Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-22
"TearfuI" George Works Novel
Stunt on Capt. Doyle.
VISITING WASHINGTON NOW
Champion Long Distance Tear Spille1
Back at Old Tricks.
GAME FAILS ON DR.. TURTON
Physician for the Board of Charities
Little Too Wise for
Sobbing Beggar.

Tearfuf' George. the champion long
distance tear spiller, has made his an
nual appearance In Washington. and this
time he has excelled all previous per-
1ormances at romancing by telephonng
10 Capt Doyle Of the eighth precinct that
ne, fearful. had just dropped dead.
George is SO we'll known around the
District building and in police and work
house circles that the oldtimers put their
hands on their wallets and grasp them
tight when they hear George has re-
turned with new tale of woe. George
taxes money, but not in filching, secret
manner, but straight from the heart of
the glver, for he is a perennial fount
OF tears, and the atles he tells of
lost children, dead children, dead but IN
buried mothers, wives sisters, brothers.
hungry old men. hungry children wailing
at nome, and. in fact, the tales he tells
or distress and hardship and priyation
are enough to melt granite boulder to a
little puddle of salt, salt tears
NOW that George is back again, it would
De only right to describe him. He is
very ancient colored man with a bushy
gray beard and hair. His clothes are
old and patched, SO that one cannot tell
the patches from the original. His
patches are red, blue green. burIap.
Drown, pink; worn out and thick His
coat would envelOp a man many times
george size, and his waistcOat has an
aperture for each arm large enough for
a well trained and mediup1-sized acrobat
to dive through.
Tightwad Loosened Up.
Me was in Washington about nine
mouths ago and got dollar from one of
the best known tightwads in the District
of Columbia by the tears which splashed
on the sidewalk during the recital of a.
tale about a little girl who had been
killed Ny an automobile. Without doubt
1t was the most pathetic story that a
person cVuld listen to. The touches Of
tial details Of the killing Of this little
coiored gerl by high-pOwered, lavender
scented limousine car, laden with laugh
ing wonen. who dashed onward after
MASKING the little child to a pancake.
were %orthy Of Victor Hugo.
he got dollar from the tightWad, and
more from other individuals of more
generous type, and to make his story
police and applied for a charity coffin
at the office of the board of charities
and then disappeared. When the red tape
OF the board Of charity and police began
to unwind everything was accounted for
in the story except the girls death and
the automobile.
About that time also George ordered a
sWingletree from blacksmith and had
1t charged to the board OF children 8
guardians.
He came into the board Of charities Of
flee day or two ago and asked to be
sent to Richmond. DIR. w. E. Turton OF
that office, before whose eyes pass many
of the cases of restitution and sickness
! which the District has put up to it, spot
ted the fearful one In a moment. But
fearful George said he was not the same
George that had bought the swingletree
but that he was poor, unfortunate col
ored man with SO many sick children and
so many dead mothers, and so many af-
f1ictiOns that he could make the Book OF
Job look like a pleasant letter between
two happy schoolgirls.
! Doctors Heart Was Hard.
| DR.. Turton remembered fearful George,
however, and refused to have his own