The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-17
QUIGLEY, WITH A $1,000 ELL.
SHARES WITH the BOYS, BANKS
500, WANTS 4 Jon.

IN a new light gray suit, new 81 shoes, new
derby hat, and a new cravat in which shone
an amethyst pin stood in front OF the Sal
walton Army lodging house at q BoweTy
yesterday afternoon and Acknowledged
the salutations of his friends in the line
that goes drifting by on the Bowery,
Afternoon, Mr. Quigey,' one would
cay obsequiously.
Afternoon. Sam
'ThinlSin of leayin' US yet, Mr. Quigley1'
Not to-day. Maybe tomorrow, Sam
And 50 1t went on all the afternoon, Now
and then Quigley, whose friends used to
call him Pat. removed his hat and care
fully mopped his brow with white silk
handkerchief AT least the BoweTy con-
cluded It was silk. being Quigley's.
Quigley has been living at No 81 for six
months. He had ten cent bed and was
hunting for food and a job. Now he's
thinking Of leaving the Bowery for The
Bronx.
1t is all because ouigley found diamond
hVV-ooh on Sunday morning. Quigley
didn't think il was real then. The brooch
belonged to Mrs. r. Edward Ward OF 2J1
West Ninety-third street, who discovered
that she had lost il after attending a per-
Torrance at the Garrick Theatre, The
theatre was searched high and low for II
after the show Saturday night. but it
wasn't found. Then Mrs. Ward adver-
tised, Offering TO pay 81 900 for it's return.
The advertisement produced Quigley;
downtown jeweler produced the reward,
and Quigley suddenly became the Bowerys
philanthropist.
Quigley told yesterday how it happened,
standing in front Of the lodging house
entrance, shining mark in a circle Of adj
mring friends.
you see, | was out early, thin kin l
might see a sign that a waiter was wanted.
was walking through Thirty-hfth street
about o'clock when looked down through
a grating in front Of the theatre and saw
something shiny Glass | says Then
! made up my mind to see what il was.
The thing was to get it out. II was down
eight feet. Now, at o'clock on a Sunday
momin' in that section it's harder to find
a stick than a dollar. walked blocks and
blocks until | came to the Hippodrome
building. There got two sticks each about
FIVE foot long Now says |, Il got the
sticks, but that amt all / need 1t was
how to get that shiny thing to come up
with the stick.
Finally borrowed piece Of soap from
a man cleanin' a stoop and put the soap
on the end OF one Of the sticks. Then |
tied both the sticks together to make eight
feet and went back to the place by the way
OF Fifth avenue, caus, ! didn't want TO
attract any attention. When | got hack
there was the thing still shinin at me and
nobody round as / thought Down ]
goes through the gratin' with the stick,
and sure enough il stuck on the soap. l
was pullin il up careful-like not to knock
IL of when suddenly dago bootback from
the corner saloon drops down on his knees
beside mo pokes his hand down and brings
UP the brooch.
-'Une of them stage diamonds, he says,
handn' it 20 me with a grin.
Sure pop, says l, but guess III keep
Il 10 fool some OF my friends
THE dago offered me 10 cents forit, but !
wouldn't take il. I looked around all day
for job with the thing in my pocket.
pinned it in my pocket and sat up most
Of the night, cause there were guys there
that would choroform Teller for -. When
! got in bed l put il underneath me and
slept on il. Pat I says 10 myself. you
got 10 cents left and something you don't
know whether it is glass or not. What are
you goin 10 do about IT, Then ! remem-
bered reGdin' in a science paper once that
II you put a drop Of water on a real die
mond it'll stick on Sure enough. the drop
stuck there with me tunin and twistin'
the stones all sorts Of ways. Then I re-
membered that Dave Berry, who nuns the
Penny Arcade, had a glass diamond /
took the brooch down TO Dave and was
trenholm all over.
Dave | says, get out your glass dia-
mond and see if drop Of water runs on it
when you hold il upside down
Dave thought was crazy. hut he did
what told him to do and he couldn't keep
a drop Of water on that thing Of his 20 save
his soul
Now says, look at mine Then
hands out the brooch and puts a drop Of
water on one Of the stones and let Dave
Sc just how il stuck on.
Pat you've got fortune there says
Dave.
Then Dave and me read all the papers
TO see who lost IL, and long in the afternoon
i see an advertisement for il and the re-
ward Of 81 900. got down 10 this jewellers
store at 10 Maiden lane quick and there
was this Mr. Ward waitin' for it,
They didn't ask me even nv name.
but a boy went out with check and came
back with a new $1,000 bill. ] wanted
something to eat bad, but knew / couldn't
get it with that bin me dressed up rs was
Finally got it changed at a brokers' Office
for 81 and came back up to No. p with the
roll in my pocket Outside was the ianitor
coughin'. ! handed him a five dollar bill
and he most fell over backward. Go of
and have a good time ! says, and walked
upstairs Upstairs was big Mike Dunn,
q longshoreman. gave him so cents.
Pat, he says, what dye mean?
haven't seen 80 cents for months Then
reached down in my pants and pulled
out 8? more. Mike thought | was crazy.
1 gave away 500 in all TO friends OF mine.
Then | put 500 in the Bowery Savings
Bank. Yesterday l thought I'd have a
look at that gratin' again and | dropped
into the corner saloon and heard EN- talkin'
about the tramp that had found the brooch.
walks over to the dago and found he
didn't remember me. | handed him out s..
Here 7 says, that's for the little job
you neiped me on Then beat it for the