The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-03
PARADISE FOR BEGGARS OPEN
Word SENT OUT FROM NEW YORK
BIDDING ALL COME.

On1ces, KinG Rudolph the waldorf, Chi
Slim Has Already Begun to Flop on
the Elevated Stations More Arriving.
From Broadway and Park row clear to
Kearny street in San Francisco the tip
has flashed through the underworld that
James Forbes Is a dead one, that New York
Is wide open for the fraternity Of plingers,
foppers, mopers and mouser beaters and
that the graft in the old town this summer
IL going to be fat and sure for all the bunch.
The beggars are turning their backs on
Vine street in Cincinnati, Clark and State
streets in Chicago, Woodward avenue in
Detroit and Jefferson street In Louisville,
and are arranging their affairs to take
passage in the hobo's Pullman-the brake
beam and board-and peat II for New York
town. There is talk along the Bowery,
IN Diamond Dan O'Rourkes. in The Goat,
The White Elephant and The Emerald
wherever the prosperous panhandlers
hang ont to open wine and lay aside their
clutches, eye patches, fake scars and
twisted arms-of a jolliication to be held
some time this summer to celebrate the
p fsing Of Forbes. the trouble maker.
Il was early in May that the Charity
Organization Society abolished the mendi-
cancy bureau and shifted Jim Forbes to
.he bureau which looks after the improve
ment OF social conditions. putting the job
Of oorralling the plingers entirely up to the
police. The Western g~rafters heard about
this just as fast as Saginaw Red, William
Chinn Hanson OF Kentucky DIETER known
rs Big SPANISH, Chi Slim and other look
outs on the job oould put the news on the
wire. They handed out the free tip to the
hard worked brethren in the provinces
that that damned Forbes wouldn't trail
'em any longer. and that there was sugar
enough in New York for all the boys"
Quite as certainly as Mr.. Forbes himself
they knew that the bulls and cops seldom
b~hered to run in the winners, the fioppers,
the schnorrers and their kind, and lacked
the pernicious special knowledge OF Forbes
and his men concerning their lays and
their graft.
The weather recently has been tough
on the plingers, the professional beggars,
because they hate wet and cold like cats
and prefer to roost warm while the streets
are cold and damp, but there was an air
Of cheerfulness among the leading mem
bers OF the brotherhood, who sat tight in
Park row and the Bowery, swapping yarns
and buying booze for their high heels, |
Tic plllt VIZ mop bhCIl ptB IlOll Nv
hearted persons. The hoppers on the
elevated railway stations or at the main
crossings OF Broadway and the avenues,
the very needy indeed, rolled up their
eyes until only the whites showed, threw
out their arms affecting ~paralysis) until
the palms of the hands hung outward,
showed their artistically painted sores
and whined proftably without fear OF being
chased by Forbes or his men.
There was Butterfly Jack, hopeless para
Iytic by the look of him and one OF the
%niftiest plingers in the business at the
throw out, a lay which one can become
proficient at only. by long practice. Chi
Slim. who quit Chicago for richer fields
station Of the Third avenue elevated rail-
road with a .heartwringing story Of in
fammstory rheumatism acquired while
serving his country in Cuba. Broken
Backed Schmitty, really a cripple, with his
Tin Leg, was Topping at fwenty-third
street. The Bosun, done up in second
hand uniform Of the navy, worked good
things at Twenty-eighth street. Along
the lire were Scotty. Florida Shine and
smokes" in the plinger slang.
The Millionaire"-even Jim Forbes never
pot his right name-is already in town
from San Francisco. Sunday the Million
are ODbeTVeS MS Il Gay OF rest ana meOltatlOn,
Six days he collects for a purely imaginary
blind asylum and on the seventh he reckons
his gains. The Millionaire used TO work
the downtown office buildings. trimming
business men and brokers, until Forbes's
men chased him out of town, but he is
back again in all his fine raiment, silk hat,
trock coat, side whiskers and fine air of
responsibility. He is over 9 feet tall and
heavily built. He got too strong for the
hoboes on the road, who couldn't stand
fN1 hta rt,nar Nanrola and tIax, Nr,nl H.
some two years ago. before a Kangaroo
Court, ound him guilty and nearly ham,
mered the life out of him. Since then
the Millionaire, in fashionable clothes. has
worked New York, posing sometimes as a
minister, sometimes as the secretary of
out Of town church and benevolent 80
cieties. The police haven't got the Mill
ionaire in their books.
William Chinn Hanson Of Louisville,
Ky, and King R~udolph-like the Million
seen on the avenue yesterday and around
The Waldorf Astoria and the Holland House.
Big Spanish ia a man Of education and
cultivated manner. The panhandlers yarn
about King Rudolph's Bavarian ancestry
and there is an interesting tale about the
Kings left handed descent from a noble
family in Bavaria. They work the big
hotels together. always we'll dressed, always
prosperous looking, and they are quick
10 spot the lonesome stranger moping in
the leather chairs Of hotel Hobbies, They
will scrape an acquaintance, tell a tale of a
girl or a gamble or a gun play, borrow a
500 note, and If possible pass the good
Thing along 10 a gentleman friend in the
overlapping business. Gold Tooth English
Is a pal Of theirs and Gold Tooth is eI-
pected any day from Pittsburg.
As soon as the sun really begins to shine
on Broadway the street will swarm with
iloppers, mopers and mouser heaters.
Charley B~erkowitz, convicted twenty
four times through Forbes, was at his old
yesterday, at Broadway and Thirty
street. Through constantly rolling
up his eyes Berkowitz is now really blind,
he makes a good thing Of his affection !
toi himself and his fourth wife. Big Bill I
shannon and Toledo Whitley are due in
Square almost any day from Chicago
and Cincinnati respectively. Last time
Toledo Whitley was in own he trailed 7
q pdralyzed leg; the year before il was a '
paralyzed ARM; this time it is likely to be n
Iaralysis in a new spot, because Whitley 4
likes variety and is a skilful artist. Domenico r
Montaglio, known in the business as The I
looks, was working Sixth avenue in the !
Tenderloin. Domenico always gets SYM q
and coins because he hasn't any v
hands really. and he has TO turn a grind r