The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-17
A ROMANCE OF THE BRIDGE.

A New York Times historian $50 he
says vas recently engaged in a little
"oueration' with Frank James and
Henry James JT., i'm an attempt TO rob
the mail and Obtain a letter which con-
tanned pointer on Western Union i'm
transit from JAY Gould To the Princess
of Madagascar. 70 effect this happy
result the drivers of all the mail wagons
were chlorOformed, and the mail was
hurricdly searched. The letter looked
for was not discovered; it was after
ward asccrlajncd that Mr.. Gould had
used n postal card u but the historian
found the following document which
sufficiently explains itself The letter
was addressed to "a young lady i'm Mil
waukcc, whose name isWithhc,d ior the
sake of the historian $ relatives, who are
dependent upon him for support 1t
reads thus:
AsroU HOUSE, NEW YouK. NOV. H.
My DAEIINGEST KATE am sure
you viii forgive me for waiting three
whole hours before writing. when / re
late the occurrences of this morning
II is SO romantic, Just like one of Miss
Braddou's stories for all the world.
Now please promise me, dear Kate. not
toskip,down 70 where the intcrestingpart
of the letter BEG but read it right
Hll I'M III bN- H. on ! Slll UtA ct lOI-
give you. You will, won't you?
Well, we had am awfully stupid trip
down here, the only pleasant incident
was when q fat woman fell out of a top
berth onto the porter, who was crawl
ing under our berth, right opposite, aft
or pas shoes. Pa haze tried to hide his
shoes, you know, SO as not to have to
pay the porter for polishing them, but
II was no use. The old lady gave him
n quarter lthC porter, not pa) for being
there when she fell out. There was alb
solutely no one ON the train worth
speaking to, and so | was awfullv glad
when we reached New \ ork at last, lust
a little moro than three hours ago. But
what an awful lot of things have oc-
cured in these three hours!
Kate, it seems like fate that pa
brought us with him to New York. You
see, we came to the Astor House be
Cau-c pa has to transact business down
town, but of course You don't know
that the Astor House is down town,
after all. But it is, though. We were
landed in the Grand Central Station,
and when pa and ma and Toby
could Just Slap that child. he's such a
hOrrid nuiSanCc-ani | came out into
the street, | really thought, Kate, that
those Cabmcn would Uut MS into their
horrid old cabs. IA had to pun like
everything Go get his valiSe away from
one of them. and he did look ridicu-
lous. Anybody could tell that ne and
ma and Toby didn't belong in New
York, they acted $3.50 Interested i'm
everything, but Just behaved as if !
had always lived here only 1cW admit
that | thought the glass box they put
tickets it ON the elevated railroad sta
ton was an icc-crcam freezer. and asked
pa, so that man heard me, what in
the world they wanted 10 sell cream
for ut this me OF year. How that hOr-
rid man, that heard me, did roar, I
don see that he had much TO laugh
about though His ovcrcoat was
awfully shabby. But l really don't
know what l am writing all this non
sense for. | started To write about the
Brooklyn bridge and how we went
across. Ia was awiuliy anxious to see
the bridge, and the slccpiuw-car con
duCtor told HIM that it was right at the
end of the eicYatCd railroad. and so ia
said we Il 90 down on the elevated and
90 across the bridge before we went to
the hotel, as we'd sent all the baggage
down.
Kate, YOU have no lea what a fright
ful sensation it is riding over the Gle
waited railroad. First we went a little
way in one car and then got of and
waited for a long train. and then we
went down an awful way in the train,
and finally had to climb over great
high bridge, level with the roofs OF the
highest building. and take another
train. We rode an the way even with
the second story windows OF the houses,
and I should hate to have to live i'm
one of those rooms. You know You
.,-bf fv1 "a a -.
TTnn,t YOU ever tell if l tell YOU some
T,;nrp Wen, actually say "A man in
na Of those rooms | almost blush
On | write il in his SHIRT SiecrcS.
NJ Won remember we have always
I'D omd that New York people are awful
Ne fastP | guess that's pretty true.