The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-09-01
NE DECIDED TO co AROUND 1T.
BilI Nye Meets "a Stranger WAC Tried to
Cross Broadway.

Yesterday at $50 p. M, near the
corner of Fulton street and Broadway,
a middle-aged man might have been
seen removing his coat and wlpinS
the shoulders thereof with u red hand
kerchief of the Thurman brand. There
was q dash of mud in his whlskers ana
| crick in his back He had just tried
to cross Broadway, and the disappoint-
ed ambulance had gone up-street to
| another call He was plain man,
with n limited vocabulary, but he
spoke feeliagly. | asked him II L
| could be of any service to him, and he
said no, not specially. unless l would
be kind enough to 60 up under the
back of his vest and see If could hnd
the end of his suspender. | 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 Courtlandt street ferryboat
sence o'clock, and he'd 10 give it up
both times" he said after he had Sc
cured his breath.
$50 YOU don't live in town."
mo. sir, don't, and there won't be
ANYBODY else livin' in the town either
if they let them crazy teamsters run
things. Look ut my coat! I've wiped
the noses of 70 single horses and IL
double teams sencc l o'clock, and my
yitals is all perfect jell. bet II
was hauled up right now to be post
! mortumed the rear breadths of my liv-
, er would be sight to behold"
why didn't you get policeman to
escort you across?
, why, condemn it, did further up
5 the street. and when | left him the po-
liceman reckoned his collar-bone was
broke. It's blamed outrage, think.
They say that n man that crosses
= Broadway for Il year can be mayor or
. Boston. but my iaee is that he's Il heap
: more likely to be mayor of the New
:. Jerusalem"
. Where do YOU live, anyway"
: "Wel. / live near Pittsburg, Pa.
v where business is active enough to SUIT
!. most anybody, specially when man
J, tries to blow ont a natural gas well,
It but we make our teamsters subservlent
= to the constitution of the United
q; States. We don't allow this Jugger-
1t naut business the way you fellers do.
n There n man would drive clear round
- tnt DiDth luiiitA IMAM w MA SA'Ih't ~
al say nuthin of grown person. Here
~ the hubs ana fellcrs of these big trucks
and draws are musscd up all the time
y with the fragments of your best peo
IN pie. Look ut me. What encourage
lp ment is there for u man to come here
=, u; to tradco Folks that live here tell mt
y : that they do most of their business b.
-. telegraph in the daytime. and then d,
-. their rnnnin' around Mt night, but I'v'
pot apast that. Time was when ! coul'
run round nights and then NOW al
dav, but | can't do it now. Peopl
that leads suddentary life, s'pose
n demands excitement, and ut night the
st will have their fun; but take u ma
n like me-hc wants to transact his bus
"a mess in the daytime by word o mout
- - and then 70 To bed. He don't want t
~ ro home ut three O'Clock with n plu
of hat full Of digestive organs that h
Nv never can possibly put back just wher
it: they was before.
&C. No. | don't want to run down bi
to city like New York and nuther do
n want To Re run down myself The
to tell me / can go up town on this sid
nj and take the boat 81 rs TO get To Je
'ot sew CITY that way and I'm going to d
ny it ruthcr'n go home with Il neck yoE
I'll run through me. Folks say that Ju
So den is Il hard road to travel, but a
- positive that man would get jerke
-" up and fined for driving rs fast the
is they do ON Broadway; and then a.
other thing, / s'pose there's good de
'ca less traffic over the road.
nS He then went down Wall street
no. the Hanover Square station and 81
nat L;,,, ,,n ,,,n,,. EjH Nae in The M
~ ~ York World.