New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-20

"rhs other evening" said the Man on the Boat,
"wbl.s sitting in the cOister which leads from my
friends rectory to the parish church, told story
read in The Tribune-the story OF the clergyman
who at Foboken ferry frightened by his Kind atien-
ton the nervous spinsteT
NY friend the rector, remarked that the clergy
man got off luckily and startled me by adding;
'You never heard O, my adventure? Well. III tell
YOU lie took another puff a his cigar and began
When I had charge OF mission In Newborn my
mother was living up in Orange County on the Erie
road and used 70 run up 10 see her on MohoaYs'
Il was refreshing after hard, hot SUNDAY. one
Monday night when was returning noticed IN the
seat in front O, mine extremely handsome young
woman and a nne-loOking elderly woman. evidently
her mother They showed signs OF travel and were
evidently weary from long journey. Just Delo"
Turner'S we were delayed by wreck ahead OF US
a freight train had been wrecked and someho" hau
caught FIRE The mother became exceedingly neG-
vous: she was sure that we were in danger from
the trains behind A. that time wreck on the
Erie was such a common thing that did not feel
arv anxiety comforting myself with the thought
that We would surely be in by midnight ana tha'
! would be in my rooms and asleep by !. So with
patience answered the lady's questions ana as
surei her mat would be all right Il TOOK us
nearly txo hours and half to get by the wreck.
and then the mother and daughter had a new cause
o. ANXIETY They were from Kentucky; had never
before been IL New-York. where the young In ny
was 10 study art. distant relative was 10 meet
them: II he missed them they were TO 20 directly
10 his house-how were they TO ind his house at
! o'clock in the morning?
They appealed 10 me. and the least that cou.d
DO was 10 volunteer to see that they arrived satey
az their journeys end. There was no one at the
station. there was no one. Chambers-st 10 meet
them. and ! stood ready TO fulhl my promise. /
asked where their friend lived and vas dumb
founded when 7 heard zone hundred and-t"enty-
sevclih-st" One-hundrej and t~enty-seVehth-st'
One o'clock In the morning But ! was ID ior H.
and so we went up on the Sixth-ave elevated. l
vas not very agreeable ! fear for realized mat
would Rot be able TO get back TO my rooms uht'
nearly I. and there was a hard days worA before
iae. vowed that would never again volunteer 10
see peop.e home until | knew where they were
living
Going up in the elevated the mother became
exceedingly nervous again. wondered II we were
going the right way; seemed 10 imagine tHat IN
tended 10 get them into some out-of-the-"ay pace
ana murder and rob them. II II had not been LOT
me daughters confidence in my good intentions 4
should have left them Fifty-ninth-st ana Deeh
gao 10 get rid OF them so easily. ! have saia DC
lore That the young lady was extremely han'some'
we must be Oh the right road. for she was "d.cn
~ thr numbers or the streets IL was Pl'h-". ~
Sl'er all my trouble be suspected or trylns ~
e. away with them At OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
rnasA,st the mother some what appease1, az
S"s-"uioFea and-i@enty SIX inst. her IooA o. "''