New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-22
SOME WAYS OF THE WORLD.
NEW YORK WOMAN MEETS A GHOST ON
AN ELEVATED TRAIN.
HUMAN LoNGINGs ARE NEVER SATISFIED. no

HUMAN LONGINGS ARE NEVER SATISFIED, No
MATTER HOW MUCH SUCCESS IS ACHIEVED.
The various members Of a Christmas house party
were sitting around the big hall fireplace. with
no other light than the leaping, htfu flames from
the blazing driftwood, which burned blue and
green and scarlet with many a hiss and cracke.
They telling gnost stories.
Yes l have actually seen ghost" said one Of
the group, and what made it more uncanny, It
was in broad daylight, in practical. crowded busy
New-York That is feel that 1 one but
] was made so uncomfortable about the occurrence
that stopped at my doctors before going home,
and he said that II all stuff and nonsense
and that my liver out OF order and gave me
a prescription. But this is what saw, or thought
! saw.
"As we have moved away uptown. on the east
side Of Fifth-ave. I boarded. l often do after
shopping Third-ave. elevated train at Twenty
thrd-st 1t was about o'clock in the afternoon.
The car entered was not crowded and diagonaly
opposite the seat in which l seated myself
was another that was empty. At Twenty eighth-st.
a man got in and took the vacant seat, red-faced
middle-aged, burly -looking mechanic judged by
his dress as he a flannel shirt without a col
lar and was in what were evidently working
clothes although clean and respectable. As he
took his seat and after the car had started. a
woman in black who seemed to have got up from
another place where she seated. came forward
and took the vacant place beside him. with an
eager possessive look. so 10 speak, which made
me carelessly think she must be a relative. and /
looked TO see his surprised recognition when he
turned 10 greet her He seemed however, quite
unconscious Of her presence and what struck me
suddenly very odd, he glanced carclessly toward
the other side OF the car. just as II he looked
through her the woman meanwhile regarding him
with a wistful look that quite pathetic She
seemed a woman OF about thirty. and had an In
teresting refined face. although sharpened evil
IDENTIFY by illness which with her large dark eyes.
Hog. o,n1h ant or
owy appearance that was peculiar. also saw 10
nv surprise that she dressed in rusty black
euit cut with large sleeves which were in vogue
several years ago ] say 20 my surprise. for
have noticed that women Of that class invariably
follow the fashions. and would no more wear a
gown that was distinctly out Of style than would
milady OF Murray Hill All at once, without warn
ing chill ran down my backbone.
That woman Is no woman l said 10 myself.
with conviction She is a ghost, The man cannot
see her and / assure you as thought this actu-
ally saw the man put his arm on the seat and II
passed right through the flmy shadow OF her vel.
Was dreaming? No. There sat the man and
the woman a commonplace enough looking couple
10 a casual observer and one but myself ap-
peared 10 notice them. BY this time had arrived
at my station. where got out. and the affair has
ever remained mystery. But nothing could ever
persuade me that had not seen veriiable spirit