The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-25
URBAN RAMBLE ORA LONGHORN
GILI NIKE INTERVIEWS MIS-
CELLANEOUS NEW YORKERS.
His own Opinion % a LOUgshOreman Who
vi Twist q Texas steers Tail by Way
Of Turning On the Power Is Expressed
FOR Him by Mesquite Pete Of Triangle A.

ella Mike, a bad ~longhorn steer from
Texas, started out on a seeing New York
tour YESTERDAY morning along the udson
River coast. beginning near CHARLES street.
Mi e was headed for Wall Street, but was
STONED nv a hard hearted citizen named
Charles johnson down at the foot OF Clark
son street.
MESQUITE Pete Smith Of Triangle A rancho,
near Shirttail Sli 10, Deaf Smith county,
Tex, says that il they had not twisted
ella Mikes tail he would not have got mad
and started down the trail. Mesquite Pete
came all the way to New York with the
! consignment Of steers and he knows Mikes
delicate seneibilities. There hadn't been an
accident in the whole trip. said Pete yester-
day, until they twisted ella Mikes tail.
and that started the whole damn racket.
Early yesterday morning the rude steve
dores were loading the consignment OF
seventy-four steers from Triangle A onto
the steamer Bermudian at Pier II, North
River. They we're very harsh in their
manner, these stevedores. Whenever a
steer would not 20 up the plank some igno-
rant man got a half hitch on its tail and
turned II from north to south. All went
we'll until they tried this practice on ella
Mike, the pride Of the Triangle A rancho.
Mesquite Pete was sitting on the pier
bulkhead near by, taking his after break
! fast chew Of Lone Star coarse cut. His eye
ranged over the spot where the cursing
stevedores we're struggling with the steers.
Suddenly he saw ella Mike start up the
ganRplank with head aloft and eye gleam-
ing. Mike stopped midway and one Of the
laborers reached TO windward for mis- tail.
Hey, you'll Leave that tail alone
screamed Pete, ~springing from his seat
and leaping out in giant stride toward the
| offending one. But it was too late; the
tail had been kinked.
With a below OF outraged dignity ella
Mike reared and took the guardrail Of the
gangplank with a bound. He landed on
the wharf on all fours and started dow
the length Of il, shaking his head from side
to side and giving voice to defiant trumpet
inss Of rage. He's of the range now"
muttered Mesquite Pete. and I guess all
bells to pay before they catch him."
Peter from Deaf Smith county, Texas,
never said a truer word. Down the pier
to West street ella Mike charged, idlers
and freight agents scattering before him.
The boss stevedore shouted to one Of the
Ginneys down at the end OF the wharf to
close the gates, but il was too late. The
outraged steer rammed the gate before it
was half shut and bolted through to the
open highway.
Aloysius James Dougherty, an expressman
/ who lived In Indian Territory before they
began to sell moccasins to tourists at the
railroad stations, was standing in his wagon
Just In the path Of the believing longhorn.
Aloysius James thought that he remem-
L---a 49,, 80 NkEn. N ~ ZIG IEnnnh
a piece Of baling rope that lay in the floor
Of his cart and as ella Mike sped by he
| slipped the moose over the branching horns.
A. }. forgot that he did not have a horse
under him and when they picked him up
from the cobbles he was murmuring some
thing about home and mother.
On the corner Of West and Charles streets
Pietro Cazzanovo has q pushcart. He
sells sweet California grapes and red apples
in this season Of the year. PietrO has been
to the opera and he knows the Toreador
song by heart.
Bravely throwing his jacket over his
shoulder with a rakish fold, Pietro seized
a freight handlers hook from a nearby
/ box and stepped into the street to hand
out the coup de grace. ella Mike swerved
when he came up to Pietro and struck the
pushcart squarely. Pietro owed the pad
rome 1915 besides.
street station was standing on West street
a block down and saw the steer coming his
way. Gilkinson hastily. reviewed the man
uaI OF a policeman. In case OF hre turn
in an alarm from the nearest box and &c
Immediately to the scene. To resusciate
a drowning person lay out fiat on the back
and induce respiration by a movement of
the arms up and down. Lost children
should be taken immediately
Gilkinson did not get down the manual
as far as steers. Instead he went out in
the street and spread out his arms. ella
Mike hit him full and fair and spoiled his
new helmet. besides putting a temporary
dent In his solar plexus.
On the corner Of Barrow and West streets
stands Michael Joseph Cowboys saloon.
Michael Joseph runs his place on the square
and you can't get into the back door on
Sundays unless you have lived a yea in
the district and are going to votefor Hearst.
But ella Mike is a bad steer and all saloons
look alike to him. He swerved from his
course down West street and made for
the front door Of Cowboys emporium.
Michael was behind the bar blowing into
the whiskey glasses and wiping them with
a towel when the swinging doors flew open
and the front Of ella Mike appeared, framed
in the shaft OF light:
THAT for yours" quoth Michael as he
deftly flung a vhiskey glass into the face
OF the visitor. Inc steer Ddckeu out MUIR
riedIy and ambled down the street
Never feazed me-" said Mr.. Conboy
afterward when the reporters questioned
him. Il get used to freaks buttln' into
nv place, thought never had a COW before"
AT GARRISON street the chase after the
Texan desperate came to a finish. ella
Mike, feeling that he was getting winded
and possibly believing that he had seen
enough Of New York TO convince him that
IL was nothing like Deaf Smith county,
paused at a vegetable stall belonging to
Charles johnson to sample some red cab
bage. Mesquite Pete, Who had followed
the chase az alertly a. he could without
his mustang, surprised the steer in the act
of biting into a basket OF oysters with the
hulls on. He gently slipped a rope around
Gila Mikes horns and look a new chew OF
Lone Star with relieved air.
Il don't blame the critter a bit for doin'
what he done" said Pete after his charge
had been led hack to the ship and safely
slowed tween decks. -Yusee II them wal
eyed dingdonged greasers hadn't a'twisted
his tail why Mike would IA gone up tibet
ganSway there like a jackrabbit over a
wire fence. Those fellers must he used
n--l.-s -.,s-n, kAna int TaNanN ~.