The Helena independent., 1889-05-05
The Immortal Washington Sees New
York in the Company Of
Faithful William.
Causual Visits to the Postoffice and
Other Points OF lnterest-A
Shad Story.
Reneetion- a. the opera Between the
Aets-An Unexpected and start
ling Climax

as the proprietor stepped severely from q
craft that looked some like a stone boat
and some like a fOundered gondola looking
for veterinary surgeon. The tall gentle
man, as he got out Of his boat and mOored
il 10 stone hitching-post at the Battery,
looked like Washington just after he had
crossed the Delaware and tied his barge TO
a tree, and his face had such a general
postage-stamp of cOuntenance that said,
Excuse me. sir, but you look enough like
the Father of his Country TO fool your en-
tire family. May l inquire / pursued in
a cultivated manner. what your name is ?r
You have guessed my identity at once,
young man." he said. II am indeed the
Father of his Country. L addressed you
because | desired to ask where | would be
apt to find Col. Thomas p. Ochiltree."
L."He most always puts up al the Holman
House, General" | said, removing my hat,
land as the sky seems 70 have lurid ap-
pearance in that direction 1 Judge that he
is now there"
"And, sir. in the meantime, what might
be the best method of reaching that places
Things are 50 changed since l was last
here"
ave may 20 via the Broadway cars if
we can dag one of them, or we can take
the Sixth Avenue Elevated road to fwen-
ty-third Street, as the guards calls ", or
we can call keb-have a keb-keb-keb
OF we can walk. EyetheI of those ways
will take Us TO the Hoffman HO. Sc, il per-
sisted in. 1 speak of walking because IL
will afford you a chance 10 see some OF the
changes that have taken place since you
went away
VERY well, then. will be glad TO walk
if you will attend me, and we will note
some of the points of interest,"
AT first | could hardly realize that / was
talking with the Parent OF His country on
its fathers side, but soon my good breed
ing and natural refinement of manner be-
gan to assert themselves, and | was less
ratified as we went along. We walked up
Broadway slowly, reading the signs as We
went and pointed out To HIM the objects
of interest, ans wering hls questions cheer
fully whether i knew anything about
them or not | showed him the Western
Union bui ilding, and told him all about Mr..
Gould, and offer d 10 give him letter of IN
PRODUCTION TO him il be desired il Then
we went inio the pOstOfiice and told him
how easy it was 10 get money order
there, and how difficult il was 20 get the
money on one in the case like his own.
Now, for instance, you come IN here to-
morrow with the money order and you say
my name is Washington-GeOrge Wash
ington-and desire TO cash money order
which l have Just received from home"
Tne man saws, 'lOu will have 10 identify
yourself, there are so many WashingtOns
The woods are full of WashingtOns, and
half of them are named George. The other
feel the cold perSplratIOn cOursing and
bab0ling down your spine, and reluc-
family you take q newspaper out OF your
pocket and seek to identity yourself by
meaus of picture, made by McDougall
perhaps, and the man at the window says,
'you did stand some show before. Now
you have injured yourself. You will have
70 get several good citizens of New York to
prove that this is your picture"
Perhaps you would like 10 see McDOu-
gall ?" exclaimed. 1--WE can go over across
the street and see him ia the act of resting,
il you would care to see him. | will also
write personal for you while | am in the
Office, saying that you called and that you
report health good"
He laid he would be glad especially TO
see the artist McDougall in a state of re-
pose: also to get in a little personal send
off which would keep his name before the
people. and besides TO hear the angry waves
break over the high-water mark of our cir
culation.
We went in and sauntered back to the
elevator, but there WAS new intellectual
giant in charge of the lift. and as both
Washington and had been away from the
Office for some time no one knew us, and
50 we had TO I'LL out an application and get
IL acknowledged before notary public ere
we could get into the elevator. The boy
then told us that the elevator did not run
on Sundays. We then trudged up the
stairs, but after we had climbed several
on the upper side and so arranged that one
could come down, but nobody could go up.
1T Is always so IN the world" said the
general. "Men are ever ready TO show
one the way down stairs, but how many OF
us, even professed Christians, will bar the
door that leads one upward. so that unless
we have the night key or orthodoxy in our
pockets, our name, as l may say, sir, is
Dennis"
So we could not see Mr.. McDougaIl even
In slumber. We could only hear him.
We looked at the circulation books and
the large presses, then we went into the
back room where the vorkmen were en-
gagged in putting shawlstraps on the Sun
day papers. Afterwards we went up to
the Brooklyn bridge.
Ny companion was greatly overcome. He
stood with his hat in his hand for some
time looking down over the shipping in the
East river and the bay, across the roofs of
the city away 10 the eastward where the
mellow music of the church bells came like
melodiOus breakers on the silent shore of
the peaceful Sabbath.
Now and then well-dressed Brooklyn
man came by US on his way TO ST Thomas
justly celebrated church, or a New Yorker
went the other way to hear DIR. Talmage.
Then again bridge jumper would pass us
on his way TO his daily toll; then looking
over the rail 10 see that he was not in dan
ger OF mussing up the shipping, he would
leap from the structure and disappear with
cunning little plunk.
lme mas sped no raster than the double
quick march OF improvement" l heard the
wnite-halred man say reverently. ITO
meet every great exigeucy God has put
it into the heart and brain of man to enter
the realms of what other ages regarded
as the mysterious. The courage that
swelled the hearts of those who fought
for you in the war of the revolu
ton now lights the eye of the inventor and
the scientist. Peace hath her victories no
less than war. The mighty statue guard
ing your harbOr and lighting tne returning
American 10 his peaceful home under the
old dag, now more starry and beautiful
than ever before, is not only and ever
lasting symbol Of liberty rendered by one
great nation 10 another, but it is a m0nu-
meut TO the enterp rse, the courage and the
devotion Of the invent who has caught
the dangerous light from the tempest and
taught il To trim the torch of liberty" He
watched the Elevated trains go ont
We then went to the Tombs police
court
The court was engaged in making the
bark hy and there was no time for demur-
Ter, reouttals, sur-rebuttals, r,joinder, OF
sur-rejOinder. There WAS no argument M.
on the ruling of the court, or motions 20
set aside the judgement or reopen the case
In the language of Justinian the defendant
was required absolutely and without argu-