The Washington herald., 1907-09-06
Showed Off Bridge by Team.
mate, a Mule.
DROPS ABOUT TWELVE FEET
Partially Extrfcated with Ropes,
While About Forty Men Assist.
Gets the Merry Ha-Ha from Jinny,
but Perks Up when Kind-hearted
Citizen Gives Half Pint of whisky.

a hole. literally speaking, and did not
appear last night between the hours Of
Is and o'clock at the new Union Trust
Company Building. Fifteenth and II
streets, you are one Of the few wise ones
who didn't show up with a few firkins
fun of advice.
That the horse was finally extricated,
or perhaps partially extricated. would be
more nearly correct, testified in behalf
OF those erudite ones who did show up
maybe.
The whole trouble was caused by q
long-eared, short-pedigreed mule. with a
yellow streak up his back as broad as the
milky way. Il shows the futility Of try
ing to educate a mule; and who ever
heard of a mule that could read and
write, anyhow?
jimmy was hitched alongside a big roam
horse that works six days a week without
any fuss. and has never been compelled
to call on the S. P. c. a. for assistance
In attending strictly TO his own business.
That there must have been bad blood
between him and jimmy was suspected
when jimmy got about four ''hee-haws"
out OF her system after Roam had been
hauled to a place where he could spend
the night without dreaming he was fall
ing from Sirius to the last fixed star,
even II he wasn't bedded down, with his
nose IN bucket of oats.
Pit Twelve Feet Deep.
Across the sidewalk on the Fifteenth
street side " the new Union Trust Com
/ pany Building there extends a deep Gel
larway. which runs clear past tho curb
| line and ends in a pit about four feet
! deeper than the runway itself and about
/ ten feet square. The center of this pit
| is decorated with an iron hydraulic
pump which is sunk below the level
/ The whole thing is bricked up and practi-
cauy IN readiness for the construction
I Of the sidewalk that. when the street IS
/ cleared away. VIII bridge the whole thing.
/ Across the hole now there is q narrow
/ bridge, barely wide enough 20 permit the
/ passage Of two well-behaved horses at
/ tached 20 a wagon, but evidently not
/ wide enough for z horse and q mule.
/ Roam and jimmy had completed the day s
work last night and had started across
/ this bridge, because there was not room
/ enough 70 turn around and go out on the
/ II street corner
! Jimmy Pushes Horse.
Just as they got 10 the middle jimmy de-
cided. mule ike. she didn't want 70 81
any farther. II you remember when you
used 10 hike a pair OF mules attached 10
a bang-up, shiny plow over 10 the mead
ow lot to do a little snring blowing. you
will recall that a mules Dissemination tC
| cross bridge is a proverb.
jimmy seems 10 have been true tC the
! fetiches Of her ancestors, and whe1 thc
driver tried a little moral suasion. Jimmy,
with hypocritical humility, pretended 10
see the error Of her ways, but as she
/ started across with a lunge. she ma
liciously gave Roam a straight arm shove
that landed him against a little shanty
extending partially across the edge Of the
pit.
There was but a narrow hole there, anC
il didn't look as though Roam could gC
through, so the harness was removed
and an attempt made TO improvise ar
armchair out Of planks. but the plank.
broke The splitting timber frightened
Roam. and when he began TO struggle D,
slipped through the crack and feIl 20 th'
bottom Of the pit some ten or twelve fee
below.
Looked Like Dromedary.
His hindquarters were aft Of the iror
pump; his forequarters were for'ard, ant
amidships he was bumped UP until h,
looked like a second cousin 10 a drome
dary. Every struggle forced his hind Iegl
farther into the mud, and although &
looked Ike a simple proposition 10 ge
him out, it took about forty men unit
after 9 o'clock to rig up a block and fal
and get their bitches around Roam so h,
could be lifted some four feet. 20 the leye
OF the bottom Of the passageway. First
they pulled on his head until his necl
stretched like a swans: but that failed
and they got a turn under his hindQuaT
ters that looked good. but which slipped
and for a time Il looked as though ht
would be hoisted heavenward Ike the OF,
lady's goose went downstairs-by one leg
But finally, after being almost choke,
to death, and after having permitted al
most every known principle Of levers an,
fulcrums to be applied 90 him. Roam wa
! finally put to bed on the soft mud foo
Of the passageway, still several feet from
street level
VIII BE HOisted Skyward.
If you get up early this morning yo,
may see him getting up in the world a
, the end Of a cable with which massv
stones have been hoisted 10 the top o
: the new building On the pit side was tn
only place the block and tackle could b
rigged, and although gravity took ROal
down into the hole on that side, humal
agency would have an awful time squeez
/ sag Roam through on the way UP. FO
that reason. after getting him 10 tn
level Of the passageway, the horse mover
dragged him under the bridge, closer (
the building, and il should be an cas-
matter to get him aboveboard this morn
ing.
"Hee-haw, Hee-hawi" said Jenny whe
Roam, almost exhausted. had been pulle
in far enough to preclude possibility O
further occupation Of the pit.
Roam priCked up his ears at that, and
there is not a little horse and mule fes
when Roam gets on the street this morn
I ing, it will be because the veterinary SUI
geon who was called-nobody seemed [
know why-was mistaken as TO the ex
tent Of Roan's injuries. He took a hal
pint OF whisky at a gulp, stood up an
4 tried to scale the wall to get at jimmy a
8 once.
Tho 4aa,,, l. A. --o-o-+,- - - ~.