Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — In Busy New York. [ARTICLE]

In Busy New York.

There is a theory that here more than elsewhere in the world, says the New York Press, does the adage apply that “time is money.” Yet there are occasional instances in the busiest part of New York that go to show how little some people value time. Two dogs, still in the playful stage of puppyhoood, began chasing one another about the fountain in City Hall park yesterday at about two o’clock, when everyone in town is supposed to be at his busiest. Yet there were at least 50 men and as many more boys of the clerk and messenger type who found time to stop all thoughts of business, drop all cares, and for at least ten minutes watch the antics of the puppies. The dogs ware n«t doing anything in particular, b«t there was the barest chance that cae of them in hia efforts to escape the other might tumble into the fountain, and! the crowd of suppoeably bogy faaptar all stopped to see him doji.