The
Onlooker
Alfred Henry Lewis
Editor
Vol. I NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1902 Part 2
"Sir Oliver, we
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wicked world, and
the fewer we praise
the better."
—Sir Peter Teazle.
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CONTENTS
Tammany and Its Missing Funds—
Mr. Nixon and his Failure—Mr.
Carroll's Troubles with Mr. Croker—
The Latter Gone for Good
POETRY
No Time Like To-Day
Artistic Disarray
AS YOU LIKE IT Fielders
Who Loves a Lord?—Killing for
Futurity—Mistake in Vocation—Foreign
Devils Again—Heaven or Hell—Adam
a Myth—Hurrah for Noah—Callow
Judgment—Champagne and "Champagne"
THE PLAY Jaques
LADY BETTY'S COMMENT Betty Stair
DRIFT OF THE DAY Skirving
THAT SMUGGLED SILK By the Old Lobbyist
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The Onlooker
Vol. I MAY 28, 1902 Part 2
The Casual Club
On last Thursday evening the CasualClub was gathered about a cornertable in Sherry's. The great roomwas beautiful, the music brilliant,the setting and table appointmentsmagnificent, and the dinner all that might beasked. There came but one thing to grievethe tempers of our members—the service wasslip-shod, inattentive, vile. One wondersthat so splendid an arrangement should beleft unguarded in the most important particularof service; that Sherry, when he hasdone so much, should permit himself to befoiled of a last result by an idle carelessnessof waiters, who if they do not forget one'sorders outright, execute them with all imaginablesloth. They attend on guests as thoughthe latter were pensioners, and are listless ineverything save a collection of the gratuity,personal to themselves, which their avariceand a public's weakness have educated themto expect.
Clams had occurred, and while we were discussingthese small sea-monsters, Fatfloatbroke suddenly forth. "I don't know if it bea subject for self-gratulation or no, but I observedthat the daily papers took quick noteof my statement that Tammany Hall was