Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — They Forgot About the Cars. [ARTICLE]

They Forgot About the Cars.

A cable train was moving east in Monroe street, and just before it reached Clark street a horse car, southbound, crossed in front of it. When the cable train stopped, a man with a valise jumped off and started on a run for the horse car, which by that time was about seventy-five feet away. Almost at the same moment a man without a valise jumped off a northbound horse car in Clark street and started on a run for the cable train, which had begun to move. The two men ran wildly. One turned to the right and the other to the left, and they collided. “Look out!” shouted one. “Le’me past!” said the other. Then one man dropped the valise and said, “Well, I’ll swan.” The other had his mouth open, and his eyes seemed to bulge out, but he extended his hand and then said with an effort: ‘Well, of—all—people.” They were cousins and hadn’t seen each other for fifteen years, and neither knew that the other was in Chicago on the day of this meeting. Both of them forgot all about the cars that had to be caught They lock-ed-arms and went to a cigar store together and there the man with the valise told the story.—Chicago Record.