Puck — November 20, 1878 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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BAFFLED!! ‘THE TRIBUNE-BUILDING SNATCHERS STILL AT LARGE. THE ‘POLIC, IN DESFAIR, WHERE CAN IT BE? A POSSIBLE CLUE. MYSTERIOUS CORRESPONDENCE. ‘THE excitement occasioned by Puck's report of the barefaced theft of the 77idune Building still shows no signs of subsiding. ‘The impu- dence of the act is still the main topic of con- versation everywhere. In the cars, at the hotels, at every grocery and saloon in the city, groups of good citizens may be seen earnestly dis- cussing the situation. More than a week has now elapsed since the building has disappeared from its accustomed haunts, and nothing worthy of the name ofa clue has yet been discovered. The police and Mr. Jay Gould have been overwhelmed with com- munications of various character, offering to return the noble pile on certain conditions. It is very evident that the plans were carefully laid months before by professional burglars of great experience—but where they can have managed to “stow the swag,” without giving rise to suspicion, is what puzzles our astutest detectives, although there are some who do not hesitate to assert that the inmates of a certain mansion in Gramercy Park could throw some light on the subject. Unkind people also openly charge a well-known editor, who has distinguished’ himself by his hostility to fraud, in being a party to the crime. We append some of the mysterious missives referred to, in the hope that the publicity given to them may lead to the return of the tall tower and its inmates, and that Printing House Square may assume its normal condition. AN IMPORTANT PROPOSAL. WaALt Street. Mr. Gouin: Put Union Pacific in hands of a receiver. Make one of us the receiver—and the building will be delivered to any express office you name, Answer through Puck Personals imme- diately, or we shall send Whitclaw Reid to Afghanistan. Buty Bear. BURGLAR OR POLITICIAN ? To poss PoLtisMan, New York: tell mister gold if he gits nommination and promis toe be nex prezzydint, I giv him bak is bildin, adres looseyanna returnin bored. CLy Faker. WHAT CAN THIS MEAN? Jay Goutp: I know where your disreputable building is, and can influence its restoration (without editor) at once on your causing a copy of the Tribune to be published denying the truth of the cipher dispatches and expressing your confidence in the integrity of Samuel J. Tilden, the rightful President of the United States. S.A.M.M. Y. WHO CAN THIS BE? Watt Street SHark, Esq.: State in the most public manner that you are a fraud, and then 1’ll send you back Mr. White- law Reid; but the building about which we hear so much never existed legitimately. It was a de facto newspaper office. It is gone. Cav. With our compliments. PUCK. Pe es Tus SeTTLe tHE Business? To the’ Editor of Puck: “We ‘have given Mr. Jay Gould information as to the manner in which he can recover the Tribune Building, viz., by turning over to ex- Secretary Robeson five millions of dollars for the encouragement of Wall Street ‘ bucket- shops.”’ He has not done as we have requested, and now we couldn't give bim the building back if we wished, for it no longer exists, It has been carefully taken to pieces, brick by brick, which have been mailed to former sub- scribers of the Z7ibune. Of Mr. Whitelaw Reid we have made a handsome package, and have shipped it to Europe. ‘The other mem- bers of the staff are in Boston, where they'll probably stay; the atmosphere of the place being more congenial than New York to their massive intellects, The motive for our action is simple—we had none. Company “A,” LATER. Cuicaco, Nov, 19th—6 P.M. A man named David Davis, said to be a United States Senator, was arrested on suspi- cion of having the 7ribune Building concealed about his person. He is now being investi- gated. LATEST FROM POLICE HEADQUARTERS. Superintendent Walling had_his breakfast this morning in a most significant manner. ‘This is attributed to the discovery of a new clue. At lunch he blew his nose two consecu- tive times with a new silk handkerchief, and an hour afterwards was observed engaged in a mysteriaus conversation with an. elegantly- dressed lady with a large bundle under her arm. Some ill-bred people assert that the bun- ned the Superintendent's soiled ind that the lady in question was his rwoman. But this, of course, is scarcely consistent with previous developments. } A PROBABLE SUGGESTION. New York, Nov. 18th. To the Editor of Puck: | Sir—Mr. J. Gould's building is in a Barrel of. | whiskey you will find it if youtake the head Off the head of the Barrel I mean not the building it is in a good state. of preservation And is coopered with'two hoops the whiskey is not Fit to drink Dan’ « 5 Yours respfly.¢- J. Jans. FROM ONE OF THE B'HOYS. Bowry Noo York, Nov. 18. Ole Man Puck: How you wos, i seen You wos a-lookin’ fur de ‘trybune Biden, i no hoo as it. it was de Mackerlvil gang done it, Dey is all gallus boyz, i aint jined no gang nor i dont Care wot no snoozer sez, i aint done no Sech a snide ting, dem fellers wos too Fresh to steal dat bilden, dats wy I giv em away, dey orter Pull down deir vest, i am boss yoors, ‘Terry. A GENUINE CIPHER. Zyx wy uts rgp onm Ikj ihgfed cba.§ “EM SWEET. Vassar Coucece, Nov. 17, '78. Lo the Editor of Puck (that dear Puck!): Dear Sir—I think it was horrid—don’t you? —to steal that Darling Man, Whitelaw Reid— Whitey —we girls call him—I have’ read his lovely editorials, and think them so sweet—Do you really—really—think they will neger find him again? I should never be happy again— if I thought so—dv él? me, you dear, dear, darling Puck! Marie ANGELINA SaitH, Scientifics, '79, FASHION’ S FOLLIES. COSTUMES OF THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. Tue PovicHingLte. Tue CLEOPATRA. Fancy needlework. Tue TEMPTER, A la Paradise. comicbooks.com