The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-12
BOYS ARE NOW
LAYING BRICK
WORKING FOR THE WEAKER.
RACE ON WEST BROAD STREET Is
GROWING EXCITING.

Young America Has Taken a HAND
in the Game, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the Eastern Gang Has an Expert
of Experts on Its Side Juveniles
Are Assisting Men ON Western
side of street Railway Tracks
who Want to Win Ixeg of Beer.
A mighty shout went up in the vi
cinity of Anderson and West Broad
streets yesterday morning and mount
ed patrolmen in the vicinity thought
that something serious had happened.
Serious it was-for the gang of brick
layers at work on the eastern side
of the street railway tracks on West
Broad street. 1t is in this gang that
the expert of all expert bricklayers
is employed.
Yet when the men went to work the
western gang was about sixty square
yards in the lead. And no wheel
barrows had been oiled. either Since
the oiling of the handles of the
wheelbarrows played part in the race
of the paving gangs for key of beer
the barrowS have been carefully
watched.
Young America in Game.
But mere watching will not keep
down Young America. He is the boy
who is always awake and there with
the goods. He is always with the I'M
der dog in fight, too, and that is half
the reason why he is so famous. OF
course he keeps up with the happenings
of the day, and the article in the Morn
ing News several days ago, telling of
the race of the street paving forces
caught his eye.
In an instant he grasped the situa-
ton. The western gang, handicapped
because an expert of experts was in
the eastern gang, had to resort to
trickery to even hold it's own. With in
teTest he read the tale of the greasing
of the handles Of the wheelbarrows
used by the eastern gang Then he
realized that the same trick couldn't be
worked successfully again, and he felt
sorry for the men on the western side
of the street railway tracks.
With the Under Dog.
OF course, Young America understood
that it was not a case Of losing a. key
of la TsseSe was much more AT
stake, snd'he sew ne tue situation at
glance. 1t was a casS Of bitter riv-
alry, and the western gang had dis
played grit enough to go into an -Ato-
gether uneven fight. But Young Amer
lea made up his mind that the weaker
should not lose, and he bought few
chips. unsolicited, himself. He didn't
even tell anybody what he was GO
ing to do, and got into the game after
the others had dropped out-for the
night.
When the two gangs knocked off Fri
day evening it was a case Of nip and
tuck because of the CREASED wheelbar-
row handles. But the eastern gang
was not at all worried, since the race
was for Thirty-first street, and Ander-
son street was just being reached. The
gang felt that is was easy beer, and
that the final squirt would show the
blood of those at work.
Working with Vengeance.
But once more they failed to size
up the situation as it really is, and
when they quit last night it
was a toss-up as to who will get the
beer.
For the eastern gang is laying brick
against more than the western gang
now Young America has become a
brioklayer himself and during Friday
night carted and put down about sixty
square yards of brick for the western
gang. More work was done by the
young bricklayers and it is
probable that they will get busy again
tonight.
Still, it is by no means certain that
the western side will win. There is
considerable rivalry among the juve-
nile PAYERS, and before Thirty-first
street is reached there may be d.
vision and a bet among the
boy night workers, in which
event there is no telling what
will happen - except that the
property owners on the street will
profit.
Rapidly of the Work.
In the meantime the director of pub
lie works is jubilant. He inspected the
work yesterday morning and was
elated. He not only found the rivalry
intense, but also discovered that the
street is being paved more rapidly than
any other street in the city has ever
been looked after.
Of course the fight means that the
paving of West Broad street will cost
the taxpayers and the city less per
square yard than other streets that
have been paved.
And a key of beer along with con-
siderable rivalry, is responsible, for
this happy condition of affairs.