The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
ASH EEP ON THE BOX.
The Interesting Experience of an
Empire City Jehu.
He Tells About Perilous Ride Wheh
He Gave -Four CoDgressmen-A
Pleasant Reminder of
Sunset Cox.

IN drlVln' hack through the streets OF
q crowded city"
It was my friend the Jehu who ad'
mitted the soft impeachment rs we
tackled down Broadway, says a writer
in the New York Herald. The carriage
was one of the Fifth Avenue hotel rigs,
and was the latest thing out of the var
nish shop apparently, but with a pre-
cision born of long practice and an ease
which the elder Weller could not have
surpassed in his palmiest days the
driver succeeded in just missing wheels
on every hand.
'sYou see, it kinder gifts to be second
natur to miss Wheel" he said. lit
amt so much the eye nor yet the touch,
as it's instinct believe could drive
from here to the battery, barrin' the
holes and bitches Of the pavement rip
pers, with binders ON and not touch
wheel. Why, bless you sir, I've walked
up more nor once and found was driv-
in in my sleep. Oh, that amt no soak,
though it does sound like it perhaps.
Il remember once when my little
Jimmy was sick with the scarlet fever.
The old woman was poorly, and sat
up with the gal every minute I could
get off. We was pressed for work, too.
Tor it was in the presidential canvass
an the bigbugs was comm an goin'
on every train. So had to keep to the
box when otherwise | could have took q
day, or may like week of.
"Well, sir, one night, when / was
clean done up with watchin' and driv-
ia, had an order to take four con-
,,rressnen to the Cortlandt street ferry
70 the slimited' | had these same
horses--onsteady nags, but as good a
pair as you will find in any gentleman's
stable, and fellows as knows the way
as we'll as do myself, and I've been
.drivin it for fifteen year.
eft was Friday afternoon, and the
;'way was pretty sure to be full OF
trucks, yet we started pretty late too.
The passengers was nervous, and one
of emit was old Sunset Cox, rest his
sonl---who knew me well, says: Put
her through, jerry, an there's two dol
lars extra waitin' for you
''sAll right, Mr.. Cox says +, you'll
be- there, never fear.
ST give old Billy there a cut which he
understood meant time an away we
went. had EN- well in hand, and it
only required touch to keep 'en1 on
the alert, though do believe they knew
SIS much about steering this here vehi-
Gle as myself. Then I got to thinkin'
about little jimmy and wonderful If the
doctor was goin' to pull her through.
The next thing I knew, sir, I didn't
know notlin'. I was fast asleep. An
we goin' Hckety split down Broadway,
and that street half jammedi It makes
nae sweat now TO think Of it!
''Suddenly I felt something Juggling
at my coat tails, and pulled in. It was
Mr., Cox. who wanted me to stop for
something. We were in front OF the
post office. E(e had a quick eye, and he
says, gettin' as pale as a ghost: My
God, man, you were asleep!'
IL owned up the corn at once, though
il was done SO low the other passengers
did not hear word, and told him the
reason, an how I had been settin' up
nights with my girl Jimmy.
"'Don't say word, says he, and
upon M soul, sir, see % tear in his eye.
W tlGu we TSaCiLSO GuS lSiiys acre
:your fare says he, no CHANGE an he
walked quickly into the fer1y-house. I
spread out the bill, which, was all in a
wudge an what do you think, sir? It
sFere a twenty! That were the sort OF
MAN Sunset Cox was. No wonder that
:he did not get rich in congress.
"Yes, sir, / had draw all the way
down to Park place in my sleep, an if |
had been wile-awake, with forty eyes
to keep on the trucks and wagons, |
couldn't have done it slicler. Nothing
like habit, now | tell you!
"Who, jimmy? Oh, she's all right, an
rs slick a gal as you'd like to see. She's
in the second grade, grammar, an she's
goin' to the normal and to make a
teachel-that is if some young fellow
don't snap her up for wife before.
There is danger of that, too. for she's
mighty handsome-loolzs like her dad,
chi Thank you, sir' Yes, don't mind
smoke now and then, if it's real
good one"