Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-25

natured scowl and peevish glance of his
bright little eyes causes her to move
aside. He patters up Broadway at the
top of his speed, humping with his stick
and coughing rapidly, until he gets to
Twenty-ninth street, when he whlrls
around the corner and hurries down TO-
ward DR.. Houghton's church. Here he
wanders along by the fence, hitting
viciOusly at the grass and shrubbery be-
tween the Stats, and staring with the
same excited air at the '.Little
Church Around the Corner" He stands
here but few minutes, then he hurries
down Broadway again. The people who
were jOstled by him make way for him on
his return. He seems to take perverse
delight IN walking on the wrong side Of
the sidewalk so as to be contrary to the
crowd. When he reaches Fourteenth
street he whiTls round with rapidity
which makes people stare, and hurries
back again until he gets to Twenty-ninth
street. Then he once more takes up his
monOtOnouS race down town. His ap-
pearauce has not altered in any apprecia-
bic degree for fifteen years, and he acts
now precisely as he did fifteen years ago.
All the habitual walkers on Broadway
make way for him good ma
turedly. He is looked upon
more or less as a crank. No one seems
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business is. Two men who mad nothing
else to do saw him dodge down Fourteenth
street one afternoon, after his rush up and
down Broadway. He stumped steadily
westward until he got to Ninth avenue ;
then he turned and looked up the street.
Suddenly he saw that the two men were
following him, and he started eastward up
Eighteenth street. When be arrived at
Fifth avenue he turned abruptly to the
TIulf locker n his fA1lnCrArc nd Inv nT
into his old route through Seventeenth
street TO Broadway. There he was lost in
the crowd, and was not seen again that
afternoon.
A woman who for a long while puzzled
and interested people on Broadway. and
who disappeared suddenly, is still a
mystery often referred to. She was short,
quite stout, and very dark. She might
have been the wife of a Malay pirate. a
New Orleans octOroon, an Indian snake
charmer, the widow of a Mexican greaser.
or Thompson street voudoO queen. She
wore little cap over very dalk and
glossy hair, and dressed in a plain black
or brown satin dress. She wore low slip
pers laced with black ribbons over her
instep, and her little black hands We're
covered with peculiar rings. Every after
noon for weeks she wandered up and
down Broadway for an hour or two, look
ing curiOusly in at the shop windows. She
never looked at the passers by, and
she was quiet, digniied and reserved.
After a month or two she was joined
in her walks in the afternoon by tall
English woman, who had pale but regu-
larly formed face, and dressed with perfect
taste. She looked in every sense like an
English lady, and was very reserved and
austere. She and the little black woman
strolled every day up and down the great
thoroughfare, looking interestedIy into
the windows, and paying no attention
whatever TO the passers by. Even an ac-
cident in the street failed to attract their
attention, and their voices were so low
that even the tongue they spoke could not
be distinguished. They were together for
three years, neither altering in appear
ance, and then they disappeared one day,
and the writer has never seen them since.
Thousands of people have specialized as
to the history of the two strange women
and the nervous little old man.