Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-09-05
TRousLe m rns cnowo.

BOY with n Pipe and Men with a Pane o
Glass and a Bundle of Brass strips.
This procession of destruction was
led by a boy. He bore on his left
shoulder a slender brass pipe about If
teen feet in length. IL was polished in
places, and reflected the sunlight with
a vicious glitter. Fifty feet behind
him came a man, trudging along with
the stumping gait Of a laborer. This
man carried a large pane of glass One
corner of It rested in the bend of his
left arm. n corner pointed upward
two feet above his head. The two
other orne projected two feet before
and behind him This glass also 70
Elected the sunlight with a binding
fash when it happened to turn to the
proper angle. Fifty feet behind him
came a mar carrying in his left hand
four feXible and II times unmanage-
able brass strips which tapped up and
down and sideways. and at times
raped on the sidewalk. now before.
now behind the carrier.
A deadlier combination could not be
imagined. and the crowds Of people on
the east side of the Bowery noted the
progress of this parade with terror and
rage.
The boy with the pipe bad two bad
tricks He did not follow the rule OF
keeping to the right, but after dodgina
that way, would suddenly change his
mind and urn % the lefL Also. he
would stop suddenly, then urn abrupt
fy and look in at a window. His first
bad habit made several people catch
the end Of the pipe fun IN the breast as
they tried 10 dodge. When he came
suddenly 10 a fun stop the man who
was hurrying on behind him would
find himself staring down the end Of
the pipe, and in imminent danger of
losing an eye. When he swung quickly
to look In a show window, those com
ing on in front would have TO leap
back 70 avoid a slap on the chest.
No sooner were people coming down
clear Of the pipe than they were faced
with the deadly corners Of the pane Of
glass. An old man in a beaver hat had
just lodged n side slap from the pipe
and had readiusted his hat when the
pane Of glass. creeping up on his con
fusion, caught the hat and Knocked il
20 the Sidewalk. The laborer stopped
and watched the old man pick il 10.
The old man, rising suddenly from his
STOPPING position, got such a jab on the
top of the bead that the tears came
into his ewes.
The glass next encountered an old
woman who had come out from Hester
street just after the pipe had passed.
She had a huge bundle Of rags and
on her head. The covering o.
the bundle was a piece Of sacking.
and i|nsecurely tied. The bundle
sank over her forehead so that she
could hardly see.
The pane Of glass, still worrying over
rs mhadventure with the old man.
on blindly. and. catching its for
corner in the himsy sacking. tore
open the bundle. The rags began TO
drop TO the sidewalk. The old woman
stopped and vas just STOPPING over 70
the bundle down. when the brass
rods came up and raped her on her
thick ankles. She gave a terrible yell
Df pain and fright and fell hat on the
sidewalk. Then Se wept loudly. The
pane Of glass and the brass rods we're
there. The pipe. hearing the
noise and seeing people coming. came
lack and pushed through the crowd as
carefully as it could.
When the excitement subsidized and
he old woman was stuffing back .he
'ags the crowd began 10 depart. and
he instruments Of misfortune also.
But several hats were knocked of. a
'oat was cut, and four people were
tapped about the shins. The process
ion resumed its way. but each of its