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Show Tribulation Awaits Naughty Bootblacks sized crowd would result As may bt imagined the lads were not exactly mute. Their shouts of delight at the torments of the loser fairly Jarred the -Ity hall. At the critical point the serried ranks of New York's finest appeared from behind the - subway entrance. There were shileks of "Bite your name off your bos; de place Is pinched," and the crowd dissolved. But the dragnet, which the police always al-ways are said to epread In emergencies, emergen-cies, did not prove effective. .The dragnets proved to be the legs of the Individual patrolmen. Under, around or through-these the little bootblacks wriggled, and went whooping off across the square. They found It not practical to take their outfits with them, and much material ma-terial evidence was left on the field of battle Instead of carrying In durance back to the station a group of wicked culprits, the patrol wagon - arrived laden with 30 bootblack boxes. Property Clerk William Murray at headquarters now has on his hands an unmarketable commodity. It is not supposed any of the lads will have the temerity to march up to the desk and demand his property. But the "way of the transgressor" will prove In this case Just as hard as ever. For It Is certain that the lads' mothers .will give thera far more cause for repentance, re-pentance, for losing their outfits than would the police If the snare had proved effective. KW YOItK.Shlnes and mon-keyshines mon-keyshines . do not mix. Thirty small bootblacks of City Hall park learned to their sorrow this maxim of their trade when 20 Oak street patrolmen patrol-men charted In raid formation and demolished every stand In the neighbor neigh-bor hoood. The difficulty was the habit of the youthful bootblacks to pay more attention at-tention to games among themselves than to the shoes of the passing populace. popu-lace. Complaints were many of too much pleasure and too little business on the walks of City Hall park. The specific difficulty was a game for two lads in which the winner was privileged to massage as violently as possible, with a lightly rolled newspaper, news-paper, the hand or other tenderer portions por-tions of the unfortunate loser. The. gallery was often large when this peculiar form of award was given and received. When business was slack vlrtuully the entire hootbleck population would be on. hand to see the blow fall. Various other hangers-on hangers-on were likely to assemble and a fair- |