The Washington times., 1906-07-29
BUNCH Of CULTURE
FOR TOM SHARKEY
Guy That Puts Up His Mitts
Can Get High Ideas,
All Right.
"SEEN A LOT OF THINGS"
Spent Six Weeks AbToad-Tried to Buy
Venus De Milo for
5000.

NEW YORK. July 2s.-"sure. I just
made up me mind 10 run over 70 Europe
and indulge me taste fer culture"
Tom Sharkey pushed back an empty
beer glass with one delicate hand and
hooked the thumb OF the other in his
suspenders. He was extending the hos
pitality OF his saloon and dance hall on
Fourteenth street TO q reporter at one
Of the little round tables Just under the
balcony. where the shirt-sleeved profes,
sor puts his feet up and attacks the
plano.
High Ideas, All Right.
This talk about a guy that puts up
his hands never bein' able 10 get any
high Ideas Is all rot" said Tom. hook
ing both thumbs ia his suspenders. 'Ive
been over there six weeks. I seen al
Paree. l seen the art galleries and
NapoleOn's tomb and the Shomps
Aleezay, and ! seen the sights OF Lon
don, too, only they weren't so good No
such art galleries there as the Lower
and the LsO0ksemburger And ] seen
the Drettiest sights of ireland. An ]
tell you. after bein' six weeks abroad
for the benefit Of me mind 7 tell YOU
just as much OF all that sort O thing
and he Just as cultivated as the next
man. ] went all around and seen every
thing that everybody else sees. and I
enjoyed it-yes. sir. ! enjoyed IT, What
ye haVe1'
Did I go with a Cooks tour? Now
Just expected that question. No, /
didn't You don't catch NE travelling
around with gang Of women and chill
dren like q gr0wed up orphan asylum.
7 guess I'm big enough 10 go travel
ing myself without ANYBODY leading me
along No Cooks for mine.
Net Pals in London.
II just took the missus. and the kid
and says I TO them: For six weeks
we cut loose and see everything there
is. and We did. all first class. too. from
start TO finish.
First we 60 TO London. The missus
an the kid go shopping and after / see
a sight or two I drifts up TO the Ma
tional Sporting Club fought Rubin
there five years ago. y1d know. DID 1
VIM Nav. l lost. Fifteen rounds
How did II happen? Why, 7 was a sick
man That's why 1 was sick
Well, l see lot OF my old pals
there. Charlie Mitchell and the guy
that fought Young COrbett and those
And some pretty htgh-placed gentlemen
were there. too. on. I had a first rate
time in London. The King WASH [
there. II he had been have a straight
tip that I'd a-met him all right. all
right You know, he's a great sport
AS matter OF fact. he's one Of the few
men J know that's "A first class sport
and a perfect gentleman 10 boot. Yes.
sir. so far as l know he's a perfect
gentleman
Can't Fool Thomas.
Didn't see many sights? Yes. 7 did.
The day before We left 7 cut out the
-. S. c. and took in a museum. I went
20 the National Museum there to see
the statues. I'd heard a lot about how
great a museum IL was and what Won
derful statues. but. you know I saw
some II black marble Lhat were the
worst things you ever see. An old guy
tells me that tLey were six thousand
years old and C.Ime from EEVpt.
guess I looked like a dummy to him.
SIX thousand years old and here it's
only nineteen hundred and something
now j wonder what he took me f0rg
anyway, they were bum statues. You
can pass anything OF on the English.
and II you're there you have TO stand
Ior IT. Why, now look at the deal
Tommy Ryan gives EN- when he counts
me out 20 Rubin five years ago, and me
had him beat
Went in for Culture.
Well. after I seen all the sights IN
London that way, we all goes over TO
Paris. Say, that's it for mine. Not
that it's so gay. Because I didn't go
IN Tor the kahfay shOntOn and all that
az ali. Paris is the capital OF the world.
They've got all the culture there IS there.
And 1 went in for it-all there w2s-you
bet.
7 guess I walked a hundred miles
through the art galleries. Say. they
were great! The LOOVer nOw-that's
where Napoieon's tomb is. You saw 1t
is some miles away from there No
u amt. / just come from there and
Napoleon's tomb IS right at the Loover.
We'll, anyway, it's great-the Loove-.
! mean. Just miles and miles OF pic
lures. certainly got tired of rubberlng,
but at the same time I certainly got a
good deal OF culture tramping up ard
down those halls and looking en- ar
over.
Did 1 see the Vennusq Sure, Funny
thlnS, / was looking for some statOoarv
% puy and put up In my place. 50 I
walked along, and when ] saw this one
| said 10 myself, Wen, she certainly
looks pretty dirty and badly busted. too.
BUT II / can get KleinVinkel that Dutch
Irlsid or mine on Third avenue 10 nut
arms on her nd I'LL in the Clipped places
and just put a nice coat OF clean white
paint all over her, she'd do
offered $500 for Venus.
We'll, what do you think? I lust
wanted the statue because it was dig and
could say it came from the Loover
ana told an old guy with brass but
tons that I'd be willing TO pay two or
-hree hundred dollars for her What
10 you think he says? lie tells me that
me government paid $3.50 coo for the
thing. ] thought I'd faint I've seen
en- half as big in Fourteenth street for
4 dollar and a half. Just the same.
wish l could have bought n for this
place. just think If il stood up here
above the professor, Ell? The famous
Vennus dee MeelO from the l-OOVer' I'm
sorry l cOu dnt get i'm gnty sorry.
Then ! went over 10 -he LOoksen1-
burger Palace too. They've got a LOT
IF modern pictures there. YOU know,
Bastien lie Page and a big lot / can't
Semember the rest Of era. And I went
% the races a lot too. They cali the
course I.ahngshOm or something and
is a fine course. Saw Alice Roosevelt
md her husband there. No. ] didn't
;peak to them, never had the pleasure
y being introduced Same with the
President Of the French Republic. And
dropped around TO look over the Cas-
;eleen place. too. Never heard OF the
yasseleel2 G'wani Why BOny aud his
wife that's getting a divorce
ION my way home / went through
arney and Belfast and
spent some line with my cid mother at
)undalk. Then / got a few souvenirs
md came here on the Carmania Sun
lay ] had a fine time got a whole lot
If mental improvement ana seen a lot
If things