The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-25
DEVERY'S CAMPAIGN.
Means Dancing and n General Good
Time in New York.

Big Bill Devery treated 10000 women
to ice cream, cake and milk yester-
day, led the grand march at a ball
with a woman ne didn't know and an
nounced his platform as candidate for
Mayor in the next campaign, says the
New York Sun.
All this happened at the picnic at
Suffers Harlem River Park, which be-
gan yesterday noon and wound up at
o'clock this morning, and at which the
William S. Devery Association was the
host and women and children from all
over town were the guests. Men folks
were charged a quarter a head to get
into the grounds. The receipts are
to be used to buy next winters coal
for the poor-before election.
There were at .least 5000 men there,
SO there's $4,000 as a starter for the
Devery free coal fund. Estimates of
the total attendance for the day and
evening varied all the way from 10000
to $4,000.
Tom Foley, the Tammany leader of
the Second Assembly district floated
into the ballroom In the course of the
evening looked the crowd over and
walked out again. His estimate was
10000 people. But Tom is Tammany
man. Big Bilrs own estimate was u.s.
900. and as he paid all the bills, he
ought to know.
There were 10000 people there in the
course of the day, anyhow. And when
Big Bill sat on an upturned empty ice
cream freezer along about midnight
with nursing bottle in his right hand
and a hungry baby in his left arm,
which he was good-naturedly attend
ing while a tired mother retired be-
hind tree to fix up, he figured that
the memories OF his picnic would add
at least 10000 to his total vote on cleo
ton day.
Bill didn't go up to the park till
evening, after the afternoon crush of
babies and small boys had been filed
to the muZzles with ice cream and
cake. Before leaving the Pump at
Twenty-eighth street he read the even
ing paper stories about the great ma
val inspection at Oyster Bay. and they
gave him an idea.
He called uD Eddie Schneider, his
factotum, at the Harlem River Park,
and gave him this message over the
telephone:
Il want to walk into the joint be-
tween q double line Of rooters that will
make that warship game down to Oys-
ter Bay look like prohibition rally
on Second avenue.
80 Just line up the Bugs on one
side of the hall and the mothers and
babies on the other and I'll walk down
between 'em. Have the bands play
'Devery Every"
Schneider did his full duty and got
enough Bugs away from the bar and
enough babies away from the ice
cream freezers to make a crush Of adj
mirers, and five bands played together
the Devery anthem.
There's two great events in this
country to-day" said Big Bill after he
reached the platform. Here's one right
here that shows that the populace is
supreme and the other is down at Oys-
ter Bay. which ought to be called
Washington.
But they amt the same Down
there a thousand or so warships that
belong to the people are shooting off
a million dollars worth of the peo-
pies powder to tickle one man, who
says there amt enough babies COM
ing along in this country.
But the babies are right here and
the only money that's being spent is
pockets. There's the difference be-
tween these great events / spoke |
about. I'd rather walk down the line |
on my own feet between this noble |
line of Bugs who will fight for the peo-
PIE and these babies than sail down on |
SOMEBODY else's boat between lot OF |
W else's ships that are shoot |
ing off Their peoples money.
There. more votes in the cry Of the |
drowntrod baby that's got a stomach |
from too mu IN free ice cream than |
there is in the roar Of twenty-one |
guns.
81 see by the papers that the Grand |
Duke Dick Croker Is raising chickens |
in England to five away to Abe Hum |
mel, who thinks he knows something |
about art.
"rll tell you something about art. !
You see those naked babies painted on
that stage scene ~ over there? Then
are Cupids. Thst's what they call art.
That's what happened when Nero was
Mayor Of Rome.
t'The common peovhe didn't have
enough money to buy clothes for the
babies. If Bill Devery is Mayor the
art of New York will mean pictures
of babies in clothes playing on free
piers and THROWN coal and
food at the fishes because there is 80
much Of II.
IF there IL anybody painted with
out clothes then Il will be Nero Seth,
that condensed milk Mayor OF ours
and the grand Dock Dabbler. MUIR
ply
did you ever hear Of friend libraries
or billed libraries Of any other kind OF
libraries that the poor people can eat. !