New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

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~NF r-..san- January afternoon a be B.
( wh.ss.-5 Individual clad in high boots.
~ ove-a.'s. and Jumper, trudged the narrow
,.+b T Boston called Westinghouse. He car
- a OK Eeai and was trying TO drive pair OF
- zi7;cr pulled behind them two long logs.
800 together. On the logs was pasted large
- rs;rir dressed . Mr.. Richard Golden, Old Jed
p-rr-[ C--5 Opera House Boston Mass, c. O. d."
r. drive at the oxen was having his troubles
10 zne.--e 10 pilot pair OF animals OF contrary
5;.oosi-5o- ---- these had. anywhere; but when
5y are dragging TWO flfty-foot logs through crowded
-z street n The busiest part OF the day. the situation
Sscks ut l5speratlon. Street cars were lined up at
- -es- -- The l0gs wagons were crowded into the
. s-5 -z-len were holding back the curious Tnobs
-5a- collected II greater number with every painful
200 --sva--e5 bv the OK driver and his team.
aEs-a saa." demanded one policeman. What's
-1e meaning If al rtis2'
~Dr--e= I know" said the OK driver, a man
L- drive -.ls here team from LYNN this rnorlin
= the grand Opera House an collect four dollars an
--,- cents -.~ them TWO logs, an l n dom It
Bc- con YOU see how YOU re ObstruCtln the traffic.:
IN DON the best ! can said the driver. Gee
Whoa. THIS % the oxen, with a crack OF the goad-
T-e .--lel conferred. The obStruCtIng
and The logs we're now At Boylston-st. 4 few blocks
farther and The C3ngeSted part OF the town would be
passe5 #a-5n Il better to let the man finish his
thus --ar decided and, driving the crowds away as
hes --a- might. they made the OK driver hurry as
r-c- he could; SO that eventually he reached the
Grand Opera House lust above Dover-sc, attended by
few thousand Bosconians.
TIE oxen and the logs were driven 10 the curb, and
the 5--e- ue-- inside the theater lobby
w r---g those logs for Mr.. Richard Golden
he SAID. an -ley four dollars an fifty cents collect
OF en-
~Wna- ogss" demanded the ticket seller, who sent
mar -1- 70 see what all the trouble was. Then
e-z--E Al argument II which everyone around the
house declared he knew nothing about any logs The
G-,re- wanted 10 know what ne should do with
them
TAX en- back where YOU got EN-, said somebody.
Al --1-. sad the driver resignedly. He cracked
his gla- and the oxen started on their ter-r-e tourney
tacE Lynn
This time. however. they got farther than block
c. S. before the driver attempted 10 turn INTO SIDE
stree with the result that the logs were 1arned across
the s- WITH apparently way OF eXt-1Catlng them
TIE ---e arrested the driver and took him 10 the
s.z-,or. -1l0He5 by the adnnring multitude, leaving
TIE logs IN the street be examined by everyone who
passe-.
Mex -av the unfortunate OK driver was fined ten
6o-la-5 n police court and Richard Golden, who
"rz--az 70 come into the courtroom. paid his me.
Tie -ersDapers had columns about the incident, II
U-- u course the names OF the actor and MS play
tg---e- -alspicuOuSly.
The --aEe- scarcely needs 70 be told that the whole
g-z- was -everv cOnr-lved by the advance agent OF
"OlE -s5 P-ourv 70 boom the attraction He had
tLe satisfaction Of his stars receiving hundreds OF
dCa- worth Of advertising at almost no cost and 1T
te
A Thing of the Past