New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
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; business anyway. Has the big money bunch
~ got US down on the mat with wind shut of
and our pockets inside out. or is it lust campaign
Iifie: Are We ghost dancin, or waltz dreamin
what, 1t sure has me twisted up for fair, and /
don't know whether | stand with the criminal rich
or the predatory poor
That's al on account Of a little mix-up l was
-ung into at the hotel Perzazzer the other day.
We been thinkin 1t over since. and it's left me
with my feet IN the air No, you didn read any
thing about It in the papers. But say there's
more goes on IN one of them big Joints every week
than would till a whole issue
Look at the population we We got,-oVer two
thousand, countin the help! Why, drop us down
somewhere out IN Iowa. and spread US around IN
separate houses, and thercd be enough to call for
third-cass postmaster a police force, and board
Of trade Bunched the way we are, all up and
down seventeen stories with every cubic foot
counted for, don't cut much OF figure except
on the checkbooks- You hear about the Perzazzer
only when some swell gives fancy blowout, or
guest gets trsky IN the public dining room;
And anything IN the shape of noise soon has the
muttier put on 1t We've got a whole squad of
husky, tWO-handed soft spoken gents who don't
have ANYTHING else to do and our champeen ruCtion
eXtInguIsher IS Danny RedrdOn. To see him strOllin
through the cafe, you might think he a corpora
ton lawyer studyn how to spend his next fee; but
let some ambitious wine opener put on the loud
pedal or have Danny get his eye on some Bridge
port dressmaker DRAWN designs of the latest Paris
fashions in the tea room, and you II see HIM wake
up. Nothing seems to get by HIM
50 l was some surprised to find him havin an
argument with a couple of parties away up on
pair of butt-ns The tall, smooth faced gent
in the black frock coat and the white tie had sky
pilot wrote all over him; and the Perzazzer amt
Just the place an out of town minister would pick
out to stop at, unless he wanted to blow a years
salary into weeks board.
Anyway, his runnin mate a dead give away
He looked like he might have Just left a bench in
the Oriental lodgin' house down at Chatham Square
He's a thin, gawky, pale haired youth with tired
eyes and limp lower jaw that leaves his mouth
half open all the time; and his costume looks like
It had been made up from back door contributions,
"a faded coat three too small, a forty fat vest
and pair of shiny black whipcord pants that some
one had been married III about twenty years back.
What gets me IS why such specimen should be
traihn around with a clean, decent lOOkin' chap
ike this minister Maybe that's why | come 70
:ake any notice Of their little debate There's
some men, though, that YOU always give a second
ook at and this minister gent was of that kind
1t until see how he tops Danny by a head
;hat | notices how we'll built he is; and l figures
hat if he only condition. and knew how TO
handle himself he could put up good lively scrap
something about his Jaw hints that to me; but of
eourse, hlm BEN a Bible FOUNDER, | don't expect
enythIng of the kind.
Yes, / understand al that" Danny was tellin'
1I1n; but youd better come down to the office,
-sst the same
My dear man says the minister, + have been
20 the office. as told YOU before. and | could get
10 satisfaction there. The person wish to see is
On the ninth floor. They he is out doubt il
nd as ! have come SIX hundred miles Just to have
word with him; | insist on chance to"
sure SAYS Danny. You'll get your chance
only II against the rules allow strangers above
;he ground floor Now. YOU come along with 1n,
nd You Il be all night With that Danny gets .
Gup the gent and starts To walk him ~
:ht elevator But he don't 60 far The newt tbinc
Danny knows he's been sent spnnin' against tht
iher wall. Course. he Wa MT lookn for any such
move; but II was done slick and prompt
Sorry. say the minister shown his cuffs back in
Places but mus, ask YOU to keep Your hands of
I SEE wha, Damn was up TO Then He looks as