The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-04
PAYING OFF FREAK BETS
Election Losers Supply Fun
For New Workers.
BROADWAY sTRoLLERs AMUSED.

Iupersonator Of Uncle Sam Trundles
Gloating Winner In Wheelbarrovv.
Dfners From sherry's and Delmon-
ico,s Hear Street Speech on "Altru-
ism Of Tammany'-Clubman Sells
s4Extras" on a Corner.
The men who bet on Mayor Low in
the municipal election in New York
have recently been doing their turns
for the entertainment of the crowds
along Broadway. The first perform
ance took place the other night in Mad
ison square about 8 o'clock, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser. A
young man wearing duck trousers,
frock coat and a silk hat and smoking
q cigarette was pushed around the
streets in a wheelbarrow by a man
disguised as Uncle Sam. Behind them
4 corps Of losers marched to the toot-
ing of a cornet, each with an Il Told
You So" placard on his back. After
circling the square they marched up
Broadway to Forty-second street; then
turned and returned to Madison square,
with a large crowd following.
At the corner Of Forty-fourth street
and Fifth avenue a well known mem
Der of the Harvard club gathered a
crowd OF curious b%ystanders around
him and %discoursed on the delights OF
co-education and the altruism of Tam
many, Several listeners became con-
siderably interested. When the diners
49,. lnornr 0r1 n~o1roOniaN'o HOGAN
to file out and join the circle, the crowd
became a bit suspicious, but did not
cease attention. At exactly II o'clock
the speaker stopped in the midst of
ST believegwith Tammany; we should
segregate the sexes" and started mad
" through the crowd for a Broadway
car. The audience faded away sheep
ishly.
Under an elevated station at Twenty
third street and Sixth avenue a well
dressed man, who is not unknown in
the clubs, appeared about midnight
with a bunch of papers under his arm.
With no apparent hesitancy he began
to shout: "Here you are! Evening IL
ger! All about the election!" Scarcely
a passerby escaped him. In spite of
the fact that the paper had a large
.faring portrait of Mcclellan and was
dated Nov. 3, several persons purchas-
ed them, and the vender pocketed the
pennies without scruple. At 1890 the
man was still shouting: Evening IT.
ger! All about the election
On Madison avenue a man suddenly
appeared about 10 o'clock on stills and
started stalking down the street with
a red lantern in n hand. A crowd OF
men and boys soon gathered and cheer
ed him along. Several men in evening
dress followed at a safe distance and
now and then stopped and laughed
heartily. The man walked as fast as
he could, and when the crowd got toe
obstructive he stopped and leaned
against a post and wiped his brow
There was a great deal OF laughter
and many derisiye shouts from the
onlookers, but every one seemed to I'm
derstand the circumstances.
When the party in evening dress
came up, one Of them pointed his sticl
at the perspiring gentleman and said
"Now, Teddy, your speech"
The man raised his lantern at at
tention and began very soberly:
"Ladies, I'm Demosthenes II. look
ing for an honest man. Those gentle
men there refuse to- Then he burs
out with a laugh. jumped off his silt
and ran over toward the group
"That's enough for once" he said.
The men clapped him on the back
and the crowd drifted away.
When asked the cause Of the demon
stration, one of the men said. "Why
Teddy bet Devery wouldn't get a vot
In the Twenty-ifth."
A Garland Cult In Europe.