Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-20
HE WANTED TO ELoPE.
Remarkable Adventure of Befogged
Club Man Who saw a Pretty Woman
in Cab.
From Tie Nlln YORK Sun.

in a Cab.
From tie Neio York Sun.
/ A rather dissipated-loOking man in
evening dress stood on the southeast
corner of Thirtieth street and Broadway
shortly before / o'clock yesterday morn
ing with his hat on the back of his head,
and his hands thrust deep in his trousers
pockets. He blinked solemnly at the half
dozen electric lights which glare at that
particular spot. He is member of the
Union Club, tall, thin, and of an aristo-
cratic cast Of features. There was no
doubt that he was heavily befOgged.
4 cab ratified down Broadway, turned
into Thirtieth street, and stopped within
10 feet of where the dissipated and waVer-
ing rOunder stood looking defiance at the
electric lights. The door Of the cab
opened, and a stout man clambered out
and pattered down to a famous beer sa-
loon few doors below the corner. The
waVering eyes of the man in evening
dress gradually sank from the electric
lights to the top of the claimants
hat. Then they arrived at the cab
mans eyes. That functiOnary touched
his hat, grinned, and said, "GOod even
| ing" The club man ACKNOWLEDGED the
salute with very dignified and portentous
duck of the head, and brought his eyes
down to the level Of the cab door. Then
he Strengthened up, screwed a glass in his
eye with difficulty, and stared. A pretty
woman was looking out of the door of the
cab at him. He raised one gloved hand
carelessly and tOyed with the eastern end
Of his moustache. Then suddenly his
face lightened up with new idea.
"Le's LOPEZ" said he to the pretty
woman in the cab. and then jumped for
ward, hallOOed to the driver TO get away,
pulled himself into the cab as it started
away, and slammed the door.
Al that very instant the stout man, who
had had his nightcap Of beer, emerged
from the place a few doors below the cor
ner, and uttered a yell that brought the
sleepy guests in the sixth story of the
Gilsey House to the windows. Mean
while the cab was rafting briskly down
Thirtieth street toward Fifth avenue with
duet Of feminine shrieks and mascu-
line XpOstulatiOns, together with the tail
of dove-colored OVercoat flying frcm the
door.
A group of men who had been standing
on the opposite corner joined the chase,
and the whole party pursued the cab,
most of them not having the remOtest idea
Of what they were doing it for. Several
members of the Calumet Club reinforced
the party, which grew to such a bowling
mob by the time the cab arrived at the
corner of Twenty-ninth street and Fifth
avenue that the driver pulled up his horse
and turned a deprecating and agreeable
smile at the policeman who happened
around the corner. The stout man, in
spite of his weight, was the first on the
ground. He dived into the door as though
putting his head into a cataract, and came
out backward very much tangled up in
the arms of the swell. Both men danced
around for a moment, and then they
caught sight of each others faces and
slowly dropped their hands. 1t was a
grievOus- looking club man that stood
there in the glare of the electric light. HIS
collar had been turned completely away
from his shirt, his face was slightly
scratched, and his hat battered, but be
was serene, tranquil, and blase. He
looked at the fat man quizZically for a
moment and then said:
Chilly, didn't know you could run sho
fas'v
The other, who was recognized as a
theatrical manager, said nothing.
"WhO's tn girl, BillyY asked the other
man, feeling vaguely for that end of his
collar which rose straight from the back
of his neck.
''My wife," said the stout man sternly.
The club man dropped both hands at
his side and looked at his friend for
long time in absolute silence. Suppressed
SObs came from the cab. The dudes and
FOUNDERS grinned, the policeman moved
forward, and the cabman. who presided
over it all with the expression of one who
enjoys a good joke, beamed more pleas
antly than ever at the prospect of fight.
Silence continued so long that when the
great bell in DR.. OrmistOn's church
changed / O'Clock everybody started ner-
Vously. Then the club man said thickly:
"Billy, thishshimply disgustin'. Phi
apologize tO-morrer mornin', am if ever
'lope again.