The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-17

why, WnOle lamllleS frequent the Sa-
looms together. l know it because
every saloon we passed had a family
entrance. Isn't it shocking? / should
hate to live here because l haven't the
slightest doubt that if we did Toby
, would grow up to drink beer.
But haven't told YOU a word about
the bridge yet When we finally got
down to what they call the "City Hall
Station it was about eight O'Clock in
the morning you see we got in on n
very early train and everybody was
rushing down town in such a hurry
that we thought that there must be a
1 fire, and pa n kcd policeman about it,
/ 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 it
/ wasn't a depot. it was the BROOKLYN
/ br Dig. Pa told the policeman he'd
! better not try to guy him. because he
was acquainted with his superiors. and
/ that horrid poll .cman actually told pa
/ 70 20 and fall of the dock, and said
/ he letter tie a string to himself or
] he Get lost. Then ma said very dig
niied 10 the policeman that he was an
! lmpudent wretch. and do YOU know
what that policeman did? He told ma
/ TO pull down h vest, | was never 50
/ shocked in my life, Then we asked
another policeman where the bridge
was. and sure enough that was the
bridge we were standing by.
Pa said we'd walk across and then ride
/ back, and SO we started in where Il lot
| OF horses and wagons were coming out,
and two m re policemen stopped us
never aW Uch an awful lot OF police
men rs there were around there and
told us to go in further up through the
ticket Office. 50 pa took hold Of
ma and ma grabbed Toby by the middle
of his arm. and we went i'm and had to
pay five cents apiece. Then we climbed
a high fight OF stairs and came to n
place where there was railroad track
and q side track beside it.and VIC walked
out to the end of that sidewalk, and pa
asked another policeman ii it wasn't
/ dangerous to walk out on the railroad
| track, and the policeman told Us there q
be car there in a minute. Pa told him
! he wanted to walk across and he told
us to go down the stars and back
/ through the Ckct-Ollicc and get our
money back, and then 90 through the
next gate and only pay one cent apiece.
Pa said the facilities OF the bridge were
very poorly arranged, and we went back
and got into the ID Lht place at last. Pa
U N'ub ltlto tA'~tttt'lN'S ANA ldihctl 20 lOuti
about the bridge being a monument for
all ages that everybody stopped to look
at him. 1t was simply grand, and after
all l had heard about the bridge | was
not prepared to find such an absolutely
/ immense structure. We could look right
/ straight ahead, il seemed for a mile, up
the broad pathway with Il stone parapet
ON either side, clearup to a great tower,
with an arch, through which the road
way led. And that tower was only <he
first pier of the bridge After that cane
the tremendous span high in mid-as
/ across the river, and then another tab
tower, and the same long descent down
the Brooklyn streets.
There were whole crowds of people
coming over from Brooklyn and, on
roadway a little below the path for foot
! passengers, wagons and trunks, and
butchers and bakers carts and car
riagcS and coUpcS were Gathering down
to the str, ct, on one side, and starting
up the incline toward BROOKLYN on the
other, 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
and umbrellas and patent leather shoes,
! and the sweetest little short overcoats
YOU ever saw. | wish Howard Smith
would wear one of those coats, though
| don't know rs | need to care what
he wears after what has happened this
morning but l haven't got to that vet.
(Now please don't skip down TO that
placcD There wcrO lots of other peO-
pie coming over besides young men
though, aud You never saw such lot
of shop Girls. m glad I'm not shop
girl. It must bc perfectly horrid to
walk on the streets with your luncheon
done up in Il paper. | should think
they could carry il some way SO people
wouldn't know what it WAS DO you
remember how Howard Smith used to
carry his dinner in an opora-glass case?
His sister said that he almost starved to
death before his salary was raised, be-
cause he Conduit afford to buy his
luncheon down town and didn't have
time to come home at noon: and he
would not carry enough luncheon down
To his Office for fear ne might be taken
for "a person that had to work for a living.
if people could see the parcel. But some
OF those shop GIRLS were real pretty, and
some of them were awfulIy Jolly and
fun of fun, and were laughing and tell
inc stories and smiling Mt some of shOse
young men. But there were some of
them who looked SO faded and worn
out, Their faces appeared so weary
and sad. rs if they had nothing TO live
for and not half enough to eat, and they
seemed SO Unattractive and bitter that
/ | couldu' help plying them awfully,
and they've 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 to
the second stories Of the houses, and
then TO the third and fourth stories, and
finally even with the roofs, and then
higher and higher until we looked
down on the roofs, and still higher and
higher, until we were far above the
tallCSt factory chimncys, and the peo-
pie i'm the streets below looked like
little black dolls. and the great build
ings like railroad ears. The chimncys
and roofs and sides of the houses on
both sides of the bridge were covered
with all kinds of advertisements of all
kinds of medicines and all kinds of all
kinds of things. But when we had
passed the great pier and come out on
the span of the bridge over the river
the view in both directions was abso-
lutcly glorious. To the south the sun
was sparkling on the waters of the
river, clear down into the BAY, and
through the Narrows, far, far out into
the vast ocean, which stretched away
and away until the soft blue blended
with the azure of the sky. On both
sides of us the harbor was forest Of
mastS, and the two cities lay spread far
out to the east and west. Beneath us
but 50 far below that they sccmed like
toyS-vcSsels of all descriptions were
steaming and putting up and down the
river and in and out from the piers;
fcrry-boats, bargcs, steamers. schoonerS,
] liSLimn-.mncks- rnM-hnntS and snilinnc