Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — Had It Pasted in His Hat. [ARTICLE]

Had It Pasted in His Hat.

“Captain, will you allow a man who •is traveling and lnndless to cross the Terry ?” asked u nomad of the faretaker of the Federal street ferry in Camden. Such requests are common, and generally meet with the same answer: “No, travel to Trenton, and cross on the bridge.” “I will not travel up to Trenton, but I’m going to cross this ferry, and right through this gate wiih your permission without a cent, in jnst one hour and twenty minutes,” replied the tramp haughtily. “I want to call your attention to the fact that it is jnst 7 o’clock,” added the wanderer. An officer of the company put the man away from the gate. The boats leave every ten minutes, and, as each one departed, the rover wonld step ug to the gate and, in the presence of the collector, make memorandum in a small book. The eighth boat had left, when the tramp boldly stepped up to the collector and handed him one of the official legislative hand-books of New Jersey, and under the head of extracts from laws regulating steam-ferry companies, pointed to a paragraph. The collector read: “And be it further enacted that auy traveler or wayfarer who shall make application for a free transmission on such boats, and who publicly avers that he or she is destitute and without means, shall be freely carried on any of the boats herein provided lor, after the said boat or boats have made an eighth trip across such river following such application.” The collector was astonished, and the man passed on to the boat. When she had left the slip, he turned to a man near him, who had witnessed a part of the maneuver, and said: “I tell yon a ‘typo’ can’t be beat. That is an extract from the New York law that I set up and took a proof on fine paper. jDo yon see how nicely it is pasted in there?’’ —Philadelphia Hews.