Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-01
FIFTH AVENUE
People to be Met With in an Afternoons
Saunter-An Ordinary Drunk.
A Noveilst's Query-A Moving Skull with
long iron Nail Driven Through It-Row
Mans Evil Deeds are Forgotten.
Correspondence of the Gazette.


NEW YoRK. Feb. 26-Let us take walk down
Fifth avenue at time when of business
generally are away from that street, and when II |
presents MANY specimens of the married male
idler One of the first men We meet Is the Rev.
Dr. John Hail pastor of the wealthiess congre-
CATION in town, and who lately stood champion
for Calvinism in the Presbyterian doctrinal dis
en- ssion He is more than a six-footer, benig-
nant of aspect, and yet authoritative IN manner
He meets daughter of one OF his parishioners,
and greets her in a fatherly way. She is tiny
young woman, and, as she gazes up into the race
of the big man, are remined that nature
moulds for human forms have as wide range OF
sizes as does any shoemaker stock of lasts
Just then the tall minister drops his glove, ana |
the short maiden picks it up
THANK you. - he says, smiling, yet half IN |
earnest, ''but you shouldn't make an old man |
feel that he is decrepit.'
Now here comes in the bright quickness OF |
New York girl. so, it wasn't that, she re-
plies, with pretty, sweeping glance at his great
proportions; but, you see, didn't have nan
so far as you to go"
drunken man is offensive sight at any
time or place, of course, but in the sunlight OF
an afternoon in Fifth avenue he. IS shock 10
awry and he is in bewildered state as he leans
against lamp-post .,;
man, "which's t. way to nearest elevated sta
tom 49, ,.,o
officers curious direction, 'and turn to the LETT
at the NINTH
Further along we encounter Edward st. Van
! lille the novelist, whose newest book, "A Mag
| netic Man - we have just seen on the newstands
! for the first time. He is gazing Vacantiy at the
| corner where millionaire Huntington IS bulidlng
| a mansion. 1t turns out that ne ism quite the
| idler that he looks. be Is thinking.
"A friend has been telling me" he explains,
! ssabout a graveyard that once occupied TINS
| ground Many years ago the bones OF the buried
| were carefully removed. One morning. just as
| the diggers were going to work, they saw an oId
! beggaTcwoman who had crawled through break
| in the fence into the graveyard: ana was plckIng
up dead branches from a tree that mad peen CUT
| stricken. uttering piercing SnrieES- !h5y ran
to her and began to ask questions; FlnaHy f sne
| managed to make them understand thaJ she nau
| seen on the ground before her human skull,
and moving! oioz
Instantly everyone started back. In fact,
upon a heap of stones lay skull, heaved to and
fro in irregular jerks by some 1ncomprehensilDIe,
! supernatural force. One workman gave IL as
his opinion, that they ought to send Tor the
priest Another of less devout tendencies ran TO
and doctor. Still another came to notify the
boss and he arrived on the scene at the same
time with the doctor. He began by cnee1uiy
soothing at their cowardly superstition, then ne
gtooped down. picked up the skull, and dlseov,
cred toad. 1t had crawled INTO the ceFenral
cavity by narrow opening, and had been Valnly
teYou see. remarked the doctor with a smile.
But he did not finish his speech. A second dis
covery checked the words on Hs tongue ana fe
smile on his lips. Buried in the back OF the
skull was long iron nail, slender as an EN-
broidery needle, and passing through the entire
VIZ 10 no :; said he ssThe murderer was
skiilfui fellow. An instantaneous death, no
blood shed, and, thanks to the hair, no traces to
be seen My predecessor must have thought 1t a
case of heart disease.
How were they to find the naIne OF the victim
! shoveled into this corner the contents OF TOUR
graves. They could find only the four lnsGTlp-
lions One of them bore the words; here
At this point we realize that Mr.. Van Zile is
doubtless at work devising plot for one OF ms
ingenious stories, and we leave MIN at IT,
ssIt is a mistake says one of Inspector
Bvrne's men whom we meet, ito suppose that a
MANS evil deeds are the longest remembered.
Why I am astonished to find how soon the
, world forgets crime and all parties conhecteu
with it. Iremem6er chap coming 70 nue. HoS zen
forger, and had been indicted He wanted tc
, make new name for himself aud i've stralgIl'
life Where should you advise me TO 60. ne
| asked me- STAY right in this city !, SAID l.. IL
, | Won mean what you say about being straight;
You're better here than anywhere Well
1 | Young girl that he lately married he is name
] in glove with many OF the most respecCaDle AM
= | in,6ortant people here and not one soul among
them knows his record. He is out OF our range
4 for he has been perfectly upright man Tor ter
!
. him. There are other cases in plenty to Illus
trate the point 1 make about mans eVI deed
e being lost sight Of in very snort space o
I time. -
7 dilapidated boy on the seat OF a oreakini
cart was undertaking the serious task OF urglnl
a weird and awful horse up Fifth avenue whel
I he was stopped by a policeman, and at once be
a came the center of a curious crowd
s'Get down off that cart, SAID the poncelnan
g s.Whv fur?'' asked the boy, permitting tn
a horse to perform its bent of coming to com
: plete standstill- s.ho,ioo,,,ou
8 "Me plugs me own, an he's just after havin
d his breakfast, - replied the boy :y-.,.o,,-- -
=, Eyes on tomato cans. sarcastlcally ex
claimed the policeman. Get down on you
cart.
"a 'sUnharness that horse and take him home, G
I'll make a complaint against you.
= The boy went quietly about MS work of ur
ii Harvesting the wretched beast. For few me
10 ments nothing was said. All eyes were liked o
70 the bow as he united the ropes that held the az
n gular and detected animal to the shafts OF th
Tya@on The horse did not evince any surpris
whatever at the unexpected experience that n
was the hero of, but merely hung ms heSd an
caught few winks OF sleep while the col
y hreeze stirred his grizzled M ane and almost pc
- formed an eoIian melody from his ribs. Ate
awhile he was free ofthe wagon, ana the boz
10 leather that danglled from ms harness. gatnerC
20 the rens into his b and and cast IooE towal
TO the implacable policeman. Well he e!
claimed interrogatiyelY.
The policeman looked back into his inquiriI
IT he boy turned the horses head in dow
town direction The beast Strengthened
Strangely, and gazed with Frightening eyes dow
lie through the hay vista of the avenue. Then
!, waved his tail aloft and whinnied.
" s'G'ep!'' cried the boy.
of That was sufficient. The crowd was remlnd'
of the scanper that ensues when the flag falls
go a race track 1t was lame horse, that one, b
ne evidently had thoroughbred blood in hiI
e, for with his hind quarters hitehing like
az Kangaroo he sped over the pavement as thoui
as purse of $1,000 was laid On his getting home al
% certain time. The boy chung to the reins: a
ss lust before getting out OF nearing he turned a.
est shouted back at the amazed policeman, mo
,e amt you a chunp?
And as the flying steed vanished with the
in the distance, the policeman acknowledged
- ! the crowd that he was.
uH we'll known theater manager is talking to
ne friend as they stand together in the yestibule
Delmonico's A woman OF SNOWY figure a
striking countenance passes by IN company vi
a Young man. She smiles pleasantly at
us manager and bows.
.ch sIBy lowell, exclaims the gentleman who
- with The manager That's stunning -looki
woman Who is she?'
N The manager smiled slightly, and said: g
one YOU know She is new about here. Expe
to 90 on the stage next season But she