New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-05
Marmo and MORA. The wound Of Bisso IS not
serious.
GETTING LOST rs A BUSINESS.

The champion "stray" woman lives at lis Green
wch-st., this city. Bridget Finnegan IL hcr name
she is rcputed to be 1903 years DID, and she gets Iost
on an average four or five times week. In conse,
auence her face Is familiar at police stations al
over the city and at Police Headquarters. ne
regular announcement in the police returns OF her
recovery in the street has the stereotyped appeo1
Returned to her friends at Is Greenwich-st."
reporter who hid read this statement twenty
times at least, made it his business 10 caI ng
friends one morning 20 enjoy with them tno oi9
lady's last recovery. He was somewhat suIprIseu
by his reception He arrived just as the cenlenaIia
had been lost again, for the second Tune Inat uay
Or rather had .tarted out to get lost stout Vi
woman modify surveying dish nali-niIou
with potatO-parinos was the most conspicuous
object in the second floor room. This was MIs.
McGnnes' age sixty-ive, the centenarians Only
living daughter. She was not in good huinor
And, indeed" she said, with bitter emphasis
when the reporter stated his errand. IT ~ sorry
would see INC dead by me brothers 1t is crazy she
is driving me- sure, entirely, Win her
ways. l am just sick OF her; ara
To fell Won the truth don't care where she goes SO
she don't killed in the street. 1t is 'aing her good
dinner she's been doing this blessed minute, and
'ating like a wolf and now she's gone W get ioS'
again Ouch"
of her grievances to the astonshed reporter, from
which it appeared that the venerable BrldgeI was
as much of nuisance to her family as 70 the long
suffering police. Old she is she is descrloed as
o woman OF most violent temper. tnat breaks OUT on
the slightest provocatiOn. According to her daugn-
ter when she comes nome ana mus IhS uoot
locked, she rouses the entire neighborhood WIN
her shrieks of murder and blows on the door.
There is peace in the household only when sne Is IN
the street getting lost. Happily this 10 the RUE
rather than the exception. or eleven years, Sdys
Mrs. McGinness, she has followed the occup9-
ton OF getting lost as business nnu,
generally Iesenting the interference OF the ponce
man when recovered" has always decidedly oD
jected to being returned to her home. Ier ehieI
ambition next to collecting practical sympathy IN
the shape of small COINS from people III tlie soreeO
who pity her. Is to 90 to the Poorhouse on BLACK
frequently that the authorities felt called
upon TO exclude her her daughter being D0tn aDle
and willing to pay for her support II she could De
persuaded to remain iii any one pace. On her lasU
visit TO the P0Orhouse she even tegned sickness.
and demanded TO be taken to the hospital wheh her
nephew appeared to take her PACK IoI se
Mrs Finnegan is apparently well cared Ior
at home. When in her daughters mouse
her time is divided between eating, sleeping, anu
until recently lighting with an aged hOusekeeper,
who now is dead. Since that sad event she gers
lost even more frequently than usual III Oruer
10 make up her necessary daily amount OF e4clOer
ment. Mrs. Finnegan Is patNe oi
Parish Dannewlnd, County Monaghan Ire
land. Her exact age Is not on fecoIu,
but there appears from collateral testimony
to DC no reason to doubt that it Is over one hundred
wears She has been in thus country twenty hLhe
years. Her three sons served IN inc war VI tno
Rebellion in the Union Army and all dled from
diseases contracted the field. OI her daughters,
Mrs McGuness is the ony survivor. oHe
is "A widow Mrs Finnegan, despite hef great aye, 10
robust aud active. From present appearance sno
bids fair to disappOlnt ner daughter, VINO ueclaioS
that if mother was gone she woulu NC H.'yy Srba
she only had month TO ENJOY her peace III. ino
aged women is Ignorant and, strange 10 say I
moi remember ever TO have heard about the HlsD
Revolution or Daniel OConneil