Show A HERO TOO LATE Drifting about aboul In the lower East EastSide EastSide EastSide Side New Now York Is a n human derelict known lenow U t the children of the streets as us Andy And They know him him only as asan asan asan an old sailor who is down and out so down that he be scrubs the hall hallways hallways ways of a 0 foul Jewish tenement for fOl forU U 1 u a week anti and board that many man a I dog would not touch His bedroom I Is so 80 disreputable that he ho often sleeps I by br preference In tho the park lark or lu In a I hallway But Bitt Andy And is neither a bum hum nor noran noran an nn applicant for charity Ho He stands erect upon his foet feet in spite of his years oars and looks every evory everyman everyman man squarely in lu the tue eyes e es when ho he talks and there Is no whine In lu his voice And if any citizen clUzen of the time East EastSide EastSide Side Sido is looking for a fight an Insult to Andy And will wll quickly bring It For Andy And Is not only a sailor he ho Is a veteran of the American na nn navy navy vy y He Ho know lwow Admiral Olympia when he was vas Commodore Dewey and find Andy SAndy was quartermaster on the Olympia and amid had charge e of or the steer steering lag ing of the battleship when it crept In la Into lato to Manila bay hay He left the thc Olympia I only when the ship went out of com coma commission comI I mission after Admiral Deweys Dewe s tri trl triumphal tn return and soon thereafter the old quartermaster was put out of commission The Tho circumstances do not matter greatly He got drunk and into trou trouble trouble ble le with an tin officer and with n a tits honorable lc discharge ho he had to leave tho the navy nan In which he lie had served with credit for nearly thirty years It H is Andys misfortune that ho lie became a l hero too late ho is not a veteran of or tho the civil war Had Ud ho Ito served for only a few Jew weeks in some Union regiment that never got to the front had he lie boon been oven even a bounty jumper juniper or a deserter he would have 1110 havea a n chance by a special act of receiving a ro pension from a grateful country countr cou n try But Andy Is 15 only ani one OUO of the tho UP lw roes rocs of or Deweys fight In Manila bay bar barnd and nd ho lie has a bobtailed discharge because he ho hit lilt a superior officer The Worlds York Work rork |