Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-06

all John Edwards barns put together, and of all the pushing and pulling and scurrying ahead, 1t seemed as if they were all on the point of fighting but I saw no blows exchanged From the confusion of tongues I might have shut my eyes and imagined myself at the Tower of Babel, instead of in an American city where folks were SUD- posed to talk United States
 I told Sarah Frances to keep her eye on the umbrella and me, while I steered the way to a man with brass buttons on his coat q couldn't just see him in the distance) who could proba ply tell us what we wanted to know. After getting my bearings and all the information 1 needed, we started out for the Thirty third street ferry, where we were to cross the river to Long Is land station, and there take another train for Richmond Hill, about nine miles up the line
 We reached the ferry all whole and went into the little station to wait for the boat that was coming in from the other side I had no more than sat down and begun to feel free and easy like, when all of a sudden pandemOni- um reigned in every direction. My first thought was, maybe some of the animals up to Central Park mena gerie had gotten lose and gone on ram page, and, likely as not, was coming down the street. I grasped my tele- scope bag, and Sarah Frances the um- brella, and we braced ourselves for something-We didn't know just what. Men, women and children fought with each other and ran in all directions; policemen sprang up like mushrooms, ! and all were struggling to reach the telephone in the station all at the same time.
 By this time I was feeling pretty anxious, when we Wefe informed by big fat woman (Who had survived the stampede and no damage done with the exception of having her hat l knocked of) that the cause of all the ] commOtion was the blowing up of a. | cigar factory only two blocks away, and not a sound had we heard above ] the rattle-te- chatter of unloading and 1 loading up of that feTrybOat. 1 It suddenly occurred to me that John i Edward said it was at just such time ! people were robbed, and I again con ! suited my pocketbook to see if my dollar and a half was still there-and l it was.
 | We finally reached our destination, and after eating a good hearty supper | (dinner they called it there. with a i colored man servant by the name of ! Willis, to wait on the folks. tool.
 l told Sarah Frances we had better | go to bed as soon as we finished eat ing, SO as to get a real early start next morning, for I was going to see those 1 wax fggers" the first thing. then, if my money held out, we would go up to the Museum of Natural History ! where there was skeletons of every thing under the light of the sun. l I did not sleep much that night oW- | ing to so much excitement and for fear l might oversleep in the morning, sc
 we were up bright and early and down town by o'clock.
 Not being used to getting around ! and making so many changes, I used
 up more of my dollar and a half than I expected to, in carfares, so that by
 the time we had seen the wax fig
 gers l only had 5 cents left; but
 said:
 Sarah Frances, we will see the skeletons if we have to walk"
 It was then about Il o'clock and we
 were both hungry enough to eat al
 Esquimau. We decided to run the risl
 of couple of doughnuts and a cup oi
 coffee, then walked a mile and a half
 or more, to take one of those trains u
 in the air, and by the time we got tC LuG uiuS6UHl l was CDHplGleIN LutkeIet
 out, and the first bench I saw after climbing the steps I sat down ant counted my money, and the sum tota was 37 cents. We'll we walked anC walked, looked at skeletons, bugs ant
 bats, until it seemed as if we had GOV cred ten miles, l was so dead tired
 couldn't even remember how mucf money there was in that pocketbool . the last time I counted it.
 Sarah Frances says: Ma, don't you
 smell dinner cooking somewhere? Oh am so hungryi"
 I said: Sarah Frances. this is one O
 the times in our life when We must no
 yield to temptation, and if it is neces.
 sary to sacrifice our stomachs to keeJ
 from landing in the police station, ol being put off the cars for lack of money
 to pay our carfare, we must do 1t; bu if you ever catch me coming to New York to see the sights again on a dol
 lar and a half, you'll catch a wease
 asleepi"
 If the folks out on Long Island hat
 not given us @ round trip ticket to tn,
 ferry we should certainly have beer
 stranded for upon our return tha } night all we could find in that pocket } book was two cents. Then we calmeC
 down and waited for John Edward! ] check.