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Show SAID THEY WERE TURTLES. Irishman -Has Fun With Capsized Cars and Newly Arrived Countryman. "Holv St. ratrickr;g What be thim?" asked Terence Malone, just arrived from Liverpool, looking over the rail of a ferryboat ferry-boat as she proceeded up the harbor yesterday. yes-terday. Terence pointed to a number ot railroad cars and overturned car float which were floating in the East river. f "Shure. an' thim s nothin' but turkles, said his cousin. Michael O-Hanraan. who had brought Terence back with hirn after a visit to "th' ol' counthry." "That, continued con-tinued Michael, pointing to the overturned float, "is the mother turkle, and the others is the little turkleses. lis th cute thirf.s they be." "Is it ame they are?" asked Terence. "Aw. vis," replied Michael. "ez kin lane over sometimes iand shtrokethoir backs Th' childher come out on th ferryboats fer-ryboats an' fade paynuts and cookies to thim. Manv's th' toime I ve seen childher child-her ridln' on their backs' ..chlir "Yiz don't say:" said Terence Shure, an this is the wonderful counthry. "Yis," assented Michael, "some of the turkles be so tame that they use thim in towin' boats aroun. They hitch a rope to the turkle's tail an drive him as yiz would a harse, with reins hitched to his fr"Dofllheyr-'mind gee and haw?" asked Terence n "Shure." said Michael. "Sumtimes ye 11 see a whole fleet av turkleses. the fathers an' sons an two generashuns, towin an ocean steamer aroun.' They have rgu-lar rgu-lar places for th' tame wans to slape See, they be goin' to that shed now; it s fadin t0Sneech was beyond Terence after this. The float had been run down and cap-sized cap-sized by the Stonington line steamer New Hampshire. The fourteen cars as they floated were picked up .by tugs, and the float drifted to the pier near Bellevue hTtPwas thought that some of the cars might be underneath the capsized float, as a few of them had been lashed to the deck, and John Beigs. engineer of the ferrvboat that runs between East Twentv-sixth street. Manhattan and BlackWell's -Island, who is an expert swimmer, dived and swam underneath the float for the entire length, about 100 fee. feeling with his hands along the deck of the float. When he arose to the surface of the river he was nulled into a row beat and taken ashore. He reported that there were no cars attached to the float. |
