The sun., 1904-06-26
4 LONE WOMAN IN ST. LOUIS.
THIS IS WHAT MAY HAPPEN TO
. ANY ONE AT THE FAIR.
Conductors, Policemen and Others VINO
Can't Direct You Where You want TO
Goa Woman VINO Arrived NJ Night
Rescue by Kansas and wisconsin.


can't Dlrect You where You want to
Goa Woman Who Arrived ~ Night
Rescue by Kansas and Wisconsin.
sNever 20 to France unless You know the
lingo, and postpone your visit to the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition Until you have
bought and studied map Of st. Louis. 1t
is not a very large or difficult map, and one
would think that the big army of imported
policemen, street car conductors, cabmen
and deliverymen might have been required
to give 1t cursory glance.
1t Is q hopeless task to try to find ones
way about In st. Louis by the usual method
of asking questions. Nobody knows where
anything is.
The street car conductors have theories
about the ultimate destination OF their
cars but they cannot tell you whether they
pass the principal hotels or not The
policemen, or some of them, know the
points of the compass, but not what car to
take to reach the Union Station. AS for the
hotel clerks, they answer superbly:
sOh, I don T. live here; 7 m from N'York.
A lone woman came in at o o'clock on one
OF the many special trains carrying dele
gates to the biennial meeting OF women's
clubs She had engaged rosm at quiet
little hotel recommended by friend. and.
after shaking hands with committee OF
local club women who met the travellers,
she fastened out OF the station and hailed
q cab
.The Grand Blank" she directed the
cabman.
sWhere's that at. lady?' asked the man
Disconnected, the lone woman grasped
her travelling O., and sought another
cabman. She did not fancy driving through
the streets OF a strange city at night with q
cabman who did not know his way.
Three cabmen in rapid succession de-
clared their ignorance Of the location OF
the Grand Blank, and the traveller sought
a policeman He pondered for moment.
and advised hsr to walk block north and
take a Page avenue car.
After asking four citizens and another
policeman the traveller found Page
avenue car. She boarded it and asked the
conductor to stop at the Grand Blank.
You're going in the wrong direction. I
reckon said he, calmly ringing up her
fare. 4 don't really know just where 1t is
though
The lone woman got out and walked back
to the station.
take Delmar car" advised the omnis-
cient youth at the information window, with
q no trouble to- o-answer-questions smile.
1t was nearly 10 o'clock when the lone
woman took the Delmar car, and she was
tired and frightened 1t occurred to her
to wonder where the organized forces OF the
w, C. T. U. were. She had read q great
deal OF the efforts put forth by that society
for the protection Of young women visiting
the fair,
given thousand or two toward the or
ganization OF a feminine police force, which
was to Offset the activities OF certain
hangers-on at railway stations. Where
was the faithful band tonight?
The lone woman had spent an hour in and
out OF the Union Station. and although she
had spoken to great many guardians OF
the place, not guardian had spoken to her.
Neither. for that matter, had any motherly
lady with a peroxide pompadour, nor any
benevolent gentleman with RED nose
But as she hung on a strap In the crowded
car she began to be horribly suspicious OF
the other passengers. The car was rushing
through what looked like wretched slums,
which circumstance added to her growing
Afterward she learned that St. Louis is
like Brooklyn In the number and plan OF
distributions Of its sums. You have to
pass through few slums to get to any
point u,
she asked him to stop at the Grand Blank,
which, by this time, she had come to regard
as sort OF Mrs. 'Arris Hotel. The con-
duotor took out a little book and studied it.
II don't reckon we pass it, he said dubi,,
ously. II reckon you transfer to Grand
sThe Grand Blank?" came a voice d.
rectly behind her. Il am stopping there,
and will be happy to show you the place,
It was Bismarck or some one else-who
said he never trusted German who spoke
Frenoh without an accent. The offer was
made in perfect English, and the l.. w.
turning said:
-Oh, TIL
And got no farther, for the speak was
Chinese in blue silk pettcoat and
The lone woman gasped. Should she