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Shut that door!
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Keep 05 the grass!
D. Hart Weeks visited friends in Bethel
,‘this week. ‘
Monday did credit to itself as the first
day of winter.
“Let brotherly love continUe” at the
Mahackemo.
Mrs, John H. Aiken is reported very
low with pneumonia. ‘
Charlie Ross has been found again.
[Later—No, he hasn’t.
F. R. Swift, publisher of the Waterbury
Herald, was in town yesterday.
Dsnhury’s new full factory is progress-
ing rapidly toward completion.
The Saturday night drunks and fights
keeps the police full of business.
Robert P Beatty reached home Thanks-
giving eye from Cleveland, Ohio.
Ofilce‘r‘Charles Adams and wife spent
Sunday with friendsrin Danbury.
Carriage .maker Ruby is building an ad-
dition to his shop 99.95.03“ street.
George H. Wynne-and- wife ate their
turkey with fric'nd‘s'inJohnstown, N. Y.
The Norwalk" Gun Club had a shoot on
the Baxter Grounds, on Thanksgiving day.
The Trinity church ladies'give a fair and
supper in Music Hell to-morrow evening.
The chapel» of the Berea-n Mission un-
denominational. was dedicated on Sun-
day.
A panther, or some other terrible beast,
is making ravages among the cattle around
Ridgv field. , ,
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Belden are .to
departsoou for New Orleans to spend the
winter season. ‘
Brown & Hodge have the contract for
building Miss Stevens’ residence and school
on Belden avenue.
Weather strips are in such demand that
it is said the dealers are u'nable to 'keep
up with the orders. .
Mrs. Wm. Randall Smith expects to
visit Florida soon and join her daughter,
new resident there. -
It is understood that plans are being
discussed for the extension of the Derby
railroad to Seymour.
Scofield & Hoyt have, tiie contract for
carpeting the new rooms of Pilgrim
Council, 0. U. A. M.
The marriage of George Pomeroy and
Miss Lizzie Casey is announced to take
place in the near future.
George Taft has leased the old Blascer
store on Wall street and will move his
clothing emporium there.
Miss Josephine Mather, of _ Detroit, is
visiting her aunt,-Mrs. F. St. John Lock-
wood, on East avenue.
Rev. 8. B. S. Bissell took his Thanks-
giving dinner with his daughter, Mrs.
Kate Lockwood, at Stamford.
Anthony Comatock addressed a meeting
of the Y. M. C. A. in the Bridgeport
Opera House, Sunday afternoon.
A French scientist avers that cats carry
thirty per cent. of the contagious diseases
of the world from house to house.
Joseph Matheis, Jr., is back at his old
post in the Oleander Garden, and is dis-
pensing beverages for Con Howard.
Mrs. E. Valter, of New York, spent;
Thanksgiving with her brother, Photo.
grapher Readmati, on Wilton avenue.
The parade of- trained horses, with a
brass band on horseback, attracted much
attention and admiration on Monday. ‘
Wesley VanHouton, of South Norwalk,
died at his home on Woodward avenue
Wednesday last, at the age of 52 years.
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Rev. Fred Curtis, of Norwalk, but now
in Japan, is the happy father of another
new baby and that baby a bouncing boy.
Mrs- Dr. Pardee, of Brooklyn, sister of
Confections: Frank R. Starr, is critically
ill at her home, with a complication of
ailments. ; -. _ _ .
‘ Gray, Esq;,-hss purchased _six
flour-ilk, and expects to erect a fine resi-
dence thereon. ,
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A An Enterprising Republican J ou'i'nal, especially deVOted to Local News and Interests.
N ORWAEK, CONN-., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3,1890.
Miss Nellie Harrison and Richard Holt
celebrated Thanksgiving in a very pretty
and very happy‘manner, by getting mar-
ried. - . ,
A. H. Wilcox, arctic-time secretary of
the Norwslk Y. M. C. A. was married to
Miss Liza Beade, in Hartford. on Thurs-
dav. . '
l‘ P. T. Barnum has presented to the Uni.
versalist church society, of Bridgeport, a
house and lot worth $10,000,for a par-'-
sonagc. . . . ' , .
{Little Johnny Coles, "of Chapel street,
isthc happy possessor of Rev. .‘Father
Slocum’s-admirab_le.plcture of an admir-
able man.. 1 ‘. '_- , j 1 . ' .
.rritomaoneemiry. or unwritten, w...
fined $20 and givenihirty days in jail, last
week, for incest with his own twelve years
old daughter. ‘ " ' .
Holiday goods are beginiug to make
themselves manifest with all their sed no-
live and tempting gorgeotisuess, inthe
'store windows. ' ; -' . g _
The members of the, local wheel club
lwheeled 7 to " Bridgeport ,on Sunday" ,and
were entertained by the ‘Ramblers’ wheel
club of that city.
Prof. Gumbart and wife, of South Nor—
walk, spent Sunday with Mrs. Gumbart’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Romaine Bar-
num, in Bethel. , .
N. A. Wilcox has been promoted from
assistant, to general freight agent of the
Consolidated road, to succeed the late
Charles Rockwell.
The chapel fair and entertainment of
the ladies of Cranberry Plains will be held
to-night and to-moriow night, (Wednes-
day and Thursday.)
Mrs. John Holland died at her home on'
South Main street, South Norwalk, of a
long and painful illness of typlio—rnalaria,
at the age of 36 years.
This cold weather ought to remind every-
body who has a garment he doesn’t want
that there is no difficulty in finding some-
body »who does want it.
The chief engineers and court of bur-
gesses will inspect the fire department at
the various houses this evening. Each
member is required to be in uniform. '
. :Never was thejfreight business 'on the
Conbolidated road so: heavy as at present.
Every engineer is in service and many of
them are putting in much extra time. '
"Let none be hungry to day," was the
Ridgefield Press’ Thanksgiving injunction.
Nonsense. A good appetite makes a
Thanksgiving dinner taste all the better.
-—You cannot spend 50 cents for a more
worthy cause than by attending the Yale
Glee Club Concert, at. the Opera House to-
night, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A .
A fight between Jerry Donovan and
Expressman Calvin Snyder at South Nor-
walk on Wednesday, resulted in Donovan
getting knocked down and Snyder paying
a fine. ___________
Hartford has followed the example of
various other Connecticut towns and
cities in enacting a city ordinance prohibit.
ing the distribution of handbills on the
streets.
The Bridgeport police, Sunday night,
made a raid on a disreputable house in
which colored sinners resorted, and cap-
tured five men and three women, all
colored.
'l‘lr. David B. Hill, of Albany, Governor.
of a large lumber business in that city, is
visiting relatives in Norwalk, where he
will probably remain until after the holi-
day season.
Miss Mary Donohue, of Stamford, and
John Neary, of South Norwalk, were
married at Stamford, on Thanksgiving
eve, by the Rev. T. J. Keene, of St. John’s
church. 't
The annual meeting of Buckingham
Post, G. A. R. will be held this evening.
Officers will be elected for the year emu--
‘ing, and other importaut‘bnsiness is to be
transacted.
Hailock, of theDanbury News. remarks:
“Is that cold turkey finished yet? You
see we have been there.” Well, if you’ve
been there, Hallock, there’s no doubt the
cold turkey is finhlhed. .
The following pensions have been great-
ed :—Original, Benjamin Burgess, New
London; William§Grace, Norwalk; James
Hubbell, Stratford; Emily, widow of
Nathan Fry, Plainfield. ‘
A union service wasiheld in the Congre.
gational church, Thursday morning, Rev.
Dr. Noble preaching the sermon, and‘
Rev. Dr. Van Alstyne prefacing the same
with a few fitting remarks.
Mr.W. G. Lineburgh, administrator, is
to sell the scenery and fixtures of Cole's
Opera House, in Bridgeport, a small but
successful place of amusement whose
proprietor recently died. '
Mr.’Lewis Smith, an aged and-respected
citizen of. South Norwalk, died at his
home Sunday evening. He had been an
invalid for some years and suffered in-
tensely. He had always been ‘a raid.” .
Of South NOI'WSIB, and lelvt g“ a )wifg ‘nd
nine children. His age was wathS years.
The fair of St Mary’s Society,fwhich
closed Monday night, was grantlly‘ suc-
cessful, as might haw been expected, and
a handsome fund was realized.
—-No one should fail to attend the Yale
Glee and Banjo Club’s Concert, at the
' Opera House, to-nirht. Tickets 50 cents,
which includes a reserved sent.
The annual meeting of the Gentlemen’s
Driving Association will be held in the
.CityHHotelp South Norwalk, to-morrow
(Thursday) afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
Mr. George I. Buxton and bride return-
ed on Saturday from their extended wed-
;ding tour wliich'took tilt in to and through
sensual; oi ,.:ihn;pgincipa1 cities ogtho- south
'and east. . _
Builder 8. B. 'Wilson has the contract
for enlarging the hat factory. of J. C.Wil-
son 8:. 00., city. It is to be40x60 and will
- give space for a largely increased business
and number of employees.
A little Orchard street girl importuned
her father the other day, to buy her a new
jersey, whereupon her little brother, who
has just begun to study geography, put in
his plea for a Rhode Island.
The new building of the electric light
company is started, the foundationtbeing
'well underway. Builder Wilson has the
contract for the structure, but has given
the brick work to W. H. Smith.
The court of burgesses voted on Mon-
day evening to purchase forille fire do-
partment a supply wagon similar to the _
one in use at South Norwalk. The ve—
hicle will probably cost not far from 8500'
The marriage of Miss Leila Wilcox,
daughter of Mayor Edwin Wilcox, of
South Norwalk, to George B. Weed, was
solemnized at the residence of the bride on
Monday morning, by the Rev. B. N. Dun-
niug.
The foundations for the new Grace
church are nearly completed and the
frame work is in such a state of forward-
ness that it will soon be erected, and the
edifice assume its pretty and modest out-
lines. '
A Danbury farmer sold fifty barrels of
onions in Danbury on the day before
Thanksgiving. With the aid of these, the
Danburians who had something lobe
thankful for could weep for ‘S2§.E~.‘.!ll°
had not. _____
Norwalk patrons of the lottery will find
something of interest in this: Anyone
who mails a letter ordering a lottery tick-
et or sends a postal 'card relating to a lot~
tery, is liable to imprisonment for eight-
een months, or a fine not exceeding $500
or bdth.-—Record.
H. C.I»Moslter had his left foot badly
crushed last Friday by a heavy piece of
iron falling on it at the Norwalk Iron
Works, where he is employed. He is able
to bobble about, btit is not yet in a con-
dition to dance a clog.
Hugh Smith, yard master at Wilson
Point, has been promOted to the position
of agent at the same place, to succed C.
E. Olds, who suddenly and silently stole
away some weeks ago, leaving not a trace
nor even a hitch rein behind. .
The success and drawmg power of the
phonograph in James M. Creagh’s saloon,
is said to have stimulated other saloon
keepers to emulate Creagh’s example, and
several more plionographs are said to be
ordered, to be put in' at once.
The New Haven Register congratulates
Stockbridge on having Editor F. E. Beach
as a resident of the town. Stockbridge
would be entitled to congratulation if
Beach were to go there, but Southbridge
has the bulge on Stockbridge.
Connecticut pensions issued Saturday:
Original, Joseph C.‘ Wheaten, Lyme;
Daniel Lynch, Baltic; Edwa Steele,
Wethersfield; George T. Phillrps, South-
ington; James A. Austin, Colchestcr; '
John E. Woodward, Norwich.
Rev. Father Slocum of Norwalk preach-
ed the'dedicatory sermon on the occasion
of the dedication of the new St. Frances
church at Naugatuck on Sunday. His _
discourse was highly spoken of by the
state papers, as an eloquent, instructive
and scholarly one.
It is a grave offense, for which very
severe penalties should be enforced, to
invite the public to seats upon stands that
are unsafe. It is done right along at ball
games, horse races, and all other similar
gatherings, and every year greater or less
numbers of trusting people suffer in con-
sequence. __
If aliweghear is true there will be a
continuous peril of the merry marria e
bells' from now until the holidays. T e
Amom'a Sentinel says that eleven girls in
a certain shoe factoryin this city are to be
married before Christmas, andreport adds .
twenty more, working for another concern
that manufactures an indispensable' part
“ of the female toilet-Journal.
‘Prof. James Baker, leader cf the Trinity
church choir of this city, has been ap—
pbinted| manager and trainer 0f the be
choir of Grace church, Norwalk.- He wi
devote his attention to both choirs.—
Btartderd. , . , , j
‘ Itis understood that ours lisrtobe a [sur-
piiced choir after the. manner of. Rev.
Hater Newton’s'church in New York.
Colonel L. L. Morgan, business manager
of the New Haven (Conn.) Register, has
assumed the same position on the Boston
Post. He will not relinquish his connec-
tion with the Register. but intends to
divide. his time between the two papers.
The Rev. Allen Maxwell, pastor of the
Danbiiry First Congregational church,
died on' Thursday and was buried on Sat-
urday. He was well and widely known
and his death has caused universal ’grief
in the community in which he had lived
.and labored.
Wit 3the exception of those employed
in the likt'chen,‘the female prisoners in the
Bridgeport-jail spent their time in idle—
'ing chairs-is proposed and the proposal
probably-«will be endorsed by the county
commissioners. ‘ I ‘
FranhE. Beach, formerly of the Gamma
and',.l‘at"r," of “the' Ansonia Sentinel and
Willimagjtic Journal, has purchased the
Southbridge, Mass, Journal. Beach is
one of the most capable journalists in the
profession and is sure to win the success
in his new field which we cordially wish
him. '
There is such a thing as being too strict
in interpreting a law. The postmaster
who recently excluded papers containing
announcements of matrimonial engage-
ments, on the ground that marriage is a
lottery, may be defined in the words of
the poet, as “a creature both too wise and
good for human nature’s daily food)“
J.:M. Kilboy, of New Haven, lately
foremain of the Gazrrr'rn job printing
rooms}, was summoned by telegraph to
Norwalk on Saturday evening to the bed-
side‘of his mother, on Plymouth avenue,
who was not expected to live through the
night. She 'is ‘still alive, but very low.
Her principal throuble is nervous prostra—
tiou.
Michael Fitderald, of Stamford, had a
hearing Saturday before the United States
Commissioner at New Haven. Fitzgerald
was accused, of not displaying proper
lights on his boat in the Housatonic river.
Fitzgerald was bound over in $200 to the
next term of the United States District
court which will convene at Hartford
Tuesday.
Henry SgBeers‘, a brother of Mrs. Dea-
conéSftghen G. Forms of SouthNorwalk,
' diedht’St. Josephs, Mo., last Wednesday.
He will be remembered by our older resi-
dents as a former teacher in the “old red
school house,” now the Over River school,
many years ago. His remains will be
supulchered at Wilton today by under-
taker Jennings.
The fine picture at Sloan’s, executed by
Mrs. Jonathan Camp, nowin her 82d year,
continues‘to attract much admiring at-
tention. (It is no wonder that this aged
and worthy lady had such fine artistic
taste and ability, when we recall the fact
that for more than sixty years consecutive-
ly, she has been a subscriber to and con-
stant reader of the old Gaznm.
A Kent correspondent congratulates his
town on having raised and expended
. $42,000 during the last ten years for ex-
traordinary expenses-notably, building a
bridge over the Housatonic, $20,000;
putting in water, $15,000; erecting a sol-
diers’ monument, 82,000; putting .a new
fence around the cemetery in Flanders,
02,000, and paying $1,000 a year on their
war debt.
Several people narrowly escaped death
or serious injury Saturday night on Main
street in Birmingham. The entire length
of sidewalk in front of the new board of
trade building, from under which the
earth had been removed for the purpose
of. building a large over, fell in about ten
o’clock. Two ladies came near going
down, but the noise made by the crashing
of the timbers warnedthem in time.
Monday’s World says the: N. Y., N.
H. &R. R. is liable to pay $275,000 on
account of having overcharged fourteen
cents on its fares to and from the races to
the Grand Central Depot. A lot of thrifty
lawyers have hunted up several thousands
of the victims of the over charge and
expect to get $50 fine out of each case,
one-half of which goes to complainants.
It doesn’t always pay to be too rapacious.
The fair and supper to be given by the
ladies of Grace church, in the Athenteum,
on Tuesday'afternoonand evening of next
week, will unquestionably be a success,
as the management is is excellent hands
and the object a most worthy one. The
fair opens at 3 o’clock, and supper, either
hot or cold, will be served at any time
after 5. The ladies have‘a fine lot of.
fancy articles for the holidays, which will
be offered for sale on this occasion.
Monroe’s famous eccentric, Frank Hub-
bell, was found dead in his bed Saturday.
Heart trouble was the house. It was he
who built in White Hill’s cemetery the
monument surmounted by a statue sup.
posed to represent himself, and near which
:he'ordered his body; to be laid after death.
.Although in his. seventy-seventh . year, he
married last March- a young widow, having
two children on whomhe'settledymoat' of "
his property as one of the conditionsjof'.
the marriage. '
ness. Providing. them-with work at cant
The residents near the corner of Leon-
ard street and West avenue were enter-
tained at a late nour on Saturday night,
with a lively and exciting row between a
couple of gangs of drunken and pugna-
cious toughs, who dispersed on the ap-
pwfili of an officer.
Th , sixth annual ball of the Iron Mould-
ers’ Union, No. 209, which was held at
the Armory on Thanksgiving eve, was, as
we predicted, a brilliant success in every
way. The attendance was large, the'com-
pany desirable and the spirit of enjoyment
pervaded the entire gathering. Smythe‘s
orchestra furnished excellent music and J.
Gordon served an excellent banquet. '
.5 This touching episoth is recorded by
the Ansonia Sentinel: “Thanksgiving
night, on Maple street, a boy less than a
dozen years of age was trying to get his
drunken father home. The father cursed
him and repeatedly struck him blows that 2
caused the boy to reel and nearly fall to '
the ground. but every time the man start-
ed towards the saloon the boy would grab
hold of his coat and pull him back, seem-
ing not to mind the blows or cursing. In
the end the boy conquered and his father
accompanied him home.” '
Just after "Fritz" Taylor, of the GA-
zsti'rn, had finished his Thanksgiving
turkey last week, the expressmau deliver-
ed at his house on Orchard street a mys-
terious looking bundle about two feet
long, which, on being opened, was found
to contain a pig, artistically dressed—or,
more properly, undressed—and all ready
for the oven. . It was a luscious “roaster’r
and came all the way from Colebrook, tip
in Litchfield county. Fritz says it made
a feast that no turkey could equal, but
the little Fritz of the family found fault
because the'wishbone had been taken out.
His regular annual Thanksgiving afflic-
tion was visited upon our good old friend,
Walter Fitch, on the Westport road, this
year. On this oceasion it came in the
shape of grim death, and carried off one
of his finest pigs, a nice fat about that had'
just learned to know its master and to
love him. “ ’Tw’as ever thus :from child-
liood’s hour.” At each recurring Thanks-
giving Mr. FitCh is called upon to mourn
the loss of something that he cherishes.
If 'it isn’t a pig it’s a turkey stolen, or a!"
keg of wine or tub‘of butter or jar of jam
abstracted from his cellar.
The Christian Endeavor societies from
the Congregational and Baptist churches
of Norwalk ; Congregational and Baptist
churches of South Norwalk; Congrega-
tional church of Westport ; Congregational
church of Wilton; Methodist church of
Georgetown; Congregational church of
Ridgefield, and Cranberry Plains chapel
held a union meeting in the Congregation-
al church, at Westport on Tuesday even-
ing. A new banner was unfurled and re..-
ports of the work make by the different
societies. It is believed that the meeting
will be conducive of much benefit to the
societies. ’
Judge Andrew Selleck. now of Strat-
ford, came over to Norwalk on Saturday.
The Judge’s appearance would seem to
indicate that his change of residence agrees
with him, but he seemed pleased to greet
his old Norwalk friends. He says the
papers made altogether too much of a
mountain out of the molehill Of his alleged
“arrest” as a witness in the Sturges case;
that it was simply :a joke that was
perfectly understood between Sheriff
Leonard and himself. Probably none of
the readers, who knew the Judge, took it
seriously, any way.
The court of burgesses voted on Mon-
day evening to call a special borough
meeting on Thursday or next'week, to
consider the advisability of selling- the
property owned by the borough on Water
street, where the HOpe Hose house stands,
to the Housatonic railroad company,
where a passenger depot is purposed to be
erected. It is said the residents and busi-
ness men on Water street are willing to
contribute toward making it an induce-
ment for the’ campauy to erect a depot
there, and that the railroad people have
practically signified a desire to make the
change of location. The matter will un-
doubtedly be discussed from the points
both of| advantage and disadvantage at
the borough meeting next week Thursday.
The New York New Haven d5 Hartford
railroad company has in its employ 8,300
men. Every one of these men must and
does receive his pay weekly, according to
law. In order to accomplish this the two
pay cars are kept busy the greater part of
the time. Over ninety-five thousand dol-
lars is distributed by' the paymasters every
week. The average pay of railroad em-
ployes, excluding the ofiicers'is $11.50 per
week. The laborers receive 01.50 a 'day,
the section bosses from $2.80 to $2.75a
day, and the 100 tower men from 011‘ to
$12.25 a week. Engineers of, the first
grade receive for distances under 100
miles $3.50 for passenger trains and 04 a
day for freights. ‘For distances over 100
miles the engineers receive 8} and 4 cents~
a mile" respectively. The .compsny?hss
about 900 men at' work constantly at Pier
50, East river, New York, and about 200:
others on the ferry boats.
Two DOLLARS A. YEAR
' INUMBER 49.
Edwin L. Hoyt, junior partner of the
enterprising boot and shoe firm of A. H. '
'E \yt & Son, and Miss Flora Fantou, of
Lyons Plains, were very quietly married
on Sunday evening by the Rev. C. M.
Sel'eck. The ceremony took place at the
residence of Will L. 'Blascer, on Chestnut
street. Mr. Hoyt is one of our model
young men, who has a host of friends and
well wisbers. He is a member of Pioneer
Hook and Ladder Company and will
probably be called upon at a future meet-
ing of the company to “rise and explain”
his new an‘d-gpurprisiug departure.
Yale won the final foot ball match and
”the intercollegiate champiomhip at;
Brooklyn, in a game which, while not
equal in interest to that with Harvard last
Saturday, wps played with snap, vigor
and determination fit to make the hearts
of all Yale men glad. Princeton fought
hard, too, and her desperate eflorts' to
score were only less than Yale’s to prevent
a point being made by the New Jersey
team.
The many Norwalk Moods of Mr. Ed-
win Varney, the popular actor and mana-
ger who is now starring that first-class
actor and royal good follow, Thomas E.
Shea, also well known here, will be glad
to know he is meeting with excellent su'c— ,
cess. Last week the company held forth
in Cohoes, N. Y. drawingcrowded houses,
and on some occasions turning away
hundreds who were unable to gain admit.
tance. Varney has a company of excep-
tional merit, with Jewel Sheridan as lead-
ing lady, and the success he is reaping is
well earned.
“I assure you,” said the doctor, “that
many physicians do a great deal of work
without pay. There are emergency cases
that must often be treated for nothing.
Every doctor has scores of relatives who
do not expect bills for his services. The
clergy are apt to be free patients. There
are poor people and shabby genteel people
who have not much to give for fees. A
medical man is sure to have scores of es-
teemed friends who would be offended if
he charged them fall rates. Then all
kinds of folks with all suits of ailments
seek a few words of advice and a per—
scrrptionat cost price, which is cheap
enough. Do you know of any other busi-
ness in which there is as much gratuitous
5905“ as in the medical profession ?—N.
. n.
As to the last. query, we answer un—
hesitatingly, yes—almost any country
newspaper. is made the victim of more-
gratuitous labor than all the doctors com-
biued, though they have their fillfiof it,
Heaven knows.
F’. H. Curtiss, the poetic local-lies-er of
the Berkshire News, and author" of a most
untrustworthy cook book‘full of absurdly
inaccurate recipes for making delicacies
which, if compounded and seasoned ac-
cording to his insisuctions,--wonld gag-a
goat, made his first visit -to.‘Norwalk:a
few nights ago. ' That ‘is'to- say; he was
permitted to ride from GtfiBarrington to
Wilson Point on the locomotive of' the
through freight. He failedwto stop of!“
=this station because the engine “was very
busy when it went throughl'here and he
couldn’t leave it with safety torlhimself.
His experience, according toi his account,
Ought to go into bismookhook,‘ for it-is
apparent that he knows Ejust as much
about a locomotive as about a ginger snap
shortcake. A Gaza'm scribe, by the way,
enjoyed the same experience on Friday
evening last, and on invitation ofaFreigbt
Agent F. P. Van Alstyne, at Albany, rode
on the engine of a passenger train on the
D. &.ffl. 0. road from Albany to Cohoes.
'By; Mr. Van Alstyne’s request Engineer
Murray, for the time being, turned over
the entire responsibility of his position
and duties to the scribe—that is, so far as
the bell ringing department was concerned.
It was a rapid ride and an exhilarating
one, but the scribe had no time to jot
down the usual poppycock about the
lightning speed of the “great throbbing
iron horse,” nor the' “sleeping villages
flashing past,” nor the brilliancy of the
headlight boring a glittering hole into the
pitchy darkness ahead, etc. He had busi-
ness on hand, and with a firm and steady
grip on the bell cord he kept the old thing
, clanging its clarion notes, fully realizing
the solemn «responsibility that devolved
upon him, and ever mindful that the
safety of many precious lives and trunks
and traveling bags and bandboxes and
the water bay and things depended on the
engine steering clear of other engines, ox
carts, landslides, or other obstructions so
essential to a successful collision and
smashup. Fully resolved that through no
fault of his should a catastrophe occur,
the scribe, with every faculty on the alert,
tugged vigorously and constantly at the
bell cord, nor could he be dissuaded from
performing that important duty by the
wicked suggestion of the fireman, that: he
“needn’t pull the d— bell down.” While
'the scribe was running the train, Engineer ,
Murray amused himself by looking out of
the window, monkeying with the step-
cocks and lacking up atthe steam gauge
occasionally to see what time it was. "0n
reaching Cohoes the scribe gave the: loco.
motive over to the charge of the engineer,
and dismounted, reflecting with a shudder
of horror, on the blood-‘-curdli'ng full that
might have overtaken the pas'sengers on
the train if the bell cord-had broken.
Norwalk Chronicler