The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-28
WILL co AGAIN.
A Youth From the Country
Who Went Down River.
He'll Have Yarns to Spin by the Hour
As He Relates His Adventures.

A young man stood on Exchange Place
yesterday noon soliloquizing. He didn't
live very far out in the country, and he
vas II years old, but nevertheless he had
never been TO the city before, nor much of
anyw here else out Of the village, but some
OF the other fellows had aud had told him
what TO do. One OF them who had been
TO the city as much as four times, and
stayed in hotel with a real elevator in IL,
had charged him not to stop and look in
the windows or up at the high buildings,
for il he did people would know
that he was green. And that was
the caution he was thinking over. He
wanted TO see things so he decided TO take
chances on being called a greenhorn and
began his fun by counting the stories OF
Butler Exchange, and the Industrial
Trust Company building. He walked
around the City Hall aud figured
what it must have cost, drifted
through to Westminster street and down
TO the great bridge, noticing the names OF
the streets so he could mention them i'm
an off hand way when he got back as the
other fellows did. On Dyer street
be saw big crowd OF people
day, so he naturally asked man il they
were going to church The man happened
to be good natured so he explained that
the crowd was going down river. "What's
down there?" "Everything; more fun
down there in minute than up here in
week. and it only costs 20 cents to go
down and back"
The greenhorn decided TO go; he had
never heard the others say anything about
that so he'd have the bulge on them. He
followed the crowd, bought bis ticket
and got aboard the What Cheer.
There were loads OF fun in the
forty five minutes on the river.
A boy told him he needed a shine so he
got one and experienced a brand new sem
sation In having someone else black his
boots. Al Crescent Park he forgot Prov
idence and its hign buildings; they
weren't in II with what he saw by
the sign was the Coney Island OF the East
and it's thousand and one attractions.
Before he got of the wooden approach to
the boat landing there was a merry-go-
round and he took ride on
a lion, then paid 9t another nickel
the vanished humps of a camel; on the
top of the hill he struck machine that
sang songs to him through tube
that he stuck in his ear, and then he
went down the hill on the other side
into the park itself, regular valley filled
with fun. OF course he had a clam din
ner with more kinds OF fish than he had
ever heard of and wound up with
ice cream--ice cream was one
of the things he had specially
planned on when he came TO town. He
got into a car and was whisked round in
mid air at rate that settled his dinner
and made him hungry enough TO tackle
cafe. Paid ten cents TO go into
tent and see section of
one of the great trees OF California, one OF
the same that he had read about in his
geography and the old lady in charge told
him that il was 5000 years old and 20 feet
garden where there WIS
band playing and two or three hundred
men sitting round, each wearing a badge
that said "Black Bass Club, Fall River"
That was an excursion, the other thous-
ands of men, women and children were
just there on their own hook.
He vent rowing in skiff over in the
back cove and did turn in q swing that
worked by machinery. But the best thing
on the ground was the pony track. An
eighth of a mile track with IL mus
taDgs to be let to any one that wanted
a ride and the whole thing in charge OF
Jim Kid, the champion wild horse rider
Of the world. The hero of this alleged
yarn mounted grey horse and
sat in the very saddle that
Jim Kid had won as first prize
in cowboys -raee-and- in
Montana. That 10 cent mustang ride
was better than reading all the dime
novels that had ever been printed.
The kid came back TO the city on the
last boat and in spite OF all the fun he
had was bluer than indigo, first because
he knew the fellows at home wouldn't
believe him when he told them
about Crescent Park, and the
only proof he had was cane
that he had won by tossing ring over it.
And on the other hand ne was blue be-
cause he hadn't seen half there
would be a little later on in the sea-
son. He had overheard a big, good
natured man that they called Mr..
hot bs. cb nt
open until July 1, when Mr. German
would have his hippodrome ready and the
big open air stage for the japanese Jug
glers. However one of the Park fortune
tellers had told him that he should realize
his biggest wish so he knew he would go