The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-19
THEY KIDDED KAPTAIN KYDD
AT THE ANNUAL HUCKLEBERRY.
FLUB-DUB POW-WOW.

the New York Athletic Club house at New
Rochelle, loaded to the gunwales. This
was the cargo.
bartenders
cases extra dry.
2 cases Of old brandy.
Is kegs.
/. cases Of Scotch.
10 cases OF rye.
20 dozen sphons Of seltzer.
500 sandwiches.
Big Chief Young Man Not-Afraid-of-
Highball, commissary OF the Huckleberry
tribe, met them at the landing. He criti-
csed the arrangements severely. He said
he didn't see why they needed SO many
sandwiches.
The members came later in two big
launches loaded down with costumes and
greasepaint and dramatic talent. For the
Huckleberrys did the most ambitious stunt
Of their career. They presented Huckle-
berry drama written by Clay NJ. Greene
and entitled THE Kidding Of Kaptain
Kydd, a Komical Kid for Komical Kidders.'
The visiting Flub-Dubs Of Larchmont
came later in special piratical craft. Then
the club servants drew Gordon around
the island to keep out the dread tribe OF
Rubbernex, who print things about the
Huckleberrys and let many a good wife
know why her husband wasn't at church
on the day of the big reunion. All day
the Gordon worked very hard chasing small
boys and fishermen from the charmed con-
fines Ct Huckleberry Island.
When the last Huckleberry had stripped
to the buff and plastered red greasepaint
ali over his shivering form. Chief GIN
II, ;,1t hx,- hnl Nall
for highball all around, and the revels
began. The play was all printed out on
the programme and it reads fine, but every
now and then there's blank space: This,
II was explained, was so that the Huckle-
berrys could take those programmes home
pow-wows are.
When the curtain rose there we're the
Huckleberrys in full war regalia, indulg-
ing in airy persiflage.
Il have no use for any man that drinks,
said Rudolph Schaefer, who imperson-
ated the Great Chief Ru-dec.
sNo use for drink Great Chief" said
Medicine Man Hinsdale. "firewater is
our pilot unto all that land that is the Happy
Hunting Ground Of revel. 1t makes the
1t makes thesbashful squaw thing to be
convinced, the forward one more womanly
and sweet Loud cheers.l
This conversation leads up to the sub.
ject Of serpents and gracefully, to that
Of sea serpents. And, behold, looking sea.
ward, there appeared the racing shell of
the New York Athletic Club, rugged up
with canvas to look like sea serpent. On
it's back rode Forbes Robertson az Neptune,
and Aphrodite. This. as many a Huckle-
berry will explain at home to-day, was
not the classic phrodite without any nightie
She appeared to have been born from the
foam Of Bowery schooner. She was a
young woman with very prominent and
masculine features and red hair and dressed
In a full bathrobe over a shirtwaist and
drab skirt, both cVt full. In fact, there was
O fulness both inside and outside the cos
tune. Neptune spoke in verse. He said,
among other things:
Es bIsss WIN THy ne ss
For am here TO thy not TO preach
He invited her to dance. She stripped
OF the bath robe, showing a perfectly
tribe. She Immediately chose Big Chief
Rindee, who then and there lost interest
In the proceedings.
And then Neptune announced that he'd
captain had put EN- on that there is a
treasure buried on the island. But two
Wall Street brokers are coming to buy the
land, for they've been put wise. Then, as
the programme announces, the sound OF
hopelessly bum band Is heard in the dis
Anoe. 1nooi I'm " t'.io'i - eH S,:.l ~ -,
heuner, sure 'llhS Proino.ei. I'M slieti'
were TWO more iaoIes OF s.ransesiy ald ai;na
une leatuIes ana wai,Voii way ~ natt a. mts
thelr sklrts. Oohh mao d great inns oi |iih'
be SAID:
We're all TO the COCO, ana we nave gov
the other ny wines SKINNED 10 oeath; were
here 70 put you an 70 the merry ana we We
got the grape JUICE 70 turn tne %orst
Crouch in the bunch TO the sweet nal ma!
waiter open q case O. fommery ana 10
hell with the Ice Trust!
CinGhenhetmer ohers 10 buy. Ihey say
the island Is not Tor sale. Clnchenhelmer
says everything IL for sale, except the
ladies, and they're phhopena presehts.
Still. the 1ndtans are weakening, when
Neptune summons Capt. hydd himself
Greene had planned grand ehect ior
the entrance, with g sawdust aao giant
powder exp losion., He left the big car, OF
giant powder carelessly beside the sawdust
trough, and II brave hadn't done heroic
rescue stunt the world would have been
short one dramatist Kydd and his pirate
crew rose from the earth, looking az ghostly
as white greasepaint could make them
The captain scared of the brokers.
There are more crooks, pirates and sec
ond story men within sound OF my voice
than all the Kydds ever written about,