The sun., 1907-03-31
THE FALL OF
i WEEMS'S ROW.
Gentleman George Tries a New
Card and Comes Across an
Old Sweetheart.

very much to the pint, but there's not
much in it for u.s." said |. "as the skipper
remarked whin he struck the cape"
And thin read, in conhamashun thereof,
the following card. Jest pulled from the
seorit records Of the Charakter Surety Com
Slny:
Mackhn. MiltOn-TO be bonded in ,OOC
as builder OF the Butnor Block. Refused
As a sub-contTactor he has done Jerry " ork
See, Weems's Row
"Milt Macklin?" mused Gentleman large
RihRgold. We'll sweet is the uses of di-
versity. Sewing year ago he cudn't git a
snide surety bond, and to-day hustlin jobs
up in the millyuns on his own say so. A
Jerry builder, hey? 1t was very builder
they called him at the citizens banquet
recently tindered him for his succissful
compleshun OF Municipal Hall
-P'raps, ventered, like nanny anudder
sanity pussonage, he dooes good work be
prefrance as he did bad work be need.
'Tis easy enough for angels to lead whin
the divvle don't drive"
But large wore thet faraway look which
denoted he was peerin' for possible ad-
vantage with his minds eye, Horash.
-Weems's 3 Row." at lengt' he asst. do you
know it. Smithers?'
Il reminders well whin it was built
/ Ianswered, "stickin out from the upper ind
Of the park on the Wist Side, like lock on
a bald mans head.
"a smart, fresh looking bunch OF houses
at flst, though it was said they were held
togedder be the paint. Occypied thin by
the very best Of the great middle class,
but they soon fell from milk bottles to
growlers. Hasheries now for the shabby
genteel Of the lean and hungry sprinting
sort, where the prize is unly for the swift
and not much for him.
And be the time the railway cut is put
t'roo, IL the bobbers and fioaters from the
aubmudged tinth don't land there. in 40
oordance with the max'um Of marine law
amy port in a storrum,' thin III miss
The railway cut?" interrupted large
eagerly Are you sure, Smithers, that II
will 20 by Weems's Row."
"Yis; unless the row goes by fust. They
were block away, Sunda' week, blasting
out rock like the switch Of a commits tail
I'd RAIDER be outdoors than in whin they
reach the underpinnin' with their under
minin'.'
But that's Just where you will be, and
me with you" large denounced peremp-
try, sin the nearest house to the cut. Tis
a desprit chanel, but what ilse remains for
the taking Of desprit menp We're down
to our last dollar, to almost our last collar
exciptin', av coorse, the wan our landlord
has in store for us. We've had his French
fxings; let's give him in tunn our French
leave"
"It's not the gong from but the going TO
that rouses me puttybashuns, large. Why,
Weems's Row"
"Yit You yoursilf furnished the reason,
said large reproachfully. Leaving out
of considerashu the important facks that
we are unknown there, and that the lower
we 20 the higher well seem, what is the
vital point, the crust, ! may say2
at is this, that the row is apt to be shaken
down in the next tin days. No wan sus-
picts it, you may be sure; it's their own
staying qualities that the inhabitants
thereof have. their doubts about. But
there is wan man who wud take in the
sitooa hun at a glanct if he were forced to
see it, and that is Milton Macklin.
aGranted that he has put his dub'us deed
behind him; granted that SUCCESS has
med him b1ieve that he allus builded better
than he knew. Still If we kin invigge him
into our room in Weems's Row, and t'reaten
10 keep him there. he'll give much, az
hetune him and a sooperiicent blast, for the
privilege of goin' of fust."