The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-18
A ROMANCE OF THE BRIDGE.

a New Ork 1eneS historian $50 he
says) was recently engaged in little
operation" with Frank James and
Henry James Jr., in an attempt to rob
the mail and obtain letter which con-
tanned pointer on Western Union in
transit from Jay Gould to the Princess
of Madagascar To effect this happy
result the drivers of all the mail wagons
were chloroformed, and the mail was
hurriedly searched. The letter looked
for was not discovered; it was after
ward ascertained that Mr.. Gould had
used postal card-but the historian
found the following document which
sufficiently explains itself. The letter
was addressed to a young lady in Mil
waukee, whose name is withheld for the
sake of the historians relatives, who are
dependent upon him for support. 1t
reads thus:
AsToR HOUSE. NEW YORK, Nov. IA.
My DARLINGEST KATE.-I am sure
you will forgive me for waiting three
whole hours before writing. when l re-
late the occurrences of this morning.
1t is &c romantic, Just like one of Miss
BraddOa's stories for all the world.
toskipdown TO where the interesting part
of tie letter begins, but read it right
straight through, or shall never for
give you. You will, won't you?
Well. we had an awfully stupid trip
down here. the only pleasant incident
was when fat woman fell out of top
oerth onto the porter, who was crawl
ing under our berth, right opposite, aft
er pas shoes. Pa haG tried to hide his
shoes, you know, so as not to have to
pay the porter for polishing them. but
it was no use. The old lady gave him
8 quarter (the porter, not pay for being
there. when she fell out. There was alb
solutely no one on the train worth
speaking to. and SO was awfully glad
when we reached New York at last, lust
little more 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 Aston House be-
cause 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-I
could just slap that child, he's such a
horrid nuisance-and 1 came out into
the street. | really thought. Kate, that
those cabmen would put us into their
horrid Did cabs, Pa had to pull like
everything to get his valise away from
one of them, and he did look ridicu-
lous. Anybody could tell that he and
ma and Toby didn't belong in New
York, they acted $3.50 interested in
everything, but l Just behaved as if L
had always lived here. only sciU admit
that / thought the glass box they put
tickets it on the elevated railroad sta
ton was an ice-cream freezer, and asked
pa, so that man heard me, what in
the world they wanted to sell cream
for at this time of year. How that hor-
nd man. that heard me, did roar.
don't see that he had much to laugh
about though. His overcoat was
awfully shabby. But l really don't
know Whist 1 am writing all this nom
sense for. started to write about the
Brooklyns bridge and how we went
across. Pa was awfully anxious to see
the bridge. and the sfeeping-car con-
ductor told him that it was right at the
end of the elevated railroad, and so pa
said we'd 60 down on the elevated and
go across the bridge before we went to
the hotel, as we'd sent all the baggage
down.
Kate, you have no idea what fright
full sensation it is riding over the ele-
waited railroad. First we went . little
say in one car and then got of and