Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-14

undertaking of European tour by the
presence of ice in the North river SAYS
= writer in the New York Herald. If
you thiall that n fanciful proposition
you should have been with me when /
went over to IIobollcn.
1t WIS . cold day and the river was
pretty full of icc-;L good deal fuller
than it had been the day bcforc-a fact
that some of my fellow passengers
learned to their surprise and agony
when it was too late. Why agony, ua-
less the boat was smashed? because
they were crossing to tale a outgoing
steamer. They were three we'll
dressed, gcntlemanly fcllows-that is,
they were very Ecntlcr12uly when they
rlmc aboard with their sticks and their
cuGs and their umbrellas neatly
strapped up. and their handbags Shin
ing like Xmas presents, with silver mi
t:nls.
They sat down together, and one,
pulling out his watch, remarked easily
that they had plenty of time, and an
other said that it was "bca5tly to be SO
early, don't you know, with all the fell
lows that arc borcs, you know, hang
ing around talking to you for hours"
and the third said: Yes. and the plank
w2S always so cholScd with the visitors
you couldn't find your statc-room with
out lot of fuss" and that q steamer
the hour before she sailed was the best
place for picllpocllcts in the world and
that he never wanted to be on hand
fifteen minutes before the gangplanlz
was drawn in.
Meanwhile the boat had drawn out
and was putting on steam to crush her
way through the ice. The three GEN
tlcmanly fellows had done everything
just as they had meant to, and were
beautifully satisfied with themselves,
but they did not seem to know a great
deal about ice in the North river. Prct-
ty soon the boat stoppcd-that 1s she
ceased to go forward. Gnd. as one of the
passengers said, began to chaw on the
ice." The ice did not seem to mind it,
nor at first did the three occan-bound
travellers. But time went on and the
boat didn't and after awhile it began
to strike them that this WAS a bad cora-
bination, and that if it kept up long
enough it might be inconvcnicnt. One
went out of the cabin, saying he was
going to find somebody to ask about
things. This Napolconic measure did
not perccptibly increase our all but in
perccptiblc progress. When he came
back the three looked at each other
very blanlily, then they looked at their
watches and looked blanllcr. They did
not seem to find much consolation in
conversation.
At last the boat forged ahCa I'D fer few
feet, and the trio in woe looked each
other IN the face and smiled once more.
When progress again stopped and the
chaWinT was renewed their last estate
was worse than uhclr first. When finaIlr,
by baclli1CS and St2rtin%3 and many ma
ncrvcrs that all conTurlcd time, VIC got IN
TO the clearwater, they looked ten ycGrs
older than they did when VIC left New
York. Never had ~ trip to Europe usCdup
more vitality in the Same length Of tiInc.
They tried to exchange q few words
about the improbability of the steamer
leaving exactly on time, but their voices
seemed to stick in their throats, and it
YVES plain to any man with wGtch in
his pocket and an advertisements of tive
line in his paper that they were still
left, even if the steamer should be a
good many minutes late.
When at last VIC got in they had thc'r
measures arranged for the best fight
they could make. They had taken all
their traps and bags to sor1c cmployc
on the fcrryboat to keep till called for,
only putting il their pockets some small
t.in.33 from their contents, fer carriages
lad hacks arc not common around that
Part Of lIoboI;en, and they wore wise
enough to prepare for the run that they
soon took. They started from the boat
;.t very nearly full speed, in spite Of
cheerful warnings from their fellow
Passengers, ncwsboys and others to
s:,vC their wind.
"A number Of them followed at lesser
speed to sec how they camo out. crv
81 stop thief" was raised by IN unc II
liThtcncd Itobollcncr, but he WIS
"!lollcd of. The three Gcntlcmanly fell
lows were for the time hardened to al
the GlinG3 and arrows Of outrageous