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Show ALONG T1IEMLKY WAY How Gotham's Vast Supply of Milk is Distributed An Interesting Early Morning Ride. SOME VERY PATHETIO INCIDENTS The Retail Trade on the East Side of Town Small Quantities Taken by the Humbler Inhabitants. "Nenrly'4,000 cans," said tho superintendent superin-tendent of a railroad in reply to a question ques-tion as to how much milk had come to Weehawkrn that morning. Standing on the enow covered tracks were several trains, each containing hundreds of cairn of milk. We trudged through the suow, customer, whereas to the hotels ant restaurants he sold for five cents. During the drive we met many milk teams, some of them purely wholesale, while others were bent on the same retail re-tail doling out as we were. Not a pedestrian pedes-trian was visible until about 0 o'clock. At many places my guide stopped his horses, swung a can to the sidewalk and yelling "Milk!" climbed back to his seat, told his team to "git up," flourished his whip and we moved on. Cut as the sun roso and lit the squalid neighborhood neighbor-hood in which we then were, wo were destined to nieet with a few pathetic incidents. in-cidents. At one house a young girl I stood on a doorstep waiting anxiously. ! ller father was sick, and sho cried, "Oh, ! pleaso give mo two quarts at once!" : I!ut sho had only ten cents, and I felt it-' it-' rlined to quarrel with my companion j when ho replied, "Naw! Ye'll only get a dip" (one quart). I was nearly frozen at i the time, but the vision of this young ! girl framed in snow, with a few naked trees draped in white on the pathway, path-way, was so picturesque that I forgot my feeling of cold and insisted on her getting her milk. Farther on in the same street a lit tie child stopped us and asked, "Please, sir, i will yon give mo a pint of new milk for mamma?" The driver was surly, and growled, "Have you tho money!'" Then tho little one liegan to cry, and said between be-tween sobs: "Mamma- is sick, sir, and we have only three cents in the house. Please give it to mo." I was about to provide the needful for the poor mi to when suddenly the heartstrings of the milkman uuloosed, and the great, rough fellow, jumping from his seat, said, "Blast me! I can't stand that." And then ho filled a two qnart can and gave it to the girl, roughly but good naturally natural-ly refusing her tender of the three cents. When we drove away he remarked, "Business is business, but flush uud wwi'inmi rgr?M!v'-i'Hiw-vr- A LITTLE CHILD STOPPBB VS. alond can't allow such a thing as thai" tad so we proceeded to the end of the oute. Rob. F. Walsh. CANS AVP CANS OF MILK. ! ankle deep, to a platform, and entered a I wagon. This contained the product of Delaware county, and the miik was exceptionally ex-ceptionally rich and creamy. Lantern in hand we went from car to j tar, and when we reached the last ar- rival my friend informed me that the ) freight on milk was $1,013.13 at this one depot for that single night. Just then 2 a. in. the teamsters liegan to arrive from New York. It was a novel picture to watch the wagons as they were backed to the car side. When their cans were "canted" into the vehicles, with a cheery "good night" the drivers mounted their seats and hied to tho ferry. There, while waiting for a boat, many of them went into the restaurant, and it was jnjsitively amusing to watch the muffled purveyors demolish coffee and pie. The entire proceeding had a quaint, ghostlike appearance the puffing engines, en-gines, the snow covered cars, and the porters gliding about with colored lanterns. As the ferryboat hugged her pier, and the teams, with their clangingf milk cans, drove on board, the place grew dull and lonely, and I waited for further developments. Crossing tho tracks I boarded a car which contained several cans from Ho-bart. Ho-bart. WThile there a milkman drove up. After an introduction from the superintendent super-intendent ho consented to allow mo to Hccompany him on his "route." From the twwnty cans ho had on his wagon I selected one, and asked if he would kindly use it for his retail trade. He was amused at my request and asked, "What the , deuce do you want me to do that for?" I ' explained that I wished to see the pSur-1 pSur-1 ings out of this particular can and to note the purchasers. So I mounted the seat with him and we sed to the ferry. There I joined my friend in a cup of coffee, and when the boat started on its voyage to Forty-second Forty-second street in New York we had with us seventeen teams carrying 470 cans or milk. The drivers adjourned to the cabin, where they smoked their pipes and talked of their delays and worries. I went outside and looked at the great city opposite. It was a lovely sight The stars were shining brightly, the sky was of that gray blue color which always al-ways precedes tho dawn, and the phosphorescent phos-phorescent stream of light in our wake looked positively fairylike in this early Booth Carolina's New Senator. Senator Wade Hampton, who, with his oirteous and handsome colleague, Senator Sen-ator Butler, lias for nearly fourteen years presented the state of South Carolina iu the upper house of the national legislature legis-lature at Washington, is to be succeeded by a young man, now in his thirty-sixth, year. The successor of Senator Hampton is Hon. John Laurens Manning Irby, the j present speaker of the South Carolina Caro-lina house of representatives. rep-resentatives. He is a son of the late Col. James IL Irby, of Laurens, S. C, who was one of tho most prominent m e n in the Democratic party in his day. The senator elect attended Princeton Prince-ton eollei?". but did not graduate senator-elect toby. from that institution. He afterward became be-came a student of tho University of Vir- inorning. In tho distance over the town a dull red glow blurred the beauty ot the scene; it was from the city lights. But we plowed on unmindful of the picture pic-ture until we reached the pier. Tho first place visited was the Asto? house, and on our way down town I learned a good deal concerning tho milk trade of New York. From the different railroads there are delivered every morning morn-ing lietweeu 25,000 and 30,000 cans, each containing forty quarts, so that the quantity brought iu is nearly equiva- j ginia, where he completed his college education. Returning to South Carolina he began the study of law under Associate Justice Jus-tice Mclvor, of tho South Carolina su-I su-I preme court. After a thorough course of three years he was given his license, ! and for two years practiced his profes-j profes-j sion. Then he decided to become a I farmer. Ha returned to the old plan-j plan-j tation of his father, where he had ; grown to man's estate, and there put his i plans into execution. With a taste for political leadership he participated in tho memorable Hampton campaign of 1876, when the state government was wrested from the Republicans. Four years ago he actively espoused the movement started by the Farmers' Alliance Alli-ance under the leadership of the present governor. Mr. Irby at once became Mr. Tillman's most efficient lieutenant. J In the frequent conventions of the party and on the floor of the lower house of the legislature he was an acknowledged leader. Ho is a fluent speaker, with a clear, strong voice, and as a United Suites senator from South Carolina is I expected to n.ako his mark. is the restaurant. lent to a pint and a half for every mam, woman and child in the city. The price is regulated by the Association of iiili Dealers. , At the Astor house I discovered the t uses to which they put the five cans of milk which they daily purchase. A good deal is employed in making oyster stews and for cooking purposes, but as much more is used in tho manufacture of milk punches at tho bar. Three punches can be made from one pint of milk, or 240 from a can. Fn;m the Astor house we journeyed to the east side, and there it was that my special can began to bo drawn from. We stopped at a large tenement house, tho milkman swung himself from the seat and rushed up the steps. I heard several feminine cries of "One pint!" and the dealer hurried back and doled out the required quantities. At some gio- ' eery stores nd restaurants he delivered whole cans, and to others tne.osured out ; a few gallons, but my can was not for such large customers. I was surprised to see how many families received their j supply from that one can. When the I route was finished nearly a gallon re- mained of the forty quarts, yet fifty-' fifty-' seven people nad been served from it. I For these small quantities he received j seven and eight cents per quart, accord-. I to the' locality and wealth, of the |