The Red Cloud chief., 1894-05-04
THE MODERN WAY or MOVING.
Some Of Its Features as Noted by n subur.
Mite Just Moved Into Town..

Mite just Moved Into Town.
I'VE cannot forget" said the man
who movsd from tho suburbs, "the vans
we moved In nor the men who moved
az. Tho whole household was active
early that morning waiting for the vans.
The main road by which they would ap.
proach ran parallel to the street in
which we lived and in plain sight. Soon
after 2 o'clock we saw them coming,
three of them, each drawn by four
horses, and all well closed up, q decid.
eddy orderly and business looking pro.
cession. They swung around through q
cross street and down our street and
halted neal the house at 7:10. They had
told us at the Office that the vans would
be there at 2 o'clock. Inasmuch as they
had had 10 miles to come and 1t had
rained tho night before 7:lO didn't seem
like q half bad bluff ct Il.
IA nan came down and located the
house, and then the two head vans came
and backed up to the walk in front. At
one side of the house there was a drive
way which ran back past tho rear Of the
house, with q loop there around a little
oval grass plat. There was none too
much room in this driveway, which was
not designed for four horse teams, but
when the rear van came down the driver
swung his leaders and came in ut ii with
the large confidence of q man who has q
good team and knows how to handle it.
He rounded the oval and halted with
his team headed toward tho street and
the rear end Of the van Oh q line with
tho rear of tho house. When the vans
| were all in position, the horses were
blanketed, and then the men were ready.
"There were six men altogether, and
they were all powerful, a~blebodied
men. The house was q az story Queen
Anne. The men stripped it in two hours
and without any fuss or commotion
whatever. At 0:20 the last paddock snap
ped on tho last a door, and the driv-
ers mounted to their seats and hauled
out into the road again, ono more in
line. Then all hands settled down in
their seats, and everything was ready for
the start. Tho great arks were very
heavy now, and it was no light work to
move them. There was q little pictur-
cSuuc pluIBihB NV VIZ Stuit, buV thNy
were good teams, every one, and they
soon had the vans in motion, and after
that they walked off with them as
though they were shoeboxes on wheels.
A few moments later we saw them once
moro out on the main road, moving now
toward the city.
-Four hours later we caught sight Of
them again. We were then OH tho train
bound for the city and approaching neal
ii. We saw the vans OH q road at som
little distance from the railroad. They
were as we'll closed up as o wagon trair
would be under escort in an enemy
country and moving forward.
mot very long afterward we STOOD
on tho steps in the land Of brick ant
mortar and saw the procession, still wei
closed mp, appear around the corner. The.
, came up at a trot. 1t took q little MOI,
time to unload than to load, but no
much. Soon we heard the last padlocl
snap again, this time on the last of TIN
empty vans. Once more the procession
. lined up, moved off and disappeared.
"And left us to settle. 1t is some
thing Of u job to settle, rs those VIII
have tried it know, but if anythin,
I could make that work seem lighter i
: would BIO the exhilaration Of moving il
the modern way. New York Sun.