[ X.—THE COOKING OF CRAZY BUTCH ]

[ XI.—BIG MIKE ABRAMS ]

[ XII.—THE GOING OF BIFF ELLISON ]


THE APACHES OF NEW YORK


I.—EAT-'EM-UP JACK

Chick Tricker kept a house of call at One Hundred and Twenty-eight Park Row. There he sold strong drink, wine and beer, mostly beer, and the thirsty sat about at sloppy tables and enjoyed themselves. When night came there was music, and those who would—and could—arose and danced. One Hundred and Twenty-eight Park Row was in recent weeks abolished. The Committee of Fourteen, one of those restless moral influences so common in New York, complained to the Powers of Excise and had the license revoked.