The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
MONKEY AND CAT
Raked Up Old AnfmOsities and
Amused the Passengers.

woman who walked down the aisle of
an elevated car toward the door carried under
her arm handsome little dog. 1t attracted
special attention because 1t is against the
rules Of the company to carry dogs on the
elevated and dogs are not often seen there
though they are occasionally struggled aboard,
says the New York Sun. But in whatever
way this particular little dog may have been
brought into the car, it was carried openly
now, and when the woman reached the plat
form she sat it down and walked away quite
unconcernedly, with the little dog following.
"Of course it's against the rules to carry
dogs on the elevated said the guard, but
passengers do bring them aboard sometimes.
There was queer thing happened once right
here this line. This was on the Sixth
avenue line.) A man brought a monkey
aboard. OF course nobody saw it, for he had
ii under his coat. He took an end seat on one
side. by the back of the first cross seat; that
gave him a sort of shelter you see, on one
side. woman brought into this car, under
her cloak-ot course nobody saw that either
a cat and she sat down on the other side of
the car, by the back of the first cross seat
there, right opposite the man that had the
monkey. Now, you know, the chances were
millions TO one against that happening; that
is, against a monkey and cat being brought
into the same and the people carrying
them sitting opposite each other; but that's
what did happen.
THE train was going uptown. The monkey
and the cat might have worked their heads
out TO get a little fresh air, and for all l
know they might have been glazing at each
other for blocks unbeknOwn to their owners;
but going around the Fifty third street curve
threw one of them forward a little and the
other may have taken that for a move toward
him, and that was enough; they'd been glar-
ing at each other long enough, and then they
sprang at each other and went at it.
The way they did pitch into each other
was something astonishing. 1t looked as
though that end of the was Just full Of
cats and monkeys, they jumped and tumbled
and thrashed around so, and the car was full
of dust that they kicked up out of the rug
banging against it, and all the passengers
from the other end of the car were crowding
into the narrow aisle between the cross seats
and leaning over the backs of the seats look
ing at the fight and laughing, and the woman
that owned the cat was calling for somebody
to stop them and the man that owned the
monkey was trying to get them apart. That's
the way things were going when we reached
Eighth avenue and Fffty-third street. Just
before got to Ninth avenue the man man
aged to separate them.
The monkey would have licked the cat
easy If they had been left to fight it out;
as it was it pulled out half the cats fur
The man that owned the monkey got his
hands all scratched up separating them, but
the monkey was very little hurt. The woman
took the cat and put it back under her cloak
and the man put his monkey inside of his
coat again They didn't see any fun In it,
but the rest of the passengers laughed all the
way to Harlem.