The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-02-24
What Zach. Chandler Found in
arntf q Hack,

FIVE children, and nurse. The economical
member Of Congress packed his family in
one hack at 0 p. M, and drove to Wizards.
They had been car riding for many nights
and days, and were in CONSEQUENCE exceed
ingly fatigued.
Arriving at Wizards they paid tle back
man, ordered their trunks of, and trudged
wearily, half asleep, into that famous car
avansary. The husband, wife, and four
children were escorted in the supper room,
after which, elevated by the coffee and ele-
vator they were carried beyond the juris-
diction of the Board of Public Works to
rooms under the roof When the good
lady entered her bedroom, she encountered
the nurse, and both exclaimed
"Where's Bobby P'
Why, miss" said the nurse, "I
thought you had him.
Nancy" screamed the Mrs. M. G.,
'didn't you fetch him in9''
"No, mum had the three carpet
sacks, the cloaks, baby's clothes, and
thought you had him."
Now Bobby was the baby,an the fright
full discovery was made that the bady had
been left in the hack There was a frantic
rush for the elevator and the stairs. The
insane M. c., tried to burst open the door
so as to precipitate himself down the we'll
He then pulled away at the bell until he
broke it; then shouting "Firev' rushed
down after his wife and four children, who
by this time were in the clerks Office try
ing to make the corpuent and amiable Mr..
Bagley understand the horrible situation.
Some one suggested the telegraph, and
all the police stations were advised of this
loss of Congressional infancy. But the
worst part of it was that the crazy repre-
sentative could not remember the number
of the hack, and the hacks are not remark
able for their ready return of lost parcels.
In the meantime the unhappy husband
made short excursion into the neighbor-
hood. He hurried through the hacks on
the hack stands and had all the retired con-
60 and search for the lost child for two and
a half hours. Each one was ready to make
affidavit that he knew the hack, and one
driver, who ought to have been hung long
ago, swore that he heard the child cry as
the hack drove by. From the hack stand
the husband hurried to Newspaper Row,
and stirred up the Bohemians to the high
est pitch of excitement by his tale of woe.
The corpulent Ramsdell sat down and
wept Adams blew his nose, while Boyn-
ton philosophically remarked that the loss
of baby was somebody's gain, and Pres
ton added that it was loss easily repair
ed and SO the night wore on.
What became of that hack, with the
precious little burden, is the most inter
esting part Of the narrative. 1t seems that
our old friend Zach. Chandler, the Michi-
gander, who goes incoming about at all
sorts of late hours, found himself on Four
and-a-half street in such state of absent
mindedness that he couldn't tell where he
was or where he ought to be. In these
emergencies he instinctively called hack.
All the hackmen in town knew the great
Michigandcr, and entirely regardless of
what he orders or says, they invariably
drive him home, stopping at all the sample
rooms and bars on the way. On this occa-
sion he halted hack, and getting in, said
as he did so rd
"Takeme' 'omed-nyou ~
Sitting down upon the back seat, he was
startled by wild cry that almost sobered
him. This will sound like exaggeration,
but it's a fact. 1t came very near being
case Of spoiled child, for old Zach. had
hinged two hundred pounds of Senatorial
beef and whiskey on the lost child Of the
lower House, He started up with such
violence that his head struck the top of the
hack, nearly bouncing the driver off his
seat, more, however, with astonishment
than jolt .a
Old Zach. resolved himself into an in
vestigating committee, and, sitting down
on the front seat, felt around. He gather
ed up the child, and for minute sat turn
ing the situation over in his gigantic intel
lect, then, sticking his head out Of the
window, he shouted with that voice which
has made the British lion trembIe
" Driyebg bgo'omequick- ve-got-a-baby."
AS the infant continued its screaming the
driver had no doubt as to the truth Of this
startling revelation, and so tore along the
street at frightful rate, considering that
his team consisted Of one vicious kicker
and one runaway. Pulling up at the pala-
tial mansion, the great Michigander tum-
lied n,,t and rnnhad in with the child in