Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-10-14
woMAN,s lNHuMANlrY TO WOMAN.

Where sympathy Might Hnvo Boon Elk
peoted From Any wearer of Skirts.
Alttle young woman turned into West
Twenty-sixth street from Seventh avenue
on her way to Eighth avenue about $50
q. m. yesterday. A jaunty hat sur
mounted her head, and her dark gown
was snugly fitted.
Opposite the stables in tho middle of
the block all at once her step began to
falter, and alook of despair came into
her brown eyes. She gazed about like q
hunted animal In search Of place Of
shelter, while her hands grabbed convul-
sively at her hips. A thin white line ap-
peared at the bottom of the skirt.
All at once her face lighted up as does
Landscape when thesun breaks through
the clouds. She had found place Of
refuge. The area gate of house near
Eighth avenue, which she had now
reached, stood invltingly open, and there
was no gate at all to the recess under
the stoop on which the basement door
opened. The basement door, too, was
open, and there was no one, as It proved,
in the dark hall beyond.
It was just the place to reclaim the
refractory underskirt, and the girl hur-
ried to the friendly shelter. Quickly
as she had passed under the stoop. she
had been seen by big woman who was
busting the first floor hall. The big
woman hurried down the steps and asked
aggressively of the young woman, who
was struggling with her skirt in the
basement hall:
"What are you doing there's?
"Tm tightening my skirt, which had
slipped down. answered the girl, COM
pleting the Tightening process.
you've no business there, I'm not
keeping o dressing room I'll teach you
to trespass on my premises. l arrest
you. Come along"
So saying, the big woman grabbed the
girl by the throat md dragged her into
the street.
..Let me go. I've done nothing wrong.
Let me go to work. It's time should
be at the shop" demonstrated the girl
as we'll as she could while nearly stran-
gled.
The big woman only frightened her
grip on the girls throat.
''Tll not let you go until policeman
comes. Making dressing room OF my
house! Too many have done it, and l
won't have it!''
While speaking, she continued to drag
the girl toward Eighth avenue and
looked up and down that thoroughfare
for policeman. Apparently thinking
she saw one in the direction of Twenty
fifth street, she started down the avenue
with the girl.
Now, the spectacle of one woman hav-
ing another by the throat is unusual In
Eighth avenue, at any rate at o'clock
In the morning, and crowd soon sur
rounded the two women. By the time
they had reached Twenty-ffth street the
crowd was so great that their farther
progress was barred. The crowd wanted
an explanation, and when the big wom-
an loosened her hold on her prisoners
throat, while telling of the trespass
which had been committed, the younger
woman took advantage Of the opportu-
nifty to tell her side Of the story. The
crowd believed her and began to jostle
and shove the big woman. A sympa-
thizing woman in the crowd stuck pins
into the big woman's arm to make her
give up the hold which she still kept OF
her prisoners neck. The big woman let
her prisoner go in order to draw rusty
file from her pocket with which she
threatened the jostling crowd. This
proved the prisoners opportunity. She
plunged through the crowd which open
ed to let her pass and then closed in be-
hind her, and hailing horse car was
moment later being carried out of her
captor's reach up the avenue. The crowd
prevented the big woman from following
her, and rubbing the arm into which
the pins had been stuck she returned to
her home in Twenty-sixth street,-New
York Sun.