West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-01-18

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high bridge. level with the roofs OF the
highest building, and take anott or
train. We rode all the waY even with
the second story windows oil the houses.
and l should hate TO have To live i'm
Que OF those rooms. You know YOU
can look right in and see everything.
Won you ever tell ii tell YOU some
thingP Well, | actually say man in
one OF those rooms almost blush
when | write it in his shirt SleeCeS.
Don't you remember we have ALWAYS
heard that New York people are awful
iy fast? | guess that's pretty true.
why, whole families frequent the sa-
looms together. / know il because
every saloon We passed had family
entrance. Isn't it shocking? | should
hate To live here because haven't the
slightest doubt that if we did Toby
would grow up TO drink beer.
But haven't told YOU word about
the bridge yet. When we finally got
down 20 what they call the "City Hall
station 1t was about eight o'clock in
the morning you see we got in on Il
very early train and everybody was
rushing down town in such hurry
that we thought that there must be- a
lire. and pa rs ked policeman about il,
and the policeman said it was only men
In hurry TO get to their Offices Then
pa asked the policeman what that was
we were standing by, and he said il
wasn't depot. it was the BROOKLYN
bridge. Pa told the policeman he d
better not try to guy him. because he
was acquainted with his superiors, and
that horrid policeman actually told pa
TO 90 and fall of the dock, and said
he Better tie string TO himself or
he get lost. Then ma said very dig
nllled to the policeman that he was an
lmpudent wretch, and do YOU know
what that policeman did? He told ma
TO pull down her vest. ! was never so
shocked in my life! Then we asked
another policeman where the bridge
was ana sure enough that was the
bridge we were standing by.
Pa said we walk across and then ride
back, and so we started i'm where n lot
OF horses and wagons were coming ont.
and two more policemen stopped us
L never saw auch an awful lot of police
men as there were around there and
told us TO go in further up through the
ticket Office. So pa took hold of
ma and ma grabbed Toby by the middle
OF ms arm, aud we went i'm and had to
pay 1--we cents apiece. Then we climbed
n high flight OF stairs and came to n
place where there was a railroad track
and side track beside it. and we walked
out to the end of that sidewalk, and pa
asked another policeman if it wasn't
dangerous to walk out on the railroad
track, and the policeman told us there Il
be car there in a minute. Pa told him
ne wanted to walk across, and he told
us To 90 down the stairs and back
through the t;cket-oilice and get our
money back, and then 90 through the
next gate and only pay one cent apiece.
ia SAID the facilities OF the bridge were
very poorly arranged, and we went back
and got into the right place at last. Pa
went into ecstacies and talked so loud
about the bridge being monument for
all ages that everybody stopped to look
at HIM. 1t was simply grand, and after
all had heard about the bridge was
not prepared to find such an absolutely
immense structure. We could look RIGHT
straight ahead, ii seemed for n mile. IN
the broad pathway with a stone parapet
on either side, cleanup to great tower.
with an arch, through which the road
way led. And that tower was only the
first pier of the bridge After that came
the tremendous span high in mid-air
across the river, and then another tall
tower, and the same long descent down
the Brooklyn streets
There were whole crowds of people
coming over from Brooklyn. and, on
roadway little below the path for foot
passengers, wagons and trunks, and
butchers and bakers carts and car
rlagcs and coupes were Gathering down
to the str ct, on one side, and starting
up the incline toward BROOKLYN on the
o her, and then the cars ran on both
sides OF us, too. There were any num-
Der OF awfully swell young fellows COM
ing over from Brooklyn, all in the
greatest hurry, with nice little canes
ana umbrellas and patent leather shoes.
and the sweetest little short overcoats
you ever saw. i wish Howard Smith
would wear one of those coats, thouoh
don't know as | need to care what
he wears after what has happened this
mOning-but / haven't got to that vet.
(Now please don't skip down TO that
placeD There wero lots of other peo-
pie coming over besides young men
though, and you never saw such n lot
of shop girls. I'm glad I'm not a shop
girl. 1t must be perfectly hOrrid to
walk on the streets with Your luncheon
done up in paper ! should think
they could carry IL some way so people
wouldn't know what IL was. DO You
remember how Howard Smith used to
carry his dinner in an opcra-glass case ?
hi- sister said that he almost starved to
death before his salary was raised. be-
cause he couldn't afford TO buy his
luncheon down town and didn't have
time 10 come home at noon. and he
would not carry enough luncheon down
10 bis office for fear he might be taken
for person that had TO work for living.
II people could see the parcel. But some
OF those shop girls were real pretty. and
some OF them were awfully ioliy and
full Of fun, and were LAUGHING and tell
Ing stories and smiling at some Of those
young men. But there were some Of
them who looked so faded and worn
out! Their faces appeared so weary
and sad, IS if they had nothing TO live
Tor and not half enough 10 eat. and they
seemed so unattractiyc and bitter that
] couldn't help plying them awfullv.
and they We been on my mind ever
since.
Well, we walked up the bridge toward
the great tower. We started even with
The street, and gradually we got up 10
The second stories Of the houses. and
then FOO the third and fourth stories. and
finally even with the roofs. and then