| Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Ghosts Haven't Ghost of a Chance in Manhattan But This Haunting Story Gave New Yorkers Pause By BILLY ROSE We men of Manhattan are an undaunted and or at least think we are and so ghost stories seldom stand a ghost of a chance in this The other a real estate man buttonholed me coming out of and told me a chiller about a deserted house In the Flushing section of and on the off-chance that your scalp can use a tingle or I'd like to pass it along On the night of the big snow three winters a doctor in Queens answered his doorbell and I found a smallish man in a faded mackinaw mut m jn standing on the i wife is very L H he hate to ask you to mi faff jH come out on a night like but it's only a few The doctor fol- lowed him to a Amm large wooden Mouse Billy Rose near the intersection of Vine street and and when the man unlocked the door the physician could sec by the glare of an that the lower floor was empty except for a few kitchen chairs and a length of mm a a IS NO PLACE for a sick he ought to have some heat in the The man led him up a creaky tel of stairs to the second and in the front room an emaciated woman was lying in an old four-poster She kept coughing into a blood-flecked and though the doctor went through the motions of an examination he knew at once it was an advanced case of can give her something to relieve the he told her she'll have to be moved to a hospital first thing in the He then wrote out a get it filled right said the and showed the doctor to the Next wondering how the woman was getting the physician stopped by the wooden but there was no answer when he rang the there were no tracks in the snow to indicate that an ambulance or any other vehicle had pulled up in front of the he went to the office of a real estate agent on the next street and asked if he could get some information about the residents of the a a A FUNNY sort of said the aren't any residents and there aren't likely to be The house hasn't been occupied in 15 and though t's always been on my nobody's ever wanted you think squatters might be living In It on account of the housing asked the but I doubt said the been a lot of queer talk about that and the last family that moved in during the depression could only stand it for a few The husband and wife slept In the front room on the second and to hear them tell it they were kept awake night after night by the sound of a woman It finally got so bad they packed and know its sounds said the I examined a sick woman there last and if you've got a key I'll walk over with you and prove When they got to the it took the agent quite a while to get the rusty lock and when they entered there wasn't a stick of furniture in could have sworn I saw some chairs and a carpet down here last said the you've got this house mixed up with another the agent still think it's the same Let's look On the second floor they went into the front It was also that except for a piece of paper on the window sill the prescription the doctor had written the night |
