Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-04-28
Love and Business on Staten Island.


1, does not seem probable that Mss Char
lctts Toter viii! ever resume business en-
Staten Island. She has gone away to spend
few weeks with an aunt at Dodger's Falls.
New Jsrscy, and though she will return to
grace the sccsl circles OF our neghboriDg
isand. II is net at oil likely that it, business
circles will ever know her again. And the
Tribune s sorry for this, as every euch ex-
woman In bue'ness, that state which we
srs told is the only naturs! ons for tae ssx
Last fall Miss Totter opened req! estets
aud house.rsnting agency ia Richmond
Terrace. Shs prospared Ia hsr busi-
ness wonderfully, and though In in un.
guarded moment chs cut up the blueprint
Of Melioy'e second addition to Ersstina for q
skirt pattern, ste nevertheless kept the gen.
ars de tails we'll In hand. But bercblef sucoess
was in house-rentipg, aud during the past
so months, Of course. her business In this
department. bas been particularly large,
snce many people move tothe country each
anring with the intention OF keeping Cow.
Unfclt tuns tally, just ae TIE epiug rush In the
house-le ting line begsn. most interesting
and weI-coEnsoted young man living on
Fort Hill begsn 10 pay ardent sttauton TO
Miss Toiter. Naturally the Fort Hiil
young man's sSvsnoes iuteTfered With
the reai-estate ard hnuse-Te1ting business.
This is hu5 reasonable Strong sdgocstes
OF the Woman In Buslusss esy toat
sGeb ehouiG net be the case, bat 1t always
Is. l. cannot he Otherwise. The next
day after tho young msp from the Hill frat
= - Il , prIr
esenice the Hill fouog man proposed msr-
rage aud Miss Tot;er socepted him TIE
next dag et different times four men came
into her Office looking for Fmsll eight.
room oottsgs To each one OF thsm Miss
Tot,er rented ca. taee Of this description In
Wettsrvel avenue. She did NOT notice thet
shs bad lss each cne Of them the came cot
tsxe Ia Westerve ayenue. That night sbe
lid up her front be!f on q deed 80 lot
which che was s5oCt {; sell to man at
Par Richmond.
Last Ffidsy being e vet and disagree.
able day 10 wss, Of course, the oDe which
the four men hBd selected for moving.
They all arrived at the cottage ct practical
,y the came time, each With iour-horse
yan loeded with household goods, and each
with three van men loaded with rum and
profanity, after the won't of yan-Hnsu ever
eince Nosh moved into the ark. Each one
of tae prospective tenants OF the e'gh-room
cottage wes firm, determined man Of
the world, and when each graaped
!he situation he cffsred bis head
ysr.men IS 10 get his goods In fret, and gain
possession The scene which followed can
not Re wholly made clear through the cold
medium Of type elone; the artists brush Is
also needed as veil ss the electrioian's pho.
nograph They we're large, vigorous, eg-
grassiya 7an.uea. They were hard, upre-
leating vsn-nen. ard they were bot and
peppsry rs 10 temper. When the SIS pres
naos was held out to them, each determined
10 sell tis life SIS dearly and to break ns
much furniture es possib,e. southgete's men
drove up to the front door; Hswleys mau
baked up to the rear door; while Dowd's
rasn got up 10 the side door. This left the
dInIng.room windows for Roblnson's men.
They we're sll, 30 We have intlma:ed. full
grown and experienced van-msn, and each
had the prospect OF SIS before bis eyee.
To the reader acquainted with vsn.men
and at home With truck.drivers re do not
need to say another word Of the ecene
which ensued. Each leader went into the
house snd stsked out his claim while the
others ayalanched In the goods. Each knew
now TO us9 pEulhDity Nul'c uo WoSheus so no
| time was lott. They we're men accustomed
! to q rough life and alive to the purchasing
power Of S. bill. Sometimes the side
| board to bedstesd, or curtain-pole, or a
| length of stove pipe, or an extension table
leaf, or scme suoh object, would be thrown
| No from the maslstrom which boiled within,
aud shoot out OF an upper story window, or
be heard to strike the roof with sharp re-
port. and fell back into the see'bing MACS
below. Bot we can give no adequate idea
of the SCENE (; We ri. powerless to describe 1t.
We can euly say that ct the end of Two
hours Messrs sonthgste, Hawley, Dowd and
r R,binson each had possession of two OF the
eight rooms Of the cottage. with his debris
piled up about him; that the twelve van
men were wping the blood eff their faces
and drinking at q neighboring liquor store,
and that Miss Totter was being hurried
sway on rspid-trsnsit train by the young
man from For Hill. She laughed q per.
pexed litts laugh as she took the ferryboa
and told him to tell the men In the cottage
that somebody must have made mistake
somewhere.
We give this account of the unfortunate
Staten Island occurrence more In borrow than
10 anything else, and with the hope that II
may warn otter young ladies In business
that they cannot be FOO carefal on certain
occasions.-N Y. Tribune
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