The sun., 1908-08-14
WHEN THE CHORUS SINGSDA,DA
SLEEP PASSETH FROy FORTY
SEVENTH STREET POLICE.

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Musical Director Use the Soft Pedai7
Please, Big Chief Binshsm. Stop 1t.
The policemen Of the West Forty-seventh
street station are not light sleepers. The
elevated road runs within q short distance
OF their station house. for one thing. Also
there is the clubhouse OF the Irish Counties
Amateur Athletic Union next door. where
all winter there are parties and dances
and carnivals and shindigs. And not q
complaint is heard from the men OF the
West Forty-eeventh. But there In limit,
and that limit has been reached.
It is only q few days since GDendolpn.
TIE Bookmaker's Daughter. or something
like that, threw her hooks into Percipol
de Metropole and wrung from him for the
last time before going on the road the
papers with which he thought to enslave
huh, all right there In the same Irish Coun-
ties clubhouse. That was trying for
time. No sooner would . member Of the
fifth pla toon settle himself In bis bunk
for a few hours sleep and drift oil into
realm where sergeants are unknown and
back doors arc as the leaves Of the forest
than Gvendolvn would let out a whoop
that somebody had his foot on her chest
and was trying to poke her with q long
cruel knife. Patroiman Flaherty would
vault out Of his cot and feel for his gun.
and, waking up. would lie down again. 1t
sure was trying. but after few days ono
could sleep even while Grsndolyn wept.
Then Gwexdoiyn. after her kind. drifted
out into the broad world. But her going
did not bring peace. Instead 1t brought
about $50 chorus girls OF the Buster Brown
companies, East and West. and the Hall
Room boys.
Of the polioemeh Of the West Forty-seyenth
now Is that they ever complained Of Queen
doiyn. Her best scream was the prattling
of q babe compared to what followed her.
The shots which foretold her victory over
Of files compared to the grounding Of q
score Of muskets In the hands OF the Hielan'
Lassies In their soiled shirtwaists and
serge skirts. II never before you have
felt sorry for policeman imagine yourself
trying 70 get your daily rest with this COM
ing In the windows:
Baby, does you love me. lo-ove me.
Baby lone. two) tell me tru-u-ue three. four
whadye think this isi A funeral' Get
some life into Il! Now. again-one, two.
three. four, ready. sing
Baby, does you love me. lo-ove me.
Baby lone. two) tell mee--s
And then there's the asst line or 90:
- So II baby loves his nur-sey
Baby say da, da!
To sleepy policeman there 10 only one
way to say da. da! aud that 10 like this:
da, da! Add that ID the way the girls say
t the first time and thereby rouse all that
musical Director. SO they Try another
Way. like this: da, dai And that doosn't
20 any better; In fact the m. d. 10 sorer
than ever. So he shows them that as q
matter Of fact the Line should 60 Tone,
OF the line got It do. da! instead Of da. dai
that isn't right. The musical director
now makes It lone. two. thrce) do, DAN
And 30 1t goes until at the end everybody
70 ssnd % 70 the factory for something strong
enough, and 1t sounds ltk this
So II baby loves his nur-sey.
Baby say lone. two). DA. DA MN
One OF the policemen said yesterday
that he doubted II any definite action would
have been taken about the matter had II
not been for that dispute over the da, del
Scarcely a word Of protest was heard when
The girls we're singing 70 sue sue % sd come ou out
time IL spoontime. II was true, he said,
,1hat one Of the men had remarked ono after
noon that h8 wished they would wait until
moonlight to sing that, because thsn tne
other platoon would be In the houee and he
was sure they would love 10 hear-it and he
hated TO be selfish. When your eyes are
shut and you are crying TO sleep you can
imagine that the moon 70 beaming, even Il
II is only O'Clock in the afternoon. But
| It 10 hard TO hear da, dai at any time OF
day, the4nen say.
Even that, wouldn't have been 30 bad II
Il had been allowed 10 stay d., dal and
hadn't been forced up 70 DA, DAlill After
all there 10 lot Of difference how you say
da, dal An innocent baby, for instance,
cooling and slobbering In his crib. can say
da, dal In q way that seems almost tntelli-
gent. But he says II soft and quiet, keep
Ing his louder and harsher tones for his
other word, Yro-o-wi On the other hand,
fifty strong voiced women, all anxious to
make good with the musical director, can
do thihgs TO da, dal that the uninitlated
would scarcely suspect And that 70 really
station are kicking about.
What they want II they must have do, dal
ut ali 10 da, dsl that % soothing and that
will blend with their dreams end make
them think OF the little home down In
Jamaica which they seldom see and Of the
simple domestic sounds which, praise be!
they seldom hear. In abort, what they
want "a nice, quiet, hdylike da.. dAl that
COOS In ones ears Ike the gentle dove.
The question 10. VIII Bingham zee that
they get ftf ~