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Show ROAST PIG VALLEY IN GYPSY BATTLE Chairs Thrown, and Feast Spoiled by Profiteering s KTTWjrOIUJ-'elLl Tojhe scant folklore, the rude ballada and the handful of love song that make up the literature of the nrypay folk, grath-ered grath-ered In thflr centurlea of wandertnea from the Nile to the Arctic ocean, from the Euphrates to the Atlantic, there la now to be added the epic of the double wedding In Odd Fellow hall. Foray th street, east aide, New York City. It la the modern epic of an ancient people. It embodies charges of profiteering prof-iteering at the wedding feast. It Includes In-cludes a row that no doubt will be deacribed In an appropriate phrase In the language that the Rome have pilfered pil-fered from all the tongues of the earth, and that phrase will mean "some fight" a fight In which the softest and gentlest missiles used wera eleven whole roast pigs. j It ends or rather reaches a climax, ; for the end is not yetoutside of that palace of Justice, the men's night court, : when one of the uprising Johns elopes In a prossalc taxicab with the wife of one of the Ephralm Franks, a wife, alas, who wore about her swarthf neck all the wealth of the family. At last account some half a hundred Itinerant tinklers In their colorful native na-tive costume, their bangles and orna- mnt of precious me tale Jingling aa they ran, were in hot pursuit of the taxi, the lost fortune and vengeance. Had seventeen of the Horn an I not pleaded guilty In night court to charges of disorderly conduct, proffering proffer-ing soiled dollar bills from sundry deep hidden purses In payment of their fines. It might be possible to tell more in detail what it was all A out-Ad out-Ad it was, all the police of the Clinton Street station knew for a certainty was that It took their combined nd unstinted might to separate the combatants com-batants in the hall about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon. They told how three ambulance surgeons spent a busy hour repairing the casus.! ties Inflicted In-flicted with the roast plga. minor volleys vol-leys of roast chickens and major on-t on-t alaughts with chairs, tables and the' accoutrements of the wedding feast Gregory John and Old Man Guy were primarily responsible. It was - they who entered Into the pact for the marrying of tha daughter of each to the son of tfae other. Considerable money changed hands, and all the coppersmith clan of gypsies were assessed as-sessed for the festivities, which brought 600 of them into the hall at o'clock In the morning. Whether the profiteering charge leveled against the managers of the wedding feast was Justified or not, it Is certain that a goodly number of battered and vet-' vet-' eran casks had been emptied of their savory wines before Ephraim Frank appeared at the feast. The rest Is soon told In the language lan-guage of one of the gypsy women who waited in the night court to be a witness If the testimony had been taken, "Gregory John," said she, "he want too much money. Kphraira Frank he tell him not want too much. Gregory John say Ephralm Frank no pay. Kphraim Frank he say all gypsies pay J $5. 15 cent, 115. Gregory John mad. He say Kphraim Frantc Mexican. Ephraim Frank born Cleveland family from Bra mil. Ha aay liar, hit Gregory Frank with chair. Everybody fight." |