The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25

number are"
He looked at me with unutterable scorn.
Wait for your grandmother" said he. Say,
you re a nice guy, 1 take me oath; keeping
me here and making me lose two or tree
home isl
AS he ran off he called back: Say you:
when you get home have some one sew tag
on yer coat so as you kin look at it and
ind out where you live"
The customs man threw open my trunks,
rammed a hand in here and a hand there,
ana remarked, We'll, your troubles are over
quick. You amt got sealskin cloak on UNI
der your overcoat, have you? 1 just lifted
to do 1t so quick, and it made her so mad
that she is fairly redheaded; but we have TO
work quick In this age if were goin TO get
caught another expressman, like stopping a
cricket ball, and in two minutes saw my
boxes bumped and banged down the wharf,
and myself out in the street
Call London a noisy city? Why, it's like a
village common at midnight compared to
New York. The cable and electric cars have
doubled in size and numbers within year,
and now they are as big as young Pullman
carriages, and thunder along less than a
minute apart, each changing a big gong, as
II TO warn the people mile ahead. Up in
the air rush the elevated railway trains
getting there" little quicker than the
electric trains and making a crashing
noises so great that talking between pedes-
TRANS is out of the question Weaving in
and out among the trains and vans on the
streets are thousands of bicycles on which
office boys and clerks rush to and from
business like flights of ducks or showers Of
bullets, quicker than either steam or cleo
tricity can enable them to get there"
HE GOT THERE"
We shot up town between rows Of build
ings from ten stories to thirty stories high
and disembarked four miles from our start
ing point after paying twopencehalfpenny.
We could have ridden twenty-five miles for
the same fare because the American idea
is not only to get there quick, but to
''get there" cheaply.
Descending to the pavement, we entered
the Fifth-avenue Hotel to order a drink.
There were two large groups of men there
-one waited on by four bartenders in white
linen coats, and the other centered around
girl seated at a table with a silver band
around her head to keep pair of telephone
receivers at her ears
Now" said by friend, 'in order to save
time we will call up all our friends and tell
them you are here safe and sound. Miss,
give me 1873 Thirteenth; 2142, Madison; 160
Chatham: 247S, Bowlnggreen. Got that in
your head? Now, here's a bright messenger
boy. Johnny, this young woman will put
you on to four people. Get pencil and
write down their names in the right order.
There, now, as she connects you with these
people you phone to them that Mr.. Ralph
is here rightside up and looking as English
as a bottle of Bass's ale. Now, Wen take
cocktail for old times sake, and the boy
Will tell us what luck he has with our
friends. Then I've got a million things to
do in two hours so as to close the office
at 6. / must dictate dozen letters to my
typewriter girl, see that the clerks are paid
off, attend to some business of Importance,
order good seats for 'Cyrano de Bergerac'
for my wife, get shaved, phone to the club
for a special dinner, and then I'm free and
1 will have time TO ask you how you left
your family and whether you've got rich
since ! saw you last"
Wherever went in the business quarter
! found that doors were abolished, because
Il takes too much time TO open and shut
them. In their places were trun-stlles made
by fastening four doors to a revolving pillar,
so that you push against one and II swings
before you to let you In or out. The last
visit / paid was to a friend I'm q fifteen
story hotel. AS pushed through the crowd
to the battery Of lifts that stand side by
side in q row q boy called to me. Look
lively! What room? $40? Ninth floor turn
TO the left. Step in, IL you want to get
And In six seconds was on the ninth
floor, and he was shooting upward In his
car. rocket-like, intent on "gitting" some
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