Show TROUBLE OVER MERRY WIDOW The Hat So Named of Course Is Meant and the Tale Is a Dismal Dis-mal One Indeed Theres a weeping bride In Borough Park and an angry bridegroom too and a frenzied hatter which does not matter as much as the brides boohoo boo-hoo writes tho poet reporter of tho Now York Tribune When subway trains and rushing crowds of men from every nation had jammed the stairs and platforms of tho Twentythird street station the ticket seller Charlie Holt whoso temper tem-per seemed erratic hold up n ticket buyer with a question most emphatic Tho buyer Israel Cohen a mllllnerb errand boy with a hat as big as overseen over-seen had caused the clerks annoy Tho hat was Just a linear yard across from brim to brim whllo half that distance dis-tance up and down mado other hats i look slim For the hat n bride was waiting and tho hour was getting late but tho subway Hott Insisted was not built to carry freight So Hott emerged from out his box and mado n pass at Cohon whllo Israel Is-rael seemed Inclined to think buns time that he was goln But ere tho luckless messenger was ahlo to es capo tho Merry Widow outfit hai l assumed n woeful shape No longer high and lofty but mashed so badly that It looked moro like a pancako than a Merry Widow hat Dut whllo the fight was at Its height a copper came around arrested Hot heaven help his lot before hoi fought one round To tho nearest station of police In Twentieth street they toll ho took poor Hott charged with assault and locked him In a cell |