The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-12
CHICAGO GIRL ON THE BRIDGE.
BrsokIyn Structure PrompIs Her 10 Tell About
the Man who IL ''Bridged" ut Home.

Br0OklTD Structure RroUpta tter TO Tell ABOUT
the Man who IL 'BridGed" ut Home.
A young woman whose home is in Chicago
came visiting in New York recently. and. like all
Chicago people. made a dash at the first oppor-
tunity for tho Brooklyn Bridge. There is nothing
30 calculated to make a Chicago man or woman
loquacious as the sight OF a bridge. 1t is tho
shibboleth of their town. AS the trolley car
conveyed the party eastward the young Chica-
goan said she supposed the bridge was built
high 30 It would not have TO swing.
1T Is very exciting with us" shc said. "Our
bridges all swing except the one OH HRlstead
street. That shuts up like n knife. But tho
others swing. Tho bridge ut home has a little
pilot house on top OF it. In the middle, and there
is a man up there. And when a lot OF ships come
up and want to pass through the draw the man
In the pilot house rings IA bell very fast. That
makes everybody who wants to cross the bridge
run. They run both ways. The people who arc
coming downtown run. and those who are going
| to the west side or the north side run. The
trick Is to got on the bridge and have a ride.
In that way you get the breeze from the lake
and up and down the river. although. strictly
speaking, there Is no up and down to the Chicago
River. 1t is just AS likely to be up as down.
"a great many people from New York. when
In Chicago, got turned around on account of
the popularity OF the Chicago River. Some
| ythTb hBut "uCl hhiilN wa lulUlNT
than usual, one OF the newspapers offered n trip
ticket half way around tho world To anybody
who would discover the head of the Chicago
River. There MAS a great rush to find IL; not
because they cared whore the head was, but
because they wanted to get out Of town, A man
who WAS visiting Chicago ut the Time said no
didn't know what they wanted TO find the
head for. He thought II the entire river was
lost II would help the climate.
"SomeJimes, when the bridge Is open that
way, IL SO happens that n boat will get grounded
and tho bridge will remain open for ever so
long, although there 10 a law againstlt 1t. But
the pilot OF the bridge is appointed for his politi-
cal pull and he doesn't care for the law. Tho
possibility and the actually Of being bridRed
In Chicago have caused more trouble than almost
anything else in the houses OF the city. The
man going home In tho evening 10 bridRed for
Xamplo A boat 10 grounded In the draw. He
is late to dinner. His wife waits. She meets
him and wants to know what kept him and he
says he was bridged. Now. II she 10 a Chicago
born and raised woman she has heard that in her
home. and she naturally says TO him. That's an
old gag That 10 the start OF the trouble. He
does not like to be suspected. especially when he
knows he Is innocent, so when he strikes a cold
dinner he is In a proper mood to hit back and he
makes a mean remark about cold victuals.
"The the war begins and SHE coca home to
her people ON tho south side. There Is a d.
yOrce and after about = year he goes back to
her, and they remarrY. but they live on the
south side forever, after. for there are no bridges
Oh the south side"