| Show veiling broadway Ero adway ay enrin buting a an ausing amusing a using echo of thenis the night ht pageant which is probably only one of thousands thousand that happened is that told by a young toung businessman business man who resi resides desin in the neighborhood of washington square west of fifth avenue new york he occupied a window in a building on the tha east side of broadway below canal street waited until nearly 11 II before the head of the procession reached him and sc csc ater 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 wit it was impossible to cross broadway at tho the point where he had been watching the parade so he made a detour and attempted to cross over at canal street but did not succeed in breaking through the police lines there then he went back again to one of tin the streets running parallel with broad broadway way walked up and tried without success es 9 ta force a passage at washington 6 squire q u ar failing again he successively made efforts fortsas at union square madison square and at fifty ninth street but to no purpose and finally he walked into central park where he succeeded in so thoroughly losing himself that it was fully an hour before he be found his way out in the neighborhood of west sec ec ond street he fie reached home at about 8 in the morning but he go down to the office that morning fox foi good and sufficient reasons all of this journeying might have been avoided if ho he had adopted the method employed by so BO many other people who fo found md it impossible to cross the line of parade and took the nearest el elevated station to south fera ferry where they changed to an up town train on ta the 0 opposite side of the city new york froia the battery to central park was as effectively divided into two comm communities unitie S as if separated by an ocean and if a person desired to cross fifth avenue at al madison square he was obliged to travel at least six miles around the lower end of the city and up the other side of town to get there brooklyn eagle |
