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The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 By: Various |
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Alfred Henry Lewis
Editor Vol. I
NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1902
Part 2 [Illustration] "Sir Oliver, we live in a dammed wicked world, and the fewer
we praise the better." Sir Peter Teazle. FIVE CENTS
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CONTENTS
THE CASUAL CLUB Tammany and Its Missing Funds Mr.
Nixon and his Failure Mr. Carroll's
Troubles with Mr. Croker The Latter
Gone for Good POETRY AS YOU LIKE IT Fielders Who Loves a Lord? Killing for
Futurity Mistake in Vocation Foreign
Devils Again Heaven or Hell Adam
a Myth Hurrah for Noah Callow
Judgment Champagne and "Champagne" THE PLAY Jaques LADY BETTY'S COMMENT Betty Stair DRIFT OF THE DAY Skirving THAT SMUGGLED SILK By the Old Lobbyist
Copyrighted by The Observer Publishing Co., 1902 The Observer Publishing Company
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=The Onlooker= Vol. I MAY 28, 1902 Part 2
=The Casual Club=
On last Thursday evening the Casual Club was gathered about a corner
table in Sherry's. The great room was beautiful, the music brilliant,
the setting and table appointments magnificent, and the dinner all
that might be asked. There came but one thing to grieve the tempers of
our members the service was slip shod, inattentive, vile. One wonders
that so splendid an arrangement should be left unguarded in the most
important particular of service; that Sherry, when he has done so
much, should permit himself to be foiled of a last result by an idle
carelessness of waiters, who if they do not forget one's orders
outright, execute them with all imaginable sloth. They attend on
guests as though the latter were pensioners, and are listless in
everything save a collection of the gratuity, personal to themselves,
which their avarice and a public's weakness have educated them to
expect. Clams had occurred, and while we were discussing these small
sea monsters, Fatfloat broke suddenly forth. "I don't know if it be a
subject for self gratulation or no, but I observed that the daily
papers took quick note of my statement that Tammany Hall was looted of
its last shilling. For the guidance of these energetic folk of ink and
types, I will unfold a further huddle of details. Instead of nine
hundred thousand dollars, there were more than one million collected
for the Tammany campaign. No one can show where so much as two hundred
thousand dollars were honestly disbursed. Let me tell a story; it may
suggest an idea to our diligent friends of the Dailies. There is a
rotund, porpoise shaped globular gentleman known of these parts as
'Bim the Button Man.' This personage went into the printing business
at the beginning of the late campaign and went out of it like blowing
out a candle at the close. Bim the Button Man, for his brief parade
as a printer, took a partner. Or perhaps the partner took Mr. Bim. The
partner was and is a doughty 'leader.' It was the new made firm of
'Bim' that flourished in the production of those posters and
lithographs of Mr. Shepard which for so long disfigured the town. Mr.
Mitchell, printer, complained bitterly over this invasion of his
rights by Mr. Bim. The latter snapped pudgy fingers at the querulous
Mr. Mitchell by virtue of his powerful partner. Who was Mr. Bim's
partner? One year before when Mr. Mitchell's bill was seven thousand
dollars, Mr. Croker, being in a frugal mood, felt excessively pained.
Why then should it mount last autumn to three hundred thousand dollars
and excite neither grief nor reproach? And what was got for those
three hundred thousand dollars? When a show leaves New York, it
carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in
the land; and yet no show ever paid more than ten thousand dollars for
paper. Five thousand dollars will cover every possible coign of
bill sticking advantage and hang, besides, a lithograph of Mr... Continue reading book >>
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