Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-19
DEMANDED A CORRECTION.
A Young Lady's Embarrassment
at Being Wrongly Reported.

A pretty young woman gave a
scare to the moterman of a. Broad
way car at Thirty eighth street
last evening by suddenly stop
ping in the middle of the track
and clutching her knee with look
OF desperation.
The mOtorman threw his
weight on the brake and stopped
the car within a few inches of
the woman, who seemed to be
thinking of nothing but her knee.
The motorman, thinking she was
hurt, ran to her. She tripped
across the street and disappeared
around the corner.
Then the motorman discovered
the cause of what was almost a
catastrophe. 1t was a brown silk
garter, on which was ii silver
buckle, with the initials, "E. w.,
Phila." He kept it as trophy.
The atmosphere in the editorial
rooms of the Evening Telegraph
was all to the blue this morning
with memories of the exceedingly
quiet day when the telephone bell
rang-sang so daintily and so
sweetly that it was evident that
some fair hand jingled the JOY
bells, and not a brutal police re-
reporter trying to play a dead
march on the chimes.
els this the Evening Tele-
graph 2" asked supposedly sweet
little lady in a cream chocolate
voice.
The man at the phone admitted
that she was wise.
"Well, it wasn't me-" she en-
phatically declared, "and I don It
want you to think"
Zone moment, please, said the
reporter, II am not clear, I am
not on, [ am not next. In other
words, who are thou and what art
thou driving ate"
"Why, I am Miss Eva Will
liams," said the fairy voice. "You
had an article in the first edition
stating that girl had lost her
garter in New York, and"
"What is the name, please, and
what is your address?" asked the
reporter, as he took a fresh hold
on the receiver and peered into
the transmitter.
"Miss Eva Williams, I said, and
[ live at No. 1896 North Ninth
street, and I want it understood
that I did not lose my garter in
New York"
"But, Miss Williams" inter-
posed the reporter, as he kicked
the rest of the staff away from the
phone, 'the story did not say
that you had lost your-ahem-it
said that"
81 know" was the reply, "but
it gave the initials, "E. W., of
Phila, which was just as bad"
eyes," rejoined the reporter,
"but there are other e. WIS.
and it is presumed that they wear
'em, so I fail to see"
"That is all right" continued
the joyously jingling phone, "but
you see, I was in New York last
evening, and hardly had I reach
ed home this morning before all
the relatives and friends of the
family, all the neighbors, all the
old women, and all the dudes in
the ward came trotting in with a
marked copy of the Evening Tele,
graph, and accused me on the
spot"
eyes" eagerly assented the
poor scribe.
Gone old maid was so insistent
that she wanted me to take her
out in the kitchen and prove that
one of my little silks was not har,
messed fast with a section of fine
clothes line; others made mean
suggestions that I was getting
thin, and I'm just tired of it
Will you say that it wasn't me?''
"Certainly,' said the reporter.
eff you wish it,
"Well, I do wish it, and you
might add"
"Add WHAT"
"That the stockings I wear are
not of the color used to flag
trains"
Zip! went the phone.
Same on this end