The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-20
He Could Not Cross Broadway

| Yesterday at $3.50 p. NJ, near the corner
| If Fulton street and Broadway, a middle
aged man might have been seen remov-
ing his coat and wiping the shoulders
thereof with large red handkerchief of
the Thurman brand There was a dash
of mud in his whiskers and crick in
his back. He had Just sought to cross
Broadway. and the disappointed ambu-
lance had gone up street to answer an
other call He was plain man with
limited vocabulary, but he spoke feeling
ly. | asked him if | could be of anySer-
vice to him, and he said no, not special
ly, unless would be kind enough to go
mp under the back of his vest and see if
| could find the end of hi suspender.
did that, and then held his coat for
him while he got in it again Then he
walked down the east side of Broadway
with me-
"That's twice I've tried git across to
take the Cortlandt street ferry boat since
l o'clock, and he'd to give it up both
times he said, after he had secured his
breath
So you don't live in town."
mo sir, don't, and there won't be
anybady else living in the town either if
they let them crazy teanlsters run things.
Look at my coat, I've wiped the noses
of 10 single horses and RI double teams
since o'clock, and my vital is all per-
feet jell. bet if was hauled up right
now to the post-mortumed the rear
breadths Of my liver would be a sight to
behold"
why didn't you get a policeman to
escort you aeross?'
Why, condemn it, l did further up
the street, and when left him the po-
Iiceman reckoned his collar bone was
broken. It's blamed outrage, think.
They say that man that crosses Broad
way for year can be Mayor of Boston,
but my idea is that he's heap more
likely 10 be Mayor of jerusalem"
Where do you live anyway ?"
"Well, live near Pittsburgh, p. A.,
where business is active enough to suit
most anybody specially when a man
tries to blow cut natural gast well, but
We make our teamsters subservient 10
the constitution of the United States. We
don't allow this Juggernaut business the
way you fellers do. There a man would
drive clear round the block ruther than
to kill child, say nuthin' of grown
person. Here the hubs and fellers of
these big drays and trucks are nlussed up
all the time with the fragments of your
best people. Look at me. What encour-
agement is there for man to come here
and trade? Folks that live here tell me
that they do most of their business by
telephone by daytime, and then do their
runnin' around at night, but I've gotten
apast that. Time was when | would run
around nights and then NOW all day,
but | can't do it now. People that leads
a suddentary life, | s'pose needs excite
ment, and at night they will have their
fun but take man like me-he wants
TO transact his business in the daytime
by word o. mouth and then 90 to bed.
He don't want to 90 home at o'clock
with a plug hat full of digestive orglns
that he never can possibly put back just
the way they was before.
No, don't want to run down a big
city like New York ani nuther do want
to be run down myself. They tell me
can 90 up town on this side and take the
boat so as to get to Jersey City thar way,
and I'm going to do it ruther than go
home with a neck yoke running through
me. Folks say that Jurden is hard
road to travel, but I'm positive that a
man would get jerked up and fined for
driving as fast as they do on Broadway
and then another thing, 1 'spose there's
a COOP deal less traffic over the road"
He then went down Wall street to the
Hanover street station, and I saw him
no more Bill NYE