The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
Ex1eMA OF TIE RUNAWAY.
Its Start u . Wy steFyg Its Course Coufusios, Its
RIght-oF-Way UudIsputed.

1IEht-oE-Way Uudisputed.
The runaway is always an incident. The
city man never becomes Indifferent to IL. The
countryman is always on the lookout for It. 1t
Is the one thing which can distract the attention
that has been fixed upon q burning building. 1t
can break up the stateliest procession that ever
moved. 1t can also make the face of a motor
man or a cardriver. or a teamster. even though
he be q hackman turn white. Whenever you
see 1t, or hear OF 1t. V is the same old
Interchangeable incident. 1t has an element
OF uncertainty which makes IL fascinating.
When the winds blow, and the seas roll. and
the storm rages, and the building Is In flames.
you can guess at the result. You don't know,
you can't conceive the outcome of n runaway.
There comes o time in the life Of ever horse
man when he has no influence over the animal
he has fostered and petted and Dragged about.
This time is when the horse concludes, provided
the horse reasons. to go as he pleases. Pedigree.
stable. outfit, attention, or lack of attention.
enter not into the runaway bus ness. The ami
NAL, the stats" OF which require no X.ray
ssS as esper saa and aSpas on ~ Which the sen Sassiss
will in a moment when peace is brooding over
piunging. and running and scurryins like .
Chinese devil. down the street. or up. or around
in the rear OF a runaway horse The greater his
speed. The more crowded the thoroughfRre the
more ZiR-zaR the course OF the animal with
~nostrils distehded and ears laid back. He is
never in line with the conveyance. II Is always
at geographical variance with his tail.
There Is something unexplainable in the ra-
pidity with which the news OF a runaway trav-
els and the effect upon persons In the houses on
the line of IL. Start a runaway from the inter
section OF Twenty-third street and sixth ave-
nue. and people at the corner of Twenty-third
| street and Fifth avenue will DO on the lookout
and dogs will be getting out of the way. A man
who has made a study Of runaways said to q
IT was in one of the biggest retail houses on
Sixth avenue, shopping, when the salesman, to
my astonishment. asked me II the runaway OF y
few minutes previous had done any damage. I
| asked him how he knew there was a runaway.
when / questioned him he told me he had missed
making a sale In order to see the runaway. and
said 1t was the first one he had seen since he
had come to New York. II seemed to timber
him up. He kept talking about 1t as long as l
traded, and said as l was leaving he supposed
IL would DO in the papers.'
And the runaway item has a good show for
Il, but you Will notice that It usually comes
next TO the advertising. A man who has been
on the makeup of n morning newspaper
many years said he could tell q runaway
uem in type with his eyes shut, and he
always found room for II. A peculiar thing
about this item Is that IT. rarely has
a genesis. The man who first tells OF
the reporter who writes 1t seldom enlighten the
reader as to the cause OF the runaway, The
paragraph usually says the horse started from
Z certain point. but not often does 1t tell whal
started him. This Is not the reporters fault
He simply doesn't know. Nobody kn0WA