San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-07

that it was firmly placed on to \
the Madison Square Am :
theatre and had always been I b,
and / tell you this deception Q
me sick, 60 / thought I'd go ID
see IL there was really any |h
thing as the "Bowery," beca l
had often read of it, and hear be
song: "My Pearl is Bowery Fri,
etc" l went on until l cam a
saloon, in the door of which a
marble slab, with the words I I've
Brodie" on it. concluded tha his
was the "sure huff" Bower DO /
went in, threw down dol bill a,
and called for the beer. though
looking barkeeper waited 0n me,
and the change he gav8 Re looked
a little queer and black D6ut | sup
posed that the barkeeYer had been
at the Hot Sulphur wells, and
thought it must be all right, so put
it in my pocket and forgot all
about it till l went to buy a cigar
at a stand farther down, when
the dealer in cigars threatened to
have me arrested for attempting to
pass counterfeit money. told him
where / got it, but he only laughed
at me; so ] bought dollars worth
Of cigars from this man to square
things, and feeling worse than
l started out, returned to the hotel
and went to bed, to dream of stat
ues, counterfeit money and bunco
steerers. / awoke next morning
feeling better, and went out on the
street. l knew there was going to
be a "fiower battle" or "Charity cir
GUS" from the crowds that were
beginning to thrOng the streets and
plazas-I mean squares-and as /
was following along with the
crowd down Broadway. A man
picked up pocketbook almost un-
der my feet, and stopping me, asked
II it was my pocketbook, at the
same time opening the book, show.
ing me that it was filed with bills
of large denominations. Without
thinking, replied that it was not
mine. The stranger said that he
was sorry, because he had to leave
on the next train for Washington,
and knew that there would be a
large reward offered for the
book, and that he didn't want to
keep anyone else's money, nor
did he wish to lose the larger re-
ward and finally offered to let me
have the pocket book provided, /
would give him hundred dollars
and also promise to insert an ad.
in some paper so the real owner
would be sure to get the money on
paying the reward. The amount
he asked was large, but we were
sure of a reward of at least five
hundred dollars, and as the man
was so honest about it, when he
could just as we'll have kept the
money the pocket-book contained,
that without any hesitation, 1 took
out my "f1ash role" Of money, and
skinning a hundred.dollar bill
from the outside, gave it to the
stranger, who after making me
again promise to advertise the
pocket-book turned it over to me,
bowed politely and left. walked
on in hurry till 1 came to the
office of a newspaper having
small circulation, where L put in
cheap ad. about like this:
"Found Pocket book containing
large sum Of money. Apply to F.
H. B., Room 2673, 9th floor, Hoff-
mann House."
Continuing down Broadway l
soon founa that it was no use to
try to catch up with the cir
Gus, so 1 concluded l would
take a car and go to the
pier for Coney Islands. AS l
was about to take the car / noticed
that it was a trailer that had evil
IDENTIFY broken loose from the
motor car, and as it was down
grade, the car was going at a ter
rifle rate Of speed, yet, strange to
say, the conductor was doing
nothing to stop the car, neither did
the passengers appear to be fright
ened. No sooner had this car
passed than another car just like
the former came whizzing by. 1
began to doubt my eyes again
when 1 saw another car just like
the other two, going up the grade
at the same speed. But none OF
these cars had any trolley pole, and
looking up, saw that the trolley
wire was gone too. Being now
thoroughly bewildered and fright
ened, asked policeman how
those cars could run up hill that
way, without trolley pole or wire?
The policeman answered that they
were not trolley cars, but were run
by a cable under the track. [
thought he was only guying me,
but as soon as the car passed, l ran
out and looked at the track, and
there was a rope running right
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