The evening world., 1889-12-13
A BIG CITY OF CAKES.
NEW YORK AS IT APPEARED TO A
FOUR-YEAR-0LD GIRL.
WHAT SHE SAW FROM A BOAT.

There Was Indigo in the Water and q
Big Clothes-Line Across the River
Some OF the Queer People the
Little One Met in Her Wander
inge and What She Said.
When a little girl, four years old. leaves
her home and, all alone, crosses q big river
and visits a strange island and a wonderful
city. it Is n journey not to be laughed al. II
Stanley himself had been in Williamsburg
yesterday afternoon, and had been feeling
his best, he would have had no more Won
derfnl things to tell about the new Nyanzas
and the mysterious Congo and the Sou
daneSe pashas and the Uncle Toms and
AUNT Elias of mid-Africa than little four
ycar-old Katie Endel had to tell about her
trip across the mysterious East River and
the strange treasure island beyond il and
the pashas In brass buttons in Mulberry
treet.
The young explorer is a pretty little girl,
with blne eyes and a fair face. As told in
yesterdays Womb. she left her home on
the corner OF Bedford avenue aud North
Second street. which is almost ~ far away
in williamsburg rs Greenpoint, at 3 o'clock.
Tuesday afternoon, and for many hours the
police of Brooklyn and of New York we're
trying to find out what part OF the world she
was in. She was found in the e~vening-lost,
but not dismnyed--in the heart OF New York,
about three miles from home. Her father
had often taught her to say IL sho should
ever get lost: II AN Katie Endel. of No.
252 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn" When the
New York policeman found her, she said:
II am Katie Endel-but ] forget the rest!'
The little traveller said that she left the
other children with whom she was playing
Mt teaching high school and wandered away
till abe came to a great big house, and then
she went into q big, beautiful boat. The
river had indigo in it, and away of there
was a clothes-line across the river. 1t hung
from two big posts. When the boat stopped
alhe saw oil the ,other. people walk off the
o NJ and 80 she did. The tow she saw was
til mot wonderful town she ever saw-it
was full Of people and cake. She had seen
cake at home, but. she saw ahouse there that
had cake in tho windows. She went inside
and there she saw n thousand cakes. They
had cakes everywhcre-they even had cakes
on shelves. she thought how fine 1t would
be to live in a house of cake. AMI she never
wonld have believed there was such a house
II she hadn't seen it with her own eyes.
Then she walked down the street and saw
pretty muse. A little Italian with a red cap
was. dancing on top of the box, After .
while sho came to n big honse in New York
where there were wild animals like those in
the picture-books, and strange people, not n
bit like those in Brooklyn. Some of the peo-
pie had two heads, some had no arms, Rome
were 70 thin she could hardly. zee them, and
some were 80 big and fat that they could
hardly breathe.
When the lamps began to shine in the
streets she was found in Houston street by 4
policeman, who took her to the police sta
ton and then TO Police Headquarters. She
did not cry. but was 30 tired that she fell
asleep and dreamed abont all the wonderful
things she had seen.
At 3 o'clock the next morning her father
called at the New York Police Headquarters
ing coffee. She ran to meet him. Despite
the great interest of her visit to q strange
island, she was glad to return home and
than ever. She told her pretty story to o
reporter Of The WORLD yesterday and
finished by saying, IAN Use vely dglad."