Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-09-04

verted TO II. l must admit, however.
that it was not with an altogether easy
feeling that ! started on our work OF
metamorphosing Il lot Of tramps into
blithesome college lads. but our task
turned out to be not SO difficult after
all.
THE 80 cents was an alluring propo-
sition to most of the gentlemen OF
leisure whom we found congregated
around the bungholes Of the beer bar
rels most recently elected from the
dirty barrooms with which the neigh
borhood was infested. We got to.
gcther thirty or forty ana marched
them all to an institution called the
Workingmen's Residential club and
had them washed and shaved and put
in apple pie order. so that some Of
them looked almost respectable by the
time we got through. One great hulk
ing fellow, whom we wanted as the
leader Of this gay and care free aggre.
/ CATION. refused absolutely for a time
| to part with his whiskers and only con.
scented to the sacrifice when we told
| him we were going to pay him 50 to
captain the bunch.
Meanwhile our agents had been
busy getting together a suitable ward
robe for u little company. There
was a fitting on process FOR the next
hour, at the conclusion Of which II
was voted that W. had a crowd OF
seniors and Freshmen that would have
faded the flower of Yale, Harvard,
Princeton and Hopkins all rolled into
one. 1t required no little skill to make
some OF them look youthful enough
for their part. but we managed fairly
well, for all that. When we lined the
gang up we noticed that the trousers
OF a few hardly reached to the ankles
and caused one ~involuntarily to thinh
that the tailor had done better to have
turned them down instead OF up, and
here and there q students toes would
seek to prove at first hand that bill
shoes really contained feet. But w
consoled ourselves by rejecting thai
no one would be so heartless as to b.
moved to audible reflection by this In
dication Of poverty on the part Of I
brave young man drinking deep at tn
fountain of knowledge. We furtheI
congratulated ourselves, as we raj
our eyes up and down the line, tina
the ensemble was not go bad.
snow. gentlemen said n OF GU
party, remember you are college boyi
careless and light hearted, with just
touch Of deviltry in you. You are cal
ried away with the performance Of j
serb Jeferson-Mr. Jefferson II th
greatest actor on the American stag
you know-and you are enthusiastic
do something that will show your Of
probation Of his genius. That
enough for the present, except thu
whatever you are called upon to do d
Il with youthful vim. Throw your hat
in the air, clap each other on the bac
and make a noise. Mr.. Joy here
your leader, and you are to follow hi
instructions from this time on. Wha
YOU don't know MI. Joy without hi
! whiskers? Well, it is he, all right.
you do well, boys, therell be a rattlin
fine dinner waiting for you after I'll
show. In addition to the 80 cents
"The instructions to Mr.. JOY, VIII
was taken fully into our confident
and who, in fact, was quite an INTEL
gent fellow, were more explicit. II
was given the Hopkins yell and told
have his men proficient in this an
some other details when the time II
action arrived.
t AS the spectators were filing OF
! from the matinee at 1870 o'clock amor
) them were our garnislled friends of Il
space who had been let In tllroue
? the stage entrance and then passed OF
into the auditorium from behind u
? private boxes. Out on the street an
before the crowd had dispersed tn,
: were ready for business. beginniI
: with what | Suppose was intended f