Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1922, Page 61

FICTION MAGAZINE SECTION ~ he Sundlay Star. “Part 4—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1922 ANAN. BY JAMES A. BY, tidal's rie, is that Harold. How ting off carly from work going down to the tidal b swinm? Got your new suit a peach tiest girl in town with m day afternoon, when the big. All right, sce you at Scene shifts to F Prosperous appearine asth of them p ing fis of lack of exercise Henry. have take a et BUC Kin-nay open—Hello, you? Thi about get- | today wnd o 1 bew v the pret- on Satur- | [} ‘Skin-nay’ an 2 on, € and | want to take crowd veloek.™ Two is| \ 1 street citizens ires 1 gra evidenc First been vou . this Citizen down 1o dip ¥ John r vet n over n it in us to after golf will kind of put some take he and dive from the flos econd O 11 go vou ay. do you remember the old days back home when we used to go down to the o hole This and other similar remarks can be heard every day on the streets and in the homes of Washington, for the tidal Unecle S aquatic play- pep’ a swim out ond the ropes smimmin® * bas ‘s ground. has been open for the benefit| son of 19 of the public for the and while the number of bathers h not vet reached the proportionatc maximum figure of last year, yet last Saturday’'s attendance demon- strated most forcefully that Wash- ingtonians intend to make this a ban swimming only have the managers and recognized many of last patrons, but they have been | :d at the number of new faces of those of the opportunity enjoy who have taken advantag afforded them to the sport of swimming. * * % * TH}:}R[-: were 3 bathers at vear, and disported themselves during the three years that it has been in existence. During that time | there have been but three fatalfties, one occurring before the beach was while an examira- of another showed amount of water in | and asin Last million have its waters immers the than more in formally opened ! tion of the body but a very littl the lungs. While the tidal hasin erty of the United State der the supervision of Col is a concession let to Leech and Sidney W. Leech. Extensive improvements have been | made in the locker rooms, as weil on the beach and in the water. and 1.400 of the fair sex can be accom- | modated in the wing devoted to them. while 2,600 men and bevs can b taken care of in the southern end of the building. In addition to the ice cream stand. is the prop- and is un- herrill. it Gorden | hot dog plate. candy counters and soft drink department, there is a lunch counter, where the appetite | caused by mming may be satis- fied. In the locker rooms the latest sanitary appliances h been in- ! stalled and the floors cemented | * ok % % | ’I‘HILij are fourteen regular life|ihe first day of July there will be & guards on duty at the beach, der the direction of W. M. Apple, Who | gay. July 4, is the di has been ted with the tidal|open meet. On Labor basin ever since its opening in 1919. | he another meet. Nearly all the life guards have also|con Wednesda sw ve un- | canoe regatta, while Independence fixed for the there will he conn, ay nd during will b on served for a period of two or three | years. These guards have a daily drill and all are experts in resusci- tation work. Two efficient mrml)ors[ of the police force are detailed at the | beach, " nd on Saturdays. Sundays and | holidays an extra force is on duty . BY LEONIE NATHAN. from early morning until the hour of | MERICA has produced mo closing. | uncrownsd kings than any The heach is open from T until 11:157 g chcpturey]miltis fmiin a.m.. when the doors are closed, and | Some have “arrived” by w thirty minutes later all bathers muszi'}’" “";‘“:‘ o ;‘d‘ oili/somainy ““ifl'"" leave the water. This is done in ()r«‘”:xlh. r.f('; ‘.‘f,:’ w“uhtluix:unllm.}_l i G DA G T SR s el hip? Vet that o ,v‘:hl( e e lockers and also to enable the attend- | p. “gone. 1t made John Kelley kins ants to place the locker rooms inl e ireet venders. His throne is on ship-shape order for the afternoon|.rja Street of Many Fakers” which sport. s another name for Anu street, in The beach is again opened at 1 pm. | New York city. That locality is @ da co. ome Wednesd will wveted to the Shriners, an- other 1o other to the “s other Gavel Club. the ks of the World ete \ A AR S0 AT THE it arr Man ng Eer Leech’s intention these meets that members to and their families will have an op- portunity to meet not only socially but fraternaily. They will be allowed the use of the large ficld opposite the Bovs” Furnish Only Problem. plained. have they | get you for ohstru and it haven't. they get you any- how.” For their protection when a uple of the boys are operating on e block they will often post a sen- | and bathers may disport themseives|sort of mecea for all kind e e e et in the water until 6:15, when xne‘or articles more or le: nerally | approach of the defenders of the law. | doors again are closed, and a half |less—essential. Anything from a | when a “bluejackei” looms into sight hour later the beach formally closes |dime balloon rooster to a set of sec- | (he sentry gives the alarm and the | for the day ond-hand law books may be pur-puddiers scatter in all directions Three physicians are in attendance. | chased from the jobbers within to be |;frer hastily picking up their wares. Maj. W. D. Baker, U. S. A.. has charge | Sold by the venders without. T then inquired why the boys did of the chlorination prog while| Just over one of the Busy Bee res- | ot go to other cities to peddle their Drs. E. D. Cudney and Terrill Moody | laUrants on Ann street. in an indif- povelti Wl found that most of | make tests for acidity, also examin- | ferent and disorderly looking shob. 1 them had traveled all over the United ing the men for any skin or other dis. | found Kelley the Novelty King. who |states and Canada: that they bought eases, as no bather is permitted to|l$ & strange mixturc of the cleveg | trade magazine regutarly enter the water who exhibits any evi. | Yankee salesman. the benevolent pil- |4 jaokout for the country desice /of ‘& cdntagious o infections|E0 s the adverturous Hadit and the jrades, sporting events and disease. A similar scrutiny is “l_r‘\}fl'l).(lfi.’lrnf 'tlu.d. But Kelley is not {tions, following them all around t formed on the women's side by el s 0."I"'"‘F and ceremony. for he jcountry and carning as high as $7 matron. i‘"“""""‘"‘; ‘O:(""" '“;""I"S:"I';r"“::”":l ¥ ito $100 in a good week lt[‘n'.\v\;ln;i in The beach. under improved condi- | fpLtant (ke topa, tin whistios, “on |drite back to N i s tions, has a frontage of six or seven hundred yards. In the water are two new floats and a three-deck diving | station, from which the experts may flash through the air into the water below. The boat which uses the Wal- jace Turner process of chlorination 4s provided with pipes that extend three and a half feet down into the {the level” spinners or razors to tell the world his success story. Yet he is never too busy to give a helping hand to any of “his boys,” which is the more familiar name he bas given 1o the street peddlers and demonstra- tors who come to him for their wares, for it is Kelley, this king of special- ties, who supplies most of the street {the metropolis they can always make dollar somehow, while in mlany they have a hard time {getting through the winter and are lapt to starve to death tryipg in vain to sell novelties to people who are too |cold to stop and buy anything on the istreet. 1 asked how business was at {the present time, and most of them water, and it Is through these that |Vvenders with their novelties and toys. f said because the “put-and- the material used to purify the water TR R |take” tops had been a very big sller A lungmotor, which Is said \, 7HILE Kelley was finishing his| Many of the sireet venders and is forced. py swimming experts to be better than the pulmotor, has been installed, so that in case of an accident the patient receives immediate attention. | * * * % fe) June 17 there will be a style show and numerous local stores will exhibit- on beautiful living models the latest creations in bathing suits This show is to be held under the di- rection of the Ad Men's Club, and it is likely that the positions as judges will be eagerly sought by those who would get a “close-up,” as the moving picture men say, of the beautiful en- trants. Under a ruling recently made, the one-plece suit is barred. The new regu- tations provide that a suit must come within six inches of the knee. Manager Leech has planned out a season's program that is replete with pleasant surprises for those who are Interested in aquatic sports. On job checking off and wrapping cuff buttons, for which he had many out-of-town order3, I chatted with the boys of his court, who had sought shelter there from the rain outside. Pee Wee, the champion whistler, who is always whistling a tune peddling toys and specialties when he was nine years old, and has been at it for twenty-two years. He affec- tionately called Kelley “The Mayor of Ann Street,” and was very unstinting In his praise of this man and equally as unsparing in his condemnation of the police, who seem to be the street peddlers’ nemesis, for, as the fellow who sells tin watches put it, “they are always pinchin’ the boy: The others began to take an inter- est and joined In ‘the conversation, when the New York magistrates and police came in for a generous share of criticism from the demonstrators and street venders, because, they com- - up ordérs for E-Z snap Cum-a-Part | through his ~toothless gums, started | | demonstrators are married and live i with their families when they are not on the road. The demonstrators as a rule are r.ore prosperous and more intelligent than the ordinary vender, {and many are known to be able to live very well on their earnings, without {the necessity of their wives working, while, on the other hand, the state of {finance of some of the peddlers often forces them to_seek shelter at Mills hotels, common lodging houses or the Salvation Army. * % % x (QNE »imost wonders where the at- | traction is in what the street {vender calls his “open air profes- sion,” for the life seems to be a weary one. The man who sells the tin Whistles assured me that the charm lies in the fact that one can, rise penniless in. the morning, but with honest exertion and confidence in the day's fulfillment find himself able to buy a fat beefsteak In the evening And let it be known that these street venders are nc.lier vagrants nor loafers, though sometimes they are regarded as a public nuisance. They carry their stock to sell and not to beg, and work hard for the money they earn. Their idle times during the year are usually due to unfavor- able conditions in the trade, or bad weather, rather than a disinclination to work. A good demonstrator is al- ways ready to seize opportunities, keeping a watch out for the “best sellers.” If it is around the holidays they usually handle toys, with a sharp eve on the children, always nodding night. ,and smiling as they pass by and pressing forward their trinkets, for they find that the meanest kind of a woman will seldom deprive her child of an inexpensive pleasure, and the vender is generally sure of his sale if he can get the child's attention. While I was talking to Kelley's boys the tall, angular form of the and a comfortable lodging for thelspecialty king apgeared in the door- - TIDAL RASIN. | bathhouses, from whi come and enjoy a swim with wife, son or daughter. Gordon Leech is determined t sin shall 1 that the slogan of the Tidal Ba “Health and happiness.” and ity Young Glassblower, by Trip to World's Fair, Increased Income From $350 to $200 a Week—Now Wholesaler for Open - Air Peddlers — “His way. He had finished wrapping his orders for out-of-town places and would give me a few minutes to ask- him questions, though he assured me he was particularly busy, as he had Jjust received a contract ffom one company to put out 25,000 of a proa- uct at eighty-nine cents, regularly made to.sell for one dollar. Kelley then made himself comfortable on a high stool and began to tell his own story in his own way, which was somewhat as follows: When he was a little boy he work- ed as a glassblower in a factory in . Pittsburgh, Pa., toiling more than {tweive hours a day. Overwork and want were the only things in life he knew much about. He had watched the men in the factory, two or three times . older than himself, suffering physical pain from long hours and years of monotonous work, and the | Topelessness “of that kind of daily toil day, alter day. and year after year, v e may | <hall be a place where the citizens of | te may not enjoy themselves, but be benefited in health P'rices have not and will not be raised | on holidays and Sunday. There is no doubt that the program will be shington only | { | as exemplified by him, made him decide to run away ! before it was too late. When he got ! to the depot he climbed into an empty box car and was carried to Chicago, where he arrived some time later minus sleep and plus cinders. * k% ¥ %k the types around HE world’s fair was being held in ! Chicago that year, and the little | glassblower roamed about aimlessly, | wondering where he would get a job. | Desperation must have come to him that first morning in a strange city with but twenty-five cents between him and the cold world. As he stood on a newly constructed wooden side- walk near a tent in the fair grounds he was attracted by a man selling gyroscope tops. The little fugitive watched the top man selling his wares, and then young Johnny Kelley began to walk up and down, sadly fingering the last twenty-five-cent piece~in his pocket, His sweating lea |earnings from'$3.5 !ferent kinds of novelti: Banner Year Promised for City’s Aquatic Playgrounds—"Health and Happiness™ Adopted as Slogan—Style Show on the ‘ Program for Early Presentation, and Prospects Seen for Beauty Contests—Bobbed Hair Meets With Strong Competition. ¥ Youths Tenderly Comb Each Other's Locks—Motor Cars Carry Bathers in Full Regalia-—Photos and Giggles. Countncy ALen. ed <o as to include the very popu- contest * % % % the winter with the much attention lar beauty months bobbed hair and received the at- M URD girl tracted KING OF STREET VENDERS STARTED WITH 25 CENTS hand clutched the coin while his ac- tive brain was forming plans. Fin- ally the boy retraced his steps to the tent and bought three little red tops with his quarter. He then stationed himself on the next corner and be me a competitor to the man under the tent. In less than fifteen minutes voung Kelley had disposed of the three tops he had purchased with his last quarter and was fifty cents to the good. With this capital he start- out again and made another in- vestment with the man under the tent. Within a week after his arrival in Chicago, Kelley, the former glass- !blower and the future specialty King. could have written a true and con- vineing story of “How I raised my to $200 a week in a business any one can start for nothing.” During the world's voung Kelley made 00 selling di With th money he went to New York to start his own specialty busmess. Some- times he made long excursions into the country, selling the novelties him- I self, other times jobbing and whole- | saling, and in his spare time perfect- ing and patenting his own specialty inventions, until he is now_recognized by all ‘novelty street venders as the most successful man in this type of work. e On his own judgment of whgt would sell and what the public wauld like, Kelley, the specialty king, built his trade and fortune, until today he is so well known and his business so well established that it practically runs itself. His only problem seems to be “his boys.” Most humans in the world try to lean on somebody, and while Kelley is not a man to take the other fellow's responsibility, he is always willing to give a helping hand. and | when the street peddlers come to him in a pessimistic mood because the weather has been bad. the police un- vsually active, or because they lost all their winnings in a game of craps, the specialty king pats them on the back, cheers them up and encourages them to make a fresh start. If they have no money in their pockets he will give them credit for a quantity of the latest noveltles, sending them out again with the ad- vice, “Now show what stuff you are made of.” If he has time, he some- times tells them about how Marshall Field started as a clerk at $2.50 a week, or how old Commodore Vander- bilt saved his pennies to start his for- tune, for Kelley seems to know the biographies of many of the success- ful men, but about himself he had lit- tle to say, for Kelley is a modest king. L | many ir at Chicago | d His Prosperous Neighbor Find ‘Pep’ at Tidal Basin dmiring glances, | she was i“m ed to take second place in 1he | matter of admiration on the openin: | da¥ of the Tidal Basin. 1t was noti | able that when the pretty you | things tossed their flowing tres lover their shoulders and produced ently stroked 1 evident] a wom- i com| ith which they | their hair, mere man’ ried to the thought that mi crowning glory is her hair The | pretty curls that had adorned the |heads of the bobbed ones wers | straight and not graceful The curl the iron had given b had gone, of course remedicd by permar method. but it is 4 safe wag the bLattle between the bobbed hair ones and the long-locked maidens will continue with vigor during the bathing scason. ().\ S views peculiar beach. There was a n a rubber cap, whether to conc a | Eilded dome or to preserve the patent leather finish of hair is a question that remains unanswered. The men and women sitting in the s dently desirous of securing an varly at of tan. There were two youths taking turns at tenderly combing each other's One maiden, | upon, appeared to be able only to move fair to gaze her left hand, perhaps because on the third finger there was a diamond ring which showed marks of late acquire- ment. Two ladies, perfect 46s (waist), dis cussed » how it would take | them to regain the form of vesterday There were numerous specimens. mal: and female, who evidently had negleet ed fo qgnsult 3 physical culture in struct | A man and woman, sitting on th ! sands. b upon their respective arms tattooed devices similar in design, and one could mot help wondering what would happen in case a disagreement w. becaus. cannot be eradicated - bipeds spoke rather loudly ir motors laimed 1 where They were and dec as tions or points d their summer onaire ¢l the mill but then not, according mis® who confided to that she knew hoth of Ring that either of the voung mer only g ever gave the prls was in perhaps no » 4 roguish her g them and to take a walk and view the Many came 10 b - cars, and when e were attired in bathing suit however. were covered by robes or All bathers coming by according 1o regulations. coats. must. w an outer garment while passing through There were men | the streets of the city. of portly figur 1. zed with envious eneration as splashed in the wa Perhaps e o!d beaus thought of the when, at Long Branch, Atlantic . Chesapeake Beach or some oth ha i 18D ss a malden of tha day wih their physical prowess A long line extended from the ¢ to the bathhouse southward. In this ns and dozens « youngsters who we king their firs swim of the summer, happy. carefroc not boisterous. not disorderly, just il to the brim with the yourh. pleal American ¥ on other of the entr was array of specimens merica, just as mischlevo but more subdu kled here and e older citizens, son had opened. * *x ox ox exuberance sid the gondly | little Miss as the bo there all happy tha n i it |lines w | the se UROPEANS have often marveied at the w erful digestive pow ers of Americans. and there 1= nn | doubt that the leading dietitians and | stomach specialists of the land lacross the sea would have recelvert the shock of the lives A they heer present and watched both male and female visitors devour “hot dogs. thickly plastered with mustagd. o {seen them eat with keen enjovmen: |ice cream cones and cake. and imbiiw copious quantities of soft drinks of It was noticed | many hues and tastes. {that two very attractive young women spent their entire time sitting on the |sand. They did not hang their clothes on the hic limb. nor did they | near the w. The costumes the: | wore, while beautiful. evidently wers | not intended for bathing purposes. | One of the chief diversions appearcd to be the taking of photographs, and lif a receiver for a giant radiophone had been placed on ths Seach, the | country would have been treated to Ia long period of gigles, for the taking of pictures of bathers does somehow. appear to be complete without giggles, smiles and squea’s Here and there stretched a stal- wart form, while beside it a fair on sat. From time to time she threv and upon the recumbent bather. Just | what the psychology of this is di ponenf knoweth not, but it appears 1o be the vogue on every bathing beach that the man be treated to a =and | bath. One young couple, evidently suffer- ing from their first attack of lovs wrote little messages in the sand and, upon the advent of an outsider. her eyes would drop and a blush come o’er her cheeks, while he would square his shoulders and glance defiantly at the intruder. There was an absence of roughness or uncouthness that was most pleas- 'ing to the onlooker, and Manager Leech declared that any unseemly conduct would result in the offender being compelled .o leave not only the water but also the grounds. So on, from the opening of the morning period until the last bather had departed for his or her home, the sport continued. It was the begin- ning of what promises to be a year filled with health and happiness, the slogan that Gordon 'and Sidney Leech have pailed to the pasthead for 19::. ory ter. nou