| Show IVAN YAN Y AN LOST SUIT AND THEN FRIEND Loaned His Clothing to McDonald McDonald Mc Me- Donald Who Promptly Pawned ItHEN It THEN HEN HE HAD TO BORROW Sail Stor Story Which Shows the tle Poll Folly of or Trusting Too Much lIeh to College Ties Tics Bill Billy Ryan of K 49 9 flowery Bowery who was graduated grad grad- rad- rad from the Correspondence enc School of Bricklaying class of or IJ 01 11 at the top tall of the ladder had his old college crum Grinder er Frank McDonald before Magistrate Wahle 1 In the Tombs police court yesterday charged with selling a 3 borrowed harrowed suit of or Ryans Ryan's clothes to Jak Jakey y the Baxter Ir t clothing merchant for fOI CO 60 cents Jake Jakey and his wife wIre were In court to I hear ar somebody say y under oath how I much the clothes were worth While McDonald was a n freshman at atthe atthe atthe the bricklaying college he Ie worked so o hard that he was dubbed Grinder by upper upper- classmen Ho lie now lives at 14 flowery Bowery when at h home me On Saturday Grinder went to Billy Ryan with a scheme I I fancy tancy you know old chap began Grinder that m my cousin Jim head hend of one ono branch of or our family has a job behInd behind behind be be- hind the linen counter of a Leonard street shop Perhaps If I made a week end vIsIt visIt visIt vis- vis It with Jim I could make a touch larl early In Jn the he game and get away with It I Ilont don't dont wish to call on Jim however In this poor relation make Suppose we slip slipup slipup slipup up to your our apartments change clothes and then Ihen In your our flossier garments I 1 shall hall be better able to approach JIm Grinder Blo oms I should he be lighted delighted old fellow assented assented as as- rented Billy R Ryan an to aid you ou In nn any wa way wayla Is la so good a 3 cause Billy Jill saw no reason for alarm because the two ever since th their lr student days had often borrowed borrow cl each others other's class pins trowels evening clothes and fine Ine cut Besides Billy Ryan has never forgotten that It was with help of a n fountain pen len I lent nl by Grinder that Billy won the junior debate at the corre correspondence cor cot re school Wherefore Dm Billy quickly shifted and a few minutes later Grinder blossomed out on the Bowery flowery arrayed arrayed ar ar- ar- ar rayed like the lilies of the field Jauntily i picking his teeth as he PIl passed Cel Kink McCann McCann Mc- Mc Cann to leave Kink under the Impression that Grinder recently had had actual food I Grinder returned to the expectant Billy Dilly n Ryan an two hours hO later Inter with a wallet stuffed with two dollars Come let us awa away said Grinder flashing the roll with suppressed emotion emotion emo enio- tion And three minutes later Inter each had hi his right foot on the sawdust and his left lefton lefton lefton on the brass railing How thoughtless of me exclaimed Grinder er McDonald when the last slab of Wienerwurst had disappeared from the free lunch counter on the right wait walt till un I run out to Cohens Cohen's for some cIgarettes cigarettes cigar cIgar- ettes cUes and then we shall hall go back to your apartments and return each others other's clothes again nm BIHy Walts Billy asked for a dark and waited Some time later In the evening Bill Billy III R Ryan with the help of oC Policeman Burns of at the Oak street station located Grinder at home wearing simply a tattooed anchor on his right arm Grinder had to hold on even while sitting down It It said Grinder coarsely Want ant 2 shoot hoot Take for eh h eh hie jus' jus took look way from herO here Go way a Im I'm sleepy sl epy Much luch as 1 I re regret ret the attendant p pub b- b said Bill Billy R Ryan an hotly I demand de de- de- de mand inand officer that you ou place this person ierson un under er arrest In a minute said Policeman Burns heartily Here lIere you ou come a a- a but paused and blushed Sa Say we cant can't take a 3 drunken livin picture to the station stationhouse stationhouse h house use said the policeman man not even b ba by byway way was a of the tho Bower flowery Bowery Skin Skit oft off tho those e duds duels you OU have on Billy Bill and when Ive I've draped this statue Ill I'll take him along You wait watt here and Ill I'll have your other clothes sent up UI here for you ou ou But the suit that Grinder sold explained ex ex- ex- ex Billy Dilly I la is the only one I have Well Veil then tell lell me your friends and anel Ill I'll make them lend you OU some Come Conic come now skin off arc them duds or Ill I'll lock ock you OU up too for an officer Sou Sought ht the tho Shadows Bill Billy skinned reluctantly and after he I had bad seen Meen his last chance for draper drapery transferred to cover the person of the slumbering Grinder Grind he sought the shadows shad of or Grinders Grinder's room and sat there wondering If the policeman would make goo good NI Night hl fell From his dark room Bill Billy could see Bee below the lads and ancl la lasses ses be- be their evening strolls Peals of Innocent young oung laughter came up to him fr from m the street He lie tried to interest himself himself him him- f self elC In 11 watching the merr merry makers makers In a 3 picture machine place ilace across the way 1 ay glue their eyes to the tops of or the boxes while white the they learned U-arned what the pink pajama girls did lid to get a job In iii the chorus but a cluster clue clus ter of or electric light over the entrance suddenly lIel flashed up UJ an and Billy shrank hrank back Brings Pair of or Cuffs CulTs About 10 o'clock And Andy Hourigan climbed to Billy II and laid a pair of cuffs and a derby hat hint at his feet Hughey Hunt and Eddie Mills contributed a set et of or cuff buttons buttons but but- tons and anel a r ready made bow tie a little later Then big LIt Max Walsh and anel Mike lIke Hoban wandered along with a silk handkerchief handkerchief hand hanel kerchief but It was not until Dald Baldy Bowman Bow man brought In a t short sack coat that things began to brighten up About ml midnIght midnight mid mid- night Gene Davis DavitS tramped up the stairs stull's with a pair of or dapple gray Jray trousers over hi his arm and the siege was waK raised When Billy appeared before Magistrate he wore as complainant yesterday the clothes contributed by hl his friends friend Grinder full till of remorse stood at the railing dressed dref-d In his own clothes which hind had come back to him m mysteriously while he hind had slept Jakoy who sat besides Mrs l Gol In the th- back Lack row to await developments was dr dressed In the blue serge Berse that belonged to Billy Rests Hosts Ills his Case Cac e. e Grinder told the magistrate that lint that last drink did It Il and Intimated that thai he Ie he everybody concerned would wished that shake hake hands and let bygones one be he b bygones oneS Then he rested reste hl his case suit suit t How much did you OU get for that su C rind rind- asked the repentant the the magistrate cr et er SI Sixty l cents answered red Grinder Oh birdseed ga gasped Bill Billy grasping swooning himself from the railing to save suit a n a. a goo good as that Only last Jul July I got ot Weep ng and broke down for for for- new How much did It Il cost CORt you 0 Han revived the court when Bill Billy asked nl Mrs stopped ed chewing her Irs gum Jake Jakey leaned e forward breathless The Jum moment was wan tense ho he hoC said Billy when dollars Right Eight Bly C could go onOle onOle on Ole yol 01 ole yol I have a sickness hands hand In his handt bur burying his face cried d Jakey Jake months month's broths sobbed We Ve lose laKe a I mil mit tier der vater Mrs Irs Quick have perhaps a faintness nm Hilly Wonders for order and Magistrate Vahle had when the friends been led away b by sorrowing under assess learned leared that he lc was held Gr er Sessions for Special asked 2 I get Iet on do nut But hell hel toward wandered back Billy DiY Ryan Ran as he tangible len left but th the Bower with nothing school diploma In the the turned And he gilt gil north and disappeared In th toward the New club University New direction of the York Sun |
