The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-09-12
LIVELY SPORT.
Chasing a Texas Steer Through the Streets
of New York.

Chasing a Texas Steer Through the Streets
Of New York.
An exciting chase after q wild Texas
steer in the streets of New York is thus
described by local paper: At Fifth
avenue the beast charged on party of
women and children returning from
Central Park. Before reaching them
his attention was attracted by passing
omnibus, and, paving the ground with
his hoofs, elevating his tail in the air,
and lowering his horns, he started afterit.
The horses plunged with terror, but
the bull, changing his mind, took shy
at q young man with dark-blue coat
and red necktie, who was passing on
the east side of the street, and who
sought safety by running into an area
way and hiding behind the half-open
iron grating. Then the crowd from the
west side came up, and the Texan, Civ
ing up his belligerent demonstrations,
turned and trotted off down Forty-ninth
street. A block or two higher up he
crossed one of the Central railroad
bridges over Fourth avenue, pausing at
the top to placidly contemplate the
passing trains beneath him. The
shouts and stones from the crowd drove
him on. At Third avenue he turned
into Sixty-ffth street, the throng be-
hind him becoming larger and noisier
every minute. Carts, drays, empty ice
wagons, cabs and buggies, and even
street-sweeping carts fresh from the
dumps joined in the "bull hunt" the
drivers cheering and whipping up their
horses, in order to be in ut the death.
Near Second avenue another policeman
emptied his revolver at the Texan, but
without effect. The smoke had not
cleared away before the now-thorough-
ly-roused brute sprung at a party
of workmen engaged on the sewers at
Sixty-ffth street and Second avenue.
The workmen lodged behind piles of
earth, when the Texan, seeing a woman
in red shawl in house, made dive
for her, tearing off portion of win
dow shutter of the house. Through
Gill & Boards stone yard he rushed in
to the boulevard, and, turning north
ward, assembled a knoll to the north of
Sixty-sixth street. At the base of the
knoll the crowd paused, but boy of
Is, with a Sharpe's rifle, and a red
shirted butcher, with closely ground
knife, led the attack. The flank of the
advancing army was covered by mount
ed police, and several policemen from
the Fifty.ninth street station acted as a
reserve. The bull was driven off the
height after getting ball. in his left
hind leg. He retreated into Braun's
bathing establishment at the foot of
East Sixty-ffth street, causing rapid
stampede among the bathers, who were
equally afraid of being gored by the
bull and being hit by some one OF the
fusilading party of police, and volun-
teers behind them. The Texan jumped
the fence dividing the bathing estab-
ishment from the park at one bound,
and. after skurrying among the trees,
lay down on the green sward alongside
of two yearling heifers belonging to Mr..
Braun The boulevard outside was
black with people, who were kept from
entering by the mounted police. The
boy with the Sharpe's rifle, the butcher
and three of the police crossed the
fence and began to close in on the
steer, whereat he rose, and, lowering
his horns, caused another stampede
among the attacking party. One of the
policemen climbed tree about fifty feet
from the bull and shook his white hand
kerchief at him. Revolver shots were
fired, but without effect. Finally Will
Jordan, the youth with the rifle, fired
from behind tree and hit the animal
under the fore shoulder, bringing him
to his knees. Jordan advanced, and,
putting the rife to the animals head,
| fired a second time. Then the butcher
came up and let the blood out by cut
ting across the Texans broad, glossy
throat with his knife. The crowd
cheered, and the grass for six feet
around was dyed with blood. Jordan
claimed the carcass, which was worth
about $50