The evening world., 1920-08-09
our Captains name is Hussey.

our Captains name is Hussey.
He's a Tippeary man
He carries his sword like a Russian
duke
Whenever he takes command.
(And then tile cholus):
Then shoulder your guns wen march.
march away,
From jackson Street all mp 10 Ave-
nue. a
The drums and rires will merrly
merrily play
AZ Ve march, march, march in the
Mulltgln Guards.
Joe HUMPHREYS, the veteran an
nouncor. IL helping TO preserve the
Ilarrigan tradition to-day by reviv-
ing annually the Harrgan entertain
ments and they have proved most
suocC ssful
James Halvey ia an old timer who
sits on HIS stoop in Water Street and
laments the changes in the district
There used to he good people here
There's nOi hing now. John H. Ahearn
lived there on Scanned and Water
Streets where that garage stands.
cats Alley was at No. 6i2 Water
Street, and Swans Castle next door
at No. Esd. The 'Baw1y gang hung
OUT there. They used to clash with
the Hook gang It made Gmvorneur
Hospital hero in Water Street handy
for the broken heads"
jessie A. Showers, who has served
for tWenty-ciGht wears on the staff Of
Gouvorneur Hospital. smiles Swoetly
over the old days All the excitement
has como 20 tho doors of the hospital,
Tho greatest change ! see In the
nelghbOrhood" said Miss StOVycrA rs
in tho saloons. There used ~ he five
around tho hospital. now thare In only
one, and that's one too many. and I'm.
not In favor Of Prohibition either.
mind YOU
I'VE have had all the notables from
the distriCt here at one time OF an
other Monk Eastman was hero the
last time with 81 Run-shot wound and
ne made splendid patient.
Mike Donovan, property guardian
OF the New York. New Haven and
Htrtford. was another Mike was
shot nine times in the back
''Wo handle between twelve and
fourteen hundred accident cases n
month to-day The district is fill I'd
with warehouses and motor trucks
are dangerous; then, too, the fire es-
capes arc bad for chldren."
At the door OF the hospital once
stood the notorious saloon Of Tom
Dempsey. Tho Happy Harp" one
of It's characters died In the hospital
Some more who made rendezvous
here were Kinder Dempsey. the
oross-eyed man; Tom "Oysters" (Tom
O'Shaughnessy). "Popsy" Turner and
'Prusslau" Mike. Around the corner
from Jackson street NJ No 376 Front
street stands a deCayed frame house
a celebrated mecca in the old days
Of those who desired their future
pTOEnOstiCatcd. II was once occupied
by Augusta Miller, the well known
ana highly believed fortune teller
From an over the city came high and
low CLASSES, attracted by her fame
as a card oracle The boys Of the
, district made many penny directing
, the fashionable strangers 10 her door
, The dock along the Hook Is changed
to-day Coe warehouse, built in 1856
slll stands a lone veteran. What Is
cement dock now was once wood sup.
ported by piles Then Italian ship,
moOred TO unload rare marble for tn,
EtOneyaTd. gone with the shipyard
with the coming OF the park
, Also unloadod were casks OF Italian
, wine. especially attractive to the rive
pirates that made their headquartert
at the Hook. The pirates. banked II
r their thieyerv by guards upon th'
docks, used TO row skiffs between th'
. pillugs underneath and then bore
holes through bhe dock planking int
the bottoms OF the wine casks, usnl
an anger Then they would pipe the
wine down INTO containers in thet
boats right under tho nose Of tn
guard.