The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-30

on such a patriotic occasion would be
duly shown up.
The little editors righteous indigna-
tion changed to an anomaly of sensa-
tiOns when he received a prompt reply
from Mr.. Silliman couched i'm dignified
and injured terms, and implying a suit
for libel against the paper named, and
requesting him to address all further
communications to his lawyer. MIR.
Everett Warren. There have been nu-
merous confidential conferences be-
tween the newspaper "man" and the
lawyer and just what the outcome will
be the public is anxious to know.
People will talk for many a day
about the crush of Wednesday night.
There have been crowds in Scranton
on other occasions, but never anything
approaching the massing of people on
the central thoroughfares had ever
been experienced. Women were almost
torn in pieces at the station and the
wonder is that children in the throng
were not entirely crushed. One wo-
man became separated from her party
and found herself clinging to a rough
looking man who looked savage enough
to bite. She couldn't see a soul she
knew and she couldn't get away from
the frowning Individual against whom
she was pushed by the mob. Finally
he put out a muscular arm clad in the
shabby, soiled garb of a workingman
and put it around her. She was ready
to scream with fright, but it soon be-
came evident that he was keeping her
frail form from being annihiliated.
Then, with the other fist, he made a
number of energetic moven ents, freed
himself and his companion from the
immediate crush and half carried, half
dragged her to a more open space
where he presented her 10 her friends
with as courtly a bow as was possible
under the circumstances. "And to
think took him for 'bruiser,'" she
said, after she had recovered her
breath. "He is the incest gentleman I
ever met, and do not even know his
name"
The people who went to that station
laboring under the halucination that
they were to have ample opportunity
to present parcels and boxes in general
to their soldier friends were the dis
appointed people. Perhaps some of the
things reached the ones for whom they
were destined, but more did not. A
lovely fresh chocolate cake, baked by
a fair maid as a surprise for her SOL
der boy, was the cause of more sur
prise for other folks and more profan-
ity in general than probably any other
incidental of the occasion. She bore It
with much difficulty to the station and,
with a younger brother was pitched
onto the platform by some kindly dis
posed bystander, where she and the
cake landed full against the portion Of
a police officer commonly defined by
his belt. Some of the top layer was
transferred to the said belt. The ex-
cited girl cried a little, but she rea-
soned Teddy always did so enjoy her
chocolate cake" when he supped with
her family on Sunday nights, and he
might be glad to get the two remain
ing portions intact, for the filling"
was nice and soft, just as he liked it.
A swell ll-looking young woman in a new
spring hat found it so, although not
especially to her liking, for just then
somebody knocked the cake girls ell
bow and she sent her sweet burden up
with a sudden toss that dribbled choCO-
late filling over 'therspring hat and down
upon the immaculate and lofty collar
Then the second layer fell to the plat
form, pleasantly sticking to the sur
rounding multitude as it went. Then
people stepped on h and there was a
wild attempt at skating, which the
crowded condition somewhat impeded,
and everybody wondered if somebody
had been mashed and this was the
slipperiness of gore. More women grew
hysterical and really what was the
end of the entire mission Of that choco-
late cake l am unprepared to say. One
thing is sure, a certain handsome
guardsman is not enjoying its delect-
able richness this day.
One mother was heard to wall in
despair, ooh. me, oh, my! here's jim
mics other flannels and whatever will
he do without 'em." Still another
shrieked, II started to bring our Tom
five leaves of currant bread that he
likes, and it is scattered all the way
from here to Pine street" A pretty girl
was waving over her head an amazing
sofa pillow bravely embroidered with
sword and gun, and when she finally
reached her sweetheart's side. IT hal
been door mat for some minutes and
hooked accordingly beautiful.
One good looking officer went or with
rare red rose against his blouse that
had been brought for another. 1t
matched the color of the roses on
the cheeks of maiden who looked
back through the window. "Welr any,
way" she said TO herself, 81 couldn't
get to Will and this solder looked as IL
he wanted it,"
There were flowers galore over tha I
platform They were mingled with
cookies, homemade taffy, oranges as
If they had been under a trip hammer,
stockings. photographs, cuffs, collars,
and other sundries. Funny, wasn't it?
But ah, me, there is pathos beneath
tho comedy, for all these tender relies
meant the love and tender thought Of
some heart aching under a burden of
anxiety and misery. Again, this is
war. Saucy Bess.