The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-16
STRATEGY WINS FOR O'KEEFE.
uONHEIMER'S VOICE YIELDS TO
THE BAGPIPES SCREAM.

Johnnie o'Keeie has at 1877 Pitt street a
taloon whose boast It Is that II keeps the
e1ose law as well as any in New York.
Every Saturday night, just as the clock Is
s,rkIng II, Johnnie closes the bar, herde
his customers into the little back room.
and takes from the safe ak sandwiches
which have been growing in age and re-
sistant power ever since Senator Raines
proposed the law. There are those who
maintain that they aren't sandwiches
a. ALL but colluloid. When that ia said to
Johnnie. he invites you to eat 'em and see
That gives him the long end OF the argu-
ment
Pit street II IL true. is Hebrew neigh
borhood but when Johnnie invented and
introduced the kosher free lunch he rose
al onco to popularity above race and
creed Nothing happened to disturb his
esteem for his neghbors or theirs for him
until Lyman Sidowsd. who has made n
fortune in the pushcart trade, invested
his capital in a pawnbrokers sale OF I'M
redeemed pledges and damaged goods
andstarted an auction at 159
sidlowski himself has no talents as an
auouonccr, He merely backed the enter
prise and hired julius Monheimer, whose
voice shakes Off shingles when he turns 1t
loose to do the heavy work.
Now lj7 and 159 were once one big store,
In late years they've put In a partition,
So that " hen Monheimer began to move
IN there was only skin OF thin boards
between O'keefes and the best developed
voice on the Fast Side
At o'clock Monday morning. when
o'keefe opened the doors and got ready
for another prosperous week. he noticed
in }. aud ilh vi
Auction to-day At o. Greatest bargains
ever offered for anybody,
Figuring that the new attraction would
hrng business. Johnnie invited Monheimer
in TO have a drnk-even two drinks and
cigar Then he went TO filling bottles,
unaware that he was counting trouble.
A. o'clock. sharp, il started. Monhein er
lifted up his voice and began
We have here an elegant little real pearl
stickpin Examine it. Genuine Jamaica
pearl Sold for $40 wholesale and pledged
Tor $3.50 We don't want its value, only the
price Of the pledge. Now, what am ] bidf
Somebody start IL at % cents just for n joke.
That's right I'm bid twenty-h- twenty-f-
tweuty-ti-twenty-h somebody make 1t
thirty-h--
Every time he said twenty the glasses
jumped on the bar and every time he chime
down hard on m he knocked bottle
of the shelf.
Is that what get for my free drinks?'
sideshowl' and no fell 10 pounding on the
partition with bunCstarter II had no
effect al all No one heard II except John
ME for at that moment Monheimer was re-
marking.
Ninety ninety - ninety - ninety - only
ninety for this elegant Jooled pm. Wy don't
you ask me 10 geev il u you?'
You couldn't have heard an explosion
through that voice Johnnie invaded tho
auction He waited until Monheimer, hav
81 ~ 10 atVat
Of a heavy bidder, was feeling round IN the
showcase for an elegant. rolled gold. four
teen jewelled watch cheap al $3.50.
What Is this asked Johnnie, a store
or a riot2"
Cant help It. Mr. O'Keefe.' said Mon
heimer, business is business"
SWELL. rest your voice awhile and do
business wild your feet said Johnnie.
He retired to hi7 own place and put cotton
in his ears.
though Before night Johnnie O'Keefe saw
that either he or Monheimer would have to
70 ont OF business. There was no pinochle
fcr the drinks in his back room and the
kosher free lunch went back TO the meat
safo for another day. The customer who
took ono drink in O'Keefes got one blast
Of I0nhcimors voice and went his way
A. O'Clock the cash register showed re-
oelp's of 81 a.
A. that point Monheimer rested until 3.
.f'lN VIC ANNOUNCEMENT ny Nli1 libtlN I''i
said a high class assortment Of ladies' and
gents underwear would be auctioned at
U.inou- prices Johnnie stopped the cop
on The beat and talked TO him.
rs 2 nuisance, said JOHNNIE.
~ is agreed The cop.
I'm have the law on him, said Johnnie.
'Ye'n not said the cop. What's the
district leader here2 Is he Irishf What's
the As-embyman? Is he IrishY 'Twould
20 in the renderloin or The Bronx. but not
Yr pirt afr -TnHnuta Nct v-hlIp 1ig uaTupa
Monhelmer and yours IS O'keefe.
What's 10 De donc2' said Johnnie.
Ask me-. said the cop. "Ye're no Irish
man. Johnnie If ye can't beat little game
Ike that
II was right there that three men OF
sandy COM lpvion and curious clothes came
marching down Pitt street. Each carried
rDd"r his arm a device made Of leather
b.adders and sticks
Scotch hagppersl' said Johnnie.
'Thriel' -id tho cop and added IF II
wasn't for NAL kin another nuisance on Pitt
street and hadn't Swore to uphold the law
In thought an deed, know what I'd advise
ye 20 do"
-lohnne'. as qiuck as any other man 10
500 point In Is minutes Sandy Riatt's
Scotch hagpipcrS had agreed to out ont mn
engagement al n MacDougal reunion aad
enter the services Of Mr. O'keefe:
Johnnie held hi- ammunition like good
general He waited until Monheiiner had
drawn a crowd and was hard at work on
lof 3. an especially tempting bargain IN
mems dress shirts.
Two dollars -two-two--twol' roared
Mouheimer
-Now- yelled Johnnie And the pipers.
seated jam against the partition skirled.
They played A Hundred Pipers an A an
A. and Cock o. the North and THE Camp
te,is are Comm After this selection
JoHuuies pulled the cotton out of hi7 cars,
and -igualled for stop. There was silence.
blessed silence, for moment, broken by tho
VOICE of Monheimer on the other side of
The partition
Won Won goln' to stop and let me do
hee2ucss1'
SPIEL" yelled Johnnie Malcolm Cam
eron who has lungs that can blow out eight
lamps ~ Coney, rendered Bonnie Dundee,
a. a solo
Monheimer gave it up and rushed for the
crp
'i''s a nuisance'- yelled Monhemer
Save "er voice, yen need it,, said the
con Tia n little concert. There's no
lay agln music
fo0ed IN this hope Nonheimer went
hack and 'ried - stick n out his voice
a-anf three 500 ola pipe- The piper
haa tested and PINNED on Scotch IN the
Meantime and with the first note Of his
voice they skir,ed again The contest