The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-25
HORSES HOOPS END
CHILDISH DISPUTE
] AND GIRL MAY DIE
OUAe and Emma With Two
Cent Candy Feast For
j got Crossing.
RUSHED INTO DANGER.
Trying to Avoid Team Gussie
Falls and Is Probably
Fatally Hurt.
RUSHED INTO DANGER

1lttie oussie Singer. nine years oid,
u NO 62t Brook avenue. the Bronx, and
her playmate. Emma Bouishik, nine
ysars old, of No. SIS East One Hundred
ana Forty-eighth street. got two PEN
MES rom Gussie's mother this morn
ING. and after some debating as to the
best way Of spending this wealth, they
decided to go over to tho candy store
ON the opposite corner and get two OF
those big candy apples that come on
b sticks and that you can suck for almost
, IN hour before they get 80 small that
you look at them regretfully and slip
them under your tongue for q last de-
ucious taste OF sweetness.
They bought the candy all right and
Shen started for home. But on the way,
- they tridged along. solemnly suck.
ns away the sticky goodies. a dispute
crosse as to the. relative size Of sa'h.
White and frightened. Emma told Of
forward how II had all happened and
bow. In consequence of tho dispute, they
had approached the crossing at One
Hundred and Forty-eishth street with
cut tho caution that is second nature to
children OF the crowded streets.
r you're lickin' Eastern am" BRO.
tested Emma to Gussie.
II got to-" retorted Gusse, comp,a-
GENTLY. MY apples biggern yours an
I got to lick faster to keep up with
you"
"T1sn't Oisser.". replied Emma, dndis-
nantly.
"Tis." answered d,Ssie. with the I'm
perturbable satisfaction that such q dis
pute always creates.
''T1sn't." reiterated Emma
"T1s." came back monotonously.
DID NOT HEAR THE POUND Or
hoRsE'e HooFs.
They had passed the gutter so occu-
pied In their discussion that the pound
ins Of horses hoofs up the street had
not struck their cara In their excite
ment over the subject 1t issue tbSy even
paused In the middle Of the roadway to
decide II by comparison.
q don't care" Emma vas saying.
MY apples sweeter'-
4 mans voice yelled to them. and
they looked up In sudden terror. A
few feet away q huge delivery truck
was swinging toward them behind a
galloping team OF horses, and try as
ne might the driver seemed unable to
bring his charges to a halt. He yelled
again. but II only served to bewilder
the children more than ever. They
started to continue across to tho op-
posite curb. paused again. hesitated.
and went back right under the noses
of the galloping team.
Emma screamed and ran ahead, pulling
ousae after her by the hand. and con-
trlved to get herself clea;. Rut one OF
the horses' hoofs struck Gussls ana
knocked her down. and the front wheel
of the wagon went over her.
CHILDREN eEWId DE r e D
RUSHED INTO DANGER.
A few feet farther on, the driver,
Ared and Forty els nth stree, VINO was
employed ~ the SHAW -'i!very Com
many OF No. $50 East On, Hundred and
Forty-fourth street. managed to pull
his horses to a halt. and climbed down
from his box. James Atkinson OF No.
N First avenue. had already picked
Gussie up and carried her into q drug
store.
In the meantime. a crowd had gath
cred and II made some threatening
moves toward the driver but as there
were many people there to testify that
he had done his best to avoid thee
children and that At was their own
bewiiderment that had trapped them,
he was not molested.
The mother Of Gussie heard Of the
accident almost as soon as II hap
pened. ana fought nor way into the
drugstore. She refused TO let the am
buIance surgeon take the child to the
hospital, unless she was taken too
AZ tho lincoln Hospital they said
sftsrwa that Gussie had very little
ohanoe Of getting well.