Show crossing broadway during a Pt ra As an amusing echo ec 0 of the he night pageant whick which is probably lol only ly one of thou thousands sando that bapp happened ened is is that told by a young business nan man who resides in tho the neighborhood of washington square west of fifth avenue now new york ho he occupied a window in a building on the east side of broadway below canal street waited until nearly it 11 before the head ol of the procession reached him and soon boon after gave up his place of observation in disgust and undertook to reach his residence as he be was thoroughly tired out with the days excitement he saw it was impossible to cross broadway Broadw ny at the point where he bad been wat cluing hi parade so he made a detour and attempted to cross over at carial canal bereft but did not succeed in breaking through the police lines there then ho he went back again to one of the streets running parallel with broadway walked up and tried without success to force a passage at washington square failing again he successively made efforts at union square madison square and at fifty ninth street but to no pur pose an and dually ho he walked into central P park ark v nacre he be succeeded in so BO thoroughly losing himself that it was fully on an hour before be fore lie be found his bis way out in the neighborhood of west seventy sec ond street he reached homo home at about 3 in the morning but lie he go down to the office that morning for good and sufficient reasons all of this journeying might havo have been avoided if he had adopted tho the method employed by so BO many other people who found it impossible to cross tho the line of parade and took tho the nearest elevated station to south ferry where they changed to ait a up town train on the opposite side of the city new york from the battery to central park was as effectively divided into two communities as it if separated by an ocean and it if a person desired to cross fifth avenue at madison square ho he was obliged to travel at least six sis miles around the lower end of tho the city and up the other side of town to get there brooklyn eagle |