St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-21
AN EXCITING TRIP.
SHADES Ride Down the ZumbrO
During the Washouts.

l.. j. Slade, the jolly grocery sales
man who represents Roundy, Peckham
& Co., of Milwaukee, managed to get to
Rochester last Tuesday morning to the
surprise of the merchants and the boys.
On account of the floods lately, Oper-
ations on the narrow gauge have beer
suspended for the last two weeks. AS
there has been no way for the boys to
get in here lately, of course, Slade, be-
ing the first man here, got nice lot of
"phat'' orders. All went as merry with
him as marriage bell until it came to
finding some mode of conveyance to
reach some points further down the
river. He tried the livery stable and
everybody in town known to have a
conveyance of any kind, but could find
no one willing to risk their teams on the
roads. They preferred almost anything
in preference to watery grave. So
Slade came into the MaZeppa dudes
headquarters and said it was all over
with him, and unless the dudes could
get him out of town before midnight
that something dreadful would happen,
and the dudes, dreading catastrophe
of any kind, had to devise scheme to
get rid of him. At last one of the boys
hit upon plan. Knowing. that
there was considerable mail in the
Mazeppa office for Zumbro Falls,
which is the place to which Mr..
SIade wished to 60 under the pretext of
carrying Uncle Sans mail, the hand
car on the Mazeppa section was pro-
sured and Slade was happy. The start
was made at 80 p. M, with Slade and
the postmaster and Zumbro Falls mail
and the Mazeppa dudes on board. The
first stop was made at ButtertOwn-A.
Il. FoX's-four miles south of here,
where Slade insisted on stopping, in
order to smoke a cigar and suck a
lemon to keep up his nerve for the long
ride before him. From this place every
thing went well for the next two miles,
and then we struck the worst washOuts
Oh the narrow gauge. First the track
would be as piece of rolling prairie,
and then there would be small bridge
washed out, and we would have to carry
the car around it, and then there would
be one side of the track washed out, and
the track would be so siding that we
had to hold the car to the track to keep
it from tipping over on its side.
and then again there would be a long
bridge washed four or five feet
out of line and it would be with great
difficulty that we could cross it. Amid
the great excitement of crossing rail-
road bridge that had no piles or any
thing under it to hold it up, and SHADES
cries of ''beef, beef!'' the boys had all
they could do until they arrived at the
Falls, which was at S:35 p. m. Slade in
vited us, 1.-THE dudes" up to the Mer-
chants hotel, and right royalty did he
entertain us until we proceeded to re-
turn home an hour later, leaving Slade
behind us. We understand he left the
Falls the next morning and proceeded
down the river into the wilderness. We
shall watch the want columns of the
GLOBE very closely hereafter, expecting
to find some such notice as this:
r OST, STRAYED OR STOLEN-A man
IL bearing the name of L. J. Slade; is a
man of about 1s5 pounds, light complexion,
sandy mustache; wore dark cutaway suit
when last seen; was last seen at Zumbro
Falls; liberal reward will be paid for his
return to his friends at Rochester, Mimi.
LUMIX.