Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — They Forgot About the Cars. [ARTICLE]

They Forgot About the Cars.

A cable train was moving east In Monroe street, and just before it reach* ed Clark street a horse car, south* bound, 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 i 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 One turn* ■d to the right and xne other to the est, and they collided. “Look outf’ shouted one. “Le’me past!” said the other. Then one man dropped the valise and laid, .“Well, I’ll swan.” The other had his mouth open, and als eyes seemed to bulge out, but he extended his hand and then said with tn 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 jn the day of this meeting. Both of them forgot all about the cars that had to be caught They locked arms and went to a cigar store together and there the man with the '■Use told the story.—Chicago Reoor4