The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1904-07-08
MlSFIT FAMILY IN A FLAT.
Newcomers from the South Meet with
Difficulties in New York
Apartments.

Southern people who come TO New
York to live have a lot to learn. They
| are accustomed TO plenty Of room and
freedom. They do not know what a fiat
is until they bump up against it, says
| the New York Sun.
Not long ago family Of six including
servant who had been in their employ
from childhood moved here from the
Palmetto state. The head OF the house
had come on first and rented a fat on
the upper West side.
The family followed after the house
hold effects reached here. WheE south
! ern people move they take everything
with them. The family arrived on the
same day that three big vans loaded with
| goods backed up in front Of the fiat
| house.
Several articles were of such dimen-
sions that they could not pass the door
way until they had been taken apart.
One old-fashioned wardrobe was not
built on the portable plan and it had
| TO be sent TO a second hand dealer who
had almost TO be threatened before he
would buy it.
Another article which caused this
southern contingent TO wonder how peo-
pie in New York live was a cooking stove
they do not call such an article range
in the south. Il was rather curious
sight to the people in the block TO wit
ness the unloading of several joints of
stovepipe-something seldom seen in
this city
When the outfit was taken upstairs
the family discovered that there was no
arrangement in the fat for a cooking
| stove. The janitor-another institution
| unknown to the people of the south
was called in and asked where the cook
| ing stove was to go.
There is no hole for the stovepipe,"
said the head of the family.
When the ianitor pointed out the gas
range. and explained how ii was oper-
ated. the family gathered about the new
tangled arrangement in wonder The
family servant. who had been accus-
toned TO an oven in which whole shoat
| could be roasted. declared that the gas
| range wasn't big enough to bake pan
OF corn bread. AND when you cut corn
pone out of the menu of southern fam
lily you shut enc of the gates to Paradise
The old cook stove that had done serv-
ice until the ids were warped from heat
was taken downstairs and stored In the
basement. To sell it would have been
| disloyalty TO South Carolina.
The grand piano. built when lumber
was cheap. had to be hoisted in. That's
the way most pianos are put into fats in
New York But ii was new to these peo-
pie from the state of John C Calhoun.
They declared that there WASH rope
in New York stout enough to lift it. But
the piano mover said he would be re-
sponsible and the hoist was made
However will you git it out if de
house catch fire." asked the good old
servant. whose eyes had expanded TO
twice their natural size
When the old instrument reached its
destination it occupied a third of the
room. A bit of colonial furniture had
to be sawed off to fit into one of the bed
rooms.
The day was dying out over the Hud-
son river hills when the last load was
placed in the fat, and the head of the
house went out to market for dinner
He returned detected Every store in
the neighborhood was closed,
The sto's in Chawlstun keep open till
bed time he declared.
And then a procession moved out and
along the street until it rounded up in a
restaurant There the southern contin-
gent had their first dinner in old New
York. Returning to their circumscribed
quarters they gathered about the grand
piano and while one of the family woke
up the keys, the neighbors in the block
heard Dixie" Way Down Upon the
Suwanee River" Maryland" and Mel
| iy Gray" But they didn't hear the sob
bing OF the old servant in the kitchen,
who was homesick nigh unto death