The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-22
HOTEL DE GINK OPENING
A REAL SWELL FUNCTION
Doings Start for Fair When Hon. Bat Nelson Appears
Wearing Gold Teeth and Openface Scenery-Schubert
and Dvorak Played for Hoboes.

| pinned foot long white badges OF muslin
with Hotel de Gink" printed on the mus
lin IN big black letters on the policemen's
| chests.
An amateur string uuartet--one was a
physician, one an artist and two we're
brokers, and all asked that their names
he not used-played DvoralEs "Humor-
esque," Schuberts Death and the
Maiden Beethoven's minor quartet.
opus Is. No. 4, and the Kaiser Quartet"
as starter
In the meantime patrons were register
ing until the limit capacity OF 100 were
on hand. They wrote their real names on
| the register, but JEFF, when asked what
names they we're known by to the
Orethern. recalled Terrible Teddy, Boston
slim, Jersey Slim, New York Red. Utica
| VINO played the Jewsharp dlvinely--and
Champ the Beef
Opposite their real names the ginks
must write the names of their trades, for
/ u IL rule Of the Hotel de Gink that no.
/ BODY may stay there unless he is willing
! 20 work. Opposite one name in the reg
1 1ster the patron had written. Painter,
plumber and porter" "Shor; order cook.
! stove mouldcr." wrote another
sun another was positively gifted. lie
( Wrote that he knows how to be a deck
| hand' fireman, waiter. portcr and cook"
/ And one appropriately from Boston. gave
1 -" NNHP"tiou as interpreter nurse ana
| barber"
! In among all these willing workers
| strodo the SInlgnty Leo Lippa, chief OF
/ mouse detectives Of the Hotel de Gink and
officially known as chief OF she Jungle
! bulls.' But all was orderly. Chief Lippa
| had nothing 10 do except playfuliy TO
/ pinch Mr.. Bruere, Secretary Juha K. Shit
lady OF the Mayors Committee or Unem-
! pIoyed' Frank !. Cohen, N-Master Of Pub
NC Works of Glasgow, Scotland whose
| nigh ma; and broad scotch burr made a
! M with the ginks Secretary Allanson r.
| Briggs OF the Court House Board cyrus
! L. SulLberger, Leon Arnstein and others
| VINO have Interested themselves IN the
! woes Of the unemployed. All were
! brought before judge JEFF Davis and sem
| fenced 10 be cheercd three times and then
! to make speechs.
! "Iv been pinched as Won say" said
Atr. Bruere when hauled before Judge
Jef. but ] believe that what has been
| started here IN this building will save
! many from being Lnchcd this winter
not plnched by the cops but by the cold
| winds OF wintry nights"
J Mr. Bruere and tho other speakers all
had words Of announcement for the ho-
boes and their hotel At one point--King
JeG Davis was making his speech at the
| time and wearing Mr.. Cohcn's high hat
above the Davis sweater while Grating
ienthusiasm rose to the point where oratory
was S-rterrupted while MI Cohen handed
up So and various other visitors con-
tr.buted dollar bills
The Hon. Hat Appears.
The Harmonious -Four, direct from
/ Hammersten's burst forth with The
Little House Upon the HIM. then and
other songs and were ia the midst of
thor carolung when the Hon. Battling
Nelson and evening scener. entered with
Miss Sanford OF the Victoria
You cal yourself the King of the
Hoboes eh?" grinned Bat IN happy scorn
when formally introduced 20 King Jen'
Davis. Maybe you're the king hobo. put
you're piker compared TO muh I'm the
champ hobo OF the world. or was I've
covered $1,000 miles"
Fade, KID" cried King Jef u been
around ths world twict and around the
States three times and covered 3G5, 900
miles in my time"
Wen. whats the fastest you ever
went demanded Bar.
six months goin' through Mernph, :
once said JEFF promptly They threw
me on a fast mail train at Memphis when
the mai! train didn't stop at Memphis, and
hit Memphis 30 fast that was ia hocI,
there FOR s!N months"
Well cried Bat. "one night nineteen
years ago out on the Monon near Cedar
Lane, IND, the brakeman sho, at a dlngo
riding on tho blind with me and It cama
30 close the powder burned my face. And
another time -"
But the Hotel 40 Glnk had grown i'm
patient. Out onto the floor they led BAT
amid cheers such some commander N
the European war may get when heading
the big peace parade through Paris or
Berlin. as the case may be, Ia days 20
come.
wit Bat here we don't care il we don't
hit the hay til o'clock p. c." said Jerf
in introducing the Hon. Battling
Bat then told the stories he Is telling
az Hammerstein's and related some hobu
experiences Of his own And sonEsters
Billy Lee, Bob Harding. Billy Barr Win.
cent Skala and other professional persons
OF the stage ripped into song until IL was
time for Manager JEFF 10 shoe his children
under their blankets-spread on the floor
and so to sleep.