The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

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shfieks conatitutsd IN order IT, r. ahead
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aud three Immediately after tic ofitef
understood h. muat hack up and set out
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~ NJ an ohstrnctor ~ III" tfnffc in any
part ~ tlW city Naturally, G,m Ftthd-
way tho expression spread over IN" couh-
try
Another New Yorker advances n second
theory. Iie declare that Ia the alcoholic
ward ~ Relleyue Hospital the raddcd
coll for the worst cases II No 20 Thus
when, after n hard night the sufeter from
the effect of high and low ones lands In
Bellows he ~ees his finish In "a
Jack O'Brinn, tho pugilist, was refused
Admitt1nce 10 t~wenty-three New YORK
hotels, IL ndvanCcdby an ingenious deliver
into tho mystery Of ga Tho only difficulty
WIN the tHtltlNllly OI InlN " lNHt 80
was n rart 81 THE slang tongue before O'Brien
hit New YORK and he was not thrown out
Of twenty-three places.
still another explanation II that n party
~ Westerners started To drink up Broad
way. They counted zach successive bar,
and IA they advanced u the last they hailed
the bartender with ga All hands then
passed away and were bundled 10 cabs
and sent home.
One of the most commonly accepted
.dens Of the derivation credits the coming
to tho evolution Of a telegraph signal. The
story goes that old time operators used '23"
TO order interrupters Of the wire. Among
railroad train despatchers -23' was used
when the dispatcher wished to notify all
operators along the division to copy "A train
order which was about to be sen to some
junction point. 1t did not imply get out 4"
for. on the contrary, it commanded every
one to."get in
Photographers rave a yarn to the effect
that way back S23' was used for a death
MESA ge, hut veterans at the key do not
recall the employment Of the numerals.
y The chances are that no one knows just
how pa did happen. As long as most
everybody by this time knows what it
means, why waste time in trying to trace
IL, when in a few months II will have been
superseded by some terse phrase OF equally
mysterious origin?