The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-08-03
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Bill Nye Meets II Stranger Who Tried ia
Cross Broadway.

Yesterday at $3.50 p. M, near Tn
corner OF Fulton street and Broadway
a middlc-agcd nan might have pee
seen removing his coat and wipin,
the shoulders thereof with Il rcd hand
kerchief of the Thurman brand. Their
was 4 dasho of mud in his whiskers an,
a crick in his back. He had lust tric,
to cross Broadway, and the disanpoint
ed ambulance had gone up-sticet I,
another call. He was u plain man
with Il limited vocabulary, but h,
spoke feellngly. | asked him if
could be of any service to him, and h,
sand no, not specially, unless | woul,
be kind enough to 90 up under TIL,
back OF his vest and see if | could fine
the end OF his %suspcnder. | did thai
and then held his coat for him while
he got in it again. Then he walked
down the east side of Broadway will
me.
That's twice I've tried TO cit acros,
to take the Courtlandt street ferryboat
sence l o'clocksand he'd to give it IN
times" he said after he had Sc.
cured his breath.
so You don't live in town."
mo, sir, l don't, and there won't be
anybody else livin' in the town either
II they let them crazy teamsters run
things. Look ut my coat! I've wiped
the noses of 20 single horses and IL
double teams sencc | O'Clock, and my
vltals is all a perfect iell. | bet if I
was hauled up right now to be post
mortumed the rear brcadths of myliy-
er would be II sight to behold"
"Why didn't you get a'policcman to
escort you ~acrossp"
"Why, condemn it, | did further mn
the street, and when | left him the no
llceman reckoned his c%ollar-bone was
broke. It's Il blamed outrage. | think.
They say that n man that crosses
broadway for Il wear can be mayor of
Boston, but my idec is that he's a heap
more likely to be mayor of the New
Jerusalcm.n
Where do You live, anywav?"
well, live near Piltsburg, Pa.
where business Is active enough to suit
mos anybody, Specially when IA man
Ifles TO blow out IL natural gas well,
but we make our transfers subseryicnt
to the constitution of the United
States. We don't allow this ,Jupwer.
nautb business the way vol, fel,ers do.
There a man would drive clear round
the block ruther than to kill "A child. TO
say nuthin of Il grown person. Here
the hubs and fellcrs of these biz trucks
and drays are mussed up all the time
with the fragments Of your best peo-
PIE. Look at me. What encourages
ment is there for u man to come here
trader Folks that live here tel! me
they do most of their business Inv
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
lay, but l can't do it now. People
nat leads a s%uddentary life, / s'posc,
demands excitement, and mt night they
viii have their fun; but take "A man
ike me-he wants to transact his bus.
ness in the daytime by word o. month
md then go to bed. He don't want to
90 home at three O'Clock with n plur
lat full of digestive organs thai he
,,ever can possibly put back just where
hey was before.
NO. don't want to run down n bir
'ity like New York and nuti,cr do I
ant to be run down myself. They
en- me l can so up town on this side
'hd lake the boat 50 rs to get 10 Jer-
ey CITY that way, and I'm going to do
ruthcr'n 20 home with a neck woke
un through me. Folks say that Jur-
en- is Il hard road to travel, but | am
that II 1lan would get icrked
p and lined for driving as fast there
$ they do on Broadway: and then an
thing, ! s'pose there's a good deal
iss traffic over the road.n
ne then vent down Wall street to
nc 10Y Square station and | saw
I'M no more. -BW Nye IN tie As,D
ORR Horid.