The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-05
A WASHINGTON RUNAWAY.
But He Didn't Know What He
Had Escaped.

A runaway in Washington is an in
teresting study to man from any part
of the country where runaways arc
common. A man left the capitol and
looked down the hill by the Peace mon
ument, and turned into that strip of
Pennsylvania avenue which has no
crook in it. At the place where an en-
ploye of the traction company manip-
ulates the shifting of the current by
which the yellow car goes in one direc-
ton and the green car goes in another,
the man from the capitol stopped and
| asked question. The employee got up
from his chair and moved over toward
the south side of the street before he
replied.
'Why did you have to shift your place
before you answered my question:"
asked the man who had come from the
capitol.
ITO get out of the way of that runa-
way horse" was the reply.
The man from the capitol looked
about him and then said he saw no run
away horse.
"You wait here long enough and
you'll see him." was the rejoinder.
| "He can't be coming very rapidly"
said the man from the capitol, who,
| having received an answer to the orig
| inal inquiry, resumed his walk. AT the
| end of ten minutes walk he went into
cigar shop. The proprietor got out of
a camp chair on the sidewalk, picked up
the chair and took it inside, and then
waited on his customer.
| do you carry your chair with you
when you move?' asked the customer.
depends" was the reply. when I
see horse running away and the chair
is on the line of the gallop I take the
chair in. No use of letting a runaway
horse smash chair just cause you got
a chair
| us there a runaWay?'
eff you stop here long enough you'll
find out. He was canterin' right lively
when l saw him.
81 heard up the street that there was
a runaway, but saw none"
"Just the same, there is one. Better
stop in for a few minutes"
The stranger, however, decided to
proceed. When he reached the Han
cock station policeman said to him:
Better step around the statue.
There is runaway coming, and run.
away horse has no sense"
The stranger thanked the policeman
and crossed over. Then he looked back
in the direction of the capitol. but saw
no unusual commotion. He continued
| his walk, and halted at a venerable tree
on the corner, and again looked back
over the avenue. He went into another
cigar store, bought cigar, read the
weather bulletin and passed out. He
walked over to the east front of the
treasury building. A gang of negroes
were at work patching the asphalt. The
| foreman said:
! 'Better knock off, boys, for minute,
and step up on the walk. hear there's
runaway coming"
The gang stepped aside deliberately,
and the foreman sat on the step and
scratched his head. The stranger con-
cluded to see it out. After a ten min
utes' wait the gang resumed work. The
stranger said to the foreman:
Somebody must have headed off that
| runaway"
Don't know bout that. Maybe so.
But he was goin' right lively when he
passed here. Didge see him."
| ''See him-the horse?"
''Why, to be sho'. Jest past up and
swung round by the bank"
"You mean the horse that Il boy was
driving"
'Drivin'? That boy was tryin' to
ketch up; he want drivin'."
''Was that a runaway"
"That was fust-class runaway, if I'm
any jedge."
els that sample of a Washington
runaway horse?"
"Don't know bout that; but eff you
mean is that the gait of runaway boss
in Washington, I'm bound to say it's
about up to the average IN. Y. Sun.
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