The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-28
RODE HER PONY IN.
Young Woman in Aiken Astonished
Postoffice Loungers.
(New York JournaIO

tNew York JOurnai)
Aiken was treated today to a taste Of
border life by Miss Waterbury, the
daughter of ]. NJ. Waterbury of New
York. The young woman rode her ponv
into the postofHce, dfsmounted. looked
in the family mail box. mounted again
and rode out. She did not fire off a re-
volver or give vent to hair-raising
whoOps as the cowboys of the west
were wont to do when they rode their
ponies into buildings, but she caused
more excitement in Aiken than has
war
She vas summoned to appear. before
the mayor tomorrow morning to stand
trial for her wild west feat. The young
woman had been riding after the
hounds and was enthused with the ar
dor of the chase.
She cantered up Park avenue. refined
her steed to his launches in front of
the postOffice and waited expectantIy
Tor one OF the clerks to come out. No
clerk appeared Then she glanced
around for some idle person who might
be pursuaded to hold her horse. but
the rain had driven the fdlers in and
the street was deserted. She did not
care leave her pony, for he, too, was
full or ardor.
The wide door of the postoffice was
open, there was an inviting pathway
from the street, and Miss Waterbury,
being young woman ca decision and
full of the ardOr of the chase, as afore-
said, decided that if the postoffice would
not come to her, she would go to the
pOStoffice.
Having made her decision. Miss Wat
erbury rode. her horse up the incline,
wheeled him about on the sidewalk
ana forced MIN into the little poStOffice.
The pony was not quite Iltisfied with
his surroundings. and bucked around
quite consldera bly,, tO~dhe loudly ex-
pressed diSmay of about a dozen ma
tlVes who were getting their mail. The @
natives, convinced that there was a
runaway in their midst, so to speak.
went out of the other door of the post
office in a bunch
Now, the space reserved for the pub
iic in the Aiken postoffice is about half
as big as railroad passenger coach.
and the postmaster and his clerks. were
laden with anguish lest the pony might
decide TO jump through the partition
ana attempt TO help sort mail. Fortu-
nately, Miss Waterbury, by her skill as
a horsewoman, curbed the restless ten
dency of her mount and persuaded him
to stand still.
Then she dismounted. slipped the
bride rein over her arm, examined
the Waterbury mail box and found
nothing in it. Being satisfied. .,she
mounted again, rode out on the side
walk down the pathway and off in
Park avenue in a cloud of mud and
triumph.
g o o
This story of the adventure of an 3n-
pulsive young girl might have ended
right here had not one of the aldermen
of Aiken been a witness of Miss Wat
erbury's exhibition of rough riding
NWher1 he OH n,
power Of speech he made straightway
to the office OF Acting Mayor G.ass
and complained of a violation of a city
ordinance which forbids any person
riding on the sidewalks of Aiken or
on the places where the sidewalks
ought to be.
The acting mayor was in a dilemma.
and reluctantly he ordered that Miss
Waterbury appear before him tomor-
row morning to answer to a charge Of
having VIC ated city ordinance.
Whcn Che summons was served upon
Miss Waterbury she was as thor ughlv
aStontshed as had been the natl e in
the postoffice when she rode in. News
OF the mayors act spread through n
winter colony and there was great
Scurrying to and fro to see what could
be n about it.
MI Waterbury retained State Senator.
ID. d. Hende4 son to defend his d ugh
ter, and MI Henderson called on the
acting mayor, who said that he had no
desire to humiliate the young woman
and would permit her to appear before
him By counsel