Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1915 — Philadelphia Cow That Knew What She Wanted [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Philadelphia Cow That Knew What She Wanted

PHILADELPHIA. —Mounted Policeman William Major was at Harvey avenue and Bay Fiftieth street when he saw a cow standing in the middle of the avenue. Behind her stood fifteen automobiles filled with Coney Island

goers. There is no record that the cow was doing anything but just standing and looking. None of the conversation addressed to the cow by men autoists was preserved by the police, but it was said to be in a language no cow can be blamed for not understanding. After the cow had refused to be pulled or pushed by the motorists, Major showed her his badge and asked her to move on. She tried to lap him behind the ear, but that Is

all the moving she did. Then a woman who had been watching from a big, dust-covered touring car bearing a Connecticut license number, said suddenly: “Why, I know what the poor creature wants. Won’t someone please get. me a pail?” _ Well, to make a long story short, a pall was brought antr the woman, who Major said later wore diamonds and most expensive summery garments, sat down on the curb beside the cow. She sat there twenty minutes, according to-MaJor, and the longer she sat the fuller of milk waxed the pail and the more cheerful grew the cow. Both the cow and the woman were smilling, it was said, when those twenty minutes had elapsed, and the cow gratefully moved aside and let the waiting automobilists start again on their way—after they had cheered the woman from the Connecticut automobile.