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The Type Hunter paused to take breath
! and pointed out still another suburbar
couple coming In guilty. His Types
certainly did him credit. II they had 10
hearsed their parts they could not have
fitted them better.
The trouble with being wicked now
adays,' he continued. lis that people don
know what to do. There was time. Tor
inst in the drama when the Adventures
wishing 10 show her hand, simply lighted
a cigarette at the peychologto moment'
That was all that was necessary; et-
planned the situation and every woman in
the audience understood 1t was ges-
so finished so terse and 10 effective. But
let the Adventures light cigarette now;
what does IL meanp Less than nothing
-H's the same way with slumming. Peo:
pie used to slum with bated breath Ano
inuffled oar; now they don't slum st al.
It's too mnocuous: as innoouous - the
French ball or a revival Of the Black Crook,
which our parents thought the wtckeoeW
thing on earth.
Even Chinatown is a dead issue. except
TO study the would-be wickeds-no old
FOUNDERS, none OF the Murray Hill con-
tingent, no more, no more.
The Type Hunter beckonsd TO TO the dsit,
Gin" (his name was Gin slingl. Gin ap-
parently knew the Type Hunter and mani.
tested no surprise at the meagreness OF
the Patient Party's repast, as the score was
paid.
The next place, In the still hunt for Types.
was a fteen-cent lunch place. where . largo
signboard outside announced to tho M
served within. For fear that there might
he some mistake as to what complete
meal was. the signboard obligingiy speci::
acd soup, q roast. two vegetables and
Pie.
The Type Hunter led the way down
ow-ceied, whitewashed room. At ono
end was a counter where the food was
passed to the walters by the cooks
1T reminds me, said the Type Hunter:
I saw once in W stern town: 'Good
HI, arrival created little surprise In the
habnues Of the place. who apparently be-
eved that one can do only q single thing
well a. time Napoleon, who Ia said to have
becn able TO do six, to the contrary.
Ths % wst Ths Sy %o pc. iaS
Yielding Woman In that line: she either
had to stand her ground or retire ignomini-
ously To their credit be Il said that.
like the Government service, there were no
retrements.
.I ain't troubin'. ssc,d one young nasden,
Of the Maggie type. sMy steady'll brtr 8
me mine.'
This seemed to be the etiquette Of the
plare and the men showed their devotion
10 their -best girls by getting s much
solid nutriment as possible In the soup
all. perhaps that Is just a. great q test Of
devotion as chocolate bonbons-it Il merely
n point Of view. The Type Hunter aasured
his Patient Party that this was 30. He
ponted out one couple who had taken
l@r IL,
ne first started TO study Tyres.
Tho types in the fifteen-cent place were
as varied as the ingredients Of the SOUP.
At one corner stood messenger boy read
ing Bayou Ben: or the Boast Of the Bog
Boys while he managed to eat his dinner
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stone, lettered in the old style. -i2 miles
from n. York. The multitude OF pits
upon it's face prove the excellence OF some
local ortsmans aim with the shotgun in
old times.
Five tall pear trees and wild cherry
tree grow In a semi-circle about the thirty
or more headstonee. within few yards
Of which the excavator's pick and shovel
have alrea dy reached. A few rods to the
east OF this cluster Of graves there u
real cemetery. known as the Nagle Buryin4
Ground, where repose the ancient lords
and masters Of the soil In this plot inter-
ments are yet made.
In slavery days nercabouts IL Was the
Gus, ON 10 inter the reniains Of bond ser
wants in a plot set ASIDE for that purpose.
The last authe ntic plot Of this character
within the city limits is situated near the
borcer OF Long Island Sound, and beside
1e Hunts Point roao, which separates the
slave plot from the old LeRset ana Hunt
burying ground, whore lies Josepi. Rodnan
Drake, author Of It 20 Culprit Fay and
-The American Flag"
As for the burial Of slaves In Colonial days
the law provided how simple such cere-
slave rising prompted the passing Of an
act which ordered that ell regroee ard
lnoian slaves dying within the city should
I've buried by daylight Later this wes
amended. to provide that not more than
twelve slaves should attend any funeral
under penalty Of public whipping. No
pail. gloves or favors Of any sort we're to
be used, and any slave who wss found TO
nave held pail or favcr wac to b, publicly
whipped at the discretion Of IT,. Mayor or
one Of the corporation. BY the law OF 1872
master was finhle TO fine Of ten shillings
II any OF his slaves were buried after sunset
The burial Of slaves had heen MADE the
subject Of legislation as early ss October,
i684, and the act probably forbade the
private burial Of slaves. for a citizen Of
Albany was fined twelve shllings for in
terring his slave ina private and sus
picious manner
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and prospective Major and chief teleg-
rapher Of the army, might be called freak
because he is unique He IL telegrapher
At the White House. and without leaving
Colonel in the Volunteer Signal Corps
during the Spanish and Philippine wars;
and is now seventh In the list OF Captains
in the Signal Corps.
Capt. George ", Kirkmsn, Twenty NTH
Infantry, is unusual because of his pull and
his record lie was Captain In the Twelfth
Infantry, and Major in the Forty-ninth
foOO, he was cashiered for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct In the streets Of
Manila. He came home at once. and q
special act Of Congress put him hack In the
army on June II, 1900, just seventy-two
days after he had been fired out
Tie Army Register for 1901 showed that
lie had been dismissed from tne Volunteer
service, but that for loo2 SAYS simply that
lie was -ou; Of service March 81. 1900 He
was never restored to the Volun teer service
Lieut.. Samuel S, O'Connor Of the Artil-
lery Corps is notable because he Ia prob
ably the only officer In the Army who was
d commissioned officer In the British service
lie served as an enlisted man In the Eighth
Infantry, otherwise the Liverpool Regi-
ment, In Egypt and South Africa. and Ike
Sir Hector Macdonald. preferred tornmis-
siOi, ia the Victoria cross as q reward for
saving an officers life: but he resigned In
1885, came 70 this country, was naturalizsd,
and after some years in the National Guard
and service in the Volunteers In 1898. landed
in the Artillery
Co. Rilii.rJ a. Pratt iitular commander
of tn TIL. t .nth Cavalry. but actually
conInandint 9th, Indian School at CarisL.,
Pa, is cut of th ordLiary bpcaus. he hasn't
-,rv,d Will t.uops for at least tw, nty
years H. As Just be, promoted Colon,l
and has ask "a 10 b mad, Biigadiur a n
oral, hat h may 1, tir, as such.
Big .-G' n. John W. Cous, retired, In
romar kabic for his know, dgc Of law. H.
us' q to make IL a rule TO be- admitted to
practis-' al the bar In ~, ~ STATE Ia which
IA, was station 4, and is a Inc .nb, u NOR,
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HAUNT OF TIE srccEssrrT ARTIST
they are the 'sifted wheat they are quiet
In their tastes and dress; they do not wear
their hair long, and dropping neckties; they
are even married sometimes. The AVERAGE
BohsmiAn believes that every article, even
Of the feminine variety, must be printed
protest against euch heresy. Fxaggera,ion
Is not art. This club has proved that
The Types certainly were quiet and had
about them the indefnable air Of having
done things. and having done. them well.
without fuss and Juror. Cele6rated . mel,
and women were pointed out, quietly taking
post-theatre suppers, young ihsn giving
parties, correctly chaperoneG; solitary
figures enjoying the arn,isements Of others.
II was all very peaceful One felt like ordsr-
ing Ice cream and lady fingers for dessert.
introduce a foreign custom in hcre,' said
the Type Hunter. as after dessert, he led
the Patient Party through the reception
rooms Of the club, pointing out yan 9n'
~. ~sr soo OF :r S II asd Sam Se os.s
to 80 abou, among the tables, chatting
with the members, asking them II thei.
steaks and chops were all right. ana
40 on, o. they do In the rathskellers on tho
III didn't work. The first chef was al!
right: he was Frenchman. and knew ~,
place, but the second was a full-blooded
6ibernian, and insisted on breaking into
your conversation 10 give his views on tho
Organization OF Tammany. We had TO
stop Il. The idea Is all right. but the appli-
cation was ell wrong. How could any one
give Q dissertation on the possibility OF
living on Art Nouveau and mineral water
with q red-faced chef hanging over his
chair with his inevitable 'Sorr.'
ITS all very well to put the maids IN
Dutch costume. and stems on. the wall
and imitation lie Il, ,Gs along the ceiling
but w must end there, This club repre-,
sents the conservative element IN ART ana
all thess Gimcracky idoas are as incon-
gruous as reciting Rushin would lie at
vaudeville entertainment
we will now" proceeded the Tyre
Hunter. scpd our Progressive Dinner. with
liqueurs and coff 81 an all.nigl place.
Tho Patient Party went back to Broad
Inc place was so old and so well estab-
lished that 1t did not med gltterins at
fractions TO emphasize itsuf. II vas
crowded with q mob which presented
strange contrasts Of energy and relax
that WAS tired-if would ssom TO the
student, t'Iod of everyt hing. even gayty.
II was dlffe ent from tho bird and bottle
placs, for tn, r sparkle and life and go.
. emed to b. all; tn. W was no thought Of
tragedy or the inevits b @ to-mprTow. Here,
there was only the ven e" ~ gay, ", and
ono was conscious all tne time that the
crutt was very thin. p, rhal he Patient
Party were weary them clN,s. ~ any
ratio they hurried away from III cosmo--
politan crowd Of tho night world ard did
not breathe IN ely until they w,rc in the
open air again.
THE wofst Of Progressive Dinners" said
the Type Hunter as he felt In his pockets
for csrfare, lis the enormous expense In
tips
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tol.D hoi AND = NV "ihbs
thorities a unit in the great En- which
pulses and throbs in the crowded streets Of
beloved Manhattan.
To study this En- in sections, to find
weird places where unusual specimens love
10 linger, to begin at the top and dig way
through successive strata. or vice versa,
is the ambition of the Type Hunter. Hence
the Progressive Dinner.
I'VE will begin in Chinatown said the
Type Hunter. THAT Is the best place to
study the Suburbanite.'
One who did not know might think the
suburbs would be the proper locality. but
that very conclusion shows lack of funda-
mental information. according TO the Type
Hunter. for the Type must be studied out
of its environment. Be it ever 90 humble
it's better than home-for that purpose.
The trouble with the Type is that it u too
apt to put on. like the chameleon Of ira
dtion. the color of it's habitat-and 30 away
from the suburbs for the Suburbanite.
When the Suburbanite wants to slum;
when he has reached point when he must
slum, he goes to Chinatown. He has heard
that to visit Chinatown once will satisfy
the ordinary summer all through his life.
anu tne hnDltion OF tne ouDuTDaIlto Is
to be satisfied. His motto is. Il shall be
satisfied. but, oh. not here'-the Here
refers. OF course. to that mysterious locality
always within -an hour which Is called
the suburbs.
SO it was decided to take the appetizer
In an Oriental restaurant. The appetizer
was to consist of sharks fins, 30 the Patient
Party was informed. Sharks hns and
6uburbanites! That was the combination
offered by the Type Hunter.
Didn't tell you so3' he muttered In
the first moment Of arrival. a. his eye caught
the sure-enough suburban couple sitting
at the table nearest the door. To sit a.
near the door as possible Is the way OF the
amateur in Summing. 1t means q quick
road to safety when occasion requires.
There was nothing very wicked looking
about the Chinese restaurant. Reepecta-
bility perched like dragon over the door;
the felt-toned and felt-slppered waiter
moved noiselessly about. helping them to
chop suey, shuki, saki and other Chinese deli
cacies, but the suburban couple were mani
festly uneasy. The solidity Of the teak
wood tables and chairs, the undoubted
cleanliness OF everything, even the table,
cloths. the quiet behavior Of the other
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ThE Ar 4. ". SrO"D
salad couple still arranging their chicken
and mayonnaise and the big family with
their heads In their stems.
Imagine going into an American restau-
rant and making sponge cake, said the
hippantest girl Of the purity.
The Patient Party hated to go without
ing the completion OF the aalrd, but the
Type Hunter assured them he would bring
them again some time at in the afternoon
and they could stay right through. Time
was made for slaves and Americans ap-
parently.
We will now" said the Type Hunter,
visit the places where do congregate the
Ovarter Cent, In other woIds, the Four
Hundred Of the restaurant habit.
The Patient Party left the cars and strolled
toward Fifth avenue, in the neighborhocd
Of the Twenties.
1T ia here said the Type Hunter. that
we get the roast
The true artist knows his light and shade
and really. 10 do the Tyro Hunter credit
he timed Nis contrasts well
From the German restaurant to the
Fifth Avenue was big jump. dramat ily
speaking II was the kind OF place where
one felt inst iEctively that the head waiter
would resign II one ate with the wrong
fork. There was a subdued air Of cheer
fulness. the lights were shaded and the
conversation also. Everything was quite
AZ il should I've. There were men there
who prided themselves on being able 10
order a good dinner-and could not do
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even an abaornal desire for the unusua!
The soubretts was one of many. The
feminine eaomsnt In ths place was largely
represented BY young women OF the ex-
seeersted species, whose big pompadours
and wide brimmed, scoop-shaped hats all
gave them the appearance Of having been
pusAsd vio,sntiy "a the back by an auto
mobile or some other huge mechanism
and ha aving their attire follow their forward
luroh4s. The masculine element predomi
mated. nearly every woman having con
tingent Of two, three. four or hvs-in the
stYte u the Latin Quarter. whore IN escort
Of tees than ten argues q waning popu-
hrity.
we win now said the Type Hunter.
take the taste out q our mouths by a re-
he took his party toward q side street
near Fifth avenue and conducted them.
iinrssisting - usual, TO his pot club.
He pointed out the shelves filled with
copper and brass utensils. the pretty
waiereoDee In Dutch costumes and the soft
green of malachite furniture and fittings.
Isn't It jolly and home hke?' he In
AftSr the bird and bottle place, 1t GER
tainly did look serene,
"The Types one finds here said the
Type Hunter, -one might cell the Balance
Wheels Of Bohemia. They are. generally
speaking. artists. writers. sculptors, but
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SOME UNUSUAL OFFICERS.
ARMY AND NAVY PEOPLE WHO
ARE OUT or THE ORDINARY.
Some Remarkable for Their Pull the
Richest Ofilcer--One Who Was . British
On,cer-C0i. Pratt and Capt. Loef1er
Three Former COngressmen In the
Am,-CoI. Ing alis. the Artillery Sharp.

WAsHINGToS, Feb, i4,--There are a
number of officers in the military and the
naval service Of he Crited States who. for
one reason or arother. maybe classed as un-
usual. Admiral Fvans, for example, might
re one OF them, so far az his reputation out
Of the servio~ goes, and there are others
like him. Admiral Solfridge, who was 20
or 100 years old when he died. was one,
because of his age.
Rear Admiral John &. Walker, now re-
tired, who is president Of the ls,hmian
Canal Commission, IL unusual because Of
having and using an extraordinary pull.
He generally got what duty he desired;
for example. though the -baby commodore
he commando q the famous White Squadron,
and on his retirement he obt aimed his pres-
ent assignment. which he has held for
nearly six years, doing good work there.
too.
Lieut. Robert s. Clark OF the Ninth In
far'ry il q very rich officer. perhaps the
richest in the army. and, therefore, is
unusual. Hc is n son Of the Mrs. Clark
who recently m 'rried Bishop Potter, and
his income permits him TO give dances and
balls, ore Of the latter costing him, il is
said. about ten times his annual pay as ali
offccr.
Anothtr such 10 Major McCaw!ey Of the
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SLAVE BURIAL PLOT INTHE CITY
II Lies l'p NJ lnwoOd and VIII soon his.
appear--Another Al Hunts Point.

IL Ltea ~ NJ Inw0Od and VIII soon OiS.
appear--Another a. Hunts Point.
For many years antiquarians have h"d
an eve on some rows OF rude stones which
mark ancient graves on a rising ground
near the junction OF ?i2th street and Tenth
avenue, up a. Inwood, and much conjecture
has been INDUCED In ~ to whose remains
the graves contain,
There il tradition that the graves con-
tain the remains Of negro slaves. No one
can be found nearby who has any real
information concerning the graves, but
the slave theory Is probably correct. Slaves
there were thereabouts previous TO and
after the Revolution. and q British view OF
the vicinity "a It appeared In ITO shows
'huts Of the blacks few hundred yards
to the west OF this burial place.
The graves are in an open field about
ITS yards east OF the original twelfth mile
stone. which In act In the wall at the Isham
entrance, on the Kingsbridge road. or
Broadway. as it has recently been re-
named. This stone 10 q slab Of brown
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Marine Corps stah, who was appointed
that he might wear a Uniform while intro
'ducing callers at the Presidents receptions
He performs that duty well, il one Of the
best dancers and cotillon leaders in WHh
ington and served credtably with the
marine battalion at Guantanamo in tho
beginning Of the Spanish war.
Very few Of the civil engineers Of the
navy have much SEA service to their credit,
but Mordccai T. Endicou chief Of the
though he has served since July. 1874. That
Is why II set ms freakish for him to he q
Reer Admirsl yet 80 he In.
Capt. Charles Young, Ninth Cavalry,
is out Of the ordinary, because he is the
only colored man now In the army who
went through West Point. He entered
the Academy in 1894, graduated in 1850,
and after serving with the Tentn and Ninth
Cavalry, and the Twenty-fifth Infantry,
was assigned on promotion to his Lieuten-
ancy TO the Seventh Cavalry, and NO was
the only negro com manding white troops.
His command WAS nominal however
for he was on detached service; and after
nine months he was transferred back TO
the Ninth Cavalry, whore lie Is now seventh
Capt. John X, Lynch, paymaster, IL also
q negro; and like Capt B. Frank Cheat ham
and Capt Bertram 7 Clayton, both OF
the Quartermaster's Depart ment, he is a
former Congressman.
Capt. Charles ID. 4. Lnef.ler Is chief
doorkeeper at the Presidoliad," which. in
ordinary language, means the White House.
He left the army a. sergeant n 1872,
and became a doorkeeper at the White
House. and In leos was made Captain and
military storekeeper.
He didn't do any bookkeeping, however,
hsit Nfa rul, on IN ~ 49,
doing ~ still; and every Captain commits
stoned since July s, 1893, and every Lieu
tenant and Second Lieutenant, who doe sn I
salute him is guilty Of breach Of army
regulations.
Then Capt. Montgomery, signal officer,
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elaborate courses and still more elaborats
stories; the e were men famous IN the com
mcrcill world. making quiet dsals u corners;
there were maiden ladies' of stated ages and
unststed incomes; quiet New Workers Who
preferred hotsl life and occasionally dlned
In public. The service had neither the
hurry ~ the fashions bic table d'h(te nor
tho deliberation II the German restaurant.
1T is the kind Of place. said the Type
Hunter. summing It UP a. u his went,
whore ! would not Be afraid 10 have my
mother bring me"
u have forgotten where We are on the
nnsnu.' said the Type Hunter but n erder,
to preserve the dramatic unitlee. We win
have to order a email bird and cold bottle
next, anyway.
Hs led the way to . well-kpown restAu.
rant In upper Broadway.
II is the kind Of place whsfe every man
looks a. II he wers dining With ID nsigh-
bor's wife. There was what th6 socSety
reporter OF the Gosp would call tang Gesv-
tang in large and Glittering oh,nka, 1hers
was music littlS o6 the key. and people
decidedly OF the Same article. Il = whStt,
more or leas veraciously cauo4 Lfe. Bven
the Type Hunter was satisned.
Just look at that b said unctuous!y.
as he gave his order TO waiter OF The ss@p'
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horss y to the Futurity. Bginning with
the little boxes on the table where you
can grind your own pepper while you
wait-imagine having time to grind your
own pepper--everything In the Teutonic
eating places Is a protest against the Amer
lean idea Of life.
The Type Hunter led his Patient Party
into a restaurant in the neighborhood of
Fourteenth street Everything fulfilled his
predictions.
At the centre table was the usual German
family party, Herr and Frau, the married
daughter and hcr husband and two or
held parties Of less magnitude but where
the family sentiment wgs rampant
II hurry Is a mark ofe weak mind, ae
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bare now than probably any other man in or
out OF the army. H. prt pared thc hrh
that won an important case for tho Atchison
Topeka and Santa FL road long b. fore
he entered the Judge Advocates q part
mont. and Is up in the law TO a far greater
extent than most LAWYERS
Liout Col. james NJ. Ingalls,. retired,
formerly OF the Artillery, has unusual
Showing what sun, Que me 1t M 10 do win n f fir. d
under various conditions. and VIII, n the
guns didn't do as he ssid. tho artillery ex-
pc rts knew that the faul, lay with the guns
not with Ingallss tables.
He worked out figures for firing Eng
lands largest gun long before II was fir d,
and his figures agreed almost exactly with
those obtained in practice.
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always q perpleyins question when capacity
has hmits, az u has sometimes In German
restaurants.
The Patient Party had come In for an
entree. or 20 the Type Hunter said. They
were either 40 hungry that they had for
gotten II they had ever eaten. OF so in
different that they didn't care.
Fish a Ia Teuton was ordered and while
they wsited Of courre they waited-they
watched German couple next TO them
prepare chicken salad. The cold chicken
was on the tabls and the woman was cutting
two raw eggs which he was beating In q
bowl. also provided by the establishment.
Drop by drop he basan to pour the salad
oil on the eggs after he had added mustard
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some contend. the German Empire is all
right. The Kaiser need not worry nor
consider il necessary 10 give little pieces
of his mind about Il now and then.
The Type Hunter asked his favorite
waiter what time the imposing party ~
the centre table arrived and learned, after
suitable interval Of deep thought and
consultations with other walters. that they
had been there ever since S o'clock in the
afternoon. II was then o Az to what
they had been doing in the meantime,
Heaven preserves a discreet silence. They
had probably been deciding what they
should eat or, rather what they should not
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Said the Type Hunter. A progressive
dinner will be the best way to study En-.
En-" represented to him IA 1t does To
% many word-clppers the concrete mass
Of humanity. 1t is a favorite term with
car conductors. who cry at regular intervals
sLet 'em on! Let en- on! Shove 'em upi'
We are each of ,is. according to such su-
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some how; a little way from him a tired.
looking clerk had apparently the weight
Of unfinished labor hanging about him:
there were Weary Willies and the rollicking
couples who had met by chance, having
Just as good a time, as IL they had been
they might be troubled with self.conscious-
ness in tho latter place.
The Tyre Hunter enjoyed them all and
distracted the attention OF his Patient
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and slowly turned the wooden boz with
the pepper balls. Drop by drop, drop by
drop!
Meanwhile the family at the centre place
had secured their orders, which filed all
the spare space on their table and kept busy
two walters. holding the over supply, on
the outskirts.
The last the Patient Party saw was the
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diners. some OF whom were habitues who
had formed q taste for Oriental cookery
could not for one little moment blind them
to the fact that they were on the edge Of
things. Az we'll tell the residents Of Park
avenue that the crust on which they are
living at present is solid earth. They know
better.