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Show A TOUCHING SCENE. Priests Minister to a Dying- Man, Surrounded Sur-rounded By a Crowd of People In the Street-In Street-In the center of a large crowd, some kneeling reverently, others gazing morbidly, mor-bidly, two priests on an afternoon last week administered to a man who had I fallen near the bottom of the stairs of j the up-town station of the Second avenue av-enue elevated railroad. New York City. A policeman sent to Bellevue hospital, and Dr. Graham Rogers responded in. a hurry. While awaiting the ambulance ambu-lance the cro.wd gathered The two priests had just come from the Green-1 Green-1 point ferry. Seeing the crowd, and , seeming to grasp the situation, thv hurried forward and to the injured man's side. They glanced at him for a second. Then one of the priests caught sight of a little brown ribben I which came-just over the edge of the 1 man's shirt. i "He is a Catholic, father," he said to his companion. "See, he wears a scapular." scap-ular." Instantly the priests knelt beside the unconscious man. The crowd fell back reverentially, the Catholics uncovering and joining silently in prayer. It was 1 a strange scene. Overhead the elevated elevat-ed trains rattled. Electric cars went clanging by. Out of half a hundred tenement windows men and women t looked down upon the picture. I |