The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28
UP AGAINST BENTLEY 5 81 -

you. and keep you from ripping things
up the back here in little old New
York; but seems as this is your first
whack at it. if you'll promise to stop
when I say Whoa and not let on
about it afterwards to your Uncle Hen
| ~, I'll just show you few things that
they don't have out west" and l winks
real mysterious
oh, will yOu?" says Bentley. by
ginger! I'm your man"
/ SO we starts out looking for the me-
/ nagerie. 1t was all l could do, though,
to keep my eyes Off'm that trousseau
of his
They don't build clothes like them
/ in PalOpintO. do they?" says I.
ooh, no." says Bentley. 81 stopped
/ off IN Chicago and got this outfit. l
/ told them I didn't care what it cost,
/ but l wanted the latest"
81 guess you got it. says I. That's
what I'd call a night edition, baseball
extra. You mustn't mind folks graf
/ fin" at YOU. They always do that to
strangers"
Bentley didn't mind Fact is, there
want much that did seem to faZe him
a whole lot. He'd never rode in the
subway before, of course, but he went
TO reading the soap ads just as nat
ural as if he lived in Harlem. l ex-
get a rise out of him. You see, when
they come in from the rutabaga fields
and the wheat orchards, we want EN-
ITO open their mouths and gawp. If
/ they do, we give EN-. the laugh, but
/ if they don't we feel like they was
/ throwing down the place. So I lays out
TO astonish Lentlev.
! First I steers him across Mulberry
| Bend and into a Pell street chop suey
. H.
/ if it want for the Sagadahoc and Ell
| mira folks the two-doilar touring cars
/ bring down. With all the Chinks CAB
/ bling around outside. though, and the
+ funny lettering on the bill of fare, I
/ thought that - Id stun him some. He
/ Just looked ec-G,.id casual, though, and
/ laid into his suey and rice like it was
a plate of ham and, not even asking
/ if he couldn't buy pair Of chOpsticks
/ as a souvenir
There's a bunch of desperate char
! acters." says I. pointing TO a table
I where a gang Of Park Row compost
/ tors was blowing themselves 10 a plat
! ter of chow ghi-sumen.
I "Yes?" says he.
There's Chuck COnaOrs. and Mock
\ Duck, and Bill the Brute, and One-eyed
/ Nike" I whispers
I'm glad I saw them" says Bentley.
/ well take sneak before the muir
derin begins" says / Maybe you'll
read about how many was killed, in
| the morning papers"
| IN look for it," says he.
Say, it was discOuraging. We takes
the L up TO Twenty-third and goes
/ across and up the east side of Madi-
! son square.
There" says I. pointing out the
/ Manhattan club. that's about as lively
as the sub-treasury on a Sunday,
that's Canfields place. We'd SO in and
| see 'em buck the tiger, only 1 got a
| tip that Bingham's going TO pull II to-
night. That yOungster in the straw
1 hat just going in is Reggie"
We'll. we'll" says Bentley.
| Oh, I sure did show Bentley a lot
| of sights that evening, including a wild
/ tour through the Tenderloin-in a
! Broadway car. We winds up at a roof
/ garden. and, just to give Bentley an
| extra SILVER, l asks the waiter If we
want sitting somewhere near the ia
/ BILE that Harry and Evelyn had the
night he was overcome by emotional
| insanity.
You're at the very one. sir" he says.
Considering we was ten blocks away,
| he was a knowing waiter
This Identical table; hear that, Bent
| ley?" says l.