The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-25
IT MADE The EAST SIDE LAUGH
50 MAYBE THIS IRIsH-GERMAN
~ MET WILL PLEASE YOU.
l.33S Pounds Of humanity Essayed a Trtp
20 college Point I'm q Runabout and
Things H~sppened-A Trivial Incident.
tut the Alleged Humortst Saw aCoiumn

tut n Alleged Humorist Saw sCosumn
That section Of the upper East Side which.
n boInded on the south by Henry Becker's
place and the headquarters Of the Henry
Rocker Association. at Fifty-nrst street and
Third avenue. and on the north by Carl
CedulAnkampf's Imp erial Avenue A cafe.
a. nety-frst street, was splitting its sides
VIII mirth yesterday whenever It thought
~ Nhst happened to the half ton Of Dutch
men meaning Germsns) and the $50 pounds
NJ Irish that started out at the sanse time
in a little second hand runabout that never
was designed for a truck.
I, was pretty we'll agreed around the
birmingham stables. in East Fifty-irst
street, which IL the joint headquarters Of
tho lorkville Association for the Improve
ment Of the Breeding Of Goats and the
tpper East Side Press Club. that II the
Henry Becker Association had been salts
f"d 10 have it's midsummer festival and
moonlight vaudeville somewhere on Man
haitian Island where IL could ~patronixe
home Industries, instead Of wanting to trot
of 10 College Point or some other place
over in Queens that was never heard of
until the free and untrammelled voters Of
dear old Manhattan Isle all got to joining
clubs 80 they could pay Is for rs cents
worth Of steamboat ride. drinks. food and
fight. the children Of the alleged humorist
who is trying to tell this story would have
had to go without bread a day longer. las
a matter Of fact, the alleged humorist hasn't
any children; that's part Of the humor.l
But the Henry Becker Association decided
that it wanted TO go to College Point, % OF
T.at raa 10 x-aa - ..-l --
to find the best forage.
At the meeting Of the Henry Becker
Association on Friday night a secret ballot
pas taken to select the committee Of ar
rangements- II was a foregone conclusion
that ]. Washington Barry. N. Y. Detec-
tive Bureau. Ret. would be one Of the COM
mittee. because Barry quietly let the tip
get round that IL he were chosen hi would
gladly furnish his newly purchased, freshly
painted, rubber tired runabout to move the
committee to College Point and back.
Barry couldn't have known that the four
heaviest weights of the association would
be selected. out that was clearly up to Barry.
Hen Becker, patron Of the association,
was chosen unanimously, and the club
members wanted to elect John Long. the
president, but as he is the thinnest man in
the club he felt outolassed and retired in
favor Of Fred Hueller. the vice-preeident,
the only man on the upper East Side that
the ~escalator of the Third avenue elevated
station at Ffty-ninth street has refused
10 carry. Heinrich Mades, who looks as
Secretary Taft would look II he were i'm
ported from Germany. crowded through
the door just as the fourth man was being
chosen, and Of course, he couldn't be over
looked.
The association then resolved itself into
a committee of the whole to meet yester-
day morning at Q o'clock to bon voyage the
on arrangements on its trip
across the turbulent watcru of Long Island
Sound.
Chairman J. Washington Barry vent
around 90 the Buckingham stables early
in the morning to negotiate for a week 8
rental OF Dandy, the veteran chestnut
plug horse. which has a reputation for
kindness and gentleness not excelled bv
he bronze thoroughbred that Gen. Sher-
man rides v on tho plaza. Chairman
Barry said that he merely planned to take
an outing TO Queens. and assured the secre-
'sry Of the livery stable that he would
treat Dandy with extreme consideration.
Barry then took the civil service examina-
tlon required OF all persons who rent one
of the Buckingham's nags for a week,
passed It with the high percentage Of 77.sO
per cent. and got the horse.
Third avenue and Fifty-ninth street
was all afiutter whom Barry and Dandy
arrived with the red runabout. The club
members were festooned gracefully around
the elevated platform and stairs. and on
q pile OF ornamental cobblestones that
was forced out Of the street by a new sewer
sat the other three members Of the COM
inlcee logged out with red, white and blue
10 iges Of the Henry Becker Association.
Barry. who hadn't attended the previous
lights meeting and didn't know the make
up of the committee, shrank r~eroeptibiy
when the three fellow committeeman arose
as about ak ordinary men n prepared
TO step into the runabout. Dandy also
surveyed the vast Teutonio expanse and
looked weary.
Hold on thersl" declared Barry. when
arranged to carry the committee over TO
College Point / didn't FIGURE on the latest
committee this side Of Skaneateles Falls.
When ! bought this little gocsrt I was
who sold it didn't say four like myself"
IF you don't like the committee say 30
and three OF us will go by the trolleys."
remarked Hen Becker. -Macht NIGHT aus
NIT us. Yes9'
Git in" said Barry.
This was the exact contents of the run |
about as IL proceeded up Lexington avenue,
where there were no cobblestones to dislo-
cate the centre of gravity Of the vehicle: |
barry, $50 pounds. net; Hueller, $50 pounds, |
Nstimated; Becker. 345 pounds, also net;
snd Mades, 2so pounds, likewise net, Total, |
] 1886 pounds.
With Dandy straining at thew tugs |
The quartet proceeded to Ninety-first
street without incident. except for the oc- |
remarks Of naughty boys who !!
crled Hey, ~fellers. look at de beef trust"
Why don't youse big slobs git out and
give the old skate a rider" and other i'm |
pertinent remarks.
Through N~inety-frst street as far as
Avenue A the advance guard OF the Henry
Becker Association moved slowly but surely
until the runabout tried TO negotiate the
car tracks. Then was heard the sound
NJ splintering wood, and the two wheels
on the side Of the vehicle occupied by ,
Barry, $50, and Hueller, $50, collapsed.
Becker landed on Barry, and Mades
tlmbled on the bosom of Hueller, while J
Dandy looked around with a knowing
smile that seemed to say thank Heavenl'
, Four policemen who heard the crash
helped 10 separate the fallen Germans
rom the Irish. and il was quickly seen
mat the casualties were slight. While /
Becker surveyed the horizon TO find a way
Of the trouble his eyes lie on the sign
outside Of Carl Gedulenkampf's Imperial