The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-12

aThe male prisoners Immediately showed
that they had the champagne habit. for
they ordered it by the baskettul Inc Two
women prisoners strung along with them,
moderately. in that and the detectives
we're ri ght there for theirs. Il was joy
GUS gang, that party Of ten. Probably the
other passengers took them for theatrical
folk.
-One OF the men prisoners discovered
that there was Hungarian orchestra
on board the steamboat. He Immediately
subsidized the outfit and started the or
chestra TO PLAYING in the main saloon. The
Hungarians were a swell lot OF either and
dulcirner and violin players, and they wer9
warmed up with wine from the prisoners
layout Of baskets until they were on fire
with musical ardor.
After "A bit, the Hungarians started up
one Of those wild hysterical. .gypsyish
dances that they unreel with such expires,
eions Of frenzied Joy on their faces-and
RIGHT then the vaudeville show began
"Ihe brunette girl prisoner began to
SWAY in her chair. and then she iaSheu
to tho middle Of the saloon and got busy
With as fine a Hungarian dance az you'd
want to look at. Didn't bother about her
skirts. either. Didn't appear TO be aware
that she had a skirt on.
There wasn't anything immodest or
even especially RI que about the way shg
danced to the wild Hungarian fiddle and
| zithe- strains: hut il was great, all the same
| don't know whether 1t was the real Hun
! rarian thing or a teTpsichorean IMPROVE
sation to the music: but, judging from
| the enthusiasm with which the hungarian
musicians watched the brunette az she
/ danced and swaved to the feverish CHORDS
| am OF the opinion that the dance was the
! honest In Jun goods from Hungary.
sThe pretty brunette got mighty hand
/ from all over the saloon whom she tottered'
| breathess and laughing to her chair.
L
Ind nuieted down, one of the male prison.
! err, a fat faced, good natured LOOKING chap,
/ who didn't look as if he had the artistic
! merchandise along with him at all' strolleu
! over TO the saloon piano, gave y luhhy
! preliminary wallop - two. hand ,tluol
| rbord and then tossed his head back and
/ began ia sing n buqhouse Chinese song
| recommending himself on the piano.
! III was a divyle's own piece OF sure
! enough Chinese vocal music, done guttur-
| ally aggutinously, ana WIN tiaI quee'
| little vodling effect at the ends OF the pas
| "a pes That marked it for tho zee! Ch!nk
| thing. Where the chap had pickea that
| kind of stun up | never found OUT uut l
/ do know that If he were able TO 90 the tIliii8
| on the stage Of a New lorh NdIueS nv
| theatre Just as he did II IN the salooh on
that San Jcaouin stern wheeler he'd be
recalled and recalled till his lungs ached.
This start-of put II up TO ei INC rest
NJ the bunch TO do something and they
were all there. Another oil the maze PITS
oners tall fellow WITH pa ,ahlc and ,nt did
n stump speech Of the old-ume hngney
/ Dougherty kind that made those voyaglng
| Californians rock in their seats
ain so far as the speech was about any
thing, il was n knock lot ths SoltileIh
/ pnci6c Railroad, a fayorite knocking theme
for the Californians at that time, ana Tor
/ n rerfectlv crazy. whoop- el-up, SIAM
! hing and wholly entertaining performance
! it was all the money Inc saloon cro%u
! would ha We kept the man a-going an mght,
| but, when he found hiinsen IT,, o ~. sls
| hoarse. he quit with G peroratlon tnat Ior
/ vociferous, uproaTious imbecility bea' any
| thing OF the kind ever heard.
aBy this time the passengers were on
mighty easy and pleasant terms with the
/ nrisoners and the hist juice was coming
| -, frnro the store room below in an IN
! interr1lDted succession Of hampers. The
! detectives we're leaning back in their setees
| beaminp and blinking contentedly upon
! the proceedings, until one oi thefn, very
! fat, roly-poly man oil mlddle age was
/ dragged TO the centre Of the saloon by has
! prisoners. III,
They formed a ring around him. and he
! had to stand for Being the maypole. Iney
I did tho ring around rosy and London
Bridge IL falling down dance around hlm
the six prisoners
aThe ring was only broken when one OF
. down on Bic own hook n eort OF scientific
mixture Of the buck and wing dance and
the old Virginia essence. Iney wlthdrew
TO their seats to lei him have the centre
oftbe saloon. while the brunette thumped
out the necessary music Tor him on the
piano. and he picked UP the iiR and ran
away with II. II that fellow didn't have
a hundred variations Of his steps, then he
had a Methodist leg. | never saw more
accomplished break downer on Charles
ton cotton wharf.
Then. quite by accident, the finest
treat of the queer night came Oh
-The Hungarian musicians tuned up,
and struck into a sort Of overture Of their
own devising to the opera Lucia oil Lam
mermoor When they reached the great
sertette. the blond prisoner who hac
been following the score with rapt atten'
/ ton. stood up.
-Her face was TRANSPORTED in her ieelina
for the music. She took up The air Of me
Lucia saItctte with Inc first bar from th'
violins and zithers. Anybody. could SCI
that the girl had sung that thing some