The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-14
ONE DAY IN NEW YORK.

(Frora the New York Evening Post.)
Agitation during ferryboat transit has
of late developed among the women who
journey from New Jersey on "Wednesday
and Saturday afternoons with opera
glasses, swathed in precisely ruffled silk
bags. bent upon Broadway matinees. 1t
has been discovered that at least one
aged and creaking river craft is tenanted
by family of gray rats, unthreatened
by the menace of race suicide"
The paterwamilias rodent battered
across the women's cabin floor en- voyage
one afternoon of this week. To the credit
of the cabin crew of dozen women
. there was no screaming. But the most
spinster-like one of the disturbed group
it was whispered that she had weathered
! every Ring at the Metropolitan for
a decade-at once hailed deckhand with
| in doors
You have rats on this boat" she said
severely
You can't keep 'em away. miss, said
the deckhand extenueting ly. You see,
! they keep quiet enough except when there
amt many people in the cabin to scare
EN-. We did used to keep a cat, an
some boats does yet
why don't you set traps?" suggested
another questioner.
! These is river rats. miss said the
deckhand. AN they'd a sight rather eat
the blackin' out of the Ginny bootbiack's
! boxes than the best brand of cheese
! They amt at all dangerous like your
! fat rats
/ 1t is a fact, however, that to some of
the more timid of that dozen women,
! crossing the North river has ceased to
| be a pleasure.
/ In the mix-up of train schedules during
the heavy rains of yesterday the story
/ is told of one excited passenger who in
| the confusion at the railroad station
/ jumped on an express instead of a local.
He was bound for New Rochelle. to keep
dinner engagement, and not having the
/ instinct of a commuter. he failed to notice
/ his mistake when he sank into seat
/ in drawing-room car instead of a pas
senger coach. Comforted in mind that he
had made" his train, he pulled out
newspaper, and his mind was soon lost
in the news of the day. He read the
paper through with that leisurely grace
that usually follows sprint of five
blocks. and then, coming back to earth
with start, realized that he was in
strange country, and looked out of the
window just in time to hear a mans
voice behind him say tenderly: THAT
river. my dear, is the dividing line betyeen
New York and Connecticut" Mastering
as careless manner as possible. while
cold childs were passing up and down
his back, the lost one inquired of the
passing porter: "Ah, I say. this train
does not stop at New Rochelle?"
No, sab, mister, ii do not even hest
tate"
New Haven was the first stop, and the
dinner party at New Rochelle was lone
shy that night.
The following couplet appears in big.
black letters on signboard propped
I
There is no graft nor greed
In FusionS honest creed
When the winds blow and the rains
come down the thirty innocent umbrella
goes back to its beginnings with swish
ing sound and an agonized twisting of
steel frames. After the heavy rainfulI of
Thursday and Friday the cutters were
Uttered with the cheap makeshifts that
pedestrians had bought to secure tempo
rary shelter. Up town about the Fiatiron
building and down town about the cor
ners where wind whips with greatest fury
hundreds of umbrellas were dismantled
and thrown into the streets mass of
torn cloth and bent ribs, by their dis
gusted owners. Suspicious persons have
noted as significant the care taken by
street vendors never to expose their wares
to the elements One of these gentry
the downpour. dripping from every
threa. with a bundle of umbrellas in an
oilcloth cover under his arm While he
cried the merits of his goods ne was
scrupulously careful TO prevent them from
getting wet
AS bit of priceless advice to those
who are suffering the agonies associated
with repapering their apartments do not
place implicit faith in the number given
to YOU by the wallpaper clerk as desig-
mating the paper you have selected. Be
sure to get a sample of the paper 1t
is customary to report the pattern num-
Der to the paperhanger. and permit him
to buy the paper so he may take ad-
vantage of the trade discount. Two young
people in this city put their faith in the
wallpaper clerks figures, and this is the
story of what happened: The two newly
weds spent more than a week deciding
about the blue and pink bedroom paper.
They went from warehouse to warehouse.
and only on the seventh day did they find
what they wished. One remarkable fea-
ture of the incident is that this paper
was exactly what they wished. So they
asked the clerk for the number of it,
received from him a card with a num-
Der written upon it. and went on their
way rejoicing. Two days later the paper
hangers arrived at the apartment and set
to work papering the bedroom AS paper-
ing is, in the minority of instances. a hit
or miss proposition. so far ~ the success
of a paper is concerned. the two young
people, particularly madame. were much
exercised over the outcome She did not
want to see the paper on the wall until
the job was entirely finished Therefore
they waited as patiently as possible. and
not until the paperhangers left did they
take one peep into the room. Then both
OF them walked to the door and looked in
The paper on the wall was green.
All the work that the policemen Of this
town do does not appear in their reports
Sometimes they assume q supervision
over manners as well as morals. 4 callov
youth. wearing a bottle-green coat and
a pink tie. learned this one afternoon
this week. He was coming up Whitehall
street very jauntiIy with his eyes rolling
finely. when he espied an uncommonlv
pretty girl coming hrs way. When they
were face to face he smiled At her like
comic valentine. turning his head on
4 pivot to see whether she had sue
cumbed. 4 big policeman with a Miiesian
gray eye stepped out of a doorway and 4
collared the Lothario. who shrunk visibiy
Then the law. as personihed. gave speech j
after his kind. with the rough edge OF 4
his tongue. When the squire Of danes &
was released he was blubbering.