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CONEY ISLAND BALL
GAY TIMES AT THE DANCES OF SUB
STANTIAL CITIZENS.
An Annual Blow Out and What It Mean:
Conveniences for Resusitating Fainting
Ladies, and Subduing 'too Frisky Gent:
In the Tank Adjacent the Ball Room.
There is but‘one Coney Island, al-
though Boston, ‘Chicago, Cincinnat'.
and St. Louis each have imitations
When John Y. McKane who is now in
jail, was the great boss of the original
Coney Island he referred to the mer
doing business on Coney’s Bowery as
theuncivilized Indians. Some of the
men so described overheard the re
mark, and one of them grew angry
Then McKane’s friends said the chic:
only meant the remark as a joke. The
‘ Bowery crowd took it good-naturedly
after that, and' the men who own thI
concert halls joined with their waiters
and cooks, and the frankfurter men,
and the fellows who own the merry-
go-rounds, and the hurdy-gurdy fel-
lows—they all joined in forming an as-
sociation which they named the Bow-
ery Indians, or Coney Island Board oi
Trade. ,
THE BAND PLAYED ELSIE FROM CHELSEA
The Board of Trade gave a ball the
other night—Tuesday night—and there
was never anything like it before,
There may be another like it in the
hereafter, but the oldest resident 0:5
the city by the sea never saw its equal.
The society reporter of the New Yorlj
Sun 'attended in his official capacity.
and following is his report: The danc-
ing began at 9 o’clock. The fun he.
gan at midnight. The fainting began
at 2 o’clock, and the fighting began
at 3.
The crowd got to the hall before the
band. They were in all sorts of cos-
tumes. The musicians wore black and
white trousers and sweaters. Some
one said: they looked like prize fighters
and knew enough a-‘bout Indian eti-
quette to leave their collars and neck-
ties at home.
A colored man who was known it
the crowd as Nigger Simpson reached
the ball at 10 o’clock. He was at-
tired in full Indian regalia, with his
face painted red, and he had a crown
of feathers on his head. He came
armed with a little hatchet, which he
called his tomahawk. Two members
of the Disturbance Committee met him:
at the door and in disarming him one
of them said: “De first man whaI
raises trouble’ll be dumped into de wa-'
ter tank in de rear of de hall, an
dat’s no dream, elder.”
“I’se come for fun tor—night,” saiI’
Simpson. “’Deed, I don’t want any
trouble in mine, ’deed I don’t.”
~ “Well, den, give up yer coin an’ gc
in,” said the Chairman of the Disturb-
ance Committee. Simpson produced
a fifty—cent piece, which was the neces-
sary “open sesame” to all comers-
black, white, or otherwise.”
A TIRED INDIAN.
With the “otherwise" contingen
came La Belle Helene, the yOung wo-
man who
Streets of Cario. She was accom
panied by Jim the Turk. After thi'
couple passed the ticket-takers Mr
Batt Murphy and Miss Maizy Tay101
appeared. Batt was in evening dress
Miss Taylor, who is one of the act.
- resses in the Trocadero Concert Hall.
was attired in her Sunday afternoor'
secred concert costume of pink mous-
seline de so-ie, adorned with pink sill
ribbons and a sky-blue lace, collar
This couple were to lead the march
and they knew it. They Walked the
length of the hall twice before finding
seats at a table. Mr. Murphy called 1‘
waiter and shouted:,
“Hey, Windy, bring us a quart.”
Then the waiter, who had thus beer
addressed, said to another waiter
“Dere must be plenty of dough in de
cane ringin’ business,” which, trans-
lated, meant that Mr. Murphy's traCI
was a prosperous one.
The f1ankfu1ter man £10m the beach
arrived at the ball at 10 ,o ’clock. . l—lI
was accompanied by Mrs. Marcy, tin-
popcorn lady. She was attired in 2
new blue gingham frock and a new
striped apron, with a gray bonnet wit:
IJig red roses and black feathers.
dances Orientally in the.
-.
Shdot-the-Chute Graham .and the
carousal man’s daughter were among
the early ones to arrive. Then came
Big George. the tuba player at Gard-
ner’s, and his wife, who Weighs 300
pounds. They were followed into the
ballroom by a bunch of blondes,
squaws from Koster’s’ Concert Hall.
and a tribe of beer-slinging Indians
from a Surf avenue saloon. The band
was playing “Elsie from Chelsea”
when this contingent arrived, and the
Surf avenue folks joined in the waltz.
This was at 11 o’clock. The crowd
who danced sang while they were danc-
irig, for this seems to be the proper
thing to do at. Coney Island social
gatherings.
After the waltz there was a great
deal of scrambling to get seats at the
table where the fire water was served
to the Indians. During the scramble
one good-looking young woman known
‘ as Blanche got caught in the rush and
fainted. Several men and three wo-
men carried her to the reviving an-
n'ex at the rear of the ballroom.
Not being able to revive the girl by
rubbing her hands and slapping her
face, one woman in the chowd said:
“She’s my pal; I know what’s best
for her. She’s got a whiskey fit, an’
the only way to bring her around is to
get her in the water tank. She’ll come
’round if she gets a bath, ’cause same—-
hie—thing happeneded to her Sat’d’y
night. Didn’,t Maggie?”
“Yes” answered the girl addressed
as Maggie; “she’s subjected to them
when she takes too much. Let’s get
her in the water. Will some of you
gents help ter carry her into the bath-_
house?”
Just about this time a man employed
at the race track got into a row with
a negro, and the two punched each
other. They were put out of the ball-
room. Then a negro woman scratched
the face of a white woman, and a man
with the white woman punched the
negro woman. He was promptly
punched by another negro woman.
The young woman who had been hit
tried to get back at the other, but was
prevented by the members of the Dis:
turbance Committee, who crowded in,
and thus pushed them away from each
other.
Then came the grand march, in which
all Coney Island seemed to revel. They
marched eight abreast, after marching
in couples once around the hall. When
they couldn’t dance, sing, or shout any
more, their friends called for them and
took them home, for it was another
day, and the city crowd was beginning
to gather at the seaside. The Indians,
had had their day—and an awful night, "
too.
CONNUBIAL BLISS IN THE WEST-
"How are you, Mrs. Smith? You and
your husband are well and happy. I
suppose?”
”Oh, exceedingly happy.
be divorc d, you know.”
We are to
BUSINESS MEN IN OFFICE.
'l'liey Fear the Critisms of Newspapers
and Decline.
A staff correspondent of the New
York Mail and Express recently inter-
viewed Mayor Strong, and the‘follow-
ing dialogue Occurred:
“Then you don't agree with Mr.
Croker’s famous remark some year.:
ago that business men have no place
in public life?”
“Not at all.” replied Mayor Strong.
“I do not believe it necessary to have
been a politician in order to make a
good city ofiicer. A competent busi-
ness man will manage any city de-
partment betterthan a politician. The
difficulty is to get business men to ac-
cep t."
“They all say they cant spare the
time.
“Well, that Isn’t always the reason,”
replied Mayor Strong. “I tried to in-
duce a number of them to join with
me just after I took office in giving
New York City a bang-up business ad-
ministration. I offered J. Harsen
Rhoades and Charles Stewart Smith
the place of Commissioner of Public
Works, and I also asked several others
of equal prominence to become the
heads of departments. -All of them
declined, and the chief reason they
gave me was that they would get so
much abuse from the press. The
newspapers would at once begin to
pick at them and their families and
make their lives generally uncomfor-
table. I believe that has ‘much to do
with the disinclin'ation of many-men
to have anything to do with public afv .
fairs. People of independent mean:
or of assured position in private life
do not care to have themselves or their
families made the subject of newspa-
per discussion, and so they refuse to
take public office. The people thereby
lose the benefit of their training and
executive ability; While the newspa-
pers are responsible for this, they ex-
e1c1e a great influence for good by
being so alert in discoyeiing and ex
posing, irregularities
can be'found. More than one city of-
ficial has been kept straight through
fear of newspaper exposure. I have
heard several public officers say they
vi; ould do this or that if they were sure
it w or ldn’ t get in the papers, and the
d. DWI of publication has a wholesome
eifo :1.”
wherever they“
THE Ev E 1v 1 11 G‘ G’Af'zn ‘TT'E
.. .- .—-—g———.—-’. a,
110 ABOVE ZERO?"
EMPLOYES 0F SUGAR REFINERI‘ES
WORK IN' THAT TEMPERATURE.
Dante’s Inferno. Almost Equalled by
Scenes In the Plants or the Sugar Mag-
nates—Many Men Fall'fl'om Exhaustion
During the Heated Term.
Of all the hot places it is the privi-
lege of man to enter sugar refineries
are undoubtedly the hottest. In the
tall structures along the river front 11
Brooklyn can be seen daily hundredi
of men to’whom a temperature such
as has driven most New Yorkers tc
despair would ,be a godsend. Fron:
morning till night these men labor i1!
rooms the temperature of which seldom
falls below 140.
In all the tales of suffering from the
heat that come from the large cities
of the country none are more dietres-
sing than those from the sugar refiner.
ies. It may be an element in the busi-
ness that men should literally be roast-
ed to death in order to carry' it for
ward. The capitalists who conduct re-
fineries insist that such is the' case.
They declare that their plants canno!
be shut down during the excessivels
hot months 'of the summer, and they
add that they keep the buildings as cool
as possible for the men.
This is one instance, however, in
which it seems incredible that human
beings can long survive the burden:
imp0sed upon them. The men engaged
in this industry get through the wintei
months with considerable difficulty
owing to the heat, and when the sum-
mer. sun returns they find themselves
working in veritable furnaces, each in
a modern Dante’s inferno. They throw
the windows wide open, and resort tc
mechanical devices to keep cool, bul
the efiort is vain. Few men can hold
their own against a temperature of 140,
even when no exertion is required by
them. Much less can hundreds of men
engaged in the laborious work of a
sugar refinery go about their duties
and long survive the intense heat.
The department of the Brooklyn re-
fineries in which the sugar is Crystalt
lized would be regarded by most per-
sons as extremely hot, yet it. is very
comfortable when compared with the
temperature in other departments
Here the sugar is poured into a semi-
liquid state into metal cones, which acI
as filters or coolers. The heat is very
oppressive, and many employes dror
down while at work despite the fact
that their dress consists only of lighl
overalls and heavy shoes. The cone:
into which the sugar is poured stand 01;
their narrow ends in racks all about
the floor, and the workmen stand ove1
them in the heat radiating'from the
hot sugar. Even in the coldest weath-
er of the year and with the windows
all 'z-open the men here cannot wear
thin undershirts with comfort. Stream:
of perspiration run down their back:
as they bend over their work. To add
to their discomfort the air in the room:
is moist and steamy.
But wearing as it is the work on the
loWer floors, it is in the upper stories
of the refineries that the extreme meas-
ure of suffering is to be found. Therg
the temperature stays regularly in the
vicinity of 140 degrees above zero. II
is on these floors that workmen fall ex-
hausted day after day. Some revive
on being taken to a window, while oth-
ers are able only to get to their homes
But the collapse of one or two or a
half dozen men in the afternoon no lon-
ger is regarded as a matter worth men‘
tioning. It has come to be considered
as merely incidental to the business.
The majority of the employes in
these departments of the big refineries
are Poles and Hungarians. They de-
cide to become sugar refiners as soor.
asthey land in this country, and the)
try to adapt themselves to the condi-
tions they find in the factories. Tnosi
who seem able to stand the work are
sent to the top floor, where are greal
vats, with dark, slippery passageways
between them. In these vats the sugaI
is boiled. The men stand over the vats
stirring the sugar with long sticks. On
all sides are big tanks, and each 01
these radiates an intense heat.
When to the closeness of. the room
and the heat from the vats is added
the other discomforts of the work, ll
becomes little wonder that the met
drop in their tracks from day to day
They look pale and careworn, all cl
them; their feet stick to the sugal
covered planks as =they walk between
the vats, and they constantly are cov-
ered with perspiration. I am told tha1
as many ‘as eight unfortunates have
succumbed to the‘heat in a single alley
in one afternoon, and that four mer
fell where they stood in the next alley
One floor of the refineries is of iron
and it is covered by the 104 heads 02
the great charcoal filters below. Th1
feet of the workmen have to becomt
accustcmed to the heat of this flow
before the men can endure it. Th2
bases of these filters are two floors be-
low, Where they are placed so close’ to
gether that the firemen and, stoker:
barely have room to bring coal for th:
furnaces. Here air is almost unknown
and clothing is a burden. The men go
from furnace to furnace with thei)
loads of coal, perspiration dripping
from every pore of " their half nakec’
bodies. Their only opportunity to ge.
air is when they are waiting for a new
load of coal outside.
’ And for all of the toiling and suffer
ing in this intense heat the men are
paid from 31.44 to $1.95 for a day’:
work of from twelve to fifteen hours.—
New York Herald.
\
His View of-It.
“Why don’t you work?
go around begging?”
“Well, mum, if you think beggin
isn ’t work just try it. ”-—Judge.
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PASTEUR'S HOM E LIFE.
When Working Out His Discoveries woult
Sit Immovable for Hours.
Pasteur’s home life was one of ab-
solute repose, and his surroundings
were associated with and entirely sub-~
ject to his scientific work. Oftentimes
when possessed by some absorbing idea
or seeking a solution of some diflicull
problem, Pasteur would remain Silent
and'immovable for hours, deep in pro- .
found meditation. But when once he
had succeeded in mastering an obsta.
cle, in planning a new campaign, as it
were of experimental manoeuvres, then
his whole face would become radiant
and he would eagerly communicate his
ideas to those around, describing what
he had devised and what he hoped t1
achieve. *- l ,
The sympathy he sought was neve1
absent, and we obtain some idea 02
how important a part it played in his-
life when he read how, when he had at
last succeeded in completing the bril-
liant discovery of a vaccine against an.
thrax, he straightaway hurried from
the laboratory to announce his great
triumph to his wife and child, full of
emotion which he could not restrain
The repose which Pasteur found so es-
sential for the‘conduct of his work was
so strictly guarded in the laboratory
as in the home; the presence of a
stranger while he was immersed in his
experiments both disturbed and
troubled him, and he could only toler-
ate his assistants in the room while
he was working. Dr. Roux relates
how one day when they were visiting ,
the eminent professor of chemistry,
Wurtz, at the Ecole de Medicine, the
latter was discovered in the middle 01
his laboratory, surrounded by a perfect
beehive of students, the bustle and
noise of which so struck Pasteur that
he exclaimed: “How can you possibly
contrive to do any work in the midst
of a commotion like this?” “It stimu-
lates my ideas,” replied Wurtz. “It
would effectually, banish all mine,” was
Pasteur’s answer.——Good Words.
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... THE TINIEST 06’s.”
It is tlie Property of 8. Vancouver, B. C.
Fancier.
The tiniest dog in the world is in‘
Vancouver, B. C., the property'of R.
A. Mustall. Mr. Mustall claims that
Sir Archibald Maclean’s canine Midget,
is not the smallest dog in the world, as
reported. The Maclean dog is half an
inch larger all around and weighs from
appearances many ounces more.
The famous Vancouver prodigy lived,
for nine months, his eventful career
being cut down by poison. During his
lifetime he killed several mice, and was
strong and well formed. His mother
came from a celebrated English ken-
nel, and was a famous prize winner,
while his father was a. famous terrier
named Tony, from the kennel of John
Balfour.
The dog weighed fourteen ounces,
was thiee inches long, when the head
was held erect, and a lady’s slipper was
utilized for the little fellow’s kennel.
Mustall’s Tiny is undoubtedly the min-
imum in dogfiesh.—New York Tele-
gram.
His Morin: Power.
J1: dge. —“You say you are not :1
vagrant?”
Sunburned Samuel.——“No, your Hon.
.:1‘.”
J.—“Did any motive bring you t1
this city?”
S. S—“Yes, your Honor.”
J_—— “What?”
S. S.i—-“Locomotive.”
..,.I.—"Nineti' days!” a
CHURCH’S INSURANCE BUSINESS.
U. P. Church of the \Vest Goes Into the
Business to Benefit Its lilomhers. -
The United Presbyterian Church, a
religious organization having many
members in Illinois and the West, ha:
I decided to go into the insurance busi-
I ness. The United Presbyterian Mut-
l 11al Benefit Association has been char
:
I
I
tered aécording to the laws of Illinois"
and 600 members have already been
secured. The Assoaiation will insurt
members for $1,000 and $2,000, men ano
women both being eligible to member-
shop, providing they are members 01
the United Presbyterian Church ’11
good standing. None other will bt
accepted. The only. dues, except deatt
assessments, will be $5 initiation fee.
This step has been taken ‘by th(
church authorities because of the an-
tagonism of the body to secret societ-
ies. There are 110,000 members of th<
United Presbyterian Church in the
United States, and as the body is op-
posed to secret orders,'many of their.
are barred from joining various or-
ganization that are purely designed for
insurance and benefits. The new as-
sociation will enable church ,members
to secure the benefits of mutual insur-
ance without having to join a secret so-
ciety and thus .be compelled to take an
oath.
The opposition of the United Presby-
terians to secret societies is based on a
belief that but two bodies, state and
church, have authority to administer
an oath.——New York World.
A BUFFALO HERMIT.
Rats Were His Friends, and He Knew
Nearly 200 by Name.
Old Fred Bodamer, a hermit of the
south side of Buffalo was put out of his
shanty recently, where he has lived for
the last forty years. His property was
auctionerh off. It consisted of the tim-
bers of his main but and the exten-
sions he had built from time to time—.-
it was of no use except as firewood.
These timbers and a few half-starved
chickens, which were his pets. netted
him $50. ..-_..1
The auction was the signal for the
curious to penetrate the old man’s
home—he had been courteous but cold
to any would-be visitors for the last
forty years, and no one had ever
caught a glimpse of the inside of the
hut—so they came in droves to the auc-
tion. After the auction, when the cu-
rious had dispersed, the Old man bor-
rowed a bull dog and-turned him loose
in the hut-the dog killed 194 rats.
“They were my friends,” said the old
man; “four escaped. I know them all
by name. I could not bear to let the
boys get them when I was gone”.
Then he trudged off to the Soldiers’
Home, with tears in his eyes—New
York World.
Co-Operative Applause.
One night Sara Bernhardt was play-
ing “Fedora” to a crowded house. The
poison scene, as usual, elicited a tem-
pest of applause from the audience;
but ere the clapping of hands and the
stamping of feet had completely died
:way loud peals of laughter burst
Sorth from the upper part of the thea-
’er. The sober-minded people in the
b xes and stalls gazed reproachfully at
the boisterous “gods,” but .in a moment
they, too, began to laugh, for in the
front. row of the balcony, and in full
new of all stood two one-armed men,
who unconscious of the amusement
which they caused, were energetically
Io-operating to prolong the applause
by clapping their remaining hands to-
gether.——Chicago Tribune.,
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