Show i I 1 A WAITER WHO LOST CONEY MONEY ff be int intruded d UP upon ad d got get a tip from their conversation they were evidently uncle and niece and the latter was from the country her gown was trimmed with many ribbons and it bore the unmistakable stamp of the rural dressmaker notwithstanding that fact she was good to look upon and her inte interest in everything around her was vigorous and broad they lound found a table in a restaurant in the tenderloin not far from the intersection of broadway and sixth avenue at the dinner hour yes yea I 1 I 1 said the uncle I 1 1 I have been here long enough to become a pretty thorough new yorker and then he ordered a modest dinner this is one of the bang up restaurants and j always find first rate people here my boarding house is bang up but this I 1 beats it all hollow the niece straightened out a ribbon and then looked around in an embarrassed way she was struggling with a question As if the suggestion were altogether improbable she asked did you yon ever see jay gould sure I 1 have be answered lots and lots of times I 1 I 1 did you ever aver see mr vanderbilt cornele said the uncle inquiringly yes indeed when I 1 boarded up town I 1 used to see cornele newly nearly every I 1 I 1 day what did he look like asked the niece beginning to feel the importance of dining with a new york uncle who had seen millionaires why cornele vanderbilt is one man in a thousand said the uncle puffing up with pride he is a tall tah fine looking man man with a heavy black beard you would know him in in any crowd for a man of importance he wears his hia hair long and 11 pardon maheur ma leur interrupted the waiter who had begun to serve the soup soap and who had stopped in surprise as the city uncle began to describe cornelius vanderbilt pardon but I 1 haf had ze honor bonor to serf come bome lins hus vanderbilt and you make zees mistake he is not beeg and he ha has 9 x not lot zo ze black whiskers full fall beard sa he is one just bring me a large spoon waiter interrupted the uncle As the wait er got out of earshot he said you see I 1 seen cornelius Om melius vanderbilt since I 1 moved down town hes changed a good deal since then and I 1 have heard beard that hat his whiskers had been trimmed 1 I the waiter have another opportunity port unity to 40 intrude in the conversation and he received no tip new york sun |