The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-13
YOUNG ELOPERS
JUST WANTED TO
SEE A BIG CITY
So They Fled From Pineville,
Pa, With Tax Money of
Elsic's Pa.
HAD GOOD TIME, TOO.
Found Asleep in Butchers
Wagon by Police and Held
for Parents.
HAD GOOD TIME, TOO.

things, but unlike those other little
n wanderers they did not wake up In
:, Heaven after the brides had covered
t them up with leaves and moss. No. In.
!. deed, the little people In this tale were
i, very much alive and full Of lemon balls
and soda water and Ice cream and good.
! ness knows what when Detective Fallon
: woke them up In butchers wagon at
Q Yeager avenue and Prospect street.
Flushing. to-day.
They were both from Pineville, Bucks
County. Pa. The girl is Elsie Tomlin-
son, and her pa owns one Of the biggest
farms in the county. She Is thirteen
The boy is q year older and his name Is
Hiel De Haven. His pa also owns a big
farm.
They are both over at the Childrens
Society's rooms In Brooklyn now. wait
ing the arrival OF their respective pas.
And II the reader wants to see as hand
some pair Of youngsters as ever came
, out OF Bucks County or any other
county In the Keystone State he or she
need only cross over to the Brooklyn
quarters Of the S. p. c. C. and take a
look at Elsie and Hlel.
Had Good Time.
Yes, and they are quite frank In ad-
hitting they had a perfectly gorgeous
time on joint fund OF IS. They admit
the butchers wagon lacked the poetic
] .,ls 90 H. -, ~
in the Woods wanderlngs but then
they elsie and Heb woke up Very
much alive, which is pleasan,er than
being dead and covered up with leaves
and bark and spiders and worms and
things
Elsie and Hiel didn't really run away.
Their adventure was altogether an i'm.
promptu affalr. They weren't child
sweethearts or anything Ike that. Just
couple OF chums ready at any old
time for romp
On Thursday morning Elsie's pa gave
her 81 and told her to stop on her wav
to school at the home OF Squire" Kirk
/ and give 1t to him. ElsIe's pa owed the I
:, as school tau.
1t was n dandy morning. bright and
sunny and crisp and Elsie felt lust az
full OF life as a cricket. Then II was
something Of an event to have all OF .
u IN her possession at one time. At n
turn OF the road about a quarter mile
from the school house Elsie met Iiiel.
He was bound for school too.
Hello, Elsie" said Hiel
Was a Lot Of Money.
Hello, yourself" said Elsie. and
then laughed immoderately. Then sud.
denly. from some mysterious depth be-
meath her chestnut curls there bobbed
up Splendid idea.
'Hlel.' she said. can you get to New
York for sI?'
You can go most anywheres for st."
said the boy wisely.
Then let's cried Elsie, 1--WE go,s."
and she exhibited the little bundle of
crisp 81 bills
And I've got most a dollar" said
! the boy exctedly whereat he dug ont
Of divers and various pockets nIckels.
dimes, pennies, one quarter and an old
three-cent piece and a jack-knlfe.
As they counted out this wealth they
thrillel with joyous anticipation. They
could ride on steam cars and trolleys
and feast deliriously on an endless va
riety OF sweets. So they forgot all
about school, hid their books In the
hollow OF tree and cut across lots
10 the nearest trolley line They rode
way up the country somwhere-they /
don't remember just where-and then
a; some town or other they saw a
train standing in the station and got
a. GARD.
Paid Only Half Fare.
| When the conductor came through the
train they told him they were going to
New York, but that they were in a
hurry and had forgotten TO buy ticket.
He was very pleasant about ii, that
conductor. allowed them to pay half
| fare and gave them mysterious long
! slips with many names on them.
| Then they squeezed into the window .
and watched the world 70 by A boy
came through the car with his arms full .
NJ candy and they bought a lot OF it; .
so much there was still some left when
3 they got 20 Jersey City
/ Meanwhile they had flashed By cities
and towns that were wonderfully inter- .
estng and then burst into the great
| ;ralusAed OF the Pennsylvania Railroad. .
/ II was night then. but what fairyiand
night compared with PineyilIe where .
everything and everybody went 10 sleep
at o'clock.
| Hand in hand they climbed out Of the .
/ train and found their way to the street
/ They had almost s. left OF the original
I = so the first place hey headed for vas
a candy shop where ice-cream and other
| heavenly things were sold They simply
solSed themselves there, and then went
out and wandered hither and thither and .
ynn, seeing, seeing and seeing things
ihat were new and strange to their Ut 7
ter b"w!derment and delight. Then
when Il got verv late they found a coy
/ looking wagon filed with straw INTO
| which they climbed and went 10 sleep
Both We're dressed warmly and II vas
very sng and warm In the straw. NO
me disturbed them until they awan$ I'd
q q rolled out into the daylight to CON
t.nHe their wandcrings. They had
beautiful, bre kfas' Of buns and crlIller,
and coffee in a bakery and then made
their way 20 the ferry and crossed over
70 New York
Tired Of Seeing Things.
More wonders. more saccharine Joys.
Ih"y simply rubbeied their little n.Cks .
stiT during the morning and the nfier. .
noon found them threading the makss
OF broadway and Fifth avenue. They
bothered no one with questions-iust .