Show story of the auto the copper and the negro the icy downpour of sleet that engulfed washington on a recent aday DURING dav one of major pullmans finest stood beneath the awning at the entrance to kelten theater encased incased in his waterproof water proof cape and watched tile the pedestrians floundering about in the slush two handsomely dressed women left the theater and crossed the street to an automobile getting inside the machine they wrapped themselves y snugly in and gave two or three yanks and pulls at the steering apparatus but the car budge this process 3 was repeated several times when the guardian of tile the law observing their predicament hastened from his station under the awning and volunteered assistance the cop gave the iron starting handle a twirl or two but there was no visible sign of life in the car he tried it again and then again and again gradually a crowd of sympathetic eyewitnesses gathered and offered advice the cop gave his cap to a newsboy to hold and then he tried it again for some strange reason the car refused to move evidently the carburetor was sick or some other ailment peculiar to automobiles had bad seized the machine let me get a trial at dis car boss said a dusky son of toll toil shoving his way through the little circle no one objected and taking a firm grip on tile the handle the darkey ran it around a couple of times A pause for breath and ho he tried it again the response was instantaneous and as the motor commenced to work everybody laughed the ladles ladies expressed their thanks the crowd dissolved and the cop wended bended his weary way back up fifteenth street to Kelt keltha hs what the policeman had to say about automobiles as he strode along was confidential but it was a comment which deserves to go down as conciso concise and peppery |