The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-04
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~ = group ~ admitting friends Nov
wiil show you The chamber ~ horrors
he satd, rausins before the doo' N = rocm
near HE orice
Some ~ the afty shuddered In antici.
patory terror ~ what kind ~ horrors 4
doctor might have 10 show All eSpected
something bottled in alcohol But the
room proved 70 he fun ~ nothing more
awful than very costly and heavy bric,A-
brac.
"rhese are AL preechts from my q. Pc
grateful patientR," he said. They spend
large sunna Of money for these things and
then send them IN me II would never do
70 change them and half 81 them are
they are visible. 80 ] have arranged the
chamber Of horrors and there they all go
BILLY the Bootblack- Ia an italian and
has a stAnd right In the heart of the Fiji
tenth Assembly district. He's been there
about eighteen years and all the politicians
know and patronize him, Nobody knows
Just how much he 10 worth but he Ia credited
with owning at leaet three tenement houses
in the district and ha ving money in the
bank.
Billy doubtless has another name. but
nobody knows II. When he started in
business he did all the shining himself.
Now he has three helpers but he still Yields
the brush himself when trade is brisk, The
squabbles of the McManus and Plunkitt
hit Of harm to Billy. There's a Catholic
church near his stand n on Sunday morn
ings Plum kit and McManus used to take
up a stand on opposite corners, where their
followers gathered TO talk with them. Both
sides ~patronized Billy and it wasn't unusual
tn aao fnrfU man uatfinn IN Oat "a alma
Il shouldn't be surprised" said a poll
tician who has seen Billy rise from poverty
to %afluence, If he was worth $50 1000
81 always tip the walters literally
here said the fat man as he stared about
the busy resta urant, ever since ! heard
the wages the walters get. This place has
only a luncheon business; yet the men re-
ceive only Q per cent. OF the total amount
Of their checks. When you realize that
$40 is a good days business for a waiter
and that he gets about 90 cents every day
you can afford to loosen up a little
Last week a family that had lived on the
second floor Of an apartment house for
two years moved mp to the fourth o
I'VE moved to get even with those Dec
Pile on the third floor" explained the woman
of the family. During all those months
that we lived below them they tormented
the life out of me and my girls by cleaning
house on my wash day. They took %partiou-
lar pains with their rugs. The appearance
Of my newly washed clothes on the line
out of the back windows and give them a
good beating. By the time those rugs
we're renovated my clothes we're ready for
the tubs again. Week after week | pro-
tested. Finally the janitor's sympathy
was enlisted in my behalf, but not even
ha could chan OQ the nTn ora m ma for hnat-
ing rugs. At last I determined to have
revenge. The only way TO get it was to
move upstairs. We moved, and now l
have the satisfaction Of giving their clothes
a case of spotted measles by shaking my
rugs over them u.
One of the baseball enthusiasts who do
their roofing in front Of the Park row
s~coreboards is O Chinaman, who is there
every day the scorers are working. One
man, whose curiosity was aroused by the
nationality Of the enthusiast, followed
him home one day and found that be was
on the stan Of a Bowery, laundry "a few
this Chinese crank do any vocal roofing,
but he stands In front Of the boards for
two hours at a time n never goes home
until the last run is in.
Magistrate Finn gave a dinner the other
Gay 10 UHS IlbStA Eudfhcp Sooib SlOi M o+a
the newspaper reporters. When the epeech-
making arrived some one asked how the
host got his name Of Battery Dan.
an tell YOU" said the Magistrate, getting
TO his feet. when ! vas in the Assembly
a Congressman who lived on Staten Island
introduced a bill to turn the Battery into
docks for the use Of corporations. lopposed
the bill. One day I met the Congressman.
What time do you go to and from Staten
Island?' ] asked him.
about 0 in the morning and 8 in the
afternoon he replied.
"'Well, you'd better make it Sin the morn
and @ in the evening. Those constituents
mine will break your head if they ever
catch you, after they hear about this BILL
l told him.:
ais that SOP replied he in alarm; Then
I'll nave my name withdrawn from the bill.
He did and the bill wos killed. Well,
next day THE SUN called me Battery Dan,
and the name has stuck ever since, And
II there is anything on earth am proud OF
it is that name, for II stands for something
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