The evening world., 1909-02-22
Russell "Got In All Right, but
Couldn't Stay" for
Funds Were Low.
LANDS IN POLICE CELL.
Gorgeously Arrayed, He Ran
UP sl61 Bill at the Knick- ,
erbocker in Five Days.

Glorious In form-htting blue coat
made with the fashionable straight
front that is so much worn this year, a
waistcoat having pattern OF double
stripes running dagonally across It
from east to west and then back again,
the same .as the Twenty eighth and
Twenty-nlnth street crosstown line, a
green hat, n pair of white spats, Marks
the Lawyer style, and a green and gold
tie that was one of those regular ere
ations-glorous In all these things and
mayhap In more besdes-Ernest Rus
sell, fair Yonkers' nattiest chocolate
dipper, stood before Magistrate Walsh
in the jefferson Market Police Court to.
day TO explain why he ran up bill OF
fl6l,l0 in five days at the Hotel Knlck-
erbocker and then when called upon to
settle did not do so, but on the con-
trary far from It,
Il got tired Of working in a Yonkers
candy factory and living on Warburton
avenue. where it's quiet after dark and
a'so oe'o'e uu'h' eNp'a'hed ernest i
"""..u !" oe ~ ."e GLASS win tates
and Schwab and all those other fellows.
And | knew the only way to start to
get into their class was to stop at A
swell Broadway hotel and lead gay
l., c,,y. a.,
,
~ 'ot '''v w. lass an I!s"'' from
WHAT l can satHe!' sa'u the Magistrate,
but the trouble SENS to be that Won
didn't stay. III hold Won in honds n,
q, Ooo ,o- be,-i,, ~, v.,a..L,.n
't,v'' ''' ",a' ,'s on wednesday,
~ seems indeed shame TO waste all
that radiant wardrobe which so lately
was making the eIectr,, s;,,, -, ,h.
CO., 1,,,,, W. '
Gay White way seem futile and dim
"'',' W., Wv, '''' "" toi''i'es D, prison
h.,,r.o NJ pn..,r ,,,.,, " w.
.esau' :. ' Nus'e'' uiu'' nave the
sl,U about him.
But up at the Knickerbocker nina
,o,,,, hos, De-, ,....,
e'"'"' '''''' o. iesah' uttered low
moans every time he opened the ledger
at "R." and contemplated q certsip ,o-
.o., .,,,,. .,.,, ~, "'"
count-suite WIN path at N6 day;
services, SSj: valet service.
s,5 %. n,ano nov,ng ts. ,,od,o,,o, ., N,
''o'-'' e'"'' ''"e' fi'' "ieu'''''es' 'Lfo'
telephones, ].b, and all the rest OF the
entries credited to Ernes, Russe,, hst..r
- ,o. ,u,.,.
hno"" ah'oiis i'ien"" Hs 'he Candy
Kid.
Mr. Rus,e,, c,r,s lin >, .ho 1-,,,,
Wy W ''e H'''uAe''
pocKeI lssl Iuesuay' riding In state In
one OF those victorias cut empire, and
acconpanied-so the detectives say-by
a lady answering to the name OF Mrs.
Ernest Russell. He desired to be shown
to suitable apartments. He liked the
rooms they showed him to. all but the
hangings, which were changed, and the
lack of piano, which was cured BY the
OF baby grand at the cost
Of SIS.
~.
''e ''our VI axe
Yesterday as Mr.. Russell was drifting
the lobby looking somnthin9
like a half portion aurora boraaIIs tbe
clerk intimated that II might he Well a.,
this juncture 10 have Mr. Russell lin,ii.
date his present account and start The
week with a nice new one
Then came out the distressing dIs.
that Broadway, greedy monster
what II are. had swallowed i'm ali tho
money that Mr.. Russell brought with
him from Yonkers as the fruits OF His
chocolate dipping industries, and so
they whistled up the wagon and Mr.