Show TOO EXCITING FOR CHOKER ex tammany chief like so many others other succumbed to the fasci nation of stephenson the ideas of richard croker do not run on bookish lines regretting this circumstance and considering that a taste for literature once inculcated might be a source of pleasure in his advanced years a journalistic friend who nho crossed the atlantic with the one time chieftain of Tamn tammany lany hall not long ago cornered him in the steam ships library one evening and ob bained a reluctant permission to read treasure island to him much to his friend a encouragement mr croker listened with unfeigned in terest until the lights went out and apparently enjoyed the narration of the exciting events of john morgan billy bones black dog john silver and the others wherefore finding mr air croker in the library the next everli g the journalist again pro deuced his volume of stevenson and drew up a chair but the onetime one time tammany chieftain lifted a protesting hand don t read that book to me any more he said I 1 t get to sleep last night tor for thinking about those fellows |