Poor Jimmy Clinton was in pretty hard luck May 19 in Brooklyn while attempting to umpire the second game of the championship series between the Brooklyn and St. Louis clubs. He made some pretty bad breaks and the crowd got on to him, and the more he tried to square himself the ranker be got until, by the close of the game, he had the cranks worked up to such a pitch that it required the combined efforts of the police and the players, all armed with clubs and headed by President Byrne to prevent him from being lynched. In fact, it was really the cunning of Byrne alone that saved him, as the energetic little gentleman restored peace by pouring oil on the troubled waters.

National Police Gazette, June 5, 1886.

An Underground Stale-Beer Dive Late at Night in Mulberry Bend.

The low concert halls and stale-beer dives offer the fullest field for night mission work. These vile places are most often in cellars. The rooms are small, the ceilings low, and the air is always full of the fumes of tobacco and stale beer. The men are thieves, loafers and “crooks” often of the most dangerous order. The women are of the most degraded type. Here beer and spirits are sold in buckets, pails and bottles, and the inmates spend what they have earned, begged, or stolen for these vile drinks. Children are often sent to these places for liquor.

Campbell, Helen, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas Byrnes. Darkness and daylight, or, Lights and shadows of New York life: a woman's pictorial record of gospel, temperance, mission, and rescue work "in His Name" .... Hartford, Conn.: A.D. Worthington, 1897.