The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-29
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Stoves.
Air Tights ard al ether kinds OF heaters
IN great variety a. the right p-.ces.
FREDERICK. NELSON s MUNRO.


cldsd to make the trip across ne country
as sroW&ways
NJ Allen thought the matter over aad
came 20 the conclusion ne had no complaint
20 make against q married couple VINO
were clever enough 20 think ouI 50 novel A
plan 10 beat The transportation companies.
You can take your BOX and GO" said
Mr.. Allen. Tyler thanked him and II a
few Minutes returned with an express
wagon. The box was lifted into l.. and
thep Mr. and Mrs. Tyler climbed up on
the seat with the driver, and away they
went.
Good bye" yelled the crowd.
Mrs. Tyler waved her hand and as the
wagon went out OF sight behind corner
Was heard 70 exclaim. STa-ta, see you n
the klondiks''
Not Discouraged.
II was Detective Michael Powers VINO
learned where Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler mad
been living and what their initials were
Mrs. Tyler told him that her maiden name
was Lucy r. c. Hill. Her huband
name was 4. F. Tyler She said that lit
tie obstacles TO q pleasure trip across the
country like those they had just encoun-
tered. did not discourage them and that
sooner or later they would get out OF
Seattle. They have been living IN a tent
near the corner Of Second avenue and
Virginia street Being without funds and
desiring 10 get our OF the city they hit up
on the scheme Of getting a piano box and
fitting il out for a tranScontinental trip
20 the bean-eating town One side OF the
box was fixed so that the boards could be
removed and thus allow exit. The plan
was 10 open up the box. once on the road.
and then enjoy the freedom of the car.
IL order that everything would so right
arrangements were made with an express
man 10 come after the box, which was
10 be placed on the sidewalk where he
could get il without trouble. The cost
of carting IL TO the depot was paid IN adj
vance. All the preliminary arrange
ments having been completed Mr.. and
Mrs. Tyler got into the box, having
their provisions. can Of water and blank
cts carefully slowed away. 1t is presumed
that friends fastened the top down. In
due course of time the expressman came
along and took them to the depot. but I'M
fortunately got there fifteen minutes too
late II this mistake had not occurred
Mr. and Mrs. Tyler would have been trav-
cling east at this moment and laughing az
the way they had fooled the railroad com
panies.
The railroad men We're greatly interest
ed in the box trick" yesterday afternoon
and Frank Parker. agent of the Chicago
& Northwestern, came in for no end of
joshing. Mr.. Parker. in common with
his contemporaries. hustled around 10
get the "Ivers Pond piano box" shipment
Finally he succeeded and when il was
settled that the box should be routed over
the Northern Pacific to st. Paul and
thence to Chicago by way of the North
western. he pulled out his chest and pre-
pared 10 take a short vacation. About
2 o'clock some one called him up to the
telephone and asked him what kind of a
piano he had routed over the Northwest
err Mr.. Parker did not know much
about the quality of the piano. but
thought he had caught a good piece of
freight. Then came the awful news and
Mr.. Parker has not yet recovered from
the shock