Show I STIRRED UP NEW YORKERS i Veteran Drove Prairie Schooner With Oxen Through City Streets Now YorkA team of oxen drawing a pralrlo schooner tho driver of which was a rugged looking old man who wore typical western garb Including Includ-ing a sombrero attracted great crowds on Broadway The vehicle and driver were not only In striking contrast with the Jam of automobiles and carriages on the Great White Way but they were a decidedly novelty In New York Tho driver was Ezra Meeker a pioneer of tho Oregon trail who had leturncd over the trail he followed to tho west half a century ago All along Riverside from Grants tomb to Set entysecond street Meeker was followed fol-lowed by an Interested and curious f throng When Broadway was reached the crowd was so denso that the oxen which the hale old man afterward described de-scribed as Dave and Dandy had a hard time to make any headway Mockers trip ended at last at tho Battery Ho had como all tho way from Puyallup Wash to Now York in G2G days I Mockers object In making his unique journey Is to persuade tho government gov-ernment to build a national highway from cast to west |