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Show ORANGE RIBBON CAUSES TROUBLE . Driver of Mail Wagon Arouses Great Ire. f SAVED BY HIS POSITION ANGRY IRISHMEN DECIDE NOT TO MEDDLE WITH U. S. r- One of the mail wagon drivers displayed dis-played trie orange on the horse he fat behind yesterday. Knowing full well it was the day consecrated to St. Patrick Pat-rick and that every color except green w!s" tabooed, he decorated his horse wun n noons oi orange nue a no u-u-i to drive along Second South street. Only the fact that he was an employe of Uncle Sam saved him from being mobbed by a lov of indignant Irishmen j a,t Main street. j It is charged that he was h'i'.nniing I "Boyne Water" and "Croppies, Lie Down" to add to the insult the loyal wearers of the green felt. Whether he was adding a musical defiance may be disputed, but there is no question that the horse was gaily decorated with ribbons rib-bons of that color hated by the followers of St: Patrick the orange. He got aloug fairly well yesterday afternoon until he met the tide of travel at Main street. There an Irishman I wearing a monster shamroc k descried the jauntily decorated mail wagon bearing down. Others were at hand, and it took only a short time to gather a .crowd of indignant Irishmen, bent on peeking vengeance. Irishmen Were Enraged. They started for the wagon, de-termined de-termined to drag the driver rroni his i seat. ' handle him roughly as they thought he deserved, and tear the on-noxious on-noxious ribbons from'-the placidly plodding plod-ding animal. Just as they were about to carry out this purpose. P. J. McDonough, Mc-Donough, himself filled with rage at the sight of the orange ribbons, halted them. "Stop." he shouted. "Don't touch him. You'll be interfering with the United States mails." Thia wan sufficient to keep back the crowd. The man was saved from immediate im-mediate rough treatment, but it was determined to stop his Haunting .of these colors. A delegation waited on Postmaster j Arrtmr L. Thomas, and demanded thatj "the nuisance be abated." i "I have nothing to do with it," was) he postmaster's reply. "The carrying of the mail by wagons is let out by contract con-tract to Dick Whittemore. You'll have to ?ee him." The delegation went to R. B. Whltt,e-morc's Whltt,e-morc's pdice. only to find he was out of the city. This, left them without further recourse, although at "ast accounts ac-counts they were determiner to "get even" in some way. when they could i do so without interfering with Uncle Sam. |