Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — A Poet in an Elevator. [ARTICLE]

A Poet in an Elevator.

Richard Henry Stoddard, the poet, is nothing if not democratic. Happe aing into the elevator of the M ail and Express building not long ago I was momentarily surprised at seeing the venerable poet with the cover of a tia dinner-pail on his lap> eating some Irish stew. It seems that the poet came into the elevator when the conductor was eating his midday meal. In answer to some jocose remark from the man of letters the elevator man asked his distinguished passenger whether he would not share his plain fare. “It Is only Irish stew,” added the man of brawn. To his astonishment the poet aooepted and for twenty minutes Stoddard rode up and down with the elevator, eating heartily of the stew and talking all the time in the interesting manner that only Stoddard can. I wat reminded of this inoident by the poet’s introduction a few days ago of tbs •levator man to his wife es “the gentleman with whom I sometimes dine.*