Wichita eagle., 1888-05-20
BILL NYE ON MAY MOVING.
He RELATES HIS THRILLING EXPERT
ENGE IN THE METROPOLIS.

The Middle Class the Sufferers.
/ dislike to speak OF my moving 10 New
York for several reasona In the first place
1t is q very old subject, and in the second
place 1t is an intensely disagreeable one
20 me-
Last year was Unfortunate I spent the
month of April looking for house, and
finally decided to take the Plumnner house,
as the tenants there were good people, but
were going to Europe to have fun with some
of the monarchles The house was good
one, with Croton water and sewer gas in it,
and as l had been denied the pleasure Of
sseeping IN q room where could blow out the
sewer gas at night secured the place.
Later, however, the Plammers concluded
to take the Minks house for the summer, in
stead OF jarring the already tottering dynas-
ties Of the old world The Minkses were to
take the Olds house, and the Oidses were go
ing into the Pangborn house Pangborn's
folks claimed that they were going into the
Rutledge place On the first Of the month.
provided the Rutledges moved into the
Schwartz housa The Schwartzes had not
yet fully decided whether TO keep their house
another year.
About three days before the ist 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
Rutledges, the Pangborns, the Oidses, the
Minkses and the Piumners that everything
was all right. l, therefore, caught stair
carpet IN my teeth and gliding down the
bannisters" ripped the costly fabric from
dome to basement, filing the air with stair
rods and the dandruT of time / rolled up
this carpet and left it in the hail for intimate
friends to fan over, and then went out on
the street % secure a man who would be
willing to move US on moving day to the
Plurnner place.
WIS real glad to secure the Plumrner
house, for, as l say, it had every convenience
and looked so much like all the other houses
ON that street that when man went in it he
felt as though he owned the whole block. |
always thought, too, that there was kind
Of vague, indefinite feeling about stealing
into one Of those extremely and abnormally
similar brown stone high stoop houses at
night which reminded NE of the singular yet
pleasing apprehension one feels when one
has quenched his thirst at nighton a sleeping
car and returns to gently enter berth which
has no originality about its exterior, but may
contain his own clothes or the clothes Of an
other, for it has no distinguishing berth mark,
es it were, and one does not know whether
ono will be shot dead by an infuriated man
who is lying awake to defend his Waterbury
watch with his life or bitten by set of arti-
fetal teeth tied to the inside Of the curtain.
But was speaking of the Plummer place.
It looked plain on the outside, but had cute
little rooms which could be richly furnished
by putting 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 profusely and lux
uriantly furnished by putting in an album
and picture Of Abraham Lincoln signing
the Emancipation proclamation, which | had
purchased OF a aconnoisseur 1t had scraper
at the door and an iron hitching post Ia front
Of the house where the nobility could tie their
teams when they came to spend the day
with U.s.
The hall was just wide enough to admit
sized man after he had taken bis
overcoat Off. Everything was petite, cozy
md debonnaire. There waS an antique air
about the whole house also. 1t was an air
that seemed to have been handedsdown from
the dead past. 1t was such an air as an antA
luarian might pick up IN the Catacombs and
bring home with him to put into house. I
hardly know how to describe it, but it i'm
pressed you at once, and you concluded that
some very old family had lived there as long
Is they could and had then died.
So wanted to have the Plurmer house
ard impress people with the fact that we
"a far fhar
20 be- As matter of fact, we do not spring
rom a very long line, but have worked our
ray up into notice by our own efforts, like
he Prince of Wales
On the ist day of Nay @ man came around
% our house driving q large, green second
land tiger van. It looked some like the van
If civilization, but the man who drove it was
Trunk Otherwise he was perfect gentle
uan- He taNZed freely with me and looked
It our album while | was strapping q trunk. |
lie said it was wonderful how folks had inn |
proved in making pictures. Look at the |
PICTURES that were taken during the war! I /
aid yes, certainly. Look ct anything and (
ee hsJw different it was from something else.
said this with a tiage of bitterness, for I .
vas in a hurry to get moved out, as tns
41nkerses had already begun 10 move into the |
.ouse we were leaving.
He then closed the book wearily and began |
o smell Of some bottles which he found IN a /
amper He tried several times to fit his /
arge, spongy nose TO one OF these bottles, but
id not succeed By that time had put sew
raj of the heavier articles in the van, and he
el ped carry the bric-a-brac and load it In.
At Ii O'Clock the parade started, with the
light resting on Two Hundred and First
treet and the left on the opposite side from
hat We reached Union square a. $50 p.
A., without having been discovered by row.
lg bands from the Tammany reservation.
nd halted for food and water, intcuding to
ross the Fourteenth street divide and camp
4 the Dry Forks of Little Fifth avenue for
be night, that being the place where ths
hummer ranch YVES situated
While the horses were taking much needad
punishment from pair Of nose bags and
I'D gone &c concealed spring IL one corner
( the Morton house for water, breathless
leSsenGe- boy came up to the driver with
oue stating that StiAeleather had decided
OF to give up his house, and 50 tie
chwartzes he'd I'D place to so, but had &C.
ded to remain in their own house. It was
le same with the Rutiedges. tie Paug goornS,
le OldSes, tho Miukses ard the PiunIrers.
did not know what to do.
Looking down at the ground. the more
,sdily 20 think Of Something | tho1yhe
Nv a footprint Following tie spoor for
,orr distance came &c al hosiery. In which
10 have stepped before- Driy-
e the van up 20 the front door and calling
II the proprietor, said 10 him: ''Sir, here
fore you hsvs OBJ jected to ne on TIE
rounds that mad no baggage WIh you
eSsa check t1is van end give me a coed
,om connected with the swearing salon.
The rich and poar do not worry 60 much