Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-07-26
KAUF MAN BAZAAR 70. !
 A LUCKY FIND.
Tale of Il Valuable Watch That Was Lost
 on an Elevated Railroad.

Tale of Valuable Watch That Was Lost
 0n an Elevated Railroad.
 This watch in itself is valuable one, said a New York business man as he took the timepieee from the peculiar looking foh ill which he carries if, but 1t had all adventure last week that gives 1t still greater value to me- The fob is an heirloom, and, as you may see, would be apt to attract attention any where
 One afternoon last week WAS go ing up town on q crowded train on the Sixth avenue elevated. The train was so crowded that l was compelled to stand on a car platform close to the brake wheel. As the train was round ing the cnrye out of West Thlrd street l took my watch from my pocket, re- moved it from the fob, and, after not ing the time, showed it back into the fob and returned 1t, as I thought, to the pocket Instead of getting 1t into the pocket, however. it was on the out side, and as I let it go it fell. The guard saw 1t as it fell and reached out his foot to save it from going between the platforms, but failed, and down it went.
 TT got off the train at Eighth street and ran back as fast as I could to the spot where the watch had dropped, hay ing, 1 may of course say, not the slightest hope that the watch would be anywhere to be seen. When I reached the place, my heart almost jumped out of my throat, for there in the street, conspicuous among its surroundings, lay the fob. picked it up. Itwas emp ty. No watch could 1 find anywhere.
 Some one has found it, was natu- rally my oonelusion and that was the last 1 ever expected to hear or see of it.
 But as l walked back toward the Eighth street station 1 got to thinking about the matter differently If any one had found the watch, why should he have left the fob? The more thought of 1t the more made up my mind that the watch hadn been found I board ed train at Eighth street and went up town to the railroad headquarters There 1 told of the singular thing that had happened to my watch, and the of ficer il charge told me that after the commission hours were over for the day the track walkers would start from Fifty ninth street down tho line mak- ing their legnlar inspection of the rails and ioadway, and he " ould instruct them to keep an eya out for the lest watch
 - But, said he, smiling. I guess you will have to come to the concku- sion, after all, that some one else will tell the time hy 1t hereafter if it hagn't been smashed to pieces by the fall.
 Next day went to the office. My watch Was theaa A track walker had discovered it b the light of his torch at midnight iyi.g enpgly o!l one of the girdefs or brace of tho iron roadway beneath the sfaek The sing was sprnng out of its fastening in the stem, and the watch was open. There was a dent Oh the Case u lie hinge. Iii falling tho watch had struck in some mysterious way so that il had been forced from the fob, which went on down to the street Beyond the trifling damage i mentioned the watch was hot iajrrea in the slight est Ii there ever MS. u luckier find than that. 1 heyer heaid of 1t. New York Ssn
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