Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1908 — Gotham's Limited Shake. [ARTICLE]

Gotham's Limited Shake.

“If there is any one thing irritates me,” said a Chicago man who was spending a few days In the metropolis, “it is the habit that Borne of you New Yorkers have contracted of giving one or two fingers in place of the full hand shake. I’ve had the experience half a dozen times this trip, and I’m heartily tired of it Of course, as a rule, the person who so greets you has something in his right hand —papers or what not —when the salutation is exchanged; but why, in the name of common sense, doesn’t he dispose of the impedimenta for a brief moment of friendliness? We think that we hustle out in the Windy City, and as a matter of fact we do, but we aren’t In such an all-fired hurry that we can’t take time off to give a decent grasp."