The evening world., 1904-05-24
WORE HIS BATHING
SUIT At SMOKER
BILLY" Donovan Found Valet
and Clothing Missing, and So
Did Other College Students
Man Arrested for Awful Crime

The ptffui tale of . starving wife and
child saved Livingston Quinn to-day
from going 30 . prison cell.
MT Quinn was hhRgard, but ne WASN'T
pale inc hAsgard. az he stood before
Magistrate Baker in the Harlem Court.
He couldn't be pale. Nature made that
impossible.
acting az chatnbermaid to a bunch OF
Columbia College students who 1.-Two,
eat and are merry at No. ts West one
Hundred n Twentieth street.
There was TO be a smoker last night
FOR Billy Donovan. Mr.. Donovan
had done SO many noble things that
his admiring associa ties felt thai moth
Ing short OF a smoker could make him
understand how much they thought OF
him.
His Language Was Awful.
Knowing he was TO be the star OF the
night. Mr.. Donovan repaired carly TO his
chambers and proceeded to array him
self In what collewe training teaches
ono to describe as glad rags" What
he said when he looked in the clothes
closet and found not what he was
looking for sounded worse than the
name of a Greek letter society.
Mr.. Donovan after the FIRST shock
thought of the signs he had read from
elevated trains setting forth tina dross
autts might be hired at prices within
the reach of any n ambitious to be q
gentleman. But as no one IL expected
to be q GENTLEMAN at q smoker Mr..
Donovan nit upon q happy comprornise.
He dressed sdmply but picturesqusiy In
q pair Of bathing tishts. running o
and a silk hat.
All Their CIothias Missing.
Stepping gracefully into The dining
room he found the bunch" to be nj
of clothing. Nearly everything cha all
Of them had svsr owned was missing.
So was Mr.. Livingston Gunni
All The conventional clothing that
could be scraped together was jammed
and buttoned and tied on Frank John
ston, and because he couldn't smoke
keep on good terms with his tom
aoh ne was elected to trip over to the
One. Hundred inc Twenty-ffth street
station and turn in a hurry Lall for Mr..
Livingston Gum.
Johnston led Detective Hawthorne to
the home of Mr.. Quinn, at No. $50 West
onG F1unuEeu Nhu iWSntN-blAtn StTtti.
Mr.. Dunn broke down and pointed to
his starving wife and child In sxtenua-
tion of his crims.
"what'n We d with himr' asked ths
detective.
"I hate to decide. because I'VE got q
FEW clothes left and don't feol like an
injured party. Let's take him over TO
tho smoker and have the boys decide"
Gum Received with vOlleys.
Mr.. Gum was received Mt the smoker
with great acclaim. He was even q
greater hit than MIR. Donovan. When
the master of ceremonies had gagged
the detective with the biggest cigar In
the box. Mr.. Gunn vas requested to
tell why he had violated the trust re-
posed In him,
Fine for Gum. without any nrti
acial aAd Auoh as slow music, he began
a story Of starvation in Harlem which
was sad enough to make a goat eat an
abandoned boiler. The smoaer simply
Dissolved into tsarz. Tho only thing
that saved the honored guest of ths
evening from being drowned was his
bathing tights.
One by one h sympathetic smokers
wrung Mr.. Gums hand and told him
to come around as soon as they were In
he'd and get the rest OF their clothes.
They all wore they'd go naked before
they saw his wife and chlld starve,
Then they took up n collection and
| told Gum where no could ind tho most
expensive delicatessen store in the
| n~eiyhborthuod and saaTt their united love
20 his wife and child.
No one appeared to-day to prosecute
Mr.. Gum and. he was discharged.