The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-06
CHIMMIE FADDEN,
Da lhc Generosity of ""m0n
By EDWARD w. TOWNSEND.
cHuIAIE on THE GENEROSITY OF

Dere a fr-u of min what used 10
De dc champeeu lightweight Of Pow
erty HoIIgv-I5t-s cast of lie Bowery.
near where d. new Williamsburg
. bridge comes 1u-bu h was took
good and has u job running a eIeva-
p tor in a miIe-high office building near
Wall street. Duchess was never dat
far down town, except when she land
ed, 50 / says ~ her on our day off.
come" 1 says, and see a boid's-eye
view Of America, ana part of Brook
Iyn,'' 1 says. 50 at when you gets lost
you'll know where you are at"
rs deere no charge for rising in de
elevator Duchess asks.
All women is alike, but a French
gOIl IS more alike dan odder women.
Dere is just two kinds of Gngs dey
wants most: tings dat cost noting,
and tings dat cost more a dey nave
ave de- price for. OATS de reason
dey likes diamonds and free shows.
When I tells her dat one OBJ de eIe-
vators in de building was run by a
frcu Of mine and dat de starter was
a fellow dat I knows, and wouldn't
fir US If We rode up and down all day,
Duchess was crOisy to be on her way.
Being French she taught dat dere
was q charge for to ride in de eleva-
tor; like dere is in Paris. Are you
on 10 dat? Say, in de little hotel we
stopped 1T in Paris dere was a dinky
little lift. what dey called de ascen-
seur, and dere was a charge for to
ride down IN it. but none TO ride up,
and you had to run it yourself.
Dis is no business l says to
Duchess when I was put wise on de
game. Why dis price to ride down.
and no price to ride up?"
She tells me dat was because when
you rode down in it de office had to
send a man to fetch de ting to you,
but when you rode up. you fetched
il up yourself. Say, wouldn't it take
4 form French mug to dope out a
game like dat?
l used to walk down, and ride up,
and de house near went Croisy at me
beating the game.
But 1 was going to tell you about
me fren de lightweight who went good.
He was one of de wOist lads dat ever
lived in de district, and de police was
onto him, and willing to put him into
de fighting game in style, when he
got a little cleverer; and de precinct
boss used to give him Il gang of float
ers TO repeat at de polls every cleo
ton. and deTe was few tingS dat
brought fame and reputa ion in de
district dat wasn't his. But he went
good.
Nothing dat his gang, mis- pals. ever
ms side partner-yes, even his own
fadder,-COuld stack up as a argu-
ment was any good to save him. He
went good. His fadder and side part
ner got close to him one day. and dey
gives him u talk dat would saved him
if dere was any saving in him. But
ii was to de bad-he went good.
"JOhhy. me boy" says his old fadder
To him. link of what You IS e wing
away, You has bail When o is ar
rested: YOU has pull to get you off
when YOU is tried. What. me son. dc
YOU want? De eart?'
] Jack" says his side partner. you
must gone clean nutty. to tink of go
Ding good wit all de prospect ahead of
you. Amt you de az of a gang
dat has done up more men dan any
odder gang from Cherry Hill to FOist
street? Din de police Inspector say
de Odder day dat you was de hardest
proposition on de East side? What
soft nap is dere dat You needn't ask
for n get? What's your ambition,
JACKIE ne says. Even if you wants
- be n b]Ouncer in de BOWery. can't
YOU get de job? You has more knock
out tricks dan Fitz or Jeff, Even if
your pull fails. and you has to do time
on de Island. wouldn't de head keeper
know dat his job depended on his max
ing YOU a Trusty?"
But de bug was in his COCO. and
deere was no use talking to him-he
went good.
He comes to me one day. and he
avs. ''Chimmie, I'm going good
Luck be wit you" says L. How're
you fxed?"
I want noting but a job he says.
Whats happened you. johnny" I
says. I'm tickIed to deat to hear it.
but why are you going good?'
Nc mission teacher has lone dis for
me. as de Ioidy you calls Miss Fannie
done il for you. 1 has figured it OUT for
me loneliness: q grafter's wages isn't
his own OATS all dere is in it. De
stuff Is dere, and its easy to cop off.
but when you get it, whose s it? Your
own? Nay. nay! What wit splits. and
rake-offs. and commissions. and divides,
when You gets trough you are in luck
if de size Of de roll is enough TO pass
out what YOU IS touched for, by dose
datu ssueai if dey don't get DER rake
off. Dere Is noting into it"
When a man goes good after doping
\
out de game like dat. dere's noting can
a y him for his gang: so I knows
he was 4 safe proposition. and tell Mr..
Paul about him. Den ii was easy: Mr..
Paul tell Miss Fannie. and she got
Whiskers 10 put Jack on q elevator
in I building what Whiskers is one Of
de bOsSes-direcJOT? OATS il.
Well. Duchess and me starts for de
place 10 see me fren. but we stops
on our way 10 take u peep at M mOdder
and Mrs. Murphy. When she hears
where We was chasing TO. Mrs. Muir
ply says. "Johnnyu stay good. I seen
nib de odder day n me knowing his
mOdder. l asks him how he was find
ing i. He tells me dat de wages was
better. and de wOik lighter being good.
dan being crooked Dere's many o good
man and woman comes down here 10
preach. dat would save more souls if
dey understanded how many poor
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