The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-17

natural. We looked up at the big
buildings in order to see how high they
were. We stopped and "gawked" in
goods inside. We asked questions in
promiscuous fashion and didn't try to
appear as anything else but a couple
of young fellows from one of the
small towns of the far West. Speak
ing of asking questions. there was a
wild-eyed tourist on the boat coming
into New York from Newport who
ought to have had the blue ribbon
pinned on his breast. He had the fool
medal safe in any company. His vic
tins included all persons on the boat
who would answer his eternal Ques-
tons. He bearded the cook in his den
and the captain on the hurricane
deck. The passengers who had made
Gibbs kept close to this man while the
boat was sliding past the wharf on
her way to the landing arq accumu-
lated enough information to break
down flat car. But the climax came
when the fellow announced himself
thusly, speaking to dozen or SO of
us who had gathered in the prov OF
the ship: you see. 1 am away from
home on a trip here for the first time,
and I have to ask questions If I am
to find out anything. I am from out
West, myself. I live in a little town
south of Buffalo. N. Y" Gibbs has
emotions that are hard to move. but
that moved them. Gibbs was sore:
Actually sore, and excited. He wanted
to do the man an injury, but re-
strained him. To call Buffalo "out
west was more than Gibbs, who is
from Topeka, himself could stand.
Now 1 had wanted to assassinate
little fellow with wide pants who had
taken the boat with US at Detroit
few days before, and G1bbS could not
understand my antipathy for the an
1 but n N
late an honest pilgrim from the far
western wilds of Buffalo. The person
changed his clothes three times on the
Detroit boat that evening, appearing
at intervals in louder raiment than he
had worn before. And he had two cam
eras and the air and style Of a person
who ought to be exterminated on gen
eral principles. Still. Gibbs, thirst
not see the point to my hostility to the
fop, and argued with me about 1t Tor
several days.
NIGHT on Broadway.
Well, we went to a vaudeville show
in the afternoon, and It was a rafting
good one, plenty of class and new
trimmings we had not seen before.
Then we walked up Broadway and
walked back again. What's the use
to try to tell about New York, only
diary of events, not scenes. I am not
painter and I promised Gibbs only
to write down few facts ABOUT the
trip. At night we went to see plain
Mary Gibbs a musical comedy show.
Gibbs picked it on account OF the
name, but he swore the girl was not
a relative. The show was fa1r. TO my
mind, the New York theaters cater to
tacles, and do not care about the lines
of the play, or real comedy. After the
show we walked up Broadway again.
That street is a fright at night. Ask
Gibbs. He sized it up this way IN that
exact cock-sure style of his. after we
shifts of girls that do Broadway
every twenty-four hours; in the morn
ing there are the working girls going
to their employments; in the after
noon come the girls on
Shopping tour, and at night the girls
-Well. the girls who are daughters
of pleasure and children OF shame
Gibbs nicked it, all rigrt. At night on
thousands of girls, all sizes, all de-
grees of beauty and ugliness, wearing
silk and bingham, who do not require
the -formality of an Introduction to
book of sermons, so I will let it go at
this Gibbs and were far away from
home, but we were old-fashioned
enough to prefer a formal introduce
ton. After the show some kindly rate
led NV steps to the Marlborough ho-
fell and there I found delectable
connection called Weiner. 1t was
brewed by a benefactor of the human
race named Schafer, may his tribe in
crease. 1 drank many glasses of the
same and thought of the Rhine river,
and the cathedral at Cologne, and the
grove of Daphne, and the pillars of
Hercules. and divers other big and
beautiful things. We went to bed at
midnight.
wednesday, Sept. 14.-Got up next
morning early and went to our old
standby. a Baltimore lunch house.
| Gibbs, by this time, has become an
| expert arm waiter. He can carry a