The Detroit times., 1909-06-24

Bowery life for 80 years He is
crude and vulgar. But Chuck Con-
nors has a heart, big and red and
pulsating. and in his curious ways
he has done some good among his
kind in the evil haunts of the dis
trict over which he rules as mayor"
Seated In the back room OF Bar
ney Flynn's Bowery saloon. Chuck
Conors shook his head sadly at the
mention of Elsie SigePs name, and
discussed as follows: Il seen her
many a time in Mott and Pellsts.,
sometimes with her old loidy and
udder times with a chink. Dat lit
tie skoit was like bunch o. little
COILS I've seen blow into Chinatown.
Her heart was in de right place, an
say. You can bet dat when dey put
up de barrier in dis here mission
race she got away ahead o. de bunch
and started to lead de field. But dey
got 'er d. same as dey get EN- all.
Story of Girls Fall.
"Dere Is a whole lot queer about
desc chinks. De women. dey get crazy
bout dem slant eyes. and when any
body gets to hittin. de hop desc
SluOhC IL . oil oh uCh
Say. Dere was a swell skoit
come down here few years ago. and
she took UP wit a highbindin' chink
in an old dump down on Pell-st. She
was quiet Kid and we didn't t'ink
much of her. an nobody knew nuttin'
bout her hist'ry. Den she got sick
and 1t was de gallopin' con for her
she was a luhger for fair-and my
wife Nellie she went in TO take look
at her. She found de poor little kid
a-cryin her lamps out, all wrapped
up on an old musty flop.
"Dis here Kid seen her finish ahead
Of her | guess. cause she got mushy
all of sudden and spelled II all out
to Nellie. She used 10 be a Sunday
school woiker, too, and had a swell
dump up near Central park. she said.
She met up wit a bloke what t'rew
her down and got her head twisted.
Den she went to the bad.
Its soit'nly quick change from
Central park down To 14th-st., from
14th-st TO the Bowery, and then down
to Chinatown, when a foolish little
kid like dat gets bughouse notions in
her COCO. She made 1t in less than a
year,
We'll. Nellie, she tole me about II,
and couldn't get it off my noodle.
"A couple O. days later | sent me
wife down 20 see de poor little ting
again, and asst her where her home
was. She didn't want 10 tell, but
Nellie kind o. conned her to tell II.
WE'LL not spieiin' out the phony bunk
or anything like dat, | just want to
say | sneaked up to Central park and
beat II for dat house where dis skoit's
ole man and her old woman lived. Den
| told her old man where de goil was.
Honest, tot her old loidy would
bawl her lamps out.
81 hung aroun do house and fer n
long time dere wasn't no actions but
bawlin goin' on. Den | says to d
old man. | says. you'd better cut out
de tears and get heavy on the way
II you want TO get dat little goil out
o. dat chink's joint an see her alivs
again.
Rebukes Father.
"De old man hung bacck fer a min.
ute an | seen maybe dat he didn't
want her--dat he didn't want her now
dat she was spoiled An | up and
says 10 llIu . uOu Wait uGT, eu !.
You don't want yer own flesh and
blood just because she's spoiled? IL
yer'd a KEEP out your han for her
when she was slippin' mebbe she
wouldn't be there tonight, says |, just
like dat
OF you don wan her, den.' says.
I'll turn her over to de cops. cause
amt q goin' TO see a goil like dat
havin' de raisin' she's got with that
finish.
We'll. say Mebbe you don't tinK
dat ole guy didn't get hump on den
He got a swell rig. all shined up like
q hearse. and pulled me in wit i'm.
and we beat Il down to Pell-st Wa
hiked to dat chink's room and dero
was de goil all alone. She seen IL
was her dad wit me. and she jest let
out one cry and shut her eyes.
"Then the ole man he put her IN a
blanket and put her in the cab an
drove away as fast as dem nags
could step. I amt heard o. nuthin'
more bout the skoit. but she didn't
die In no musty bed. That's cinch'
a woman dat would iet her kid
come down her and mix wit dat Sun
day school bunch o. chinks amt right
in her noodle, dat's what she amt.