Show GOTHAM GOSSIP of journal iam rno irate hoard ine ina A s german who man wan with every thins thing exempt the lie american beer death of is well nen new york clohe A cay guy life with u 4 satt 1 twine lIrI II 11 tAID in young america is fast outstripping old america never was this better shown than in uio the national convention of ortho the amateur press association which was held at the tile st Nie nicholas bolas hotel on wednesday TWO HUNDRED BOYS DOM ranging in age from twelve to twenty years 5 ears congregated discussed ho tile trenta and plo glorious rions future of their institution and wi angled in it a manner to make even the hobt experienced i en ced ward politician ican green ITI elih envy indulged in n parliamentary elected officers and in it tho tile igl ad ti themselves kemsel ves over ov er tow town it til they 11 were not bash bashful fu these boys in ili ay iy iho ho evening I 1 happened to drop in at alie hotel and noticed that thu tile barroom bar room van almost filled with the youngster youngsters the tile bartender was immensely in at tile mannelin man manner nerin in which they kept him busy claret pun punches clies sherry cobblers gin fizzes fizzel and other cooling and rapacious drinks disappeared as if seated soaked up ucb bv Y fio so many sponges dont you think said tile bartender with a smile that these lads havo have the making oi of great journalists in fit them why I 1 asked because they fully mastered tile lie first requisite for writing well which is maintaining your place blaco at the bar at the st nicholas they make a very seductive variety borzin fizz called a FIZZ land and flavored as the name indicates with strawberry ostrau strau berry juice this tills proved roved it resistible to tho the boys two 0 01 them each abolia 15 ya yeara ars old were fairly infatuated with it they drank about half a dozen of them thein between 9 and 10 tl alie i e con consequences sequences irias may lo ile 10 imagined as the pin gin went to their heads one efthem of them edited a massachusetts chu paper whilo tho oilier other piloted eda A pennsylvania organ they grew very loung loving but after a while daa dai a greed on oil some question of policy in ill tile manner manier of conducting tile for tune nf alie alie discua eion sion grew heated liea ted oilier other editors joining fir arrit it finally the climax was rat lied by the tile ians up throwing his s straw hat bat aside and exclaiming to tt the berresen dative of the baked bean state 1 I can nc kyou there was no n Ws idam n about him he ile was a disciple of the muscular musi bilar western school and was willing it ho was pro vented however from doing so by tile lh night clerk who beako beckoned tied two porters tind they each took up one of tile and efter carried ed him to hh his room whilo pastine pas tine through hie tile lower street the oilier other afternoons 1 dropped into one of or lie tile many emif HANT with tile lower loiter end ortho of tho city elty is ilot dotted ted it was asive ely 1 ly bermans ier er mans in ili fact germane frenchmen and now and then a libi til of italians are the only es I 1 lint patronize patro nizo iliew establish ments the tile irish trish aia ai a i a ru leare taken care tre olby of by relative 11 1 arc tire e clifta at tit rat ale vary ii from feliy cente 4 t to a dull dollar ar a it day ave on lifar lu tv ions th the rooms are clean enough but ut oil 1 i bo so hot and tit rut iho ou wide i 0 open opell wi windows d Z the hot air b s e in ili wit with it sickening ehll tet t the tind andera of the tile eleva elevated ted road udd add tl their acir quota quola to t lie biscom fort and tile bic auise h aiom I 1 n abe bliem must ke keep the poor pt p ople awake of 1110 I 1 alio llio night in tile doorway cat sat a family consisting 1 of father mother ami all d seven chil ranging in apo from to two 3 cars old they were going west that night despite the I 1 in tonto heat kllc they wera dressed in m thick heavy wool woollens lons tind one of the tile boys wore a 1 comforter around his throat tit alie 0 perspiration et reamed down dowa t their heir faces and nd ono one ur tile little girls races faces was oe inari usi ina us ri i bf b prickly irly kly kivat yet they per perfectly ft f t contented the only thins thing that liat seemed to displease baler ater famiie was that tho tile Amer american leall bierwas beer beer was bo so light not at all like fi J Qs t german beer the fare in these places is ver very y substantial though plain what seemed to sar surprise prise most new comers is the amount of meat ineat people eat cat here meat is a luxury to many of the ther peasantry on the other side al OP OF THE BRIGHTEST and cleverest Bohem bohemians ians died this week of apopp apoplexy exy and quite suddenly this was C colonel john keegan who about a year ago was sentenced to imprisonment for criminally libel ing senator winfield of new now jersey in the latter yeara years of his ilia life keegan n was run down considerably 11 he e pot got into bad odor in the metropolitan litan newspaper offices declined to do do slush work and under repeated rebuffs his spirit broke and he lie drank rather too freely that is the misfortune of men who have seen better days such of their former acqua acquaintances ln who wish to be kind to them invariably ask them to take a drink when they meet them theme A poor fellow may bestar be starving ying at the time but he could not suggest to his ills host that a fifteen cent bowl of soup would do him more good than thann he the 25 cents of whisky to which he was invited thus they invariably end with becoming drunkards and hen then everybody avoids them K keegan ee gan lad had not sono gone quite so far as this last stage but lie was rapidly approaching it I 1 remember liim him in his prime some seven or eight veara vears ago lie was then a handsome band 4 01 me dashing fellow a trifle above the medium height of a capital figure and genial ace which men liked and women ell fell in ili love with he ile had black hair bair which lie wore long and as lio lie af cited a blonch hot lot and a military cut in n his ills clothes lie looked every inch a dashing frontier officer como come back to civilization for recreation HE COULD SINO SING or make a I spee cli diali off a heavy beavy political political editorial dt tri alor or turn out a clever ittle sonnet lie ile could tell stories by ly the hour sit up tip with a 1 lot of agreeable companions and anda a bottle for twenty four hours or make inake half a dozen women frenzy with jealousy of each other one time lie was sent to long island by the herald to report a political loli meeting over which lion august belmont was war t to preside esi d e it was wasja jiva t tile time when 0 u buters er t ers made their appearance keegan ha happened bened to be flush and ho lie invested in one of these uncouth wraps then lie dressed himself in ili find style put a yellow rose in his button tide hole and went to the long island village where the meeting was to take place he went up to mr belmont and introduced himself as col kec gan ran late of the irish brigade he lie aid baid ho lie had just come up ill from the south and as he lie happened to pass a few days in fit long iong island ho lie thou glit t it would be advisable to tell the tile people something about republican mis rule in fit the south mil MR WAS DELIGHTED he ile introduced liim him to the audience and keegan made a rin Ing speech of nn an leour dazzled dazzled bodar then lie sent his report to everi the herald lerald remained in long island for several days was made much of by b affo leading families and of course had all the tile ladies at his feet somehow iho the real personality of the irish brigade il here wre leaked out mr belmont became very wroth wrote to mr B bennett ne about it and tho tile consequence was that keegan i was as discharged to keegans Kc egans delight for it allowed him ho iv ev much belmont was hurt about having been imposed upon and of course he cot got an engagement at once with another paper POOR KEEGAN his life was not a long iong one but a merry one although ho lie had to pay for former pleasures by a few years of poverty and neglect his only real enemy was himself dioio I 1 NEW YORK july 16 |