
mint iu!ep, brandy or whskey, sugar,
and sprig o mint. But when cotton is
a-booming, we drink the drink OF our grand
daddiesMSh;amPasse @ :; juleP,; sir; And we've
several months: Champagne .julep, sir,
was the great drink Of our grand and great
granddaddies, way back In Jacksons time,
sir. just change the brandy or whiskey
lOT CIld1nphRHe, pint 10 edcn RhSs, ana |
you have the champagne julep, sir"
Two specimens OF the billposter's art at
its hest or worst, according to ones point |
OF view, can be seen on Broadway. The |
old Sturtevant House. which will be torn |
down to make way for an office building,
is one specimen, and four buildings opposite
the Hotel Imperial make the other.
~ The buildings were were va vacated u,ea. on May /
They came in droyes with
scaffods, and in little time had completely
changed the look Of the buildings and of |
are so completely papered that droves Of
people stop to look az them. The paper |
will stay till the structures are torn down.
That Big Bill" Devery still has infu-
ence in the Police Department no one can |
doubt if he visits the Pump. When Devery
was Chief this corner was his headquarters |
at night. Policemen high in the depart
ment, and others who no longer have in |
fuence, can still be found with him at the |
Pump any night. These Devery adherents |
are OF all grades from patrolman to inspec- |
tor. Captains and sergeants are nightly |
visitors, and all seem to be nightly inter- |
ested in big Bills" affairs.
Casual visitors to the' racetrack this |
season have noticed that the tipster has !
fallen from grace. Tips and their venders
20 begging now, and it looks as If the day
of the professional tipstcr was about over.
Last year was prosperous for the tipping
business, but the revelations regarding
the many fraudulent turf concerns through
out the country have hurt it greatly. One
tipster who sold his tips rapidly last season
through many agents is doing his own
hawking now He travelled through an
sight-car train crowded with racegoers on
he way to the Jamaica track a few days
ago without being able to convince single
person that he was able to pick the winners
70 friend in the last car he whispered
bill, if this keeps up I'll have to go to
work.
There is a policeman attached to the
West Forty-seventh street station who has
been wearing the blue uniform for ten
years. few nights ago he handed in
written report that woman had been
aiken to a hospital suffering from sore