The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-16

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AThompkins avenue car over In Brook
lynn. bound ~ the ferry, wa bowling along
~ . splendid pace up I'm tbs Twenty
third ward early yesterday evening when
q New York Swn young man dasesal out
from u side street In its wake
and gave chase. race Of u block and he
caught the platform railing just ~ the
conductor pulled the hell and brought the
cor to a dead stop. On the other side of
the street. where she had evidently been
waiting for several minutes, stood . little
old lady In black with n handbag and UNI
brelia. With great dcliberation she
crossed the curb and climbed into The car.
"Don't start tHn ! get seated. young
man." she said tn the conductor as she
Es"sssd bin; Ii'm Likely :" fall Forward
something tn patch me up"
Being N Brooklyn conductor with plcn-
~ of time to lose he obliginRly held up as
requested. The Sam man was in u great
hurry; :. Aim. 4, a.. ., l..
ton that he would like il To be made as
"About tw~cnty-six minutes from here"
minutes more than expected. wa. not
speedily gratifying. There was no help
for IL. thoaTh. and ,he car Tilted on I'LL Il
few blocks from he river. II had hardly
turned when II stopped and stood. The
=ondacsos Locked ~, Onward s and then
did two other men. The little old lady ia
black sat still. There was a truck
pulling, both drivers were swearing,
but the truck seemed inmovable. The
SUN man got RESTLESS. H.. glanced down
away. and he started for them bctwecn a
fast walk and IA rum. Az he neared the
slip hc saw there was IL boat i'm the slip.
He sprinted through the ferry house and
across the bridge. stopping i'm the first
cabin To get his breath. The boat rocked
and creaked as her moorines. wagon
a deck hand gave the gang plank
p . snss: he set aaid he :Tf1nr young man ln nss.si
out and saw "a ming. over the fioat-the
little old lady i'm black. She came into the
without haste before the bell in the engine
room rang 'ahead." She still sat there
when the boat began 10 bump against the
New York, and the Sun young man went
forward. While the river showed between
deck and dock he leapel over the space
and hurried ont. He wanted u cross-town
Twenty-thirl street car. One was just
coming in and he jumped aboard before
IL stopped The horses were t~ransposed,
and then there was q moments wait. The
starters bell rang. "HOld On a minute"
yelled "a MANS voice from the gloom at
the end OF the fs~rry-hcIsc board walk.
little old lady in black-and she got COM
fortably in her place before the car moved
away. A flat house ON Twenty-second
street. near Ninth avenue. was the young
mans destination. and he went out on the
platform just before that thorough
fare was reached. swinging oil as
they were crossing il and narrowly cs-
Gaping being knocked over 10y am uptown
car. II is "a short walk down the avenue
to- Twenty-second street, hut il took an cx-
ira minute or two to find the number and
another minute to reid all the names i'm
the letter boxes before he found the one
he wa looking for. His ring was not
answ red Instantly either, and while he
waited he heard u door close in the neigh
borllood. He glanced into the street.
Through the glass door of the entrance To
the flat hoo opposite he saw u woman's
figiirs, vanishing down the hall. 1t WAS
u little old lady in black.