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BreOe ira 1orges Bygder o. Byer.
era TeIemarfen.

Carmel til fpresbal bar iee Iaet % er
-, bieu,rre iaien i NIT lille Siem. Seq
W. ire Tiger biemme i SpresbaI 90
S,,se bet aoot / ollie RaaSer. Seq bar
s,n,,oc Steber % sieitebe, iaalebes til
arrr $odracn, Tom Slop Sirebe ps Gum
Kin @rauer bar sjurt til ct rent Serres
trsr. Saapiot Suiene aneaar. Ri er
SIoo en- gtano paa so Nar oe bar aipet
| etnrst fra iie til fine to GIbite Ssnner;
eorici bar spre Sauecn % SaInor bar
i,,,t uebre; men ba SaIpor bripcr aisbs
,rorSsfcrrctnine / Sauaiiaaiuubet. Sres
,,orr. briper piit Sariei besee grua.
snrici or Gift nleb Zone Slansbatter
s%nritane, % Re bar TO intaa Gutter.
Ger or Sneec pe @elitanb paa !Saueen,
-, 6urbiIo CT iaa beIbie at bebolbe tine
sorue 9stre biemn,e. nemlig Snsebisrs
=, Gle. Gle bar nplie forrmet biem;
t,,n bor aaaet paa BEN fpinbeliee Snbus
rriroIc / @riitianid. Sen Glbite Sdts
,,r,u. Siane er pad spre 8raber hos
cnIrr eftcr 8unbilos Srooer 8rnIeit,
INN bebe iaa baftig / @inter. gufen er
; ior 0clitanb % eier bdabe @~alebisrs,
I'm ;oSer Sobn @alebisrss 8aarb. 90
Grorcr. GUN beber aieriti.
Slop @raper, iom fom biem fra gmes
rim for ct Tar @dr iitcn. bill bit reiic
oper ioien, oa ban life bar orouet meb
lin gienbom Der.
Get or siilbt at tale meo fine ling
sorrss % 9arnoomss @enner. Wanet er
trt ot tale on, cfter Iars Sorlsb, % MI
IA MSeren melber fig. blir bi pentobie
itrmt pcb 1T tale ON llngboms glade
Sage.
Set bar flor 8rabfGrb efter 8iertrib
gernt paa groffe 8aaro / Sealaubs>
orrnS. Set bar en- itor Stare af forge
ilrstc RcnneIfer, fom bar iubbubue til
grct.c Snsbag ben 12te Suli for meb
ttrpes SIG9t at fsl9e herbe til @eurts
S~ir,eoanre. Siin bar bare to Ssnner
her / gtorac. Gen Glbite Ssnren, 8unz
nor, or bsb / Inerifa for mango aar
iScr, % iaa er Der fem 9stre / ames
ria. 3cres Napue her bientme bar
!Srat, 8unpor, Adroline, Sngebisrg %
gnSren. MI gntc efter 9r. Inbreas
Guislins. SEQ ian bilic cher, benbea
9strc, at bin bar slab | at fare berfra
"a barre ntco ariitus. oe bun bleo piii
for Sgrc peb fin 8aare. iom a b9ffet
rtb ardnic % @Iomiter fra fern oa
nrr. Ydiicr gauge talte paftert % fors
faacIiesfulot til henbes Rinbe. % Sors
lip @eiin,. iom babbc fienbt benbe fro
fine garnopms Sage, baobe mango Wins
her at tatte for. @roffe bar benoes
Tstcfteo, os her bsbe BUN; men fin bebite
Sto % line llnebpmS Gar lenebe bur
Soa spre @erm meb fin Wanb, ior
tsbc for mango Gar iiben, 90 meb ale
@srnere. gu Hbttcbe bun for anben %
fbite Gang fra @rotfc @darb. Ser Dor
26 Seite / Srrben % 8 Iltomobiler.
snut germ. Glbite Sennen, fisrte ielu
fin glober til bet iibite Sbileiteb. Inore
Grnnen, NiffcI. Dor / @isiebal. bpor
han bar misunderstanding paa Reins
itah % 'taar iis eoSt. Snn er gift meb
guubiIb Ncrbbs fra Nisiebal. en- iGrs
helcs eIifbGrbis Some. Oct brffebe 8orb
rcN Soriamlinscn omfrins blep fotus
eraieret.
Sc rndntte biem ON abelben, Brad
tsarc", ba be ifuIbe til 9rplup paa
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-09-05

mas Srenltib, men forelsbig ifal Eli.
gan9en al Igerbprfere uPre iaa itpr,
at man bar Sop til at gisre Jig Sor-
baabninser meo Senipn iii, bpao DC
bill bore iitano til at ubrette for at
ifabc Ell llopibclie al 9anobruget. Se
nrolige Sorbolo / Ruslano oa Bal.
fanitaterne cr natltrliguis mebpirfel.
DC til, at Ger bar melot iig mango
lanobrugsfpuoige Sober. Sioen Sitli
Maaneo 1920 er ca. $4,000 Ssoer
inoparbret til EalGitina og bar oalt.
net ialt y Golonier, iprcbte ouer ct
0iitritt, ser itrGffer iig ira Gan iii
9eribc6a. Sisie gmigranter bar Ill
Cato taget ca. 10000 Icres SanO
| Brig.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-09-05

Spag % ina. Jru glSire Guin-
trif fra Serum, &a., fem % otti gar
gammel, bar iaa ipag % ipg, at bun
neppc funoe beuGge fig. SUN bar
ta9et IRE SLATER al Or. Yeters au-
rifo % gaar MI omfring iaa iriif %
liplig iom Ell ung Biee. 9ette iimple
llrtcmiooel er bet bebite Stprfemiboel
for iamlle 6olf. Get fan life fisbes
paa Ipotefer. Sor nGrmere llnoer-
refining ifrip til Or. Setter Sabrncp
& Cons Co., 2501 @aibington
glp6.. Gbieaso, Su,
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-09-05

IL asS'snbias @in.raIier fan nh srbolbsS / be-
,'.Wn' \ ablsttsr ii.uSt Tom paratabs. 9e sr sib,u'
.aOe's pttparsrsoe. fuibfpmn.n trpass o. opIs'ss
.u'.s' Slblstterus oirfsr osiaa Tom ct 5tprismiob,I
"'etns o. sr eorantsret mob life at sios upatu suat
If eHioa til sss snsr aisb. o. sr Iia,iaa psIais.
WOE 'or aras anaiuaer ION for oorn. Ssns. 5ier'
's's euuobse forbebrss. be porsr hurtiatr.. ftaar fig
.'o'' mob caruit DER. msbens llbbptiet az gGa oits
~l''ooOl's, Rrs. ID. g.. pulagi, ap.. flyer: "Ssa
sst Saratob ganb til mine Ssns. % isa bar iaar
"o'' Ssfte ,ns noaenFube ipr'.
SoSi,n!omhsIft 9afer az bette gIab Ton prsps benz
o,s SsNto DE tofer fun en- llbstpbeieheb % iGI'
!, aaS,r ao'cIut 9oronti. gtbsrs CT be eaboratorier.
o,s.N yorafobs tuberebes. lao operbepift ON otres
nv. wt,nitafsr: at be for at iutrpbuere BEN bpoer to
s,srsl yattsr for VI. Ssnb iuaen ptrse. fun bit
psa % DIN ubresis iii poratab 9aboratories. 3ept.
n III eota eolo BIba. Rantas Gitp. Wp.. % be to
N, SwLnLnief' not for 100 9aflpuer 1onb. oil bIiot ienot
iuo,yiI,n,' g,taI Yoftmanbsn d % gortp psb Tos'
isis.a nj, ~. Sots bu life er mere sub tItrtbs nito Re.
~ 'tSS u' ,fbsn 10 0aas. nnbsrrst 2aborotpri.t osrorn
MN AZ y ysnst oil fuIbt nb isnoes tiIbaas: Rel Tile
fs; \ a. antaes bette prspetilbub. ba bu fuIbt uo err be-
'''''i oto b.nut Sarauti.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-09-05
Nus 0r9ber Sous
/ barmt Neir.
eommermaaneberne be NET farlise.
Tiger anturiteter | Gierfre.- - ur
at iorebpgse Sab fol Wineralter
til 6ierfrGets Sriffepano.

er's otns Cons ,r ipeslias, bill life Iraas % lGaa.r
fa I'll at b i parut gsir, ba ,r maaite Gus o. Wlitss
sarns,H, Gr. .. q. aaupp. b.rsut antorit,t paa
bir'rr,ts Cmroabe. fiaer: Gus .r NET aImiubsIia
'SuIt % Guauf. 8 bisfe Waaueb.r er 5orboIb.ns
men unHitis, for ber.s Gormsrslis". Cor let at bIips
to'i e.rr. gsit % i~or,bpaae la5. isi WinsroIisr ii
Slsrtratts 9rif,cpanb. 0stts a'faTf,r 5,btimsrins.
ie.rcrnsrirs. sors:tniua % 3ppnina. Suart sft,r
oi e'H'tns bar bsapnbt at brittle bet mintrnIi'srsbs
Soho pl oat Gus o. Wites fpr'oinbe.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-09-05

uSnnf Dc" sn"htse anrsHtnation for Rcmisier til sorae.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1922-09-05

Gn i~p9noenoc BOG:
"Gn spaaooms
Opfbloclic",
u Den perbenSberSmte Sprfatter aley,
Dumas.

Uortruiusen foreeaar | en- at De in'
S5sS'anteite Siosperiober ! Sranfri8S
%,'0rtc og er ct Ianst YGp al airrligs
cstO % CAB. Sntriecr % 8anteipii.
o'fialt meb bet Wciteritab, iom dIeue
:" S'teraturens SiormanS Tom Dumas
o1aper ooer. elegant inbbnuoct meo
ss"elcn , Cub paa &pe os Yerm. Tris
ss,'oO' Speeiel Yris til sbpnnenter
THE ANUNDSEN PUBL. co.
A.. DEBORAH. Iowa.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-12
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Mr.. Fortune were immersed lin
adapting the workshops to war work
for the government And it was
made sufficiently clear to Sabre that,
so long away and Immediately to be
off again. there could he no interest
for him in the enterprise.
lie rose to 20. Il only called in to
show off my officers Uniform"
Twyning said, YES, congratula-
tions again, old man. He laughed
You mustn't think you're going to
have Harold saluting you though, if
you ever meet. He's getting a COM
mission, too" His manner, directly
he began to speak Of Harold, changed
to that enormous affection and adj
miration for his son which Sabre
well remembered on the occasion Of
Harold joining up. His face shone,
his mouth trembled with loving pride
at what Harold had been through
and what he had hone. And he was
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Continued FF6m Our Last Issue

Sabre did not know how over
wrought ne was until he was at
home again and came to Mabel seat
ed at breakfast.
Mable looked up from her break
fast. "Well, | do think"
This was the beginning of it. He
felt himself digging his nails into
the palms Of has hands. i've been
up with old Mrs. Perch. ] was with
her when She died. It's upset me
bit,
II don't wonder. If you ask me, |
think it was very extraordinary your
being there. If you ask me, | think
il was very funny of that Miss
bright sending for you at that hour
Of the night Whyeyer should she
send for of all people?'
81 was their greatest friend.
Eyes, | know you always liked
them. But you couldn't be of any
use. | must say ! do think people
are very funny sometimes. If Miss
Bright had done the right thing, as
we are their nearest neighbors, she
would have sent and asked me if |
could let one of the maids go over
and be with her. Then you could have
gone up, too, if you'd wished and
could have come back again. ] don't
think she had any right to send for
you"
He had sat down and was about to
pour himself out some tea. He put
down the teapot and got up. Look
here, do me a favor, They're dead,
both of them. Don't say anything
more about them. Don't mention
the subject again. For Gods sake.
He went out of the house and got
his bicycle and set out for the office,
At the top of the Green he passed
young Pinnock, the son of Pinnock's
Stores. Some patch of color about
young Pinnock caught his eye. The
color was vivid red crown on a
khaki brassard on the young mans
arm. The badge of the recruits en-
rolled under the Derby enlistment
scheme. He dismounted. "Hullo, Pin
mock. How on earth did you get
that armlet? | thought you'd been
rejected about forty times?"
Young Pinnock grinned hugely.
Don't matter if you've got both feet
in, or head and shoulders neither,
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such a good boy-wrote twice a week
to his mother and once when he was
sick in the hospital Padre of his
battalion had written to say what q
good and sterling boy he was"
Extraordinarily different Twyning
the father Of Harold, and Twynine
in daily relations.
VI
His leave drew on. He spent his
time in long walks alone and, when
ever they were possible, in the old
evening with Mr.. Fargus. In Mabel.
absence he and Effie were much
thrown together. Mabel frequently
came upon them thus together, ant
when she did she had a mannerisn
that somehow seemed to suggest
catching" them together. And some
time she used that expression.
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over AT bnONenSOufy To-Day. Mt.
Sabre. There's such a rush Of chaps
to get in before they make conscrpits
of 'em they're fair letting anybody
through"
Sabre turned his front wheel to the
Chovensbury road.
CHAPTER VIII
Life, when it takes so giant q
hand in its puppet show as to up
turn a cauldron of world war upon
the puppets, may be imagined biting
it's fingers in some chagrin at the
little result in particular Instances.
As individual development beneath
uniersal calamity. Nature persists;
individual life persists.
Sabre was called up in his Derby
Class within eight weeks of his en-
rollment-at the end of February
1916. He was nearly two years in
the war; but his ultimate encounter
with life awaited him, and was met,
at Penny Green. 1t might have been
reached precisely as it was reached
without agency of the war, GER
tainly without participation in it.
Of the interval only those few events
ultimately mattered which had con-
necton with his life at home. They
seemed in the night of the war tran
sient as falling stars; they proved
themselves lodestars of his destiny.
He first went to France, in one of
the long string Of Service battalions
that had sprung out Of the Pinks, in
the June following his enlistment.
Mabel had decided to get a paid
companion-it was rather lonely in
some ways-and she had arranged to
have 'that girl, Miss Bright" Sabre
reading her letter, exclaimed aloud,
by Jove, that's good / am glad"
And he thought, "Jolly little Effie."
That's splendid" He somehow liked
immensely the idea of imagining
Bright Effie about the house. he
thought, 81 wish she could have
been in long ago, when | was there.
It would have made a difference.
Someone between us. We used to
work on one another's nerves. Pretty
little Effie! Like jolly little sister. +"
II
He was writing regularly to Mona
and regularly hearing from her. lie
never could quite make out where
she was, addressing her only to her
symbol in the Field postofficc. She
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THE AMERICAS TIMEs-REcoRDER.

was car driving and working very
long hours. There was one letter
that he never posted but of the ex-
istenee of which he permitted him
self to tell her. 81 carry it about
with me always IN my Pay-book. 1t
is addressed to you. If ever get
outed it viii 20 to you. In 1t | have
said everything that | have never
said everything that / have never
said to you but That you know without
my saying it. There'll be no harm
in your hearing it from mWown hand
if I'm dead. ] keep on adding to 1T.
Every time we come back into rest,
| add a little more. 1T all could be
said in the three words we have
never said to one another"
And she wrote, Mako, can read
your letter, every line of it. | lie
awake, Marko, and imagine myself
word by word, line by line; and word
by word, line by line, in the same
words and in the same lines. ! an
swer it. So when you read it 20
yourself for me, read it for yourself
TO me. Oh, Mako"
III
Early in December he wrote to
Mabel;
"A most extraordinary thing has
happened. I'm coming home I've sud
denly been told that I'm one of five
men in the battalion who have been
selected to 90 home TO an Officer
Cadet battalion for commission.
Don't jump to the conclusion that
Pm the Pride of the Regiment or
anything like that. It's simply due
to two things: one that this is not
the kind of battalion with many men
who would think of taking commits
sions; the other that both my pla-
toon officer and the captain of my
company happen to be Old Tiburians
and, as I've told you, have often been
rather decent to me. | hope to be
home on the third and | go to the
Cadet battalion, at Cambridge, on
the fifth"
He made rather a boisterous entry
into the house on his arrival, arriv-
ing in the morning before breakfast.
He entered the hall just after eight
o'clock and announced himself with
loud, "Hullo, everybody" and
thumped the butt of his rifle on the
floor. An enormous crash in the
kitchen and a shrief of Its the
masterv heralded the tumultuous
discharge upon him of High Jinks and
Low Jinks. Effie appeared from the
dining room. He was surrounded
and enthusiastically shaking hands.
"Hullo, you Jinksies! Isn't this rip
ping? BY Joye, Highland Low
it famous to see you again. Hullo,
Effie. Just fancy you being here!
How Jolly fine, Ell? Where the
Mistress? Not down yet? I'll go
up. Low Jinks-Low Jinks, I'm
dashed if you aren't cryingw
He broke off. "Hullo, Mabel. Hui
10! Did you get my letter? Pm
coming up"
Mabel was in a wrapper at the
head Of the stairs. He ran up. Tin
simply filthy. Do you mind?' lie
took her hand.
She said, 81 never dreamt you'd be
mere at tins hour. How are you,
Mark! Yes, ! got your letter. But
| never expected you TIL this eve
ming, It's very annoying that
hoIh'hg IS ready Tor you:
Just the same Mabel! But he
WASH gong to let her be The same!
lie had made up his mind TO that as
ne had come along vita eager strides
rom inc station.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Motorists Simply Couldn't
Stand Going Slow

Any impediment in one of the roadways
meant that the vehicles using it had to take
10 the surface car tracks to get around the
obstacle. Whenever truck broke down on
tne bridge surface cars had to crawl at a
snalls pace in order to give the ceaseless
stream of vehicles an opportunity to get
around the obstruction. 1t meant that at the
point where the disabled truck stood, motor
trucks, horse-drawn trucks and streetcars, all
mad to squeeze through a ten-foot gap.
Whenever motor trucks found themselves
behind plodding dray their drivers swerved
70 the car tracks to speed past it, and cars had
- slow up or fight it out, and many Of the
@aodern motor trucks can withstand COLI
Son fully as well as the average B. r. T. car.
on the roadway devoted to trucking three
divergent types Of vehicles were constantly
clashng-the dray, the motor truck and the
surface car. All were running on an eighteen
1901 tnoroughfare, and the marvel was that
mere were not q continual series Of collisions,
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

when motor cars are grazing the whifletrees
or shooting from side street SO suddenly as
almost to rub the down from their muzzles
1t is all the same to them. Cobbled streets,
asphalt reekng Of gasoline fumes, motors
crowding them on every side or the safe Sc
clusion of the Brooklyn Bridge-nothing can
arouse fear or enthusiasm. Day in and day
out they dribble across the bridge in a pro-
cession which probably will dwindle year By
year, and even now is far from impressive.
With the horse there may return the
ancient anecdote founded upon the sign
LOADED Teams Keep to the Right" which
was posted on each roadway in the days when
no surface cars crossed the bridge, giving
room on each roadway for a double column
of teams
In those days when news was slack and
editorial genius dozed it was the habit of the.
city editors of Brooklyn newspapers to sum-
mon the reporters with pomp and ceremony
and instruct them to go out and dig up few
humorous stories.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

the later days, when motor trucks rendered
the bridge hazardous for horses, few care
full drivers still preferred the old ferry.
Now the scene has changed once more.
Brooklyn Bridge is again thoroughfare for
horses. But the plodding beasts which use it
now in scanty numbers might almost be of
different species from the glossy, high-step-
ping animals which pranced across it in its
youth, with the jingle of shining buckles and
the whir Of swiftly revolving spokes, polished
so highly that they reflected the sun in gleam-
ing circles about each hub.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
"Loaded Teams Keep
To the Right

The new reporter receiving the Instructions
invariably felt that being restricted to "a
few" he must select only the best short
stories to be found. Invariably at some time
IN his brief career he had seen and chuckled
at the sign LOADED Teams Keep to the
Right" envisioning a pair of riotously spir-
ituous companions rolling home in the early
hours Of the morning who spied the sign and
endeavored conscientiously to obey its COM
mand.
Invariably he turned in that anecdote, more
or less embellished, and it may still be posi-
BILE to find Brooklyn patriarch or two who
actually has seen it in print. In its most
humorous form the inebriated pair were called
Tom and Jerry
When the count Is complete and the figures
for vehicular traffic to-day on the bridge are
compared with those of yesterday the total
for the day probably will be in the hundreds
instead of well up in the thousands. There
is scarcely an hour of the day when more
than twenty or thirty wagons are to be seen
on the bridge at one time.
Even if the horses do not appreciate II.
there is a certain element of sentiment and
picturesqueness IN the return Of the horse to
the Brooklyn Bridge It is not easy to de-
oSAiDo put ~ may DC perceived toward sunset
when an occasional driver is taking his team
to Brooklyn stable leaving his truck on the
Manhattan side Of the bridge
Tugs are looped up over the horses backs
and reins doubled in the bit rings as when,
one meadow having been cleaned up, the hay
wagon was left in the field for the night, pre-
paratory to handling the next days cut, when
the team would be transferred from moving
machine or rake to the hay wagon.
The driver is perched on bit of sacking
on the near horse, rocking bit TO their plod-
ding gait. Blue smoke curls up from his pipe
The days work is done, yet he is in no hurry
The horses are in no hurry. Clump, clump.
clump, they plod contentedly, unvexed even
by thought, across the bridge. 3
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

ed garnishments Of blistered paint and sooty
smudges
Deserted by shoppers on their swift, pranc-
ing way to New York stores, the ferryboats
became the haven of trucks bound for lower
Manhattan or the Brooklyn waterfront. In
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
The LorDly Trolley Car
Has Some Rights

Concentration of horse-drawn vehicles on
Brooklyn Bridge and Of motor vehicles on
Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburg
Bridge, he believes, serves the interests of
trolley passengers, motorists and truck driv-
ers, and is boon as we'll to the throng that
twice day sweeps across the Manhattan end
Of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Since 1920 the Brooklyn Bridge has had
one-way traffic rules during certain hours of
the day, but no restrictions as to the nature
Of the traffic, except that trucks, both motor
driven and horse-drawn, kept to one roadway
and the lighter, swifter vehicles to the other.
Almost half Of each roadway is taken up by
the surface cars. In 1897 trolley tracks were
laid in the roadways and since then surface
cars have been contending with trucks for
the right Of way
There is barely space between the running
board of an open car and the rail Of the
bridge for one of the big, unwieldy motor
trucks. So narrow was the margin Of safety
that conductors collecting fares on the trip
across the bridge had to watch their step vigi-
iantly. Only few days before the recent
order banshing such vehicles went into effect
motor truck swept conductor from the
running board Of car and crushed him to
death.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

luxurious boats Of the Fulton Ferry Company.
Luxurious and swift as they were once con-
sidered, the ferryboats we're not always in the
slip when the barouche rolled up, and waiting
was veXatious. Deprived. of their fashionable
clientele, the boats became shabbier and slow
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
The Bridge Gets at Last
Its Promised Rest

1t is far from being the gay scene that
characterized the previous horse era. when
driving or walking across the Brooklyn Bridge
was In the nature of an excursion and refresh
ment places sprang up with mushrooms swift
ness at either approach, their signs and plac-
ards inviting the wayfarer to stop and sin n
leisurely glass, but it has its picturesque
points.
Aside from all the advantages to traffic
which Commissioner Whalen believes will re-
suit from the plan, it has the obvious advan-
tage of removing great part of the over
load from the bridge The structure was pro-
nounced by experts in 1919 to be stronger
than when first built and capable of sustain
ing greater load.
Its burden at that time and since then,
however, has been far in excess of anything
its builders contemplated. large force Of
men, directed by skilled engineers, is continu-
ally examining and grooming the herd Of
mighty bridges which span the East River,
keeping them in the pink of condition and
fretting about their little ills with the affec-
tionate concern of the keepers of herd Of
elephants.
They have maintained them at the peak of
efficiency and enabled them to handle with
out risk the increasing burden of traffic.
Nevertheless, after almost forty years of con-
tinuous service, even bridge deserves rest.
The Brooklyn Bridge is getting its rest now.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

cession hits the otherwise deserted plank
road. Not head goes up. Not hoof lifts
higher than it's wont. Clump, clump, clump,
they plod across the bridge, heads bobbing,
tails languidly switching. They betray no
more interest than under normal conditions