Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-25
ALL NIGHT ON THE POTOMAC.
How High School Girl Braved the Circum
stances and the Weather and Came Home.

"o" "IRn ScnOOl Girl Braved the Cfrcum-
stances and the Weather and Came Home.
Comes up from the Potomac a story.
Last Friday there we're two excursions to
Marshall Hall, one on the Corcoran and the
other on the Manchester, the Corcoran carving
the High School combination. In the evening
about the hour for returning a young miss of
sixteen and a lad Of eighteen possibly we're
seated on the piazza of the house
talking, as young people are liable to do in the
cleaning, when the lights dance over the
waters and the soft breezes of May play soft ao-
Ian harp tunes among the branches of the trees.
They heard the warning whistle Of boat at
the pier, but thought it was not the
Corcoran, and went not. A few moments after,
however, they concluded it would be better
mayhap, to go down and see and when they got
there they saw not, for their boat had gone.
They tried to get the Macalester, but as those
boats do not stand upon the order of their 60
ing, but go at once, they missed that boat by 10
more than the width Of a stage plank.
IN A PRETTY PICKLE
Now. here was pretty pickle, and the young
girl almost had a fit, but she soon recovered
and vowed she would 90 home some way, even
If she had to swim. The servants at the house
insisted that the ladies living there be awakened
ana the young miss go in with them. but she
demurred and asked about a row boat
1t was finally learned that boats were
to be had mile or SO up the river, and taking
the helpless young man under her arm she
started Oh In the darkness to the place desig-
mated Arriving there safely she got the boat
and two men to row it, and assuming command
she put her escort aboard wrapped herself in
bis macintosh and set sail for home, where
she said her mother was awaiting her.
IN THE RAIN STORM.
About, 12:3O came up that terrific rain you
remember, as you turned over in your nice, dry,
warm bed to hear it patter and batter on the
roof, and the girl was out there on the Potomac
In an open boat taking it all. The old skipper
at the bow said he had never seen an
angrier sky. But the girl said never a word, ex-
cept one or two of encouragement to the rowers
and to her escort, who in his nice light spring
suit was dripping and shivering by her side
The boat filed half full of water and there was
no way Of bailing it out. but still they kept on
Then the rain stopped and the biting north
WIND came down and the crew and passengers
were nearly frozen, and the Young mans
clothes were blown dry ON his back and he was
as blue as Monday and his teeth chartered till
they almost shook his tender mustache out by
the roots.
TOUCHING AT ALEXANDRIA.
At 4:3O in the morning they put in at Alexan-
dria, but only to find no train or ferry for two
hours, and the girl gave the command to move
on TO Washington and once more the tiny bark
breasted the waves, and the sturdy oarsmen
bent beneath their stroke and the young man
shivered and shivered and wanted to throw
bricks at his confonnded luck. At $50 they
LANDED AT THE WHARF,
and after paying the men $40 for their heroic
all-night work the young fellow followed the
girl to the street cars and they came up town.
not altogether radiant as the morn, but the
girl was tickled half to death that she had had
her own way and had come home safely to her
mother, who was not expecting her. as
her brother, who was in the party, had seen
how his sister had been left and had very diplo-
matically told his mother that she had gone
with another sister to stay all night with mar
ried sister down town.
So it all ended happily except to the callow
youth. who paid $40 and ruined his new spring
clothes