The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-07-26
HE DECIDED TO co AROUND 1T.
Bill Nye Meets a Stranger Who 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 wiping
the shoulders thereof with a red hand
kerchief of the Thurman brand. There
was dash of mud in his whiskers and
a 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 a plain man,
with a limited vocabulary, but he
spoke feelingly. | asked him if /
could be of any service to him, and he
said no, not specially, unless | would
be kind enough to 90 up under the
back of his vest and see if ] could find
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 l o'clock, and he'd to 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 at my coat! I've wiped
the noses Of 10 single horses and IL
double teams sence l O'Clock, and my
yitals is all perfect iell. ! bet if I
was hauled up right now to be post
mortumed the rear breadths of my liy-
er would be a sight to behold
G.Why didn't Craf n ,Nn1inon,a, 70
escort you across?"
''Why, condemn it, l did further up
the street, and when l left him the p0-
hceman reckoned his collar-bore was
broke. It's blamed outrage, think.
They say that man that crosses
Broadway for a year can be mayor of
Boston, but my idee is that he's heap
more likely to be mayor of the New
Jerusalem
Where do you live, anyway"
''Well, | live near Pittsburg, Pa,
where business is active enough to suit
most anybody, specially when man
tries to blow out natural gas we'll,
but we make our tcamSters subservient
to the constitution of the United
States. We don't allow this Jugger-
naut business the way YOU fellers do.
There a man would drive clear round
the block ruther than to kill child, to
say nuthln OF a grown person. Here
the hubs and fellers OF these big trucks
and drayS are mUssed up ali the time
with the fragments Of your best peo-
pie. Look at me. What encourage
ment is there for man to come here
to trade? Folks that live here tell me
that they do most of their business by
telegraph in the daytime, and then do
their runnin' around at night, but I've
got apast that. Time was when / could
run round nights and then NOW all
day, but | can't do it now. People
that leads a suddentary life, | s'pose,
demands excitement, and at night they
will have their fun; but take a man
like mc-he wants TO transact his bus
iness in the daytime by word o mouth
and then go to bed. He don't want to
go home at three o'clock with a plug
hat full of digestive organs that he
never can possibly put back just where
they was before.
mo, | don't want to run down a big
city like New York and nuther do |
want to be run down myself They
tell me | can 60 up town on this side
and take the boat SO as to get to Jcr-
sey City that way, and I'm going to 90
it ruther'n 20 home with neck yoke
ran through me. Folks say that Jur-
den-s u hard road to travel, but l am
positive that a man would get jerl1ed
up and fined for driving as fast there
as they do on broadway; and then an
other thing, | s'pose there's "A good deal
less traffic over the road -
He then went down Wall street TO
the Hanover Square station and l saw
him no more.-BU Nye tn the Ncw
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