The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-29
BILL NYE ON MAY MOVING.
ne RELATES HIS THRILLING EXPERT
ENCE IN THE METROPOLIS.

The Middle Glass tho Sufferers.
| dislike to speak of my moving ID New
York for several reasons In the first place
il is n very old subject, and in the second
place it is an intensely disagreeable one
To me.
Last year was unfortunate. | spent the
month OF April looking for house, and
finally decided 20 take the Plummer house,
AS the tenants there were good people, but
were going to Europe 10 have fun with some
Of the monarchies The house was good
one. with Croton water and sewer gas IN II.
aud as had been denied the pleasure Of
! sleeping in a room where | could blow out the
sewer gas at night, | secured the place.
Later. however, the PIummers concluded
! 10 take the Muks house for the summer, i'll
| stead OF Earring the already tottering dynas-
| ties of the old world The Minkses wero to
| take the Odds house, and the Oldses were so
| ing into the Pangborn house. Pangborns
| FOLKS claimed that they were going into the
| Rutledge place on the first Of the month
| provided the Rutledges moved into the
| schwartz house The Schwartzes had not
vet fully dee ded whether 10 keep their house
| another year
About three DAYS before the lst Schwartz
| concluded that he would rather have the
Stikeleather place. which he could get at the
same price. and so he cabled me through the
Rntlnlc,s. the Pangborns, the Oldses, the
,lul-,.s and tine Plummers that everything
was all right !. therefore, caught stair
carpet in my teeth and gliding down the
| bannisters' ripped the costly fabric from
dome to basement, filling the air with stair
rods aud the dandrulf of time. | rolled up
this Garnet and left it m the hall for intimate
| friend, To fall over, and then went out on
the street to secure man who would be
willing to move us on moving day to the
| Pmmmcr place.
was real glad to secure the Plummer
| house. for. as say it had every convenience
| ard looked 50 much like all the other houses
! OH that street that when man went in It he
! felt rs though he owned the whole block |
! alway, thought, too that there was kind
of vague. indefinite feeling about stealing
| into one Of those extremely and nbnormally
! similar brown stone high stoop houses at
nicnt which reminded HE OF the singular yet
| pleasing apprehension one feels when one
| has auenchel hi, thirst at nightOn q sleeping
| car and returns to gently enter berth which
| has no originality aboutits exterior, but may
contain his own clothes or the clothes Of an
other. for it has no distinguishing berth mark,
rs it were. and one does not know whether
one will be shot dead by an Infatuated man
who is living awake to defend his Waterbury
watch with his life or bitten by set Of artl-
| fetal teeth tied To the inside Of the curtain.
But was speaking OF tue Plummer place.
| It looked plain on the outside but had cute
| little rooms which could he richly furnished
by putting a rug and chair in each one.
| The parlor also had room for an ottoman,
| provided it was not very large ottoman
The back parlor could be profusey and lux
uriantly furnished by putting in an album
and picture Of Abraham Lincoln signing
the Emancipation proclamation, which ! had
purchased OF a connoisseur. 1t had a scraper
ut the door aud an iron htching post in front
of the house there the nobility could tic their
teams when they came to spend the day
with Us
The hall was just wide enough to admit a
| moderate sized man after he had taken his
overcoat of Everything was petite, coy
and debonnairc There was an antique air
| about the whole house also. IL vas an air
that seemed TO have been handed down from
the dead past 1t was such an air as an anti
duarian might pick up IN the Catacombs and
/ bring home with him TO put into house
hardly know how 70 describe It, but 1t i'm
pressed you mt once, and you concluded that
! some very old family had lived there as long
rs they could and had theli died.
So | wanted 10 have the Plummer house
and impress people with the fact that We
were a good deal older family than We look
10 be As matter OF fact, We do not spring
from u very long line but have worked our
way up INTO notice by our own efforts, like
the Prince OF Wales.
On the lst day Of May man came around
to our house driving large green second
hand tiger van. 1t looked some like the van
/ Of civilization. but the man who drove it was
drunk. Otherwise he was perfect gentle
man lie talked freely with me and looked
at our album while | was strapping trunk.
| lie said IL was wonderful now folks had i'm
proved in making pictures. Look at the
! pictures that were taken during the warl |
said YES, certainly. Look at anything and
see how different it was from something else
said this with a tinge Of bitterness for |
was in a hurry to get moved out, as the
Lunkerses had already begun to move into the
house we were leaving.
| He then closed the book YEARLY and began
TO smell of some bottles which lie found IN a
hamper. lie tried several times 10 lit bis
| large. spongy nose to one Of these bottles, but
did not succeed. BY that time had put sew
eral of the heavier articles IN the van, and be
helped carry the bric-a-brac and load 1t ia.
At II o'clock the parade started, with the
right resting on Two Hundred and First
street and the left on the opposite side from
That. We reached Union square at $50 p.
IN. without having been discovered by row.
inc bands from the Tammany reservation,
and halted for food and water, intending to
cross the Fourteenth street divide and camp
on the Dry Forks Of Little Fifth avenue for
the night, that being the place where the
plunner ranch was situated.
While the horses were taking much needed
nourishment from pair OF nose bags and
had gone TO t. concealed spring ia one corner
of the Morton house for water, breathleSs
masscnge bCJ came up to the driver With a
note stating that Stiaeleather had decided
not to give up his house, and 50 the
Schwartzes had no place to 60, but had de-
1 ,s,Io,i T., rartai, i'm their own house IL was