Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-13
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER ID, 1884.
FROM THE VERY GREEN MOUNTAINS
The Sad Experience of a man Who Came
Down to See the Parade.


Down to See the Parade.
"No, sir, I'll be darned If l stay anoth-
or day in this town." said he TO the clerk
in the Metropolitan Hotel this morning,
as he paid his bill; this here's abOnt the
wusJ place on the airth. I reckon the
Lord made it out of the billed down Gus.
sedness that was left in the bottom of
tho kettle"
"what makes you think 80 badly of
New York;" asked the clerk, as he check
ed off the strangers name from the no
tel register.
Great Gosh, haven't had enough
happen to mep' excl aimed the stranger,
wiping the preparation from his fore
head with very red bOrdered handker-
chief, 81 came down h re last Monday
from Rutland, Vermont, to see the pa
races and to take in the political dOin's
durin' the week, which heard was gOin
to be mighty lively. Well after came
and registered at this hotel Saturday
night l reckOned I'd take stroll up
street to see what the town was like.
When got up to Union Square. | met
man who said he was stranger in the
city, and would like to know where the
Fifth Avenue Hotel was, Then tod
him was stranger, too, and as he was
very likely spoken man and seemed
real sOchible, we walked along together.
Finally we went into saloon and he
set up some champagne wine, and when
he come to pay for it he had no money
but check for $50. So he asked ME
what he could do with the darned thing,
and finally proposed that should cash
it, which | did to accommodate him. The
next day l found it wasn't with the
backin in the ink it was writ with.
Thet made me mad, and so 1 calk'lated
| wouldn't get took in agen. But yes
terday / went into two or three meetjns'
and yelled for Cleveland 30 much tibet |
felt awful dry and went iatO saloon
on Fourth Avenue, where some men
were playing euchre. I've always sOrter
reckOned could play strong hand at
that game, so l sat down on the invite
Of one of the players. But before got
away I'd lost $50 or more, for the way
them fellsrs always had the bowers was
a caution. Thet made me ravin' mad,
and all last night didn't speak to a
soul nor 60 any place for fear of bein'
took in somehow,
But this mornin' I couldn't stand it
any longer and so rugged up to take a
comfortable sight-seein' tower: around
the town. just stopped into one of
them big hotels on Madison Square to
write letter to the folks at hum to send
me enough money to do the "trip up ia
proper style, for the $40 had lost had
made me short. Invent into the readin'
room, took off my OvereOat, which was
brand new one, threw it over the back
of the cheer, and sat down on the tail Of
it while l wrote that letter. got 20 in
terested la tellin' the folks all Tdeseen
tibet forgot l was settin' on my own
coat, and 50 when felt a little jerk Oh
1t, just like polite man would give to
his coat il another man was sittin' right
on the tail Of it, l raised upSlike gem
tleman ought to do. Ten minutes after
wards finished my letter and begun
lOOkin' around for my coat, but it was
gone. 'ThnnderatiOnp says l, starin'
around. Where's my cOatT 'Whatp sed
an old gentleman who was readin'
newspaper near me was that your cOatP
of course it was sed /. 'Where'd it gO?'
WHY ssd he, nice lOokin' man cana
in a few minutes ago. and walkin'
straight up to the chair you were sittin
in, took the coat by the collar and gave
little pull. You raised up and throw
ing the coat over his arm sauntered out
well, sir, that coat had my pocket book
In its inside breast pocket, and all that
was left Of my money was in 1t. except
just enough to square up my bill here
and get back to Rutland, and I'm going
as fast as tho tra,n'll take me. An iiOn-
est man hesn't show in court like
this, when they steal even his coat from
under him, and you kin bet your bottom
shilin' I'll never come down here again.
politics or no politics"
Before the clerk could say good by the
stranger from Vermont was half way
over to the Houston street elevated sta
tiOn, on his way to the Grand Central
Depot York Telegram.