The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-06-29
A ROMANCE FROM REAL LIFE
Unrelenting Fate AVenges a Young Girls
Wrongs Upon Her B0trayer
By WILLIAM 4. wRIGHr. M Is.
Copyright 1890 81 he United Press.

t3ttA-SStNANCo VAAC4 tLlpTpSStu upon my
mind the fact that he was no coward.
The ambulance had been called TO the
10 wer part of Washington street, near the
Battery. where in front of a saloon I
found a crowd of men, women and chill
dren all trying to get a peep through the
half closed door efore which an officer
stood
'Gangway fur the docturp' shouted a
stumpy little man with stove black nipe
in his mouth as | tried to force my way.
through the crowd to where the offic er
stood. In response to the command the
crowd parted right and left, leaving me a
clear passage way.
What is the matters' I asked OF the
officer
There is a sailor in there with the Jim
jams. He has cleaned out the place and
will have to 20 TO the hospital y
Well, bring him out and l will take
hini.''
But he has club and swears he will
smash any one who comes near him.
There he is behind that screen. y
Looking In | saw a large, powerful man
in a sailors dress dash out from behind
screen that extended half way across the
saloon, shake cart rung he had armed
himself with, at the crowd aud then
spring behind the screen again while we
could hear the crash of the few remain
ing bottles and glasses as he swept them
from the shelves.
go Ia and get him, officer, and I will
take him. said. But the officer said he
had sent for help to the station house,
and had rather wait until more men
came
s.I'll bring him out fur We, doetur. 'said
the stunpy man who had cleared way
for me.
But he will break your head for you,
replied.
response as he passed through the door,
which the officers opened for him. still
smoking his little black pipe. The officer
and myself followed
As though nothing of Importance was
to be done he walked across the saloon
AND stepped behind the screen.
Crashl went something, and then fol-
lowed a rough and tumble fight. We
hurried to his assistance, but when we
reached the place, there lay the big fell
low on his back with the little Irishman
astrfde OF his chest, D knee on each
shoulder of his PROSTATE fee, with frag-
ment of the stem of his pipe still between
his lips. Neither of the two was any the
worse tor the encounter The pipe alone
had suffered. We soon had the sailor
secured and in the ambulance. | thanked
the little fellow for his help and praised
his courage. The saloon keeper treated
him to drink and cigar and thus it
was l first met Mike Sullivan, long
shoreman.
After this he called often at the hos
pitRl. Now and then he would come
escOrting some sick or injured person he
had found, and at other times he would
stop merely to learn how we ali were, as
he seemed to feel he had become one of
the attaches of the institution. One beau
tiful evening in February, as was TAX
ing my usual evening walk up and down
before the hospital door, saw Nike COM
ing up the street in his usual 'tdcg trotn
fashion.
well, Nike what's up tonight that
makes you in such hurry9' / asked as
he was passing without noticing me.
Faith, Doctur, and Is it yourseif |
was just going fur ye, he replied.
asked him what / could do for him
and he told me that he wanted me TO see
a young woman who was sick In canal
boat which was moored in a slip near the
hospital / asked him if he wanted me
to send the ambulance. He said no, the
young woman did not want to 60 TO the
hospital. Returning TO the office to get
pocket case OF medicine, | went with him
to see the patient. On the way he told me
what he knew about her. Mike was then
employed watching number of canal
boats moored together in the same slip
and, as his hat covered his family,
he found very pleasant home in the
cabin of one or the boats, where he
prepared his own meals and where he
slept during the Gay. He said that as he
was sitting on the pier that evening,
smoking his pipe and keeping a sharp
lookout for suspicious characters, he
saw a woman walk hurriediy across the
street to the pier next the one he was
watching. His work as 1ongshoreman
and night-watchman had made him sus-
pieious of lone females who frequent
piers at night so he left his seat and fol-
lowed her. A shed belonging to one Of
the large steamship companies covered
the pier. and, keeping in the shadow of
this shed, for the moon was shining
brightly, she walked out on one of the
stringers at the side of the shed until it
ended at the gangway. Here the water
WINS clear of all small craft and without
moments hesitation she sprang over
board. Nike was close behind her and
reached the water nearly, as soon
experience in rescuing people Mike
had no trouble in saving her and swim
ming with her to the fleet OF canal boats
as they lay in the same slip He had
some difficulty in getting her out of the
water on to the boat and was obliged TO
call for help. The watchman on an adj
Joining pier heard his cry and came TO his
aid Together they got her on the boat
and carried her unconscious, Tor she mad
tainted evidently as soon as she had
struck the water, to Mixes warm cabin
where without any ceremony they
stripped OF her wet clothing and placed
her between warm blankets in the bunk,
and then poured some brandy down her
throat. The fiery liquor, for Mixes taste
had been SO cultivated that no liquor was
good for much that did not burn his
throat in passing down, was quite sufiic-
TENT to arouse her and between her sensa-
ticns of burning, choking. and alarm at
finding herself in such a place, Mike and
his friend became terribly frightened and
leaving her in charge OF his friend, he
rushed to the hospital for me Civ
ing no thought TO his own wet cloth
ing and the frosty air. We
reached the slip and climbing down
short ladder passed over two or three
canal boats to the one Nike made his
headquarters. As we entered the cabin,
which was lighted with an oil lamp and
warmed with a coal stove, | saw his
friend, an old grizzled Scotchman, bend
ing over the bnng, in which was the
would-be suicide, trying to soothe and
quiet her with such gentle words as his
vocabulary contained while he smoothed
and dried between his rough hands her
long hair he had loosened from its wet
coils. Carefully arranged over chest
near the stove, in order that they might
dry, were the wet clothes these simple
minded Alen had, with kind forethought
which Recognized no impropriety, re-
moved [ had expected to find a woman
of the stamp found in the slums of the
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