The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-03-11

Man-tlslt 10 wall otfCct DFiuBs
To Mind An Old Fable About the
Lark.
Correspondence of The Caucasian
Enterprise.
New York, March 8, 1909.-Since
writ you last hev bin lookin' over
New York a little bit. But the con-
founded town liz SO big an they liz
SO many things ter look at that
can't tell head nor tail ov hit. After
you hev begun ter git sorter uster
New York an git so you kin go err
round without gittin' lost every 20
minits, you begin ter git an idea ov
the size ov the town an you begin
ter think that erbout awl ov the
people in the United States hev NOV
ed into the town ter starve-fer you
can't Sc how several million people
kin live in sfch small territory az
New York covers. But they do live
pretty well-that IL a few of them
live well-an' the ballance-well
they live till they die, or till they git
run over by a street car. Strangers
don't leave North Carolina ter live
in New York. Things air not the
same at all They IL only one thing
the matter in North Carolina: We
hev too much pollyticks-too many
perlitical cranks.
When I writ you last told erbout
meetin' up with Capt. Mike O'Reilly,
an Irish policeman, an erbout my
promisin' ter call on him at hiz
home on 35th street. Well, | went
up thar the other mite an took sup
per with him an hiz interestin' fam
lily. / never enjoyed visit more in
my life. They aint no deceit erbout
an Irishman. If he likes you he
will treat you square; If he does not
like you he will fight you at the
guide friends at first site, an we air
the same yit. I wuz loafin' erround
on Broadway whar Mike hez hiZ
beat the other day, an he got site
ov me. Hello! Bilkins," sez he,
"I thought you wuz lost. How hev
you bin an what hev you bin doin?"
'Takin' in the sites,'' sez 1. This
town gifts bigger every day, an I
reckon I'll never git awl over hit. I"
Don't try, seq he, "jist pick up a
few samples an take them erlong
and guess at the balance ov hit.
Faith, an whin air you comm up
ter see me an the children an the
biddy?"
Rite erway," seq I, ''tcr night, if
you like"
"Awl rite" seq he, "I'll phone the
biddy, an she will hev a bit ov an
oyster supper and strong coffee fer
me friend, an then we will see New
York by gaslight."
Move erlong thar, please" sed
Mike, fer a crowd had gathered on
a street corner because the cars on
Broadway wuz jammed awl erlong
the line fer several blocks an the
crowd couldn't cross, an crowds air
not erlowed on the principal streets.
sich az Broadway.
Mike give he hiz home number On
35th street, an I left him with a
promis' ter be at hiz house by 7.30
that mite with my appetite in ship
shape. More about that in my next
letter.
After 1eavin' Mike I went up ter
a place called the Eden Museum an
spent several hours. Hit il CRATE
buildin' filled with wax figgers ter
represent people. They liz white men
an women, Indians an awl sorts ov
people an most ov the groups show
group represents the massacre ov
Gen. Custer an hiz soldiers by In
dians an the wax figgers look exact
ly like live people standin', runnin,,
an fightin'. Youn kin see the In
dians with tommyhawks an guns an
the white soldiers air in uniforms,
awl fighting, fer their lives. Hit
IL awfully natural. They il awlso
wax figgers ov noted criminals an
awl sorts ov things, guide an bad.
One strikin' scene IL that ov a man
| dyin' on a bed, surrounded by hiz
wife an family an hit IL so natural
that you awlmost feel like goin' up
an joinin' in the sad picter. An
other scene IL that ov a man walkin
erlong a road through a forest an
near the roadside liz man lynn in
the grass-a wax man, ov course
suspecting' man. Another figger oy
the victim iz then shown an he he1
fallen an the blood (red paint, oi
course) liz oozin' from a gunshot
wound in hiz side, an hiz breast /,
heavin' jist like he wuz an actua
livin man that he'd bin shot an WI,
not yet dead. They iz many othel
wax figger scenes that air so natura
that you can't help thinkin' the,
really air livin' men an women
Just at the entrance to the buildin
IL wax figger ov a well-dresset
man. He il standin' readin' a sign
Beware of Pickpockets.' While b,
reads another wax figger liz standin
near him an hez just succeeded il
takin' the pocketbook ov the mai
from hiz pocket an liz in the act O,
placing hit in hiz own pocket. Hi
liz awl so natural an real lookin
that you air tempted to grab tn,
pickpocket. They IL many othe
scenes just az natural. Theze wa:
figgers air made with crate care
They air dressed in ordinary clothe
hev real human hair, glass eyes
teeth an everything necessary t.