Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18

| or five or as many fingers as you dcslrt
into the tumbler. and you pour 1t out, ano
you slap it into your hankering system
and you wipe your mouth and walk away
| from there just as big as you please
without any cracks whatever proceedina
from the southeastern faciaA oriffce OF the
mutt who's served it to you.
Or yot traipse up to the other END OF
! the bar and demand-yep, just like those
demand--a bottle of beer. garcon and let
IT be quick and in a hurry, tSee: ana 10
and behold the white-aproned gluS be-
| hind the counter sets Il real nice Ice
! cold bottle of malt in front of you. and
you inhale it at your ease. and you slip
! him u centimes, and it's all right, and
| he's glad to get it. and the boss caterer
of the tracks. who used to he so naughty
and things with all his diamond junk and
the like sees you hand over your IL cents
and he looks real grateful, so he does
and mods pleasantly at you. and. like as
not. opens up his face to hope that It's
a fine day for you and that the folks
are we'll.
Then you trudge down to the eats ia
BILE, and you pick up real tidy sandwich
! of ham for yourself. and you hriskly toss
a dime or 10 cents on the hoard. and
IT'S all right. and they're quite pleased
| fellers, yessir. quite pleased.
! And you wonder to yourself. With rea-
son. why they didn't do this sort of thing
treat folks like humink heinks. that is
| to say-y'ahs and yahs ago. as John
Drew and us fellcrs always say; why
| they didn't show some of that non
gougeful disposition at the time when
| the same was good and unhampered
why they didn't give folks chance hr
! their white taW marble. instead of get
ting practically all hands worked up to a
sort of state of hatred for them. so
that when the skids were put under
EN- why. nobody felt so doggoned sorry
! DIS they might've.
Track Managers Waking Up.
And don't you think that the race track
projectors aren't asking that same ques-
ton of themselves in bitterness and
humility of spirit these days.
They're asking themselves other 0ues-
tons too.
! Member those hog trains that used to
ffo OUT to Benninc, for instance. from the
old 9Th street station? Those unlighted
cars that craWled through the tunnel still
unlighted. making nervous folks still more
nervous. and all like that? And don't
YOU suppose the race track people could
nave remedied those hog conditions. and
got better service for the patrons of little
old BenninS-as long as were speaking OF
| that track now-if they'd cared one ever
| lasting durn for their patrons. which they
didn't, and wouldn't they perhaps have
done that same. and made other little
! reasonable concessions to their patrons.
and not have gOuged and bulied and
bullyragged and hrowbeaten, il theyd
thought for one-eighth of second that
| the javelin was so close to 'em and@that
| they were in imminent danger of getting
the boot boots at the hands of the law?
And those hog trans that used to hike
out to little old Benning were just palace
cars. gentlemen. compared with the swine
cars that for years and years-all the
t:-ne-went out to the New York tracks
from Long Island City. You never saw
sUci! IMMIGRANT cars in your life as the
racing gang put up with over here. The
race track folks could have fixed all that
up toe. had they cared beding for their
patrons; had they not been dead sure that
| their game was going to last forever and
day and that therefore nothing that
+, they did made any difference. They
themselves WhizZcd out TO the tracks in
automobiles and tallyhos and things
y'knaw and So what the bally dooce did
| they caiuh, oil for the kind of outrageous
accommodations that were furnished YOU
, when you decided to so out and look
| at EN- run?
way. considering everything. to watch the
| finish of a field of horses at Belmont
these days. Funny that is to say, in a
sort of melancholy comparative fashion.
and funny when it is remembered how
different things might have been if the
| people back of race tracks hadn't used
their patrons like bedbugs for so many,
| many years.
| Member the hoop-la and the frenzied
yelps and the hoarse acclaim and things
that used to greet "A field of horses ON A
New York track-on Benning any old
| track-when n field of ponies hit the top
| of the run home and started down to the
| wiresky?
i How we all sort o. turned purple around