Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

probably when he was about Is, he became
bartender. He continued his education at
night. somewhat spasmodically as his duties
permitted; studied law at Peter Coopers Uni
yersity: was admitted to the bar at the age OF
26 and hung up his white apron forever.
There is a story that Cronin went to Senator
McGlynn who at this time was holding the
CITY and the party in his fat white hand, and
laid these facts before him, and that McGlynn
sent Ahearn few small cases, which he nam
died well enough. Then he sent him some
thing more important and more dubious, ana
Ahearn kicked his new clients out OF his cheap
little Office. So the Senator sent for him ana
inquired the cause of this discourtesy, and
Counselor Ahearn told him in his unvarnished
Third avenue dialect that he didn't do that
kind of business, see?
a find uses for lawyers who were overpar-
ticular, and Ahearn picked up his derby and
delivered himself of hot valedictory upon
Senator McGlynn, his friends and the nature
of their law cases. and stamped his way out
of the Office without pausng for reply
Now, it is well known that Senator Glynn
had that love of buffoonery which character
ICES licentious rulers. Virtue amused MIN al
ways, moral indignation amused him, ana ne
had the voluptuary's passion Tor nalvete.
Ahearn spent his first eight months at the
bar as most young lawyers spend them who
have no family Golfers upon which to draw,
and one morning was aghast and astonished TO
find in his scanty mail an invitation to call
upon the district attorney with view TO an
appointment. He was courteously received,
and by IL O'Clock he was assistant olsI1ct
attorney for the county.
It is known that he went breathlessly TO
Cronin running down Columbia street, Brook
1yn, to Cronin's place and bursting IN upon MN
painting and stammering his gratitude Cronln
listened to him in amazement and told him
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ing But Cronin also threw his arms around
him and banged him on the back uttering
those profane calculations employed by the
less urbane to indicate joy and grief.
It was well for Ahearn that he had his
moment Of exultation, for the opposition news
papers evidently had not heard any such ex-
PLANTATION of the reasons for his sudden dis
tinction. They imputed as usual, the most
sinister motives to the district attorney and TO
Senator McGlynn. There Is faded yellow
editorial in the Herald files dealing with the
appointment, and another in those OF the
Tribune.
Daniel Ahearn read the editorials dealing
with his appointment time and time again, but
it was a long time before they were anything
but blur to him, a red blur, with the word
bartender legible at intervals. The Advertiser
called him bartender three times in half
a column.
NOV, there never was a Celt who took him
self more seriously than ola Danlel AneaIn,
never one with f1ercer, hotter pride in him
self and his lineage, never one with a more
sensitive skin. Most of them hide it with
laugh iibe and some with a stupid, unsee-
ing look. Daniel Ahearn hid his with grim,
tight, dour mouth, hoping all the while that
nobody noticed him and his rage and his
shame. joke, he was, was he-a big joke?
He that laughed at few jokes and made none.
Bartender, bartender, bartender. He'd show
them what sort Of a man bartender had
TO be-
OF the two excellent ways to bring out the
essential virtues within him the city had chosen
one-ridicule. It laughed at him. He had
fine audience for his first few cases-young
attorneys with degrees from Columbia and
Harvard, special writer's from the newspapers,
curiosity seekers. The district attorney, wheth-
er acting under instructions or from sense
of fair play, which some district attorneys have
at least when they're young-give him every
consideration. He didn't have much to do and
he did it well enough. His hearers laughed
when they could, as a vaudeville audience does.
and there were things to laugh at. If you'd
never seen bartender before or heard man
who had the patois Of the East Side thick in
his throat. But he showed no glaring igno-
rance-and his voice was composed, II little
too loud for cultured ears, and his mouth was