Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
BANKERS AND bATHERS
Authorities Not Able to Get Into
the King Row.
ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK
Endless Chain for the Promotion of
Accelerated Exits.
Spelling TO START SOMETHING
Devices Of the Girls to Keep New
Bathing Suits Buttoned Up
the Back.
ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK
Spelling TO START SOMETHING

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY. July IA. 1906
Last week the Atlantic City authorities
started in to squelch the boardwalk bar
kers, with particular reference to those
granite-featured. big-nickei-show boosters
who. with hats tipped over the left ear.
wave the blithe swish stick. talk out of the
southwest corner of the facial orifice and
beckon em in on the Bowery.
And now the barkers while still there.
are voiceless. and the Bowery part OF the
boardwalk is as abloom with huge barking
megaphones, hitched to 'steen- horsepower
talking machines, as village back yard
with hollyhocks.
The projectors of the boardwalk shows
b>ve taken the talking machine and mega
phone method of getting around the anti
barker ordinance. and they are getting
away with 1t. 1t is now the authorities
next move. and the authorities don't appear
to be able to get into the king row.
The bankers simply stand alongside the
talking machines and gesticulate eloquently
and swish their canes, without making one
oral cheep out OF any portion OF their coun-
tenances. The talking machines furnish
the barking, and the sure-enough bankers
canes in perfect unison with the sauawky.
superheated speech of the machines. Thus,
unless you approach closely, you are at
loss to know which is making the noise,
The Manufactured human barker or the
machine with megaphone attachment. AS
law-dodging arrangement this scheme has
all previous kinks of a similar kind simply
backed off the boards. 1t should be under
stood that the authorizing ordinance
doesn't mention anything about the presence
Of b, ha rlka in OF show.
simply required not to bark With the talk
ing machine agoing. he doesn't have to
bark of course. He simply sticks in
record or plaque starts the contraption to
buzzng and suits the action to the auto
matcally barked word.
Raspy, Piratical Tone.
Strolling up or down the Bowery. under
this battling dispensation, you find your
self suddenly hailed in raspy, piratical,
sort of rum-and gum tone:
Hey. there. pal. there's big dragon
fly on your lid-brush 1t off,
You Immediately remove your lid be-
ing taken uuawares, but before you have
got 1t well off you heard a tremendous
"Ha. ha1' in the same rumlferous tone.
whereupon, feeling that you've been fool
ed, you glare at the barker, who is holding
his sides and mirthiessly laughing to ac-
company the -ha-ing of the talking
machine. The barker waves his wand at
you If to sweep you right through the
portal before which he is standing. and
you observe that his lips are moving
rapidly
Fright In, now. be, an have peek at
the cobra eating man gorilla
half a deeme nickel a flash-on'y nickel
a peek--th' horrible Jugo. see him bite
their heads off right in front o youse-
nickel erack--come on IN, boz!
The human barker Is grinntng with
weird steadiness at you all the time he Is
l-fp with
lips. His gesticulatory obligato to the
ia wling tune of the talking machine is
perfect in tempo. Your first impulse or
soreness over the joke about the bug on
your hat melts under the utter ridiculous
ness of the situation, and you probably
surrender nickel to the Jugo PROPOSE
ton solely for the privilege of standing
out in front for a while and watching the
noiSeless barker Work.
At One of Those Gardens.
A real ba-ad young Philadelphia Of the
jeunesse doree, with lot of elocutioaary
clothes and diamonds and things, who
fmagines that he is going the pace and
is tremendously dissipated and wicked be
cause he sits up late o nights making
rings on tables in gilded cafes with the
bottom of his glass, got himseF into
queer sort of endless chain so to speak,
the other night-or, rather. the other
1t happened at ABOUT naI- past t"O oh
Sunday morning at one of those gardens
off the boardwalk where the vfoins and
mandolins and dulcimers and 'ceilos render
sogful music until about the time the sun
Is due to flare up out of the orient east
where the walters expect-and get-a tip
of two bits every time they serve a two
bit drink, for Atlantic City has its full
quota of marks" where women who are
beautiful in pallid. expressionless over
dressed, over eweled way sit around the
toIl 4oc ing ind
others immense finger rings, with sodden
lads, eager to be considered sad dogs, ana
furtive-eyed old roues who carry their
check books even in the coats of their even
ing clothes: where. a couple OF hours-aftef
midnight, the things served by the fat. tip
exacting Ganymedes have reduced all
hands to a certain common alcoholic de-
nom!nator, as 1t were, wherein some OF
them become jealous and furious and IN
clined to fight and others merely affection
ate and inclined toward more gummily SEN
timental music; where-well, just one OF
those gardens" off the Atlantic City board
had look at least at them. or one of
them, though probably not everybody at the
hour at which this thing occurred.
There were about eight around the table
delphia was ''openin wine and settling
for the large platters of broiled Holsters
and such like-four OF the waxy- faced
women of the stolid. wholly -unintelligent
KIM OF DSduty, anu lOuE youlilIul@ HIdl6S,
with bloodshot eyes of which they were
secretly proud as indicating the
velocity of their evil gait to all hands view
ing them
He Became Petulant.
The young Philadelphia who was doing
the wine openin' became petulant over his
waters somewhat protracted absence. He
gazed peevishly about the hopelessly gaudy
and over-decorated plant for a minute or
So Then he deliberately kicked at the
projecting end of tray covered with
empty dishes that stood at his elbow. and
the dishes fell with ciatter and crash
to the polished floor. the flying bits Of
china scattering themselves around an area
of twenty feet
The tremendous noise startled everybody
in the crowded big room, and the manager
of the garden" who had seen the young
mans deliberate action in smashing the
dishes was at his side in iiffy.
You and your party Will have to leave
at once" said the manager quietly to the
sad dog from Philadelphia.
well. hey replied the ba-ad youth.
rising unsteadffy from his chair and loom
Ing over the fat manager. All right, but
m going to start something FIRST and he
made q pass with his clenched fist for the