The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-08-18
M. QUAD AND MD. UPTOWN.
A Quiet Sunday with the Animals in
Central IPark-Both Looking
in Vain all Day For a
Place to Rest.
TCOr. New York World.

cept among the animals, which is very
right and proper. Once in a while
you may hear q man singing:
won't go home till morning,
Till daylight does appear.
But he invariably goes, and besides
that he sings very soft and low, and
also keeps the bottle in the background.
Med. and | didn't go up to the Park to
sitdOwn, as some folks do. 1t wouldn't
be right. Even if it was, there wouldn't
have been any room. The seats placed
to accommodate 10000 people are
always taken up about Thursday
night, and the sitters keep right on
sitting there till midnight Sunday
night, and thus get a chance to rest
their tired limbs.
One lady complained to me that she
had been three hours trying to find a
place to sit down, but hadn't struck it
yet, and she wanted to know if they
hakn't better change the name to Hog
Park. I spoke to Med. about it, and
he spoke to q man who had been sitting
until his shoulders had crowded up to
his ears, and the sitter said that this
was a free country and he could lick
both of us together, [ was glad he
didn't. however. He'd have had to
get up to do it, and somebody might
have slipped into his seat,
We saw an artist up there. She was
a young lady who wanted to send her
grandmother in Albany some little
mOmentO of New York. She wss there
fore mementOing n of the hippO6 on
cardboard. l thought he looked real
| gentle and serene, but Med. declared
his expression altogether too severe,
and that the drawing lacked real life.
He finally gave way a little, however,
andhdmitted that it was a good enough
hippo for an old woman seventy-eight
| years old living in Albany.
After hat we met young man with
a weed on his hat. wanted to ask
him how many chairs they borrowed
for the funeral and if they had a real
nice procession, but Med. said it might
show a lack of confidence in him, and
so l got out of it by giving him an old
tract which a man handed mein Pearl
street two weeks before. 1t was headed:
(which ROad!' The young man
looked at it and said he guessed we'd
better take the road leading to the
mOnkey-hOuse. When we got down
| where the monkeys were giving their
fifteenth performance for the day the
young man kindly explained hat they
were not indigenous to New York State
or New Jersey. They were, however,
gregariOus, herbiverOus and somewhat
CarniverOus-nOt enough to hurt, but
just enough to make life pleasant. All
of a sudden he left us. There was a
look of reprOach on his c~ountenance
as he lodged a fat man and ran over a
small boy, and [ couldn't make it out.
[ spoke to Med. about it, and he said
it really wasn't right of us to come up
there with only five nickles apiece,
and he didn't blame the young man
for feeling put out. He didn't even get
the one handkerchief we had in part
nership.
By and by we went down to see the
elephants. We found a young man
there sketching Tippo for a Chicago
paper. He vas IN artist, He had his
own ideas about elephants, and he
didn't allow himself to be trammelled
by any partisan rules of natural his
tory. [ thought his way of tying up
Typos trunk to keep it off the wet
grass and the Canada thistles was
very unique, and | also admired the
monsters lovable expression of cOun-
tenance. l spoke to Med. about these
things and he spoke to a chunky man,
with a white plug hat on his ears,
and the man said the sketch might
possibly be improved by carrying the
elephants tail clear up to his ears, but
it would do for Chicago, even with the
tail cut off short. | think Med. was
a little jealous of the artist, however,
| for he referred to him as a bill board
sketchist.
We went up to the Mall. 1t is a
lovely spot. If 1 ever get a chance l
shall sit there from Monday morning
to Sunday night, but I don't eve ex-
pect to get it, There are too many
ahead. We saw 10000 people on this
one spot. About one thousand were
sitting down and the others were
standing around on one leg and pre-
tending they were so pleased in
all their born days, A woman with a
baby in her arms and two more cling