UNKNOWN Mew York, March 14.
110-iot ( o'lkli/i'u -ml In <],»> (lial lie had ,i tan constitution and h.nl been in -ome pn.tl\ (i'_dit place- ill hi- lite, but lie had nes ci iini in I hi in-< If as fai u<nu , pin -] calls . ,i- mi uiviht in Innni Scpiam lie continued v< 1 had In tMi at (lie Struait building ill (.lit ill f'i noun, and had -onie woi k to do in ni t \ olhee, and not thinking that Iho city would be dnik ;i! niuht, I went to Wall -.street lo look attei llir woik. A little after 6 o'clock I wanted to •j.u lioine. Thovo wasn't a ('auiajrt ot ;ui\ kind to be had. Once during the day I had declined an oiler to lirle up tow n m a eaniaue because (he man \\ an led v 5O, and 1 -bailed up Bioadway on ins pin^. 11, svas daik, and it was useless to Uy \o pK k out a path, 1 went alonu shouldci m-^ throutih the diilt-, and headed tor the noitlu I A\as metty well exhausted when 1 t^ot to Tnion S(]uai'e, and. wipinu i\\c hiiow tioni tny eye-, 1 tried to make out t hc^ hitintilcs, but it w,r inipos^il)le. Them \\a-> no 1 i «_• h t , and I plunged nuht tlnom;h on as htiakdit .i line a I eoidd detei nune upon. " Sometimes I haseiuu acro^ [ta^a<;< s m no\ols ot vie.it adsentuies in snow .stouns, tor e\ani])lo, stoiiesot Uussian lire, where thele would be a vis id de-euption of a manY .st.iu^nles on a miow -,-wept .tnd windy plain, but 1 base always ('onsideied the representation an e\a<j'<ieration. I sliall never .-ay so a^ain, tor, a tier what 1 eneountere'd in last night's bb/./aid I can belies'C tliat t-ho strongest desiiipiion would fail to approximate the liulli. 1 had <.'ot Lo the middle ot the paik. and svns up to my .nins in drift. I pulled (.he ice and snow from my eyes and held my hands up them till esciy thing svas melted oil .-o that I mi () ht see, but itwa.- too daik and the snow 1 was too blinding. 1 eameasnear vising up 1 and pinking tlow n them as a man can and 'not doit. Af'er twenty minutes 1 got. out I somehow and made mv was akn q to (ho New York Club, completely exhauotul.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 5
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398UNKNOWN Mew York, March 14. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 5
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