St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-26
HE DECIDED TO GO AROUND.
Bill Nye Meets a Stranger Who
Tried to Cross Broadway.


Bill Nye in the New York W Orld:
Yesterday at $3.50 p. m., near the cor
ner of Fulton street and Broadway, a
middle-aged man might have been seen
removing his coat and wiping the
shoulders thereof with a large red
handkerchief of the Thurman brand.
There was a dash of mud in
his whiskers and erick in
his back. He had just sought to
cross Broadway, and the disap-
pointed ambulance had gone up street
to another call. He was a plain man,
with limited vocabulary, but he spoke
feelingly. l asked him if could be OF
any service to him and he said no, not
specially, unless would be kind enough
to go up under the back of his vest and
see if | could find the end of his Sus-
pender. | did that, and then held his
coat for him while he got in it again.
Then he walked down the east side OF
Broadway with me.
THAT'S twice I've tried to git acroSt
to take the Cortlandt street ferryboat
sence / o'clock, and he'd to give IL up
both Jimes,'' he said, after he has Sc
cured his breath.
$50 you don't live in tOwn?"
mo. sir, don't, and there won't be
anybody else livin' in town either II
they let them crazy teamsters run
things. Look at my coat! Fve wiped
the noses of SeventY-nlne single horses
and eleven double teams sence O'Clock,
and my vitals is all perfect jel1. bet
if was hauled up right now to be post
mortumed the rear breadthS OF my liver
would be sight to beholo."
why didn't you get policeman to
escort you acrOSS%'
"Why, condemn it, | did further up
the street, and when left him the po-
liceman reckoned his collar bone was
broke. It's blamed outrage, think.
They say that a man that crosses
Broadway for year can be mayor OF
Boston. but my idee is that he's heap
more likely to be mayor OF the New Je-
rusalem."
"Where do you live, anyway"
''Well, | live near PittSburg. "a,
where business is active enough to suit
most anybody, Specially when man
tries to blow out natural gas well, but
we make our teamSterS SubServient to
the constitution of the United States.
We don't allow this Juggernaut busl-
ness the way you fellers do. There a
man would drive clear round the block
rather than to kill child, say nuthln'
of a grown person. Here the hubs and
fellers of these big drays and trucks are
mussed up all the time with fragments
of your best people. Look at me.
What encouragement is there Tor
man to come here and trade? Folks
that live here tell me that they Go
most of their business by telegraph in
the daytime, and then do their runnin'
around at night, hut Eve got apast that.
Time was when L could run around
nights and then NOW all day, but can't
do it now. People that leads sudden
tary life. | 'SpoSe, demands excitement,
and at night they will have their fun !;
but take man like me-he wants to
transact his business i'll the daytime by
word o. mouth and then go to bed. He
don't want to go home at 3 o'clock with
a plug hat full of digestive organs that
he never can possibly put back just
where they was before.
No, don't want to run down big
city like New York, land nuther do want
to be run down myself. They tell me L
can go up town on this side and lake
the beat so as to get to Jersey City that
way, and Pm going TO do it ruther than
to go home with a neckyOke run through
me. Folks say that Jurden is hard
road to travel, but Pm positive that a
man would get ierked up and fined for
driving as fast there as they do on
Broadway; and then another thing, |
s'poSe there's good deal less traffic over
the rOad.' 4,.....
He then went down Wall street to the
Hanover Square station, and l saw him
no more.