The Washington times., 1906-10-21

I swell spielers from tie East Side
/ Chuck" would salaam and then say as
a passing remark; "Aint she de won
/ der, dis bundle jis done gone upstairsI
Every bundle in town capable OF
turning Il spiel was on hand and kept
] busy through the long hours of the
night and through to the gray hours of
/ the early morn. Connors, in his negligee
shirt and loose coat, adorned by huge
white pearl buttons and wearing "A
saucy Whitechapel derby. looked his
reputation and never missed a trick.
/ joe Neager asked him TO liquor up
1 so many times that before the o'clock
| supper hour Chuck was all but over
. sens. Plunger "Davy' Johnson asked
out. Booze (beer) and Bass ale, dose
are de only rings, was The tough
man 8 way of declination. From the one
| straight and the many crooked streets
OF ChiHg town came Il gang Of sports
I 10 minzle with de race track guys"
Of whom they had been reading all sum
mer.
"Steadies" Supplied on Application.
Those who failed 10 bring along
''steadies' were supplied on application
To Chuck" who. late in the evening.
slouched into a big chair near the long
bar at the end Of the main dance hall
The etiquette of "Chuck's" horsemen's s
ball is that every gel" must hook up
with a partner when told TO, or take
the consequences, which generally came
IN the way OF black eye or a Cuff
over the mouth II YOU never have
seen New York 5 most famous bad man
! leading the grand march at this or any
: other OF the numeT Gus balls he promotes
through year, you have missed an
event worth sitting up half the night
To witness.
With torch. that has been SOLD 10
him under the name Of a cigar, in his
mouth, Chuck" enVelOps himself and
a partner in halo Of Mt. Pelee smoke
An, kid, get hep To me bundle She
De de main rag in dis push" exclaimed
1 'Chuck, as he leered over at an ad-
mlrlng group OF Louisiana trainers.
ready TO say that the New Orleans
Noodoo stood feaZcd before COnnOrs'
evnlutions. Then the twisting" II
TaU don't know hOW-Why. YOU can't
I commence 20 do IT,
II is learned only on New York's East
sac, where the shop girls and the ma
chine boys drift into il like a baby falls
Tor milk and bread. With the band tear
ing holes In the atmosphere, and the
raCetrack boys having the time Of their
/ lives, the TeVelers did the automobile
dance. the loop de loop. and the Boston
/ dip, the latter the very latest thing
on the cards.
Waltzes Not Speedy Enough.
The popular square dances and dream
Ing waltzes Of polite society did not
have vogue during the evening. "Dev
amt no speed in dem" says Chuck" ."
II was spiel and twist" all night 10
the popular music Of the day. out in
/ the bar, or fence" as CHUCK called
/ II, there was no chance for a dead one
A battalion OF white aprOued bartcnders
showed over schOoners, kicks. and scut-
Ties of booze. Every ybOdy had money.
/ everybody seemed willing 10 spend IT,
and everybody was thirsty. What "A
night A good, 1iTst-cidss thiIsI didn [
Those Of the Goo sports LETT on their
feet At the end were able TO toll OF the
wondrous loads the Bowery boys could
toddle under when the weather stood
Ialr and the barkeeps knew their bust
ness Il never kin dance till / has
sixteen scuttles under me belt" said
one husky spieler and when I tro
twenty inter mesclf then / kin make
all dose twiSJeTs look like cart mules
up agin SalVidere'
Morphine Mag Stayed Late
The milk wagons were ratting and
cracking through the streets and the
gray dawn was just commencing 10
reach over the warehouse tops when II
was all over. The dead ones had found
havens of safe refuge and the live ones
like Young Corbett'' and Count Ress-
ner, the newest sport on Broadway,
were heading for port Morphine Mag
and Billy the Goat sat dreamilv ar
the one tcnanted table Gee, 1 guess
Better git fur Use got ter get tn
/ bed early tonight, fur Use on at de-
shop on de seventeen shift tomorrow. %
quOth de bundle"
Chuck" was the last warrior to
leave. As he declined it down the
BoWery 70 No. l9 he mumbled. Crate.
crate, Nuthtn to IT," Safe 10 saw.
the Chuck COnnOrs bail 10 tie
SheepShead BAY hOresmen as SignaIiz-
ing the clOse-dOwn Of the 1906 sea son
viii ind many a narrator a. California
ana at New Orleans this coming win
ter. He VIII never lack an audience.