Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-27

q given space OF time One OF the cinch
bettors soueaked most mournfully few
afternoons ago when he dropped a wager
on thing that looked to him like steal
ing
A fancy roller skater. a champion In his
class. was giving an exhibition OF all kinds
OF extraordinary skating stunts
He's wonder. hey?' said the cinch
pettor TO the man with him. Queer how
ne can skate on one toe that way. isn't 1t?
suppose he never fell down while roller
skating In his life. Ell 90
oh. I guess he's had his bumps" said
The other her, man. He's liable to fall down
oy with those gay tricks"
on: is he" said the cinch man. Lay
you sa5 to 81 he won't.
us the stiney price. but I'll go you
TOT aoout y worth OF that. tust to give the
pier tone. said the other man
You're on-S5o to . that he doesn't fall
down said the lead-pipe person regard
ing 'he pet as the commonest kind ~
theft on his part.
ana Just two minutes later the fancy
skater came down with a d. $. thud while
essaying difficult one-heel trick The
cinch man dug up, but he made a noise Ike
leaky man-o'-war boiler for some hours
afterward
The Pretty Widow.
At one Of the greatest hotels in the place
there is pretty widow of thirty five or so,
now well out of her weeds. occupying n
suite comprising most Of the entire floor
space OF one of the LIS. She arrived from
New York last week with three maids. n
secretary. chauffeur. n private baggage
man and thirty nine trunks Her two au-
e3ilioohes. q huge touring car and a run
ABOUT; had already arrived. So had her
victoria and her horses. Her yacht. ,lpon
which she spent the winter in West indian
waters. is being refittcd and is expectcd I'm
these waters presently
only matter Of five years or So ago this
har acta, -,,,rr
motel IN the capacity of governess for tho
chiidren OF the New York millionaire whom
she afterward married. The mother of tho
children. an Invalid. was here NJ the sam.
time. Before her death year later nr-
cording TO the current story. she told her
husband that she thought that II would he,
a. good thing for him to marry the GOV
erness After proper season of mourning
the New York millionaire followed his dead
wife's advice, being violently opposed how
ever. by his upgrowing children and other
members me, OF his family. When he himself
died. year or so after his marriage TO the
eoverness his children fought the widow IN
the courts for the estate. She won com
plete triumph over them last year.
Many of the servants Of the hotel who
We're here at the time the sedate governcss
had her little aerie room on the top floor
of the establishment. only five years ago.
are still employed at the hotel But tho
widow. as amiable she is clever. doesn't
mind their presence I'm the least. on the
contrary she bestows lavish largesse upon
them. and has arranged to take several ~
them into her employ when she reopens
her beautiful home on Riverside drive. In
New York. I'm the autumn.
There great many "overnesses
scattered about the Atlantic CITY hotels.
and 1t is diverting to study their awed.
half-specuative. wholly wistful expressions
when the eN governess makes her regal ap-
pearance on the Atlantic city driveways
or on the Boardwalk
Boardwalk Newsboys.
People who come TO Atlantic city for tha
first time are always struck with the re-
markable memories OF the Boardwalk news
BOYS The lads cry the names Of papers
published in every large city In the United
States and such Is the cosmopolitan char
acter Of the crowds here that they rarely
get 'stuck wit der papes." The CRY Of
boardwalk newsbov Is a good deal like the
calling off of n railroad station announcer
naming the points at which an accomn"-
dalton train Is to stop-as TO the length or
the cry. that Is to say. The Boardwak
newse's advertisement of his wares. omit
ted in n high pitched. sing-song voice. goes
something like this:
Here ware! All the New york fhlla-
delphia Baltimore. Washington. Pitishurg.
Harrisburg Wilmington, Hartford. Boston.
Chicago Richmond. Atlanta. New Orleans.
Buffalo. Detroit. Milwaukee. st. Paul. Min
neapolis Cincinnati. Omaha. Denver ana
San Francisco papes, Just hi They're
red hot Here y'are. Papers from any old
place."
THEY'RE a keen lot of newspaper pod
dlers too these Boardwalk youngsters.
They appear to he able to tell what city n
boardwalk parader halls from by his looks
The lads range from twelve TO twenty
years of age. and many o. them have been
selling papers the Boardwalk for SOW
eral years. The passing man who strik"s
the newshov as a New Yorker gets n New
York paper showed under his nose; the man
with the exterior that seems to sncll Phlla
delphia to the newshoy has a PHILADELPHIA
paper presented to him. and 50 on: and the
bows rarely make mistakes.
Their memory for faces is extraordinary
A Washington man who was here I'VE
years ago for q month or so used 10 hwy
The Evening Star every evening from "A
runt of a ffteen-ycar newsboy on the
Boardwalk The Washington man got
down here last week for the first time
since that visit. On the evening of his ar
rival he taking a stroll on the Board
walk before turning in. He hadn't made
more than block of the big plank parade
before he heard familiar. husky, but
much deepened voice behind him:
washington Evening Star Tonight, sir?
said the voice.
The Washington man wheeled about ana
there was his newshoy of five years before.
no longer n rUnt. but a broad-shoulder"d
youngster somewhat In need OF shave.
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.