New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-30
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

There were six Of them, all batehesded and all with
bare feet. They were all girls and not of them
could have been over FIVE years old. The smallest
ones could scarcely walk, but strung out IN line
holding one another by the hands they stretched from
one side OF the pavement to the other and moved
along IN irregular line. They were not well
dressed and they not clean-looking, but
one seemed to mind the fact that they were monop-
olzing the sidewalk. Men In a hurry shot out toward
the street and went around them, while and
then woman stood close TO the wall Of the build
ings and watched them creep along smiling encour-
agingy at them Even the big policeman who
stood twirling his club in his ungoved hand could
not bring himself to step and break up the line
And so the dItyfaced children struggled along their
tongues wagging like mad, all OF thcm unconscious
OF everything around them untl an old man stopped
them and asked them where they were going.
ba me re- ladies out for walk piped one, digging
pleased the old gentleman so nightly that he took
The six of them 10 q fruit stand and bought a peach
for each one OF them. That broke up the prom
enade.
shrewdncss in business shows itself in one way
II not in another There is young newsboy who
never appears on the street until about the time the
morning papers coming out He drives flourish
Ing trade around Printing House Square, and there
IS no other seller Of morning papers In that neghbor
hood who can successfully compete with him. He
IS quick energetic and obglng, but his success IS
due TO trick he has OF learning mems names. Just
how he finds them out is something OF a mystery,
but he learns them and his knowledge b good
advantage. When a man appears in the street the
boy with several Others, rushes up to him. Now
no matter how little interest the man feels in any
one Of them, when he hears a particular one say,
Morning paper, Mr. b. ?" he seldom fails TO buy his
paper from the ono who knows his name Perhaps
he feels that he owes something acquantanceship;
poraapS IL Is only vanity Al any rate, tbs wide,
accordingly
"Thls intense competition in ocean record breakfng7
said a the other day." remainds me OF the time
when the Black Hills excitement at Its height.
There suddenly sprang up dozens of fast freight lines,
running from Cheyenne 10 the gold districts.
Week by week the time OF trips cut down, until
freight was carried in lightly built wagons drawn
by four or six horses They used 10 go dashng out
of Cheyenne at break-neck speed which would
have made the fast stage lines Of the California days
green with envy. Like the stage lines, they had to
have relay stations, and what with the ncapacity
for carrying heavy loads, owing the lightness OF
the wagons Tie expense caused by using up so much
holscnesh aud the competitive rate-cutting there was
little money In the business There came crash.
were content TO live less rapidly and make little
money often wonder what tho outcome arc OF b ,ht
more for spe d than any thing elss."
Elizabeth has spoken against the deadly grade
crossing, not too sO0n jersey ty Is going W anu"
the Pennsylvania to raise its tracks after resisting
the change so long. Whyl Philadelphia and the
Reading are at oggerheads again, the railway now
declaring that it will cOncede nothing to the city and
vii build an elevated road and yet maintain its grade
crossings, tracks and sdlngs at its own pleasure,
whether Philadelphia likes 1t or not These proceed
ings my amuse your eminent counsel, gentlemen ALL
they may win you a stay OF execution, but
only for little while. The gradecrossng is doomed
It has not long to live
Philadelphia has witty judge-as wise, It IS said,
as he IS witty-who was once called on by the
Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania TO reverse his own de-
csion against the admission of a woman as an
attorney and counsellorat-law. Having duly ad
mltted her to the bar. the first Of her sex in that
State the Judge gravely proceeded "And now. .ady
and gentlemen, &c only remains for mo to declare this
Court open," ETC.
What have the hppopotami Tor muses. done for
the country that the country should provide them
with Just the sort OF bath should all like In these
days2 Don't 90 the Zoo You will be sure TO
envy them, spashing up and down F" In measureless
content and looking for all the world. as they bob
up like two wet emigrants trunks. Here is q burn
inc question for the Socialists and Anarchists YET no,
these istsn do not battle begrudge the bathing OF
others