The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-11
TEIE DAILY
81 i0..R STORY
Wall Street to South
Ferry
az q. LIVING KlMe

d ~
Charley Foadick was a, clerk
down In the financial district and
Z his boarding house was well oyer
on the west side IN the TwentIes.
He wasaa frugal chap with q saw
ings bank account and a determin-
alton TO- get ahead. Charley was
from Oakdale, Mass, a small
town, but he was not bit afraid
Of Now York, which was strong
po,nt In favor Of his succeeding
Don't think that he was fresh"
or unahesdlng Of the fierce conf
petition he was up against.
Tho firm OF Catherwood and
Robbins. BY which Charley was
employed. was run by old man
Jameson, a white slde-whlskered
attocrat. Robbins had died years
and years ago; Catherwood had
died about two years before Char.
ley came u the firm and the buzz
ness was continued by his heirs,
TWO sons and daughter, whom
no one seemed to know much
about and who were never seen at
tie office. Now, every day at o
asrtain hour, punctuallY tn the
minute Trinity Church clock FOL
he was a methodical person. Char
10y left the office walked N Wall
stfeet. turned down Broadway AMI
!. proceeded 10 South Ferry, where
he took the Ninth Avenue ~.
He enjoyed this beautiful little
tgall after the confinement Of tho
Office and besides by taking tho
treip at South Ferry he stood a
better chance Of getting a seat.
( And every day as lie passed n
! large office building on Broadway
there emerged therefrom young
woman Of about his own age,
soberly clad and to Charley's eyes
exceedingly beautiful. There was
an air Of efficiency about her, too,
(which tosa PERSON constituted as
Charley, Fosdick was added great
~ 10 her attractiveness.
The fair and efficient unknown
was always accompanied by an old.
ef woman less plainly dressed, but
the young New Yorker from oaS
dale, who was a close observer ami
q good Judge of values. was willing
to bet that the fine clothes of the
older woman cost less than tina
Srlainer ones Of the younger, Tie
couple followed the same route az
Charley - Broadway, Bowling
Green, Whitehall street. He watcl.-
ed to see what then became OF them
and found that they entered the
Staten Island ferry house. This
conjunction Of time. place, route
and persons had boon going on for
some time before either OF the per.
sons concerned noticed It, but as
soon as they did 1t became tho
usual and expected, Charley al.
ways watched the entrance Of the
office building as he approached u
see III The plainly dressed young
lady was emerging and the plainly
dressed young lady always gave
swift glance up tho street to see
1.-THE young man was on time:
They neither bowed nor spoke. 81
course, But they became quite lika
old friends after while. At last
" barrier fell; It fell with little
Elndhag which the young lady care
7 lessly let fall and which Fosdick
picked up and restored TO her with
his best bow and a few well.cnosen
words, 10 be rewarded with a bow
and q Smile, After that the youne
lady bowed when they met: then 1t
became chow do you dur and,
liter q long while. the youth nego.
/ tiahng his approaches slowly but
: skilltrily, he was permitted to join
the young lady and her companion
IN the daily descent to the ferry.
The Ice having been broken both
the young people plunged in head
over hefls. Charley used to thinK
4 quite little walk, but now, no
sooner had he turned into Broal i.
way from. Wall street than he found
hit1self at the ferry.
The young lady called herself
Miss Susan Knox and introduced
her companion as Miss stetson,
She talked freely enough-but
when Charley came to think n
over; tho fact that she was en-
ployed In the office Of the Smith.
son estate was about all the in.
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