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THE SU2TOAY OEEGONIAN, POBTLAIST), MAT 20, 1900.
LEADVILLE'S EARLY DAYS
JUDGE LYNCH HOLDS COURT IN THE
FAMOUS CARBONATE CAMP.
Committee of Obc Hundred Fats a.
Stop to "HoId-Up" and Ras
cally IiOt Jamplng.
These "piping times of hold-ups" In
Portland, when some unfortunate man is,
almost every night, compelled, at the
muzzle of a gun, to give up his valuables,
reminds one of the early days of Lead
vllle. Col., "when the camp was overrun by
a class of people who subsisted on the
the earnings of other men. Hardly a night
passed, without somebody being made a
victim, end the police, like those of
Portland, were unable to bring the high
waymen to justice. Almost everybody
went armed, but that made no difference;
the robbers were usually desperadoes of
the worst character, who had been driven
out of the cities of the East and had
flocked to Leadvllle. They took the un
wary tenderfoot so completely by surprise
that he had no chance to defend himself,
no matter how well armed he was.
Lot-Jumping was another mode of ob
taining money without work. This was
simply robbery, in another form, and, if
possible, worse certainly more contempti
blethan taking a man's money by force.
The mode of procedure was about as fol
lows: How It Was Bone.
A lot would be selected by some one
who wanted to go into business, arrange
ments would be made for erecting a
building on tho site; lumber would be
hauled and left on the ground, and, may
be, a stock of goods would ,be ordered
from the E:ist, so that It might arrive by
the time the building, was ready to re
ceive it. for it did not take long to
knock up the kind of structure that was
most used In those days In the Car
bonate Camp. An Individual who made
lot-Jumping a business would note the
proceedings, and some night, when the
locator would be about ready to begin
work, he would quietly take possession of
the lot, put up a tent on It, and, the
next morning, the original claimant would
be surprised to find the Intruder in full
possession. In order to hold a lot, it was
necessary to file a claim and actually
occupy it, for as long as it was unoccu
pied anyone could take possession, by
erecting a shack of any kind, or even a
tent on the ground and occupying it The
Jumper would not want the lot; would
have no use for It, but, knowing that the
rightful claimant was in a hurry to begin
business, he would feel reasonably sure
that a sum of money, varying In amount
according to circumstances, could be ex
torted, as an Inducement to get him off
the ground. A .price would be agreed upon;
the money paid, and the jumper would
give up possession and at once look
around for another opportunity of ,the
same kind.
Tenderfeet Usually Selected.
In this way several men about Leadvllle
made a good deal of money. They were
usually particular to select a man Just
from the States, who they knew would
not resort to any desperate means, such
as a double-barreled shotgun, or a six
shooter, to get rid of them. This mode of
getting money was carried to such an
extent that the law-abiding pepople of the
camp could stand it no longer, so they
ono day determined to put a stop to "hold
ups" and lot-jumping at the same time.
A band of vigilantes, known as the Com
mittee of One Hundred, was organized. It
was composed of picked men the best in
the camp. It was a secret organization,
with signs, signals and pass-words. The
times and place of meeting were unknown,
except to the members. By some means
it got noised about that such an organiza
tion had been formed, and, for a time,
the rumor had the effect of putting a
stop to crime; but, after a while, the
criminal classes began to think that It
was only a bluff, and that there wasn't
"going to much of a shower, after all,"
so they began their depredations again.
The Committee of One Hundred, however,
was watching the game; it was waiting
until it could have a dead-sure case, and il
did not have to wait very long, either.
One night in October, 1879, a man named
Frodsham Jumped a lot." and the same
night there was a "hold-up." A man
named Stewart was arrested for the rob
bery and identified by his victim. As
there was no law by which a man could
be arrested for lot-jumping, a charge of
some other kind was preferred against
Frodsham, and both men were lodged in
Jail.
Committee Decides to Act.
The night after the arrest the Committee
of One Hundred held a meeting, the de
tails of which were told to the writer after
the committee's days of influence had
passed. The subject which had called
the members together was discussed In
all Its bearings, and it was Anally decided
that examples should be made of the two
men in jail. A night falling about a
week after the arrest waa fixed upon as
the time to carry the judgment Into ef
fect. Somehow It came to the ears of the
doomed men that they were in danger.
They were terror-stricken, for they knew
that Judge Lynch's code granted no ap
peal; that there was no stay of proceed
ings, no supersedeas, no arrest of judg
ment, no postponement on account of
weather or anything else; but that Judg
ment, swift and sure, would be visited
upon the guilty.
A meeting of the committee was set for
the night on which the execution was to
take place. It was held in a vacant
cabin, in California Gulch. There were SO
members present, and It was decided that
half the number should be the
executioners. Eighty ballots were writ
ten out. 40 bearing the word "go" and 40
bearing the word "no." All were placed
in a hat and every one present drew out
a ballot. Those who drew a "go" were
to carry out the sentence, while the ones
who drew a "no" were to be excused. No
member was to let any other member
know what he had drawn. All who had
drawn a prize were instructed to thor
oughly disguise themselves, after they
got nome, ana it was agreed that they
should quietly meet at midnight In front
of the Jail; the others were instructed to
remain at home, and It was not safe for
even a member to disobey a command of
the committee.
The meeting adjourned and just at 12
o'clock 40 disguised men seemed to rise
up out of the earth in front of the Jail.
The Jailer was aroused by a vigorous
knock at the door and was told, in low
determined tones, that the visitors wanted
Frodsham and Stewart, and that no de
nial would be taken. He was warned, on
penalty of death, to raise no alarm.' but
to obey their orders without sfciy. The
prison was a poor affair, andne knm
that resistance would be worse than use
less. Taken From the Jail.
The terrified prisoners were taken,
trembling and pleading .for mercy, from
the Jail. Not a word was spoken to them
but they knew too well what it all meant!
They promised to leave the camp Imme
diately and never return If spared. Their
appeal for mercy was made to deaf ears;
no reply was made to their entreaties!
They were taken to a lone pine tree, in a
gulch Just in the rear of the jail, and
preparat'ons were quickly and sllentl5
made for the execution of the sentence.
Ropes wore soon around the necks of thi
two men and they were swung up to a
limb without any formality. The execu
tioners remained on the spot, until tbej
were satisfied that the men were dead,
and they then disappeared as silently as
they came.
The next morning the two dead bodies
were found hanging to the limb of the
tree, where the vigilantes had left them
A crowd gathered at the place, and the
Jailer was questioned, but he could give
no explanation, save that a band of
masked men had appeared at the Jail the
night before and demanded the prisoners,
and that he was compelled to surrender
them. Immediately there was an exodus
of criminals from Leadvllle, for no one
knew whose turn would come next. That
lynching did more to purify the moral
atmosphere of Leadvllle than all the
courts could have done in a year. There
was no more lot-Jumping, and it was a long
time before there was another "hold-up."
The Committee of One Hundred lasted
more than a year. Its very name was a
terror to evildoers, and when it was
known that it had disbanded more than
one man in Leadvllle breathed more freely.
H. B. METCALF.
SQUIRREL ON THE TRACK.
Uncanny Experience of Locomotive
Engineer nnd Fireman.
"Did I ever tejl you of that hot chase I
had once after a squirrel on the track?"
HUGS THE TAPE PRETTY CLOSE, HIMSELF.
Offlce Boy Can't I set oC this afternoon to attend ray grandmother's funeral?
Broker No; but you can go out now and then to look at the score.
asked Harry Bentley, who holds the reins
behind engine No. MS, one day recently
to a reporter of the Des Moines (la).
Leader. "Never did, eh? Well. I've got
you cornered, and as nobody else would
ever stand still long enough to let me fin-
Ish that yarn, I'm going to hold you to a i
finish. It was down on the middle divi- collar had disappeared it would have been
slon between Des Moines and Davenport, j a great relief to my sympathetic nature.
It was a rainy night and I was pulling j for. barring that, Jake seemed to be su
No. 6. She was an hour late, but you . premely happy.
know her time Is pretty 'soon anyhow, j They came over near where I was stand
No. 6 doesn't stop only at county seats i Ing, and stopping in front of a show win-
when it can be helped, and I gave No
948 a free rein that night. I was hlttin'
'em up prettty lively around the curve
east of the big hotel near Cofrax, when
on pokln' my head out the side of the cab
to get a glimpse ahead, I saw something
that appeared to be a squirrel skimming
along the track about 20 feet ahead of the
pilot.
"If we were movln' a mile a week, we
were runnln' a mile a minute, and when
that squirrel hit 'cm up so fast that he
kept at about the same'distance ahead of
the nose of the pilot, I says, 'Mister, you're
a bird, but Just keep right where you are
a bit and I'll trim your sails.' I gave the
sand rod a shake, and, grabbing the lever,
I dropped it for'ard another notch. I
could feel the impulse given to the engine,
and, taking my hand, I wiped off the in
side of the front window to see where
Mr. Squirrel was 'at.'
"Well, there ho was, Johnny on the spot.
He had Just let himself out another notch
and was hikln' out to beat the band.
Pretty soon we came to a Ion? trestle and
a bridge. "Here's where I get your meat
house,' said I to myself, but blame my
lamps If the varmint didn't skip across the
trestle and ties without a hitch or break,
beating No. SIS to solid ground about 20
feet. Well, then I thought I had 'em
sure, but, never havln used liquor In my
life. I thought maybe I was going crazy.
So I calls the fireman over. and. polntln'
to the track ahead, I asked him If he
could see anything. Tes, he could. Ho
was sure It was a squirrel.
"We were running on a down grade
with the air just on enough to pull out the
slack, and. mister, but we were dancing.
The engine was rocking from side to jflde,
the side rods were obscured In the mist of
revolving steel, and the big drivers struck
fire from the track as they pressed the
many tons of resistance against the out
side rails. When I saw that squirrel
keepln straight ahead and never losln
nor galnln. I says to myself, 'Harry,
you and the fireman are both gone daf
fy." "cause no squirrel on earth could keep
out of the way. Then It struck me It
might be a warning omen of danger, and
I eased off so's to light as easy as possible
if we did go in the ditch.
"I poked along to Newtow. and when we
stopped for water. I looked over ahead
and there was that confounded varmint In
the middle of the track about 20 feet
away, waltln for the race to be resumed.
I gets the coal pick and a club, and the
fireman grabs the grate bar and the
scoop, and we goes over. It didn't move,
and when we got close enough we both
took a swipe at the varmint. We never
touched him, and I felt the pimplei
breakln' out all over me when the fire
man, seeing It was a shadow and not a
squirrel, looked up, and there, pasted oa
the headlight, was a wet leaf. The squir
rel was the shadow of the leaf."
Is He Right?
How shall we write 1900 in Roman let
ters? It has been generally admitted that
two ways are correct namely, MDCCCC,
and MCM. and that the latter Is prefer
able. Now, a correspondent of the Phila
delphia Inquirer maintains that neither of
these is legitimate. He says:
"The year 1900 should be written MDCD.
One Important principle of the Roman
system is that the most valuable digit is
placed first, and then others as much as
possible of gradually decreasing value,
till the required number is complete.
Thus. MDCLVI, fr 1656. Another Is that
four similar digits shall not follow each
other. The exception of this latter rule
which is found on the face of a watch
Is. as Is well-known, of merely medieval
origin.
"Now, as the number which we desire
to write is 1900. we commence with MD.
To account for the remaining 400 we must
accordingly resort to the device of plac
ing a detracting digit before a digit rep
resenting exactly that much more than
the required value in this instance a
hundred. Our 400 is, therefore, expressed
by CD. and the entire ISM is shown as
MDCD."
lllr lf IAIUC 81SJ TnHW
JHIYL RU JAIL ill llini
ENGAGE IN RED-HOT TUSSLE "WITH
"BEEFSTEAK SPANISH."
Given Something to Talk About to
"Jinx an' Liz," When They Re
turn to Fletcnerville. ,
As I came out from the Dekum Build
ing the other day, my attention was at
tracted to a man and woman who were
Just crossing the street. She was attired
in all the finery a country dry goods store
could produce. He hod on a new suit of
"hand-me-downs," a pair of "cowhide"
boots, that creaked every step he took,
notwithstanding the liberal greasing they
had had; a "boiled" shirt and a collar so
tall the top of it was sadly intruding on
his ears.
"What a pity, I thought, as I took In his
misery In trying to evade the relentless
edge3 of that collar, that a little of that
superfluous starch couldn't be transferred
to his collapsed shirt front. After all.
that part didn't much matter, for I could
see from the beautiful way in which she
clutched his protruding elbow, and the
dove-like beaming countenances of the
twain, it was Jake and Jane, in from the
back woods on their wedding trip. And If
only an inch or two of that confounded
dow, began admiring some gowns that
were displayed on "forms."
"Ain't them daisies, Jakey?" asked Jane.
"Yeh, bet yer boots, Janey! That thur
one over thur Is jest a regMer peach blos
som, an' my Janey Is peach enough ter
wear It, too," he replied, as he pointed
to a high-priced evening dress.
"Oh, my! that's twicet tew nice fur me,
Jakey," returned Jane.
Nothing: Too Nice for Jane.
"No, "taln't nuther, an I'm going to take
yeh home with that thur dress on yeh,"
he answered, as he dropped her arm and
squeezed her hand.
"I wonder what Liz an" Jlm'U say to
that?" he continued. "They think they
can put on more 'dog than any one else
In Fletchervllle. But they hain't made no
weddln tower like us, an' Liz, she hain't
never see no such dress as that, let alone
weorln' It."
Janey looked all kinds of pride and af
fection at him for a minute, then suddenly
his elbow pointed toward her, and, clasp-
PROBABLY BOTH.
Mrs. A. My husband was delayed all night by a washout.
Miss B. My brother was there, and be said it was a blowout.
Ing tightly her dear Jakey's arm, she dis
appeared with him In the store to buy
the gown that was to make her the envy
of Fletchervllie, and more particularly of
"Lis" and "Jim."
Along about 3 o'clock In the afternoon, I
went into a restaurant. It happened there
were no other customers when I sat down,
and, being pretty well acquainted with
Jerry, the waiter, I was telling him about
the happy swain and his bride, when who
but they should halt in front of the win
dow. They gazed a few minutes, then
came in and took a table near mine. After
giving them napkins and the regulation
Sslass of water, the waiter handed them
the bill of fare and went out to the kltch
en. They waited a few minutes in silence;
then Jake remarked:
"Wonder what they think e feller's goin"
to eat, anyhow? Why don't that sardine
fetch on suthln"?"
Just then Jerry returned and stood wait
ing to take their orders. Janey fidgeted
about and got a little red in the face, and
Jakey asked:
"Say. parson, when yeh goln" to bring on
some o" yer grub? Mo on" Janey, we're
glttin' mighty hungry."
"What's your order?" said Jerry.
"Order, hey? Well, now. If that's what
yer waltin on, I hain't got no pertlc'ler
order, only ter bring on suthln' good an'
git It here jest as quick as yeh can."
"This is the bill of fare." answered Jer
ry." and If you'll select something, I'll -set
it here "In double-quick time."
Unfamiliar City Ways.
"Oh! that's what that paper is fer. Is it?
Teh see, me an Janey hain't ketched on
to all these durned city ways yit."
Jerry disappeared again, and they grap
pled with that paper. Pretty soon Jake
said:
"Look a-here, Janey! If here hain' a
Spanish steak! By George, she's a go! I
never did see nothin' Spanish nohow, and
I might jest as well take In the hull show,
while I'm blowln' myself. Say, you, par
son!" he sung out to Jerry, "I'm goin' to
have some of that Spanish beefsteak.
Bring It In quick as yeh can, an pipln
hot, too. What yeh goin' ter have,
Janey?"
She blushlngly stammered out something
and the waiter went off to give their or
ders. Ah he passed me, I fancied from the
look In his eyes, he was either trying to
suppress a giggle or was brewing some
joke. It turned out to be the latter, or
perhaps both, for when Jerry brought in
that beefsteak, Spanish, it was the hot
test old beefsteak any one ever tried to
eat. While the cook was steeping it In
cayenne pepper tea, Jake had been squeez
ing Janie's hand and wondering how
"Liz" and "Jim" would take that for an
other stunner, when they learned that he
had actually eaten meat from Spain.
When Jerry brought In the orders, Jake
looked around for his steak, failing to
recognize It under the "Spanish." Jerry
had discreetly vanished, so he went to
work, and, with the aid of his fork, soon"
located it, and remarked:
"She's a yankin' fine steak all right, I
can see that at a glance, but what they
got all this trash on It fur, I'd like ter
know. I'll bet, if we can Beat them thur,
bpanisn ngntir., when it 'ud come to a
steak like that, they'd play us two ter
one. Yeh'd better try a taste, Janey, so
to say yeh've et suthln' from Spain. Liz,
she never see nothin furrin', let 'lone eat
It."
Janey Takes a Taste.
At the conclusion of this remark, he cut
down In the "steak, and, taking off a
tempting morsel, passed it over to Janey
on his fork. She took It in her mouth,
and, as she gave one agonized look. It
went down. She grabbed the glass of
water and flooded her mouth and throat.
Jake hadn't stopped to note the effect
on her, but after giving her the generous
piece, proceeded to serve himself with one
even more generous. I was mentally
praising Jane for her grit in swallowing
so much fire without saying anything,
when, whack! whang! went Jake's chair,
and he jumped a foot in the air. For the
next minute, he was popping around like
corn over a bed of coals. This brought
Jane to her feet, and she said:
"Oh, Jakey! Them Spanish have killed
yeh!"
Just what resemblance to a dead man
that lively piece of humanity bore I was
unable to discern. However, Jake finally
found his breath and dispelled her fears,
something after this manner:
"Where's that blankety, blank Spaniard
that fetched me that steak? I'll yankety
the rankety Idiot inter sausage meat. If I
git hold on him. Puf-f-f, wh-h-h," and I
could feel the hot steam off that pepper
as his wrathful stride brought him dan
gerously near me.
"I'll whip the blossom off any city snide
round here," he yelled, and as he looked
daggers and breathed cayenne in my face,
while he proceeded to take off his coat, I
hastened to assure him that I wasn't the
particular "snide" he was after. I sug
gested that he might find him In the
kitchen.
Just then I heard a scurrying out there,
and I knew that Jerry and the cook were
out of immediate danger. Under the
soothing Influence of Janeys appeal, and
the steam that had escaped from the open
valve, he began to cool off.
Jane smoothed out his ruflled plumage
and succeeded In Inducing him to sit down
again. By this time another waiter put
In an appearance, end Jake, having fully
satisfied his desire for foreign dishes, was
willing to take a plain American produc
tion this time, which proved a more for
tunate selection. And as the waiter car
ried away the offending steak, he re
marked, with a meditative air:
"Geo whlllklns! I wish Jim had had
that durned Spanish 'lay-out' Instld of
me."
TOM.
Locomotives With Nicknames.
Railroad trainmen are most original and
J apt In the matter of applying nicknames to
their engines. On a Pennsylvania line
they have dubbed their swiftest locomo
tive. "Dewey." A big mogul they call
"Agulnaldo," and give as a cogent reason
therefor that "It has been running a long
time, puffs furiously and never accom
plishes much."
Another engine that is seldom able to as
( cend a heavy grade without "getting
. stuck," they call "Buller." A huge con
solidated engine that once Intercepted a
runaway train, ditching It and converting
j it into kindling, rejoices under the slgnlfl-
cant appellation of "Jouhcrt."
GONE UNDER THE HAMMER
MEMORIES EVOKED BY RECENT
SALE OF DELMONICO'S.
FoUowlng Trend of Population, Sew
York's Famous Restaurant
Moves Uptown-ward.
Serenely full, the epicure would say.
Fate cannot harm me, I dined at
"Del's" today.
Going, going, gone.
Gone at last, under the hammer. Is the
famous old building on the southwest cor
ner of Twenty-sixth street and Fifth ave
nue, running through to Broadway. And
gone too, or soon to go, are the memo
ries that cluster around that Delmonlco
corner.
Singularly enough, it seems to have been
the fate of Delmonico's three main res
taurants to have each lasted out a genera
tion. The first, established on Beaver
street, flourished from 1825 to nearly 185a
FEAR OF PARENTAL FURY.
"You remind me of an hour-glass."
"Help you pass away the time?"
"No; the later It gets the less sand you scorn to have.
Then came the Fourteenth-street and
Fifth-avenue place to fill In the gap till
1S75. Then Twenty-sixth street, until the
last move to Forty-fourth street waa
made. Where to next In 1923?
As our grandfathers used to hobnob
over their ices and sherbets way down
town, so our fathers feasted on canvas
back ducks and Burgundy on Fourteenth
street. Middle-aged men of the present
day learned to drink champagne with
pate de foie gras at Twenty-sixth street,
and our children are now eating and
drinking, dancing and flirting In the new
Forty-fourth-street house. t
To attempt to describe one-half of even
the most Interesting memories that bound
this old building to Now York would take
a book. To make a long story short, let
us simply run through a few of the more
famous functions and recall a handful
of the Interesting personalities that are
associated with the place.
Home of the Patriarchs.
In the first place, it was here that the
Patriarchs, most famous of all dancing
associations, lived and died. It was here
that the late Ward McAllister first made
his reputation as the preux chevalier of
New York society, and It was in conning
over a list for Patriarch Invitations, that
he made his renowned selection of the
"Four Hundred."
nere It was that the late Sam Ward
propounded some of those dishes that
have passed into history as the most ex
quisite specimens of gastronomic art It
was here that the late William R. Trav
ers let loose many of those witticisms
that will never die, and here it was that
the late Larry Jerome and Billy Florence
played some of their funniest practical
Jokes.
August Belmont, D. D. Withers, Leon
ard Jerome, Augustus Clason, Judge Mon.
son, John Purdy and John Hunter, of the
older generation of racing men, and
James G. K. Lawrence. James R. Keene,
Cornelius Fellowes, James G. K. Duer,
John G. Hecksher and J. H. Bradford, of
the younger set, used to talk race horse
here by the hour. Lawrence Kip, Harry
Mall and a host of other trotting men al
ways had a table to themselves, and the
Twenty-sixth-street "Del's" was invari
ably the headquarters of the coaching
and horse show crowd, headed by Pres
cott Lawrence, Reginald Rives, Frank
Underbill, Oliver Belmont, Frank Stur
gls, Henry Holllster and James T. Hyde.
As for the dandles of the day, they al
ways seemed to prefer this place to their
own clubs, and at certain tables at cer
tain hours one was sure to find the Cut
tings, Hamilton Cary, Center Hitchcock,
George Pollock, George de Forest Grant,
Arthur Kemp, "Fred" Gebhard, Frank
Griswold, Goold Hoyt, "Chappie" Navar
ro, Appleton Smith, "Crownle" Crown
lngshleld. Colonel O'Brien, "Jo" Mora, P.
J. Casey, William Perzel, James Farley.
Peter Morris, Berry Wall and a host of
others equally well known, discussing
the latest play, the new beauty, the last
scandal or the coming first night.
Here It was, too, that the pigeon experts
used to collect and swap stories about the
ins and outs of their favorite sport, and
wherever the most noise and laughter,
there would be the Murphy brothers, Ed
gar and Walter, and "Wallle" Watrous,
Walker Smith, George Work. "Fred"
Hoey, "Fred" Edey, Captain Money and
Yale and Clarence Dolan.
Actors and Managers.
As for our theatrical managers, it
seemed as if they used to take all their
meals here, headed by Maurice Grau and
Abbey and Augustln Daly, Frank San
ger, Charles and Daniel Frohman and A,
M. Palmer, with an occasional look in
from Antonio Pastor. So, of course, the
great family of actors followed In their
leaders' footsteps. There was always a
stir in the ladles dining-room when John
Drew took a seat and tried to look un
conscious, or when Richard Mansfield e
Kyrle Bellew or Jean de Reszke or Pol
Plancon or Campanarl entered to obtais
sustenance for trying parts, or to
strengthen their voices.
Naturally, enausli Insichaa clla.-podrida
of humanity there must be a sportlnjr ele
ment to leaven the whole, and among the
best-known habitues of the old place were
such well-known layers of odds as "Dave"
Johnson, "Mattle" Corbett, "Sol" Llchten
steln and Jack McDonald, with cheery and
lamented old John Kelly Invariably some
where about to keep the pot boiling.
Naturally enough a criminal lawyer
would be apt to drift Into such a place to
see what fun or mischief the world was
up to next, and scarcely a night passed
that little "Abe" Hummel did not show
up for his bite and joke with nearly ev
ery one about the rooms. Bourke Cock
ran, DeLancey NIcoll and Judges Glider
sleeve and Ti-uax were other legal lights
that shone as brightly In the restaurant
as In the courtroom, and when Captains
O'Reilly and Dick Connors, of the old Ten
derloin, got a little time off and were out
of uniform, they used to drop In for a
quiet little chat with many friends, often
Including Inspector Byrnes and "Billy"
McLaughlin.
To the tide of feminine beauty that
swept In and out of the Fifth-avenue
doors of course only a general reference
can be made. It was the Invariable rule
of the house that no women unaccompa
nied by men would be served after a fixed
hour In the afternoon. At luncheon time
you might see some very famous or queer,
looking females eating alone or together,
but never at dinner. The rule was made
by the late Charles Delmonlco, and has
been strictly adhered to by Charles H.
Story of a Grande Dame.
A good story always associated with
the Twenty-sixth street house concerns a
certain very well-known New York lady,
grande dame to her finger tips, who, com
ing to town In Summer with her daugh
ter, proceeded to "Del's" to have dinner.
After the two were seated, there ap
proached them a very embarrassed restau
rateur In the person of Charles I, who
explained, as best he could, that he could
not serve them because they were unac
companied by a man.
"What do you mean?" exclaimed the
elder woman, angrily. "You know per
fectly well who I am."
"That makes it all the more difficult .for
me to carry out a rule which we find Im
perative, and is made for the protection
of Just such ladles as you are. I will serve
you in a private dining-room, or send your
dinner to your house, without extra
charge, but I cannot serve you here."
Be It said to her credit, the great lady
saw the point of the argument, and grace
fully yielded, always telling the story as
a good joke on her 40 odd years of esti
mable married life and motherhood, but
as a great compliment to Mr. Delmonlco
and his excellently moral establishment.
So with the sale of the property and
the demolition of the old building there
passes away a veritable temple dedicated
for so many years to the bright side of
New York, and peopled, &b It has been
with all that was most notable In every
phase of our metropolitan life. There
can never be Just such another place
as this Delmonico's was, because the men
who made It have many of them passed
away, and the times have changed and
we have changed with them. New York
Herald.
WHEN MOLLIE SITS BESIDE ME.
Sermons a-maay I have heard;
They're nleased and sometimes tried me.
I But when the best emotions stirred.
Then Mollle sat beside me.
"Twas not that parson taught great laws,
Or with deep problems piled me;
'Twas not well, it waa Just becausa
Sweet Mollle sat beside me.
A drooping- lash, a fair, soft cheek.
Sweet lips! were of the vision.
I did not hear the preacher speak;
My thoughts were dreams elyslan.
But though I know not what was said.
Yet do not harshly chide me.
For I remember well Instead
That Mollle sat beside me.
"With pleasure I would calmly sit
Through puritanic service;
If the parson bad had a fit
'Twould not have made me nervous
Tea, though all had distinctly heard
Him pointedly deride me.
!I'd not have conned a single word
If Mollle' d sat beside me. ,
Let others tell of times they've felt
Some ravishing elation.
When sights and sounds have made them melt
In sneet intoxication.
1 1 do not care If the whole throng
f Of such Joys Is denied me,
i I am happy and content so long
I As Mollle sits beside me.
I Lcvo will not alway, dumbly meet.
The silence keep unbroken;
Some time he will, with boldness, speak
The word that's yet unspoken.
When I am sure that I may say
My sweet has not denied me.
Life then will be a rosestrewn way,
"With Mollle there beside me.
M. Lester Busey.
She Didn't Love Him.
"Is that clock right?" he asked after
it had struck 11.
"Why? she answered.
"Because if it Is. I shall have plenty of
time to catch the 11:30 car."
! "I remember now," she said; "'that the
i clock is about 20 minutes slow. If you
I hurry you will just about catch the car."
During the 20 minutes that he stood on
the corner he arrived at the painful con
clusion that she didn't really love him as
he lenged to be loved. CbJcagr- Tunes-Herald.
LANIHAN PHILOSOPHIZES
ORACLE OF SECOND "WARD AIRS
HIS VIEWS OF PROVERBS.
Declares That Women. Are at Bot
tom of Nearly All the Troubles
of the Sterner Sex.
"As-a giniral thing." said Colonel Tim
othy Lanlhan, the philosopher of the Sec
ond" Ward, as he deftly extracted a steam
ing' Wienerwurst from, behind the bar, "as
a giniral thing, I don't place much con
fidence in th" prophltlc sayin's an.' phrov-er-rbs
av th ould Rhomans an Grayks;
but it sthruck me mind wld gr-reat foorc
th' other day that slvlral av those Iden
tical sayin's have been confir-rmed an
dlmonsthrated In a holghly satisfactory;
manner dhurin th past slvlral months.
"Take, for Insthance, that mlmorabla
ould phrover-rb which was written by
Jupither Ploovlus, on th' occashun whin
Clayopathra, th' beautiful Quano av th,"
Oitolyans, murthered her husband, Mar-rk
Anthonny (not Mar-rk Hanna), on eloped
wld a mlmber av the royal p'leece foorce.
Th prover-rb, as near as Oi can rimlmber,
goes somethm' lolke this: "A femayle la
at th" bottom av iviry war-r, an" th direct
cause av th desthructlon av impires an'.
In giniral, th' lnsthlgathor av iviry quar
rel, an' th' ruination of mln.
"Now, as Ol was rhuminatln" on th
nthlrrln events av th' last dicade, Ol
sez to meself, 'Lanlhan, ye can dlscer-ra
th pint av an orgymint where other mln
would overlook it. Do yez obser-rve any
thing ethrange In th coorse pursued ba
yer esthaymed counthryman, Garga
Dewey?"
Fits the Proverb.
"In th" twlnklln av an oye an onswer
liv" wave av intlllegince sthruck me mim
ory, an" OI exchlalmed, 'Lanlhan, 'tis
th' direct confirmation av th' ould axl
mum av that noble Rhoman Implror an'
philosopher, Jupither Ploovlus, about fe
maylcs.' "Some a-v yees byes who have not yet
seen th' tinder age av forthy-slvln , loika
meeilf, molght be lncrldulous an" bo ln
clolned to look at th' matter in a sintl
mental an' rhomatlc lolght, but Oi take
It as undhlsputed argymints an facts.
"Ivlr since Garge Dewey got unlthed In
th' howly bonds av mathrlmony wld that
widow, his coorse has shown th" under
mlnln' hand av a femayle. Oh! Garge,
ye'v sadly dlsappinted yer Allow coun
thrymin, who lxplcted so mooch from
yez. Ye were our own Garge, an it
is tlrrible In th extrome to see yez, th
hero av Manila, th conqueror av th
phroud dagos av Spain, bowln' down in
submlshun to a femayle.
"Why, Garge. we thought so mooch -av
yez that, wldout doubt, ye'd have bin our
nlxt Pristdint. Tammany would hava
given yez th unlimited support thot only
th famous old tiger can give to a thrua
son av this gr-rand republic. Dick Croker
would have made a good runnln' mata
fer yez, anf toglther ye'd have made a
Prisldlntlal team noted fer Its foightln
proplnsities thot would have uphild th
Amlrican flag forever aglnst all furrin,
Inimles.
Leave Her Behind, George.
"But now ye'v failed us, Garge, an"
even yer own brother In la-aw would not
support yer candy-dacy, at a-oll. Th
only coorse that Is open fer yez now is to
pack yer war-rdroba an Jump a wist
bound frayt train, but, be th howly rock
of Killmarnock! lave th' femayle afther
yez. If yez don't ditch her, she molght
be tlmpted to put yez into a tln-clnt mu
sayum, togitner wia snnajse-eaieis uu
fat loldies an' other fr-reaKs. is.eep oa
th' frayt train till yez arrolve at Albolna.
When yez git there dhrop yer own nong-de-ploom
an' take up an assumed nama
to avoid being ricognized.
"This, George, is th sincere an stld
fast advice of wan av yer former con
sthhuints, who still has a war-rm place
In his hear-rt for yez. For yez are only
wan of mlny I lay all th" blame on th
femayle.
"Another case which came to me atten
tion, rolght here In th' City av Por-rt-land,
and which confir-rms me theory in
iviry way. About wan week afther hla
anner. Judge Hlnnlssy, had returned from
his honeymoon thrlp to South Portland,
Ol was settin' In th audytorium av th
p'leece corrt, while his anner presided an
th' blnch. There was a big batch of
dhrunks an" hypo fle-ends insolde th"
rallln", waltln for their thrial. Before
th' coort commlnced its slssion. Hlnnlssy
was sittln' upon his throne, wld a smoile
av serene Intinslty on his countinince,
tryln' har-rd to forglt that there was ivlt
such an article as a fohrty-dollar chair.
"As alch dhrunk came up to th rallln"
Hlnnlssy read him a chapther out av th
Koran an" th" evils av intlmplrance, on
then lit him go. He pursooed tha soma
coorse wid th hop fie-ends.
Not Due to Election.
"Now, yez byes will thry to attributa
this unusual proceedin av Judge Hlnnls
sy to th fact that illctlon day is chlosa
at hand, but there's no use thrying to say
that, fer OI know betther. It takes more
than a thrtfle lolke an illctlon to upsit a
mon av th' InfJJligmt tlmplramint an
character av Judge Hlnnlssy. Why, be
foor his anner got united In th' bonds av
av mathrlmony, he'd have given thosa
dhrunks an hop fle-ends tin days alch.
So don't, under iny clrcumsthances, thry
to till me that it is due to th' influlnce av
th' comln' Illctlon.
"I could go on fer a long tolme relathin
incldlnts av th' same koind lolke those av
Dewey an' Hinnlssy. but It Is too tirribla
a wurruk fer an unmarried mon loika
mesllf. ,On th' other solde av th quis
tion, to show what can be achlv-Id be a
mon that is not resthrained ond tied down
to th ahpron-sthrlngs av a femayle, taka
that Impiror av all mln, Mar-rk Hanna.
Thot mon has too much slnse to be bam
pered be a femayle. An' look at him
t'day, as he Is in all his power-r ond
majlscty. Too much, me fr-riends, can
not be sld in pr-ralse av a mon thot can
git to be Pr-rlsidlnt wldout goin thr-rouga
th formahllty av an Illctlon.
"Mo fr-rinds, yez can see fer yersilves
from these dlsthressin' ixamples what th"
mlddlin' av a femayle can accomplish.
Antonio had his Clayopathra, Hlnnery'
th Algth, his Quane Elizabeth, Brigham
H. Rhoberts his thrio av Marmon beau
thles, but as fer me own par-rt, OI would
rather lxclalm wld th" Immorthal Pat
Hlnnery, 'Give me Hberthy or give ma
deth."
"YIs, OI think OI can sthand wan more."
Thoughtful Horse.
Seldom does one read a mote pathetic
story than that told by "Our Dumb Ani
mals" about Deacon Pliny Hall and his
horse. One Friday evening, having un
harnessed his horse, made its bed and
pulled Its hay, Mr. Hall led the animal In
to the stall and attempted to tie the halter,
but his trembling hands failed and he fell
with a stroke of apoplexy. Then ensued
a. touching scene, of which he himself
told his daughter an hour later. The horse
sniffed and nosed and gently touched hint
with Its hoof, as If to awaken and rouse
him up. Mr. Hall, helpless In limb, cried:
"John, be a good horse; don't hurt me;
go out."
Thereupon the horse, though hungry for
his fodder, backed out of the stall and out
of any danger of striking his master, and
paced the floor, making a noise to attract
attention. It was, perhaps, over half an
hour before Mr. Hall was missed, and the
horse, hungry and cold, kept out of the
stall until Mr. Hall's daughter, missing
j her father, came to his tfillel, x t
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