The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-18
MIR. NYE In NEW YORK.
In His New Clothes He Is Mis-
taken for a Bunk0 Man.
A PRISONERS TOUCHING APPEAL
Life and Death in q Dime Museum-Hov
the Census Statistics Warn Us of
Our Fate.
Copyright, 1891, by Edgar W. Nye. ]

NEW YORK, Oct. 12-fSpecial Core
spondence. After an entire summer in
the pine clad hills and mir trimmed valleys
OF North Carolina, New York seems to me
more vociferous than ever To a pastoral
person like myself, interested in the
growth OF plant life, the mean annual arti-
nclai rainfall and the growth of CHAMBERS
In equestrian circles, the exposed bowels of
Broadway-as | may be pardoned for say
ing, trust, since that street so forcibly re-
minds me, with its open expression and
exposed pipes, conduits and canals, of the
man on the title page of the zodiac
Broadway, with its hurry and rush and
business and omitted dividends; its torn
and disngured surface its crowds of young
men who brag about being such rooeys,
as the French say, when i'll fact they
are not or they would not blow so much
about it; its flocks of beautiful girls with
bright, new, becoming frocks; its gangs of
patient toilers, which are putting in new
cable at a rate which makes the old moss
covered street opener of New York crazy ;
its returning troops of brown and beauti-
full children, fresh from the fields where
the black-eyed susans and the blue bells
grow, all, all bewider a rustic from the
woods of Buncombe county, N. c., and
cause him to buy new clothes for him
self SO that he will not so readily attract
the green goods man.
This time. somehow, when am buster
than ever, think am more than usually
annoyed by these people. very disa-
greeable thing occurred to me not long
ago. 1t was different from anything had
ever before experienced. 1. was in the
l. ra,rbl Itch of he Srih h
ners, looking at new books In the sales
room, and especially admiring beautiful
volumn of "Hiawatha," illustrated by
Remington, who makes such truthful
frontier horses and-I had almost said
such truthful Indians.
While was thus engaged saw at dis
lance a Chicago gentleman who published
a book for me once. | met him when we
made the contract, about five years ago,
and expected to see him every sixty days
after that, at which time l was to receive
statement and check, but instead of this
he began to build and also bought team.
Well, for those reasons | did not see him
any more, and SO was not quite sure that
it was helm fact it was not, but / felt
sure it must be. However. / was we'll
dressed and wished to let the Chicago
man know that we New Workers are a
courteous and kindly race of people, so as
l looked well and had my new fall hat
thought would ask him up to my club,
blow him off, as it were, have dinner with
cake and preserves, and practically have a
time of it, allowing bygones to be bygones.
/ sailed gayly up To him and assumed a
weil-bred attitude which my coachman
has taught me on rainy days this sum-
mer.
Good morning. Mr.. Skeezix," / said.
Skeesix was not the name of the man I
knew. but it ought to be. s'Good morning,
Mr. Skeezix When did you leave Chi
cago?"
He looked at me as one does who has
been bunkoed only a week or so before,
and whose fostering wound is torn open
afresh by new bunko man. He turned
little pale and put his hand to the pocket
which contained his pass. With the other