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SUPREME OUR POPULAR FARCES. STREET SATISFACTION, CLEANING. REPO! Cuanactens: Mayor Gracertt, Street CLEANER Cone: MAS, Wanker, Foremax Me: Gavock, Tor O'Rourke, Mn. BeNt Oftce, Mayor Graceret. discovered quzing affectionately ut a pic- ture of JouN Ket Contractor Ixspi Scene—Mayor's [ Eater Mr. Bent. Mr. Bent.—Exeuse me, Mr. Mayor, for tresp Z upon your time, bat there is an epoch when patience ceases to be a virtue. 1 have reached that epoch now in regard to the Street Cleaning Department. I have lived in W street for two years, and during all that time it hasn't been cleaned, The street is filled with mud, snow, ashes and dea mals, In fact I believe that every stra , yellow dog or dissipated for miles around, when they feel that they are abont to An ash cart would be a bigger curiosity in our vicinity than a polar bear or a sperm whale. Mayor Graceful.—What ! can such things happen upon my regime? Oh, mistaken. Y king ia, ain't you? Mr, Bent.—N York. Mayor Graceful.--Did you comy Department of Street Cleaning? Mr. Bent.— I did. I asked why the block upon which I reside could not be kept as clean as Fifth avenue. charge grinned and said that if I didn’t like the way my block was cleaned that I had bet- ter go and live upon Fifth avenue. That was all of the satisfaction I got. Mayor Graceful.—Impossible. Street Cleaner Cokeman is outside. send for him. str with boy. ani- goat, die, come and expire in our t pu must be Philadel- about sir, I'm talking about in to the es, Luckily, 1 will Does 80. T CLEANER COREMAN returns The subordinate in | Mayor Graceful. trect Cleaner, I a scrious charge to make against you. ‘reet Cleaner Cokeman.—What? hay Mayor Graceful.—This is Mr. Bent, who | hives in W— street. He states that the block upon which he resides has not been cleaned for two years. Street Cleaner Cokeman (smiling).—That | might be, and yet it would not be my faut. Mavor Gracefil.—Why not? Street Cleaner Cokeman.—The job of clean- ing that y | or Walker. Contra rt of the city is He cleans th or Hurry the lowe ot out to Contract- upper part, and Mr. Bent.—Then, sir, what do you have to do? Street Cleaner Cokeman.—Me—why 1 | that is—I really—superintend. ‘That is it, sir. Isuperintend. Now are you satistied 7 Mayor Graceful. Walker, Iam bound, sir, that my shall be noted in the aunals of New Y its spotless purity of polities—and streets, ConTRACTOR WALKER, who happens to. be about, is brought in by the boy.) Walker.—Ah, Mayor, pleased to see you. You're looking Md Send for regime fine asa two-year-old. lay five to one against the field on you. What can I do for you? Mayor Graceful.—You, 1 believe, Mr. Walker, have the contract for streets in the upper part of the eit Watker.—Y ning the sir, I will take any odds upon it. New York City always places the right men in the right places. Being an old sport, and a follower of horse-races, I must about ele thy an them, don’t you fi no object with me, streets. it fame—public benefactor racket, yon know, Showed today, didn’t it? Well, I'l bet you a five I get all of that snow off of Broadway before the Fourth of July. I've got two Ital- ians with nd a nigger with a ly know And Fil el Money is quite ni ive shovels wisp-broom working at it now. Mayor Graceful.—1 appre 3 sir, but I have a complaint against you Watker.—Me? ful.—Ye ho complains 7 ‘our zeal, Mayor Grac Walker. Mayor Graceful.—This gentleman here, Mr. Bent. He states that W—— street, where he resides, has not been cleaned for two rs. Walker.—Oh, W— It may be so. Isub-let the cleaning of that street to Foi man McG If it was under my per- il supervision you bet it would have been ned. Didn't I sweep Madison avenue to 2th streets clean as a pin in five | weeks, and [ only had a Chinaman and a hand- | cart to do it. Go for MeGavoel Mayor Graceful.—Whe' street. ‘ock. om e is he Walker. —As luck wills it, just outside; I'l get him. Eveunt WakER. Returns soon with Me- Gavock. Mayor Graceful.—Mr. McGavock, how is it that W— street hasn't been cleaned for two years? MeGavock.—Bedad, oi don't know. Mayor Graceful.—It is in your d is not it? Contractor | k for | McGavock. Mayor Gracefi £0. McGavock. —B isn’t now, Insp it, If Pha as clane as a do, byes and a whee lane in foive mi in the alderman Dill passed th: him? Mayor G (O'Rovrs’ MeGavock.—M ‘acefu twenty-two carts, is a mule, Mayor Gracefu OF “Ti O Rourke.—In 1 four hun = and think I could b dollars and a half Watker, O Rourk Ay the best I could fe meaning enough and he lamene: th till he well, Mayor Gracefu Well, Mr. Bent, y blame is the cit Aldermen's atten! propriation in my you lo it Wues a girl ha ed which to take, who proposes fi TAS propose the girl as to whe cepted or not. “Tow many t hoy, ‘the present, the pluperfect, the ure, and the Osc she, ‘‘ what tense A HARD nut to ¢ strong. infirmary now, and I teacher of the boy. boy ‘he's intense.” Bedad, it is not. ut, —Contractor Walker edad, it was w ctor O'Rourke h: st, but it charge av control av it, the strate wad be 2's dinner-plate. Wid two -barrow 1 claned Minetta nutes, O'Rourke i¢ chamber, thr. at all inspectors 4 beyant ing to get strate ning shall be distinguished by a goold badge set wid diamonds, Shall I sind for 1.—Yes. § presently appears.) r, O'Rourke, ye are ch wid not claning W— strate for two years; what is yez dayfense? O'Rourke.—It is dispersing the streets in me jurisdiction from dirt that Lam as fast as | Tamable. I work upon a regular system; 1 | take allay the boulevards in their ordher, In noine months I will reach W—— street. Mr. ine months! Heavens! Why | f ies. Thave but only one horse, and he al. js th How is that? ity’s fault. Mayor Graceful.—Now ? me ju ion th wired dollars for ¢ a half for horse uy a whole stable for two Y appro- rts, and Do ye No, you couldn't. course not, So T bought yr the money, He's a well mule, but he's afflicted wid kK. ant use the « Shure, he’s in ul (after deep re ‘ou see that the only one to Twill have to call the tion to the disparity of ap- next mes ection). ye hat I willdo. Vl Walker.—And I tell you wt be hanged, Mr. Bent, if you want to clean W——street yourself, I will get you a permit at your own expense, (ecrTaty. } s two lovers, and is undecid- she had better take the one but it lays entirely with ther his proposal shall be ac- enses are there?" asked the “ Seven,” 1 the fect, , the second fut- “Why,” asked “Oh,” replied the answer , the perfect, the imp e first fut r Wilde. is he?” crack: The butternut, it’s so comicbooks.com