The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-04-30
He WIPED UP THE FLOOR.
Tobacco Csaewer Resents Referma-
tory Advances of Young Hero in
F0rc;ble Fashion.

> A fat man-fat and apparently
coarse, and with a prediction for bul-
lying over the common people-stirred
up a big rumpus one morning on the
Staten Island ferry boat Robert Car
rett. which left st. George at 7:lO
o'clock, relates the New York Tribune.
This person chewed tobacco with a
noticeable vehemence, and with con-
secutiveness and frequency he wa
obliged to dispose OF the usual by-e
product. 1t was the fat mans method
of ~disposing of his by-product that
made therumpus. Perhaps there were
c%uspidors, but the fat man didn't hunt
for them. He picked out vacant spots
on the floor instead. There were wom-
Ell passengers, and some of them be-
came almost panicky.. Then it was
that a small, heroic man made his APP
pearance. He was a young man with
pale-blue eyes, a slim waist and an un-
hating expression around his chin.
He had lodged the big mans hydraulic
efforts once or twice, and felt called
upon to do something. He might have
chosen ii more original remark, but
under the stress of great mental ex-
citement he resorted to the old saw.
Catching the fat mans eyes, he said,
angrily:
ID you expect to rate yourself as q
gentleman"
(SwishD "Huh:" said the fat man.
Then don't eXpcctorate' on the
floor" added the young hero.
y lot of Observation-Disclosures
rid-old-thing" looks from the women
r~ewardedthe young man, who thought
he had done his whole duty. Perhaps
he had, but
The fat man %reIapsed from his con-
templatire mood into one of strenuous
action. He reached forth his big,
chubby hands, and hooked them fast
to the clothes of the young hero with
the pale-blue eyes. Then he bore down.
on the little fellow and doubled him
half up like a knife, and by sliding him
backward and forward on the floor
across the area of his temporary to-
bacco-chewing' domain, he removed ALI
traces Of wet brown from the cabin.
floor. -
There was plenty of feeling over. this,
incident. The young man didn't like.
it. he was in an uncomfortable posi-
ton, as he afterward asserted withy
great positiveness. The aim sought for.
had been practically achieved, but the.
means-the means: There was the,
rub! He was incensed at the rub. Sew.
eral coarse men gurgled with glee, 9TH.
ers swore right out, and the women
set up such a clatter that the atten-
ton of the deckhands was attracted.
One of these hands was chewinggto-
bacco himself, but long years of intro
spection had enabled him to observe
proper sanitary precautions. The
deckhands went for" the fat man,
but he wriggled. between the horses,
and trucks and lost himself in the
crowd at the opposite end of the boat.
The young man with the air of dis
couraged looking trousers and deter
mined air was hot foot all over the
boat after the large person, but could
not find him. With the deckhands he
stationed himself at the gangway
when the passengers left the boat at.
the Battery, confident of catching the
| large person. But he didn't. Some
now, 1T is not made clear just how, the
22O-pound offender wriggled past them
and went on his way, while the young,
hero, after watching untilthelastma
had stepped ashore. went to his office.
chewing the bitter cud of reflection.