Show I Pat McCarrens McCarren's Double I I I NEW YORK Oct 0 Strange Strange as it itma ma may seem to body anybody who has ever over gazed upon Patrick II IL McCarren that Brooklyn statesman baa a double This double James IT II Flanagan an lives at No Xo 72 Bowery DowEry I am a Republican at heart said he be but I vote voto tb Democratic ticket I have ha never seen but I have o seen sen Ch Charles rles F. F Murphy urphy and he doesn't like meI meI me V I was a night watchman at the tha old custom house in Wall street until the they found out I looked so eo much like Lon Long Pat J that they the could hardly t tell ll us apart As so soon n as they could tell tho the dl difference crenco thoy they discharged me I went to work as an attendant at tho the public publio baths and again m my resemblance to McCarren cost me m my job I wrote a a. anice anico I nice nico letter to Contro Controller er Metz fetz about it and arid ho wrote roto back hack sain saying he would civo ivo C tho the matter his best personal attention but hut I guess it ha has slipped his mind When Whon persons person in Herald square saw the tho tall tahI spare figure of Flanagan hailing tho the Thirty fourth street cars most roost ot of thorn them thought Senator had come to Manhattan Hooray for 11 somebody shouted and others joined in with that Flanagan was not dressed attention to detail which characterizes tho garb of the Brooklyn leader but those who cheered did not scam to think this was odd Patrick H H. H said ono one of them has baa his eccentricities Maybe Maybo they have ha-e begun begun be be- gun un to run toward simpler clothes An Anyway Anyway Any Any- Wa way three cheers for McCarren and may mav the Tiger never ne cross the tho bridge Fana Flanagan n said ho bad had visited Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn on several occasion but had not been Deen fortunate fortunato enough to meet his I prototype I Lookin Looking like him bim said he has its compensations I r I lose a job now and then because he and I look so much alike but on the whole Im I'm glad I look like him lim I get Jet a l lot t of applause that I dont don't have to work for and anybody in in this town that can Ret get anything without working for it is a lucky man Flanagan was born on the east side but he said oven even that circumstance had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been sufficient to win for him bim the friendship of ot Charles F. F Murphy or tho the Sullivans ns |