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Show Identified. A Jorsoy commuter tolls tho following: follow-ing: "Ono morning when I was coming com-ing across tho Communlpaw ferry tho boat was crowdod and I stood on the after deck outsldo tho cabin. Near mo were two men talking volubly In German-English. I gathered that ono of them hnd Just como to this country by way of a Southern port, nnd was on his way to visit frlendB In Hobo-ken. Hobo-ken. Tho other had cioBsed tho ferry to meet tho iiewcomor. When the boat had reached midstream tho former for-mer suddenly looked up and for tho first tlmo took In tho majesty of tho Hudson. "Was rlvor iss das?" ho asked, "Das," replied his friend with manifest mani-fest prldo, "Ibs do rlvor wot Hows by Hoboken." Now York Times. |