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THE McALPIN
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TWost Tallceci Alboiat and Most Popular Hotel
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Prices Notably Moderate
Broadway at 34th Street
(One Block from Pennsylvania Station)
L.. M. BOOMER, Managing Director
Memories of Annie Oakley
Concluded from page three)
nodded in satisfaction that his
theory was vindicated, and waited
for another offer. If it stayed
whole and didn't announce its
base origin by a hollow groan,
then your coin was passed on to
the weigher, who compared its
inscription and avoirdupois with
a table of figures at hand and
usually returned the thing to you
as a curiosity. The worst hap
pened when he took it. For then,
to be sure, you got you beans. But
you also got change. And of
course, this change by no possible
chance could be put to any use
outside of a foundry.
Counterfeiting would have
been a better and more admired
business than showing. The
principle merchant in the town
was arrested for coining money
while we were there. But he
made the obvious plea that his
dubloons were better than the
Government's and a fair minded
judge admitted the fact, congrat
ulated him and turned him loose.
"It was a close shave to feed
the stock and raise chow for the
kit. Nobody even dreamed of a
salary. And Christmas comir.g,
with the folks back home hanging
up their stockings or shooting up
the town, according to taste and
location.
HEMMED IN WITHOUT A WATERHOLE
"Well, why didn't we get out
of there, being still able to see
Tind hear? That's a fair enough
question, and leads to the worst of
of this terrible holiday. Every
disease in the world was holding
session there that Winter. An
epidemic of grip ran into a fierce
streak of typhoid, and half the
doctors were down with the small
pox. The typhoid shot the Indians
to pieces, poor fellows, and seven
of them were left there in their
last resting place. I had the grip
but so did everybody. We
played on just the same every
afternoon for a mendicant audi
ence of yellow rags and red
sashes, on the ten cent basis. And
not a chance to escape. The only
thing they seemed to thoroughly
understand about fighting the dis
ease was a quarantine. We were
surrounded, hemmed in, marooned
without a water hole.
AT DEATH'S DOOR CHRISTMAS
"And then as Christmas came
on and we were cheered up a bit
with the prospect of giving away
our glass money to our enemies,
the stuff was taken out of all of
us and the final blow came. Frank
Richmond, the greatest rider on
the range and the most popular
man in the outfit, was bowled
over by the typhoid. And noth
ing to it but to make a Chistmas
Eve out of a funeral. The worst
of it was the waiting. It was like
enrollment on Judgement Day.
We got through and over the beg
gars by two in the afternoon, and
were lined up at the cemetery
gate, guarded by the angels of
the school of Lazarus. But the
procession of hearses ahead of us
was so great that it was nine at
night before ever we got into the
burying ground.
"The boys decided that they
wouldn't stand for a Christmas
without a turkey, if one lived in
the entire Kingdom of Spain. So
Johnnie Baker, my shooting part
ner, and one Frank Butler, pooled
their savings and went out to
round one up. The were led by
an escort of intended charity to
a shop where it was alleged a tur
key might not be entirely impos
sible. The proprietor announced
his wares with great pride, point
ing out that he could provide at
reasonable prices (subject to coin
inspection and rejection) turkey
gizzards, wings, legs, heads,
necks, beaks, feet also a few
slices of breast, and one wishbone.
Told that an entire turkey was
desired he was struck dumb with
astonishment, and arrived at the
natural conclusion that these
could be none less than heir ap
parent and the fabulous Roths
child incognito. This fortunate
assumption made it possible for
Baker and Butler to exchange
their inheritance for a whole bird,
of fine contour and weight, which
they also managed to bring safely
through the attacking horde of
beggars by reason of their skill
in universal language, and some
slight experience with the
Apaches in times gone by.
ONE TURKEY FOR THE MULTITUDE
"The miracle of the loaves and
fishes was repeated this Christ
mas day in the camp of Buffalo
Bill. Every sick man in the place
was given a piece of it, and every
homesick cowboy. What was left
of that turkey wouldn't have
served a gnat for dessert. It
cheered the gang up to the extent
of a scouting expedition to the
seashore.
BOARDING THE PIRATE
"There they struck an oldpirate
of a Mediteranean tramp to ship
the caravan and bid old Spain a
longfarewell. Shewas a leakyold
caraval, spinning like a barrel on
the top of the sea, waiting for
ballast. But there was no time to
tarry for ballast as the boys were
able to point out to his entire sat
isfaction, after a few convincing
arguments popular a few years
since on the Little Big Horn.
Two of us ladies got one of the
staterooms the boys packed into
the neighborhood of the other,
and the Indians camped under a
canvass on deck, game for any
place or any sketch.
"And so in the wake of one
storm, and just ahead of a hurri
cane we rolled and pitched for
four mortal days on the ocean
and landed at last in Naples. You
will have to get someone else to
make your pen pictures of your
castles in Spain."
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Jenks
have arrived at the White Shin
gles. The house has been en
larged to house party size during
the Summer, and an imposing
garage added preparations that
presage the coming of young
people later on.