Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-07-05
CROSSING BROAD WAY.
Bill Ny. Encounters a s,ramS,

Bill Nye Encounters stranger
who Had Boon Experimenting.
Yesterday near the corner of Fulton
street aud Broadway. middle-aged
man might have been seen removing
bis coat and wiping tho shoulders
thereof with q largo red handkerchief
OF the Thurman brand. There was a
dash OF mud in his whskers and
crick In his back. He had just sought
to cross Broadway, and the disap-
pointed ambulance hal gone up street
to answer another call He was a
plain man. with limited vocabulary.
but he spoke feelingly. | asked him
II could be of any service to him, and
he said no, not specially. unless l
would be kind enough to go.
up under the back of his vest
and see II l could find the end of
his suspcnder. / 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
ferry boat sence / o'clock. and he'd
to give it up both times" he said after
he had secured his breath.
so you don't live In town.
"No. sir. | don't, and there won't
be anybody else livin' in town either if
they let them crazy Transfers run
things Look at my coat! I've wiped
the hoses of seventY-nDe horses and
eleven double teams semce | o clock.
and NV vitals is all a perfect jell. |
bet if | was hauled up right now to be
post the rear brcadths of
my liver would be II sight to behold.
why didn't you get policeman
to escort you across?"
"Why. condemn it. did further up
the street, and when | left HIM the
policeman reckoned his colar-bone
was broke. It's a blamed outrage. |
think They say that Il man that
crosses Broadway for year can be
mayor of Boston. but my ilee is that
he's heap more likely TO be mayor of
New Jerusalem.
"Where do you I've, anyway"
'Well. l live near Pittsburg, P. A.,
where business is active enough to suit
most anybody. specially when a man
tries TO blow ont a natural-ga well,
but we make our Transfers subserv ent
to the constiiut on of the Un'tod
States. We don't allow this Jugger.
maui business the way You fUllers do.
There man would drive clear round
the block ruthnr than 10 kill IL child.
say nuthin of grown person. Here
the hubs and fellers Of these big drays
and trucks are musSed up all the time
with the fragments of your best peo-
pie. Look ut me. What encourage
ment is there for man to come here
and trade? Folks that live here tell
me that they do most of their business
by telephone in the daytime. and then
do their runnin' around ut night. but
I've got apast that. Time was when
! could run around nights and thea
NOW all day, but | can't do it now.
People that leads a sudlentary life, |
'spose. demands excitement. and at
night they will have their fun; but take
a man like me-he wants to transact
his business in the daytime by word O
mouth and then 60 to bed. He don't
want to go home at 3 o'clock with II
plug hat full of digestive organs that
he never can possibly put back just
where they was before.
mo. | don't want 10 run down a
big CITY like New York aud nuther do
/ want to be run down myself They
tell me ! can 60 uptown on this side
and take the boat so as to get 10 Jer-
sey city that way. and Pm going to do
it ruther than to 20 home with neck
yoke through me. Folks say that Jur-
den Is a hard road to travel. but Pm
positive that a man would get jerked
up and fined for driving as fast there
as they do on Broadway; and then an
other thing spose there's a good
deal less traffic over the road"
He then went down Wall street to
the Hanover Square station and saw
him no more.-BW Nye, IN NeV York
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