The New York herald., 1922-11-16
HIKES SUBWAY RAILS
SEEKING LOST WIFE
Czech, Who Speaks No Eng
lish, Finally Lands 'Out
in the Country
SOUGHT 'MR. BROADWAY
Dakota Pair Headed Back to
Europe Get Separated in
Hole in Ground
SOUGHT 'MR. BROADWAY

Joseph Gallo and his wife Anna
lived peaceful life for eighteen years
in the little farming town of Fairfax,
S. ID. Last Monday they came to
New York to take ship to Europe and
visit relatives in Czecho- Slovalsia-
and their adventures began. After
three wild days Gallo is in bed in the
Aicazar Hotel In West Thirty-second
street, and the police. the Slavonic
Immigrant Society and many volun-
steers are trying to find his wife. who
has been lost in the subway since she
and her husband started out to visit
something vaguely identified as Mr.
Broadway.
Gallo told his story last night. using
up all his English words In two minutes.
He and his wife on the Dakota farm.
spoke their native language and con-
sidered America a foreign country; then
decided to take their American dollars
and go back home. They went to Chi
cago, where someone gave them letter
to the Cunard offices in New York.
They arrived here last Monday at
o'clock In the morning, filed with the
idea that they had to see Mr.. Broadway
to get their tickets, the Cunard Offices
being at 90 Broadway With the aid of
the Providence that watches over chill
dren and people who spend eighteen
years in a country without learning it's
language they reached 20 Broadway
and found II closed. When they asked
a man where Mr.. Broadway was he told
them to follow the crowd into the sub
60 hoy what
called hole in the ground and they
got on train.
Gallo said that they rode back and
forth for four hours until guard put
them off. They discovered they only
had three of their four handbags. so
Mrs. Gallo went back into the train to
get the other one. The train started
and she was gone. Gallo thought Mr..
Broadway or somebody was kidnapping
his wife, so he dropped his three hand
bags, jumped onto the tracks and chased
the train for more than an hour. He
did not catch il. although several others
almost caught him. He was dressed IN
a cap and overalls, and everybody who
saw him thought he was track walker
and didn't bother him. N lll
The man roamed around in the sub
way for several hours, the same Provi-
dence keeping him away from the third
rails and the wheels OF the trains that
thundered past him. Finally, he said.
he came to some country and went from
house to house asking for his wife until
a policeman told him to get away. Tues
day night he slept in a building that
was under construction He seems then
to have been somewhere In Brooklyn. He
wandered about until Tuesday noon,
when he got on an elevated train and
rode for more than an hour. He was
put off and then got on a trolley car
and appears finally to have got back to
Manhattan. At last he showed q man
his letter and the man sent him on a
trolley car to % Broadway. where the
Curard Line people sent him to the
Alcazar and the people there got him
In touch with the Slavonic Society.
lie has seen nothing OF his wife since
she went back into the subway train
on Monday She is 81 years old. the
same age as her husband. and wears a
blue coat. sweater and satin cap.
She also has 5000 In her pockets.