Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1902 — BEAT ESCALATOR HANDS DOWN. [ARTICLE]

BEAT ESCALATOR HANDS DOWN.

Young Mau with a “Package" Outran Moving StaiM. On the “uptown” side of the elevated station at 23d street and 6th avenue, and on the south side of 23d street, there is a moving stairway, which by a tedious process conveys the tired shoppers from the street to the station above. Passengers from down town getting off at 23d street often forget about the stairway and walk to the south side of the station, only to find that the, steps move only one way. They then, walk over to the other side and down the fixed steps to the street. This was not the case with a young man who made the wrong turn the other day. He had taken perhaps one drink too many, and was being looked after by two of his friends. Discovering the mistake, the friends tried to pilot him over to the other side, but the young man, with a contemptuous look at the creeping 'steps, remarked: "I always did believe I could outrun that thing, and breaking away from his friends, says the New York Mail and Express, he bounded down two steps at a time and won the race hands down.