Show I Exper Experiences As Told By or Messenger 3 Boys J I What dye think of these loony mutts anyhow From wanting us messenger boys to carry a paper of pins be wanting us to deliver a threshing thre ma machine machine machine chine or a steam engine next This explosion of a messenger m boys just wrath was directed by Fritz Da Davidson Davidson Davidson poet laureate aureate of the local mes messenger messenger messenger boys organization to a group of fellow workers Yes you bet the messenger kid is supposed to have a still tongue and a wise head broke in Andy Anderson one of the oldest heads hands on the Western Union force I know they Just wish we was both deaf and dumb lots of ot times Say boys did I ever tell you that story about the guy up in the rooming house on First South street t what wanted me m to cut his throat U asked Butch Steers in a full grown stage whisper whis r rA A chorus of Noes greeted ted the ques question tion Well Yell one Right night I was WILli s sent nt out on a call from the tone the man sent the call in the head push pu h must a thought he wanted to send out for medicine or in a rush I hit the high places on my bike and climbed up the stairs to the guys room three at u a time When h n I Jets gets in the room I sees the guy with a razor In his hand He handed the razor over to tome tome tome me and I took it You never can tell what half these guys wants anyway anwa When he hand band out the mug and the brush I says Well Wen and then he kind a comes out of a pipe dream and back his head had he says Say kid cut my throat and cut it quick Say kids was you ever Well Tell my hair stood up on end and with a yell ell I the razor out of the win window window window dow and hit for the door I dont know how I got down I guess I fell fe l down do n That guy sure took the nip out of me I never stopped hikin till I got gotto gotto gotto to the office That guy was about the nuttiest I ever saw Heres a Big Scare Sc re reI I got a big scare one time said eald Fritz Davidson and the boys turned in his hit direction with a great show of in interest Interest interest terest because they knew that Fritz was going to unwind one of his many reminiscences of messenger boy life The call come In from the police sta station station station tion and I hurried over they wanted me to fan some guy while he was kickin the bucket The man at atthe attIN atthe the tIN ticket window I mean the desk sergeant handed me a package and told me to deliver it to St Marks hos hospital hospital hospital pital Of course I know any moren a rabbit what was in it and I supposed to know That pack package package package age got the warmest reception of any package I ever carried though When I got to the carving Joint there was a whole bunch of nurses and a II doctor and anda a woman to meet me Say a thought that was the most valuable package in the world Well I Iwas Iwas Iwas was curious and leave ave until the package was waa undid By Jimmie le it took my breath when I saw what it was It was a II human foot and I found out that it belonged to the man what was being operated on at the hospital Hed been In a railroad accident and had been taken to the police station before they took him to the hospital That reminds me of that happened to me similar said Andy An Anderson Anderson Anderson derson as Fritz finished his story I answered a call to a doctors office one day and got a II big bundle to be taken to the L D S hospital I took the bundle over to the office and got so curious that I Just opened one end enough to see what it was Gee I almost dropped over with heart failure It was a mans leg I had to go through though and I delivered the package in as big a hurry as I could Billy who had been an in intent Intent intent tent listener throughout the stories storm finally cleared his throat as a signal that he was also In a reminiscent mood Delivering Bodies Bodles Oh you its real interesting stuff to deliver the foot or the leg but Ive delivered the whole body more than once he said by b way of preface You older guys of ot course have had the same Job but the others likely aint had to todo todo todo do it yet You see its this way Some of these women as works during the week and farms their babies out I mean gives em to wenches to keep down on Franklin avenue and oth other other other er places used to send end me to get their kids and take em to em on Sunday This Is the only day they could get ac acquainted acquainted with their own kids I dont know what people used to think when they saw me on a II street car carrying a alive alle alive live lle bundle in my arms and I care as I kinds kinda got used to the work and rather liked to hold the little fel fellows fellows lows in my m arms Yes and the mothers used to pay well for the Job too Ill Just bet that they dug up stronger than the others Of course it was one Job you hurry on very fast If It you dropped the package why it be like dropping other kinds of pack packages packages packages ages You could make damages good if it you dropped something that alive but if you dropped the kids well wellI I just hate to think what would have happened to me From babies to dogs Is quite a change continued Billy but Ive done it lots of ot times People what come through on trains sometimes sometime have havea a dog they want delivered at the depot and Billy was the kid on the job But it dont compare to babies Say you the feller said he never had none of them pie stretchers you sent me after arter said one of the new boys on the force who had Just appeared A loud guffaw from the other lys greeted this remark of ot the recruit And then story after atter story was WIt as t told of ot the manner in which the new boys were in initiated Initiated The usual method was to send the recruit r to the third floor of the Smith Drug building for a aham aham aham ham or pie stretcher or a monkey wrench |