The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-20
CROSSING BROADWAY.
Bin Nye Encounter . Stranger Who Had
iseeu Experimenting.

Bi1 Nye Encounter . Stranger VINO Hal
iseep Experimenting.
Yesterday at $50 p. M, near the corner Of
Fulton street and Broadway.a middle aged
man might have been seen removing mis- coat
and wiping the shoulders thereof with q
largo red handkerchief There was a dash OF
mud i'm his whiskers and n crick i'll his back.
He had lust sought TO cross Broadway, and
the disapponted ambulance had gone up
street TO answer another call He was aplain
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 DO kind enough to go up under
the back of his vest and see If could find
the end OF his suspender. ! did that, and
then held his coat fer 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 10 take
the Cortandt street ferry boat sence
o'clock. aud bed to give it up both times, he
said. after he had secured his breath.
$50 you don't live in towns"
mo. sir. don't, and there won't be any
body else Twin in town either ii they let
them crazy teamsters run things Look at
my coatl I've wiped the noses OF seventy
nine single horses and eleven double teams
sence o'clock, and my vitalS is all perfect
jell / bet if was hauled up right now to
be post mortumed the rear breadths OF my
liver would be sight to behold"
"Why didn't you get policeman TO escort
you acrossP
why condemn it, did futher up the
I l.ft tLs r,.A1t. anna IN
reckoned his collar bone was broke. It's u
blamed outrage, think They say that
man that crosses Broadway for n 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
swell, live near Pittsburg, 7. A., where
business Is active enough to suit most any
body, specially when a man tries to blow out
a natural CAST we'll but We make our team
sters subservient to the constitution Of the
United States We don't allow this Jugger-
naut business the way you fellers do. There
IA man would drive clear round the block
rutber than TO kill child, say nuthin Of a
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
people Look at me What encouragement
is there for man TO come here and tradet
Folks that live here tell me that they do NEST
Of their business by telephone in the daytime,
and then do their runnin' around at night,
but I've got apast that. Time was when |
could run around nights and then NOW all
day, but | can't do it now. People that leads
IA suddentary life 'spose, demands excite
ment, and at night they will have their fun I;
but take a man like me-he wants to transact
bis business in the daytime by word o mouth
and then go to bed. He don't want 70 90
home at 3 o'clock with 4 plug hat full OF
digestive organs that he never can possibly
pa, back Just where they was before
NO, don't want 10 run down big city
like New York and nuther do | want 10 be
run down myself They tell me | can 90 up
town on this side and take the boat 50 as to
get TO Jersey City that way, and I'm going
to do 1t ruther than to 20 home with u neck
yoke run through me. Folk say that Jurden
is a hard road to travel, but I'm positive that
IA man would get jerked up and fined for
driving as fast there as they do on Broad
way: and then another thing. spoSe there's
a good deal less traffic over the road"
He then went down Wall street 70 the
Hanover square station and | saw HIM no
more.-Bll Nye in New York World.