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Show mktm 1-iUC? MftMV Throws Twenty-Dollar Bills Into a Crowd. N'ew York, Dec. IS. According to ncwsbos who pl their trade in tho Iclnity of Greeley Square, tho idea that Santa Claus Is a rotund old gentleman gen-tleman with long whiskers of white lb wrong. The patron saint is only about thir-lj thir-lj years old, his mouslacho Is conl black, and ho Is of Austrian descent. This new Santa Claus apepared on Uroadwa. After announcing that mono was .of no use to him, he started start-ed to dlfitribut one, five, ten and twont dollar hills among the crowd. As ho could not hand the mone out j fast onmigb to suit himself, the new-1 new-1 plectod Santa Claus threw bills Into In-to tho air a8 fast as be could peel them Iro mhis fat purse. The police Interfered after a few minutes and took Santa Claus to Bellovuo hospital to he examined as to his sanity. Tho man nald ho was Mitchel Bodjkow and Insisted that the nionov was his own. to do as ho pleased with. Ho gavc away $B0n and had flSO loft when ho reached nello.ru. e. |