The Washington herald., 1907-03-03
TOUGH DEALIN N'YO'K
Montana Cowboy Had Sufii'
cient in Three Weeks.
NO GLAD HAND-HOME FOR HIS
Fell Among PbiIlstines and Lost
Money, Shoes, and Ciothing-Would
Not Beg, SO Tried work for Liv-
ing-Breadline Nearly Made Him an
AnRrchist-Westward i'm Cattle Car.

Charley jackson. a cowpuncher hailing
from Billings, Mon. has had enough Of
New York, admits the New York sun.
After "A stay Of three weeks he will start
for home this morning in "a cattle car in
charge of some draught horses, the pur-
chaser OF which has paid for his trans
portatlon.
Jackson had never been East before in
spite Of the fact that he is forty-three
years old. But when a consignment OF
horses, valued at $1,000. was loaded on
the cars at Billings he hired himself out
as a caretaker solely because he yearned
for Broadway and the Bowery. Yester-
day morning Jackson, whose clothes were
much the worse for wear, and whose big
broad brim hat and long whiskers at
tracted unusual attention, appeared at the
Offices OF the New York American League
baseball club In the Flatlron building and
asked for Clark Grihith. also a Montana
ranchman when not engaged in the ma
tional game.
When Griffith had acknowledge his
identity Jackson said:
Il don't want a dollar, mind you, ]
just want TO talk to a man from Mon
tana before I leave for home tomorrow
I've heard of you. Mr.. Griffith. out among
the cow-punchers and / think you ought
10 know what kind of people these here
New York fellers are. When I arrived
In Hoboken with ii lot of horses three
weeks ago 1 had $500 in nay clothes and
1 was just dying TO see the big town.
Il came over In the ferry and the frs,
thing ] did was 10 ask a policeman where
there was a good hotel He told me, so
had a few drinks and went there at once.
I turned in at o'clock, throwing my
clothes on the floor because / was too
tired TO hang EN- up.
Had PInchcd His Wud.
when I got up in the morning found
that all nay money was gone. / had locked
the door before going to sleep, but the
hotel detectives showed me how the key
had been turned with a pair Of pincers
from the outside. Still that didn't get
my three hundred back, and after staying
az the hotel for three days 1 was told
10 get out AS I owed eight bones they
kept my ZIP. But that was only the be-
ginning.
Here / was in New York without a
friend or a cent If the fellers that took
nay money had left me the price Of a
postage stamp or a railroad ticket ]
wouldn't have cared. But they had no
heart al ALL You've got 10 eat and sleep.
you know. so 1 hired out as a snow
shOveuer at once, and worked eleven hours
the first day. Then there was $50 com
ing 10 me, but when I went 30 get it they
said I'd have to wait until the next night.
They didn't know I was hungry, for ]
hadn't had a bite all day. But when
got out on the sidewalk a Teller said ne
was sorry for me. and bought my time
check for $3.50. You bet I was glad 90
get that even. for 7 had a square meal
and got a bed at the Aiills Hotel.
Put at this place Of rest / should have
been wise Alongside OF she bed was a
strip Of carpet, on which I placed my
shoes IN the night. some Teller reached
under the door Of my room and pulled east
carpet. shoes. and all. There I was IN the
morning without my shoes. but a tramp
gave me an extra pair he had that were
a holy show.
Looking for Work.
AS my brother is sheriff out in Billings
and another brother is cashier in the
bank. I did not want TO have them know
how I'd been skinned here. so I decided
20 look for work In order to buy q
ticket home. / would not beg. for I'd
rather walk home than do that. you know
All / wanted was work. and in order "a
get it 1 went 10 charity organization.
There they asked me for my pedigree,
how old I was. the names of my father
mother. grandmother, grandfather. great
great grandfather. and so on, back 70 the
Ark.
After that they gave me several adj
dresses, where they said I'd get work
but. Of course, when I got there I c0udB't
find anything al ALI I suppose when ]
get back home and have about 500 ia my
kick. these people will write 10 me and
tell me that they have found that I'm
all right
With nothing TO eat, 7 got into bread
line one night and got a cup of coffee and
a ham sandwich. I was a Republican NJ
to that time, but as they said Hearst gave
the grub away free I turned Democrat
But since then I've turned anarchist. and
If 1 wasn't going away tomorrow / think
my name would soon be in the papers
because I'd surely hold up somebody.
Another chance 10 earn Il living came
in an Office in Front street. where / was
told that by verifying a whole lot Of peo-
pie in Bradstreets I'd get "a quarter a
hundred. / made 20 cents the first day.
o. the second, and 80 the third. Then ]
got so that whenever 7 saw a Montana
mans name I marked it o. X. anyway.
I quit this place in disgust and saw an
al in paper over In Brooklyn. ! hunted
IL up and found that q man wanted me
to handle for a dollar q day "a dozen
horses that hadn't been out of the barn
all winter. He said he wasn't afraid of
them. but didn't have the time to do the
job himself. This was taking chances
with your life very cheaply. and I passed
II up.
'Then I went to a coal yard They said
I'd have to own my shovel, which they'd
sell NE for 40 cents 7 dug ND the price.
and then found I'd have to give bond
or something of the sort guaranteeing
that / wouldn't steal any of the coal
Il next went to the Madison Square
Garden &c see somebody connected with
Fasig, Upton & Co., the horse dealers,
and felier said I'd find my man up IN
the tower. But 7 didn't know what
might happen to me up there, 50 l steered
away.
Senator's Dude Snubbed Him.
Then ] remembered that Senator Rey-
nolds, Of Brooklyn. was out in Montana
year ago, and that / had shown him
through the foothills. He had some
fTienos along and they wasted all kinds
Of powder and shot When they got
through they asked me what they owed
and 1 said there was nothing; that the
fun l had was enough for me. Then