Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-20
MONKEY AND CAT FIGHT.
The Guards Reminiscence of q Lively
Time on the Elevated.

MONKEY AND CAT FIGHT.
III Guards Reminiscence of . Lively
Time on the Elevated.
A woman who walked down the
aisle of an elevated car toward the
door carried under her arm a hand
some little dog. 1t. attracted Special
attention because it is against the
rules of the company to carry doga
on the elevated, and dogs are not
often seen there, though they are
occasionally struggled aboard. But
in whatever way this particular lit
tie dog may have been brought into
the a it was carried openly now,
and When the woman reached the
platform she set it down and walk.
ed 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
a queer thing happened once right
here on this line. This was on the
Sixth avenue line. A man brought
a monkey aboard. OF course nobody
saw it, for he had it 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. "A woman brought into
this car, under her cloak-of 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 a cat be.
ing brought into the same car and
the people carrying them sitting op.
posite each other-but that's what
did happen.
1.-THE train was going up town.
The monkey and the cat might have
worked their heads out to get a lit.
tie fresh air, and for all I know they
may have been glaring at each 9th.
er for blocks nnbeknown to their
owners, but going around the Fifty.
third street curve they went at each
other, fighting like wildcats. I don't
know what finally started them, but
maybe the lurch Of the cars as the
train swung around the curve threw
one of them forward a little, and
the other may have taken that for q
move toward him, and that was
enough. They'd been glaring at
each other long enough, and then
they sprang at each other and went
at 1t.
1.-THE way they did pitch into each
other was something astonishing.
It looked as though that end of the
car was just full Of cats and mon
keys, they jumped and tumbled and
thrashed around SO, and the a 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
Nseats eRdfleaning oversthe backs OF
the seats looking at the fight and
laughing, and the woman that own.
ed the cat was calling for somebody
to stop them, and the man that own.
ed the monkey was trying to gel
them apart. That's the way things
were going when we stopped at the
station at Eighth avenue and Fifty.
third street. Just before we got tc
Ninth avenue the man managed tc
separate them.
1.-THE monkey would have licked
the cat easy If they had been left tt
fight it out. AS it was it pulled GU,
half the cats fur. The man tina
owned the monkey got his hands al
scratched up separating them, bu'
the monkey was very little hurt
The woman took the cat and put i
back under her cloak, and the MAJ
put the monkey inside Of his Goa
again. They didn't see any fun i,
it, but the rest of the passenger
laughed all the way to Harlem
New York Sun.