Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-08
SHE PUT On PANTS
And Emerged From a Sleep
ing Car Section
SURPRISING A NEGRO PORTER
Singular Performance of q Petoskey Pau
In Route to Heuington-A Woman
Dons Mems Clothes.

A eaptlous and critical public plainly
has no right TO call in question the
veraeity OF Archibald Clayering Qua.
ter's last book, "A Florida Enehant-
meni." A nineteenth century Rosa
lind from the wave-kissed si oses oil
PstosKey has beaten Mr.. Gunter at his
own gsme, and Wagner sleeping car
porter, Morton house clerk and
a. ore Oi obsefyant men are ready 10
s.tssst the fact. The Rosalsnd who nas
! wandered out or Arden into the pines
OF Michigan would he known TO the
/ world as &c. l.. Dowse, Leonardsville,
\. y" as so It's writ on the big book nj
| the Morton. Mr." Dowse, clad ia $40
uons down and becoming headgrar.
/ and another wanderer. who called her
self Miss Z. A. seney, Petoskey,"
, boarded the G.. X. & i. tram at Petos-
KEY Wednesday n'g.t aud took sleeper
TOR this city. Their tickets read
To Harrington, Mich. and at this stage
/ III the adventure neither of the travel
ers attracted more attention than Is
usually vouchsafed couple OF comely
| women. But in the Silly night.
| or just as the grey dawn came, "Proi.'
| powse did his great lightning change
! act and emerged from the berth. clad
IN chic spring suit, which, however, SO
the Wagner car reporter, Robert Bow
! man, saye, bore painful evidences OF
| beng hand-me down. When the
| tram reached Grand Rapids the
"happy PAIR" made no effort 10 catch
the train for Harrington, but went al
| once to the Morton house and regis.
tered under the above mentioned
| names.
The Clerk was son" to Him.
! The suave bell-jsmmer at that hos
telry has not been sizing up poor hu-
nianity all these years tor nothing. 10
he sure ROsalind Olivia George Sand
Dowse short blacks were kurpOuuted
| by soft felt hat; true, her panties
were beginning to bag just the least
little bit AT the knee. But he WAS on;
he could tell good thing in pants
when he saw it, but ne didn't say a
| word. The porter had told good
many people, the clerk told more, and
the gentiemanly girl was very critically
| studied by scores of interested specta-
| tors. The couple went to breakfast,
paid the little bill and, it Is said, left for
Harrington. But the porter ana the
clerk are wondering still. "She had
just the faintest sign OF mustache.
She was large. had pretty hands, broad
hips;" they repeat slowly and then
| whistle quietly and their thoughts are
far away. The case is q peculiar one,
for when the pair boarded the train and
| went to bed the porter never suspected
that beneath the flowing gown Of one
the stalwart form Of man Ind. So
when the train reached this city and the
man sailed forth the porter ducked his
| head in the coal bin that he might es
cape the necessity of appearing as a
| witness in divorce or abduction case.
The pair went as mysteriously as they
came. and whittier they have fed or
what the snap can be is an impracti-
cable blank to all who knew OF the epi-
| sode.
Says He Knew Them.
Capt. c. 4. Rose of Petoskey, who
was stopping ut the Morton. said to q
reporter last night: IL saw the two
women enter the office here this morn.
ing and at once recognized them. The
one who signed herself Z. l.. Dowse at
once recognized as female physician
of Petoskey, a doctor, or Miss Clara l..
Dowse. she maintained kind of SAM
tarum at Petoskey, and Miss Seney is
an assistant of hers. Miss Dowse has
been i'll for some time ana l think her
illness affected her BRAIN"