Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-05

TT was shortly after l. o'clock one night
last week when the attention of the
desk sergeant of No. 3 police precinct
was attracted 10y the sounds of rather
heated argument on the outside of the sta
ton.
The next moment the door leading to the
front office was hurriedly pushed open and
there entered motley crowd of Colored
men. all logged out in loud and sporty
clothes of the kind one generally observes
on actors who take part in grotesque cake
walks
one tall and very black fellow, who ap-
peared To he the spokesman of the party.
was dressed in the noisieSt and most insult
ing tie ever seen i'll 80. station, while
the violent chcckerpOard suit he wore
would nave had alt the denlzens of the
classic precincts uf Biuodneld wild with
Iage I'll The jealous kind had the wesrer OF
the same the temerity TO have appeared In
that saiuDriouS vicinity. y last year S
suiled Panama hat was slung rakishly over
one huge black ear. while III his hand he
carried "A big bone handled cane. his get
UP caused HIM to resemble nothing 50 much
as a comic valentine, yet from the 1mpor-
tarCt Oi his manner he no doubt mag med
that he had a Broadway fashion plate
beaten to frizzy FRAGILE when 1t came
To high art in tOSSerY.
Marching jauntIIy up to the railing. he
saIuted the lieutena@t. who had Just at that
moment come INTO ne ONCE, with Il pro-
found bow. accompanied by "a grandiioquent
wave of the hand. and then he proceeded
TO unload the following from off his heav-
ing chest.
"Majah" he said, addressing the genial
looking lieutenant. men desc gennermen
fr'ens oh mine done hab ar lii argument
bout dis hyar spit-ball pitcher, MIR. Ed
Wei. what was the argument about"
inquired the desk sergeant.
Il Sc ieS 'gwinc tOlc yo all, cap II, re-
piled the gayly bedecked colOred brother.
he waved his hand impressively in the d.
rection of the sergeant. 1o see. sans,
he continued. men desc Eennermen was
all up at ar lii social meetn, an we sho
was all habin' vaiy nice time when dat
az lii niger ober dar in de kurner. who
am aIus startin' some in. done deClar as
how Rsickle OFFICER Tom Walsh of dis
hyar precinct and Mr.. Ed Walsh OBJ de
Chicago team am twin brudders
u done say how hit am nun such
ting an some oh de odderS done say hit
am an some say hit tain I, an 50 we sho
was gittin' net up ober de arg ment when
de getshu was made dat we all come
down hyar an kindly ask yo all to let US
look in de 'cylOumpedia or de history Cd
de United States Jes' to see who am right
bout de mattah an who am wrong.
Just AS the desk sergeant had kindly ex-
planned to the colored delegation that the
Information it was in search of could not
be found in any of the works men
toned a little coaI-black fellow wearing
snow white derby hat volunteered the infor-
nation that Bicycle Officer Walsh had lock
had started the argument that that tndivid-
ual had the officer on the brain, and TINS
statement bade fair to start another argu-
ment in which horrible personalities were
beginning to be indrlged in, and which
treated of the numbers of times each MEM
Der of me inquiring committee had been
placed behind the bars. when the desk ser
geant tod the warning members to skidoo
or he would do business. and as they all
went out of the door. jawing with one an
other the sergeant said to The Star re-
-bA ar ar
entire affair:
''I'U bet a good cigar that some of that
push will be back here before the night Is
over and that they will occupy real cells.
too
Not more than three minutes at the most
had elapsed when the station house door
was pushed open and who should enter but
Bicycle officer Walsh, who, sad to relate
had the little black darky who had started
the argument with one hand while with
the other he firmly held by the collar or
his coat the loudly dressed spokesman of
the late investigating committee, who, 1t
appears, had been so unfortunate as to en-
gage In the gentle art of punching one an
others heads just as the stalwart bicycle
policeman happened to pass by.
1t was a coincidence all right, but
rather costly one for the colored principals
who were mixed up in 1t.
An old coIored auntie boarded a Pennsyl-
yauia avenue car the other evening. and.
seated therein an acquaintance. who was
surrounded by a couple of baskets Of clean
clothes. which she was carting home to her
white folks
When the two black women had espied
one another they were not bit backward
in giving tongue to their feelings. and the
latest arrival shouted out to the one who
was in the possession Of the clothes:
We'll. / done declar effen dis amt Sister
Rosie Hicks! How yo' coming long, Sister
Hicks? p
les poly. tank de Lawd." replied the
lady addressed Use still pestcred wild dis
misr. NAH side. she added. But how
so helm. Sister Dorsey" she asked.
My heTth am mis- BILE. tank de good
I.awdy. piousIy exclaimed the other
auntie But how's 70 husband gfrtin'
We'll, de doctah done say as how Alfed
well huff now to go To work" replied
Sister Hicks. but Allied say he jes'
wei nun to enty ioafn round"
y
Seated on one OF the benches in Lafayette
Park the other morning was an individual
who was plainly a member Of that travel
Ing Ass OF gentlemen commonly spoken of
a. hObOes.
Apparently II" had hut lately arrived in
The city. and no doubt the sleeping &C
tomm"datiOns on the train he had come in
not of the best. else the seedy
looking object uH the bench was one OF
those lucky individuals for whom insomnia
has no tcTrOTs. for II p'airly to be seen
that the reckless appearing tourist was in
profound doZe
with MS ragged makeup and sCragSly
wl.iskcrs one could SCI that he was a saucy
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