The sun., 1910-06-03
KAHIB'S GOING TOBE MARRIED
WHAT KITIE9 THE ONE WHO
SELLS APPLES ar ST. PANS.

% louNe Ever Waked Lever Broadway
and Deaf knoS her GOn'Te IN =
dlnOFiiy Yer Foriy Years she's Reen
In lAlsiness ~ the COrner % Nesey ~.
Katie. the apple woman who has sold
glowing Spys and the red-god pippin
hard by the green graves Of old g. Paul's
on the vesey street corner of Broadway
these forty years. gave a farewell polish
20 her last apple yesterday afternoon.
To-day Katie will not he there and Broad
way will have lost another Of It's land
marks. gone the ways Of Barnum's =
Museum and the old Fulton street bridge
Officially and in her capacity of a pub
lie character under interview Katie
said yesterday that she was going only
for a while, that she would be back by
the green graves some time In september.
when the autumn crop of pipplns and
greenings had come in with the harvest
sun. But privately Katie oonfded 20 her
best customers that she was retiring
from the apple business for good and all
She was going to be married
Katie even told the name of the bride
groom 10 he On those Of her best friends,
but not one Of these could he found who
would violate the confidence imposed In
them by Katie CoghHn.
There Is not one person in a thousand
who knows that Katie = last name u COgh-
lin, but there are more than that who know
that she IL Katie and that she sells the
best apples on Broadway There are
lawyers and brokers with Offices high zap
above the hum Of Broadway who have
been dealing with Katie ever since the
days when abe used % sit on top of one Of
her mothers apple baTres there at the
Vesey street stand and survey the prog
ress " the world through the old eyes of
ten years
A round little body is Katie Coghlin.
Her hair IL still almost JET black, with only
few Wisps of gray 10 give the lie 70 her
eyes u a girl and the mouth that turns
upward AZ the ends The red u her
cheeks. put there by the blasts Of forty
winters. is a red that cannot he wrought
with cosmetics and rabbits feet. Il
would not he fair 10 DO any mental arith.
metic. now that Katie Is going. but ac-
oept these two facts. that she was years
old when she first came IN the apple stand
and that she's been there -Oh. about
forty years. a. Katie said herself yester-
dAy
MY mother had this stand for many
years before me-. is the way Katie reciies
the history Of this corner Of the grave
yard she used 70 bring me here when
! was only old enough 10 know that five
pennies make a nickel. and when she died
] stayed. I've seen many things happen
in these years. | remember when Bar.
nuns Museum used 10 stand right across
the street there. where the big stone
building noW is. az 10. ] remember
when the FULTON street bridge was built
Twas IN iSa1 My sister used % carry
me up on the bridge aud I'D look down
on the crowds below. They took Il awav
IN two years heuauAs Mr. knOH the halter
thought Il darkened his store. which Il
did
Then there was the Duke of Fulton
Street. who used 10 have tho waved
mustache and the tight sitting coats.
Soms thought he used 10 wear stays.
My laws. how he used N strut up and
down. swinging his cane! 4 great man.
the duke
katis remembers the Broadway N low
buildings Ehen the Old Aslor House
lowered higher than most of them.
In the years that she has sat by her
little stove N winter and under the Whlte
awning q summers Katie has seen these
buildings melt h. the ground one nv one
and the magic II a new age has heen hers
10 see and To hear
Katie sold apples when tho stages ran
On Bruadway and the -Ieighs used to churn
up the snow IN DeC-mhcT Prom under
her aSnIng she ono. watched the wOrkm-n
string th. iron frame ~ the elevated
down ON church street when everybody
was talking about how the problem
1t transportation would be solyed by thin
tresile She watched the steam trains
-cutter hack and forth over TIN, bridge II
-teel, then the electric trains suppIant
them. FINALLY she AT by ant saw HrOad-
way opened up and nTobed for the iaying
II the subway traCks
Katie knows all tho heggarr for most
II them do not hesitate A. some time or
another % panhandle her Only yestsr-
day when Katie was undergoing an inter
view a negrrss with a printed letter "
woe presented herself tor aims
I give We penny Yesterday and
what did We DO with it, katle snorted
We snatched lt from me hand an smiled
Nv pennies come a. hard a. other fplks
dollars and We get no more ol them
Katie drew bit from herfphilosuphy
born Of experience.
i can always tell when real one
comes along she said. and Il can help
them out. for live very close to the street
~ 20 SAY. and ] know the sorrows Of lt
The streets cherries home for % =
~ crowded. and is one hig family where
no one knows the other member But m
these days there's 10 many that gets fat
on the sOftness Of heart that's IN others
that I come to draw the line With
apples a. . the barrel out Of cold storage
a woman = got IN be discriminating