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Made Tour Of New York
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the grand
row he staged with the telegraph
company on learning that a telegrain
to the States carried the
sender's name free of charge. He
had fried, when telegraphing a
friend in Connecticut, to persuade
them that he was of Red Indian;
extraction and that his Indian
name, when translated, meant
"Sorry - cannot - come -tomorrow."
He played it quite deadpan with
a bronze make-up and was eventually
threatened with a summons,
ropped It chinking on the slde-
fl
tn many flnrn^|»rt h«tr
! His particular friend in New
jYork was a young real-estate
:man named Jack Mason, who for
!four days was delighted to have
jhim around. An Englishman who
Idldn't say "Bai Jove!" and need
;a trepanning operation to absorb
a simple gag was something of
;an innovation to Mason, who had
I not met many Englishmen. All
the same, he found Julius begininfng
to pall on his Immedtati
circle, and on the fifth day he re.
moved him from his beaten track
and took him traditionally downtown
to see the Battery where the
prow of New York jute out Into the
sea like a giant battleship, backed
farther aft by the soar
w
turrets end control towers
hattan.
Julius duly inspected Bowling l
Green and the Aquarium—where h
be toyed with the idea of m.^-hing
(me of the perpetually scuttling a
King-Crabs. One could do a left O
with one of those and a friend and
friend's bed.
Then Jack Mason made him duly
Etraet. where the dot
f e weremade or tot. BwrtUi "
ctually did tea half-dollar. _
c
b
h
b
coulfl bring out at the run — and it
rolled down a lift-well just ahead
of a newsboy's finger, who unreasonably
blamed Julius.
Julius was trying to tell him it
was a false one when Mason led
him away. Native of an exuberant
race, he was nevertheless getting
a little tired of this exuberant Englishman
he'd had wished on him.
They came into the deep chasm of
I/3wer Broadway and were just
passing a bank when an armored
car drew up.
"What are the military doing
down here?" asked Smettingly.
Mason told him that it was a
civilian, armored car, and at his
companion's look of amazement explained
further that certain citizens.
despairing of becoming rich
by the usual Wall Street methods,
you really mean to tell me
that thieves would dare to stage
a hold-up right here in the busy
part?"
Mason merely indicated three
burly guards who, hands slightly
on revolver butts, were already to
strategic positions on the sidewalk
between the car and the
bank's door. "Those guys seem to
think eo," he said briefly.
"Well, I'm darned! I cant beieve
it. in ^f'wnrt wr only
ave . . ."
"And personally t dont stick
round too long at these times.
ne never knows. Let's move!"
But Smettingly was still to'
redulously eyeing to turn the
road back of a guard to front of
im and the passing, peaceful,
urning New Yorkers.
"Tnls country sees too many
lme," he stated, and at that
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