The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-11-10
ENGLISH AS SPOKEN IN NEW YORK.


Camments That Followed the FAlling q
Two Horaes ON Broadway.
The voluntary comments Of an averag,
crowd aroused to temporary excitement By
some trihins incident in the street aforS
food for reflection on Murray and Cobbett
As they are spoke"
A poorly shod horse attached to q big
numbering brewers wagon fell down .,
Twenty third street and Broadway. In en-
deavoring to get the frightened animal Il
its feet again, the driver of the wagon con
trived to throw the other horse down also.
The two powerful animals soon became
Involved in an apparently inextricable tan
gle They were sprawled out across the
tracks in such manner as to block both
the Bruadway and the Twenty-third street
cars in the busiest hour of the afternoon
The crowd that jostled about on thu
heaps of snow surrounding the frantic ami
mails, Offering well intended suggestions t.
the equally frantic driver, was, presumably
as representative q crowd as could be CAT h
cred anywhere in New York A reporter
was there and made memorandum of some
OF the expressions showered around him.
The policeman who takes care of the cross
ing, or pretends to, opened the bali:
What was you thinkin Off" he said an
grily. Look what you've did. A man
Ike you Is amt fit to drive cows"
1T amt the fault of him. Them shoes is
disgrace to any man what owns a horse
This remark from a we'll dressed, intelli-
gent looking man who had emerged from q
neighboring restaurant and was industri-
ously assisting the driver to undo the hax>
ness while other people talked
keep away from there il you don't want
TO get your leg broker came from a pros
Porous looking man with a book and two
or three newspapers in his hands, who
ahghted from one OF the cars going up town
IN order to ascertain the cause of delay.
What is my legs you, Keep your ad-
vice till it is asked fOr," was the pert ne
3oinder of the lad to whom the remark was
addressed,
Poor creatures. Can't any body do some
thing for them, They'll kill themselves, -
said sympathetic woman.
LESS said and more done the better
was the senteatious reply Of a man who
was Juggling away with all his might at one
Of the wheels.
Put blankets under their feet" suggest
ed man who was driving by in a light
wagon. Il done that with my horse yester-
day, and he was up in a iiffy."
Blankets be bowed" said the driver
getting irritated Where will be gettina
them"
BY this time the crowd numbered nearly
1O people, and the poor teanster was driven
TO distraction with the chorus OF advice
hurled at him by impatient people In the
course OF 20 minutes stalwart porter ran
across the street from the Fifth Avenue ho-
TEL IL was apparent at once that he was
accustomed TO horses. He called two or
three car drivers to his assistance and be.
gan a plan OF campaign. In five minutes
more the horses were on their feet again,
dragging their load through Twenty-thiri
street.
Them fellers arc a nuisance" remarked
fashionably dressed Broadway lounger.
who had been an interested spectator from
the beginning
Yes" assented the policeman But it
amt no good having their names took.
You can't get people to appear in court
against 'em- New York Times