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" THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1921. ~ Tue HONOR. ROLL: - BY NEAL R.CHARA «+ Congtight, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) The Certified Roll of Honor Cites Mr. Scrapple, Who Answered His Country’s Call by Raising Price of Canned Beef Eight Times; Also Mr. Wimple, Who Rose From 68c. to $1.25 an Hour as Time- keeper of a Crap-Shootin’ Gang at Hog Island. Bias it may omit a number of heroes from its slacker liststhe Government will publish as an encore a Refined and Certified fon of Honor. The Government wishes to announce that while it will not be responsible for mistakes in its slacker and hero lists, errors in income tax returns will still be punishable at the established rates, Through arrange- “GREW UP” Story of World’s Greatest, Longest Street, Three Centuries Building For New Yorkers of To-Day. Took One Hundred Years to Creep From Bowling Green to St. Paul’s Church at Vesey Street---Lots Then Worth but $50 Now Bring $600 a Square : hg) | Can You Beat By Maurice Ketten It! Copyright, 1921, ‘Toe Preee Bribliahin, New York Evening _HE CRAZIER THE BETTER Foot. Old Buildings Then Landmarks, Now Forgotten, Sites of Huge Sky- nad ment with the United States Bureau of Boners we are able to present the first instalment of the Official Honor ( serapers That Form Canyon Roll. Mistakes will not be rectified alee i except oy a two-thirds vote of the i Familiar to Us in 1921, House and Senate, and concurrence MF New Yorkers of todan take Broadway, for alt its fame and great by three-fourths of the States. Play Jeo mess, ust matter of course. Kew know its histor ophich spans three “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Pro- "eenturies, Few realize the startling physical cha ‘hut a contrast of fessor, and here is the honor roll: 1921 and 1821 would show, To-day's story tells of the great thorough- ALONZO G. SCRAPPLE, who heard cowtare’s slow northward progress at its frst century of development the call of his country and answered » Think of the stories that pany the far flung miles of it by raising the price of canned Broadway in the years tiat followed. They will be told inca series of beef. As President of the Scrapple articles on this page Tinning Works, Mr. Scrapple served By Will B. Johnstone. with great distinction, foresight and Conmi iie ce Pee GUMiMlkg Chl Chee Nee Serv wlentag Weed profit for the duration of the war. | Later the longest, greatest and most celebrated street in the He entered the Government service world, rose like quicksilver in a thermometer, slowly at first, then - as a buck private manufacturer and - spurted off Manhattan Island all the way up to Albany, Topsy- THE ITS AN worked up to two million bucks. In Wike it “just crew" as indicated by its drunken course, (its course is char Schnapps-loving Duteh, bibulous F und pre-Pro- MHteristic of Le hibition Americans who laid it out as a live street of tinned beef, ho outwitted the Gov- 4 ‘With Broadway toy the first bu ed BETTER MADE 1T ; ““qred years was tie hardest. It took ae UP ernment inspectors by daring brives wee@ century for it to grow from Bowing so-Grecn to St. Paul's Chureh at Vesey 5 D*Street Ps 2e"n 1600 Henry Hudson's kecn eye THE IMPORTED ELIZABETH re Game ee) the spring of 1918, when surrounded by an overwhelming number of cans and emerged with credit to himself and debit for the Government. He was sighted eight times trying to trim the commissary. His most in- «+p bicked from a wilderness the rig trepid feat was killing 2,000 Ger- wpot for ac ind in 1614 the mans by ptomaine poisoning when THE GERTIFIED ROLL OF HONOR fabitations of wh men were ercet- they took over an American ment, he was ale impartially te ad- d@ where the United States Shipping trench and started eating his cap- vise that the Stocking Committee Board is now located, No. 45 Broad- tured products. In 1919, Mr. Scrap- use burlap bags as sox for our fight- SANT AT ERISA cha epee ple was classified as Al by his local ing forces. By a happy coincidence «whave passed since then and It is sand Board of Assessors. the contract happened to go & the to imagine our teeming Broadway ARCHIBALD WIMPLF, age twen- Jones Burlap Bag Corporation, al- éanyon thelow St. Paul's A~-Ghosts of the early Dutcl English, pirates, on 4ng Washington, Hamilton, afiwarriors of ail nationalities leb- anac Y€Es, OUR HAT ty-eight, who embarked in June, 1918, on the Camden, N. J., ferry for Hog Island. In eighteen months of service Hero Wimple rose from 68 cents to $1.25 an hour. At the risk though Mr. Jones did not adi it He simply put it through. The bur- lap bags were a great boon to our soldiers overseas. They enabled the boys to get twice as much from Santa Claus when they hung their : of life and limb he served as time- aio Changes DESIGNER keeper and stakeholder for the fast- stockings on Christmas Eve. Mr. al IS PLUM CRAZY’ THEY ARE est crap-shooting crew on Hog Isl- Jones turned over bis first year's cx One -.Broadway nn Block in SHE THINKS SHE THe BETTER PRICES WE Gis ee _S and. He also was complimented by Washington for exceptional valor in naming six Shipping Board ships while suffering keenly from delirium tremens. Wimple was honorably discharged for oversleeping. ALARIC Q. JONES, who worked for the Government for a dollar a year. The first year was the hardest for the Government. Mr. Jones, who {s sole proprietor of the Jones Bur- lap Bag Corporation, served in a purely advisory capacity on the Committee for Supplying Sox for pay to charity. F ADELBERT DUCKER, who, after being rejected no less than three times, finally found a girl that would marry him and save him from the draft. Ducker’s name is imperish- asle for his sturdy courage im 1918, It will be remembered that then, hopelessly surrounded by relati¥es- in-law, he gave his famous ultima- tum of “Go to h——.” For that he was copiously decorated, espectally around the eyes. He is also respon- sible for the noted improvement on Sherman's observation. As Adelbert Soldiers. It sounds like one of those 5 6 funny song titles, but it was very se- put it, “War is hell, but marrti it ‘ rious for Mr. Jones. By forgetting not so vice versa.” He ts now is the dollar he drew from the Govern- favor of the next war. ry became the Custom House till'de- ton and Alexander Hamilton are the . ‘a btroyed by fire in 18 great notables resting in Trinity q ; sug In the Dutch days Broadway Churchyard ¥ e (Heere Straat) only extended up to ‘The tall monument to the martyr : > ONE . . fj E. . Enna Wall Street, which got Ils name from of the Revolution who died in New ° BY SOPHIE IRENE: LOEB + By: BON ECA Sean stag Wen) ‘ 4 i wooden palisade or wall put up York, opposite Pine Street, was erec Coprrtent, 1921, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Cnpyriaht, 1911, by (he From Febtumiog Ory. (rhe Kev J { ‘ across the island for defense by ted to prevent the city cutting Pir DURING: the wreck @ man went to which 66% JOU want me to have a bank the aame thing to her. So ehe @ayt a man lias seemingly little of Peter Stuyvesant. De Landt Poorte, Street through the graveyard, there ” i o one of two gates to the palisade, being a law against removal of pub- Jail declaring his marriage a to complain, everybody believing that account,” remarked Mrs. she docsn't care now if they all tare was opposite ‘Trinity Church site. lic monuments for highway improve- failure and preferring to spend jst because she is such a model Jarr, “But, look, Mra, Kit- up.” : y Moundations of the wall (torn down ment the fest of hin Gage 40 jal to aving Nousckeopar sio whould. bo satiae tlomly Waa en mouey in two banks, (Ste won'tislart a) run.ae therbhnt ‘ in 1699) were found here by work Between Thames and Liverty i y J gol . pe he ah D vat Us trouble to her.” and get her money out?” asked Mr men in 1799, when laying water pipes Streets once siood the famous City Dk to the “torture of her tongue.” fied and it only ts a lot of trouble 1 ea ’ a 3 on Broadway f Hotel (formerly Burns's Coffee He attributes his unbappinoss toan "To be candid, when I go into the “Yoesn't she keep any account cf Jarr io holh banks: ahaa * Reese a Tote here, Bate pilen if House), Here the headquarters overzealous housekeeper, his wife. house | am immediately told to be What she draws?" asked Mr. Jarr. er ee oe 0 eS ee tad a dollars, southeast corner of the Sons of Lit cene of man f at he ft , yhy, what's the to do that?” replied Mrs. Jarr, “anc of Wall Street, in our day, sold for Revolutionary m Bresundy Tri wuBU ne saya sarerul my: shoes nobimuddy, Wy) WHRES: One uae vets her uli a8 she didn't sce anybody elee taking : 600 a square foot. a i . ‘My wife bas only two faults. Be- dare not sit on a ft, silk-covered asked Mrs. Jarr. ‘She gets her ali- * . y 0 quar from a lottery } here built the : out money, at least they weren't ‘ Bowling Grecn was the first city first lighthouse on Sandy Hook sides complaining she has a passion thair (or fear of soiling it. Imay not mony and she puts it In one of the standing in lines, and, as it was dnly Bare oral alee je ved until whit coffee house shared honors for housework. She ns, cleans, sit in the front room, where there is banks and then she writes checks a few dollars, she wouldn't pothe 1707, and then. only (ely Mog roetres Ae) : Taber en ane sa cleans, ever and always, There isn’t , because of my smoking, it until they send her word they are no witty 1H nice ot. the. waneatee 3 4 sa " H ing a E ea « hiddes j blacke .e curtains 500 © C1 over- ? and’ Bowling Green. The middle of York Stamp Act protest was held here & SPCCk of dust hidden away that eR ies Bi ee ind good and that her acount Js over: irse,” said Mr. Jarr. f rect was a drainas toh sand Oct 31, could be found with a tnicroscope, SP) 4 et Peat aig? STARR SOf ‘course it isn't,” replie®@—Mra 820 it w timat 000 dentally she 1 be sure to a, ' a é al é Neale iierateeee iting 000 “in {ais coffee house garden Capt, Linen wears out early on account of which spoils my meal, Imust put my “It’s a wonder the banks don't “And vet look ‘how thexadoas partment v Hlomache of the, Royal Navy Was its many washings. The purpose of cout on the exact hook that is ar- make her withdraw her account if '! Noor : gai pa it Maeivla nas i atl hilled by Capt. Pennington of the the 4 Nant oe ranged for it, and if I dare leave my noe ie - woule it s t poo : came in around 1790. ish the house to be kept clean, rather r ave © does that,” said Mr. Jarr. , : pede ‘ Coldstream G' ya duel 77 SACO CHAUmIn hee TI vA yc huirdresse needed the mani wells und Collect Pond jpoustream Guurdy in a duel ip 1777. than to be lived in.” at on the plano, my life is burdened = enney did, 1 belie nd ehe says “Isn't: Mrs ingly going tata) ‘ furniohed the trst drinking water. Tollemache was buried in ‘Trinity for the rest of the day. Pani ?” aaked Mer. Jase The Dutch didn't light Broadway, Churehyard. While in this particular case one “My wife Is i # too tired to go that she could never imagine that a the Halrdresser®| Balen ler Oe gba but in 1679 every seventh house was | Until the Astor House was opened cannot judge who ts right or who is cult in the evening, ard Tam com- woman, 4 woman who is alone In (he 4, per hie a Ae pe the ean! ? obliged to hang out a pole with a in Isit, the City Hotel was tho'mos: wrong, unless everything 18 known Pelled to seek what friends I can fr world with no one to advise her but wouldn't pay it?” said Mra dara 1 [antern and lighted candle on moon- “Washington, Decatur, Hull, Jones, Sbout both aides, yot there is eome- that some thinus en 1 MuKReSt to NEF her lawyer, and he always charges “And then, besides, the rude way bi | { esa Hel ihe akesa hice Irving, Charles Dickens ang other thing to be said as to the woman ui told I am shiftiess and careless— ber for advice, could be treated so," talked to Mrs. sitios a ae | In Lid lamp lighters were em- Notables were entertained here, Who overdoca the housekeeping thing. and there you ure replied Mrs. Jarr. care. if the bank never cashes ployed, Gas came in 1823. ee eeeenee Fig and dar Bimeete, If the truth were known, there are It fs net diMcult to picture this man he can't have any money tn the cheek! Isn't she right?” ¥ bonfires, Maypole dan and bowl tn the city, was de- this self-same malady—and it is @ their sentiments if they dared. said Mr. Jarr. j ( ing, In 1739 # market torty-two by y fire Jan , during & disease , will women real- hat's what shi re of,” re- > evonsene oe OE - rd, with th 8 lives DRe 8 We i ny eure va a twenty-six feet was placed in the 1 % 3 f grandmother is 4 Ag TNINAIR OETA RoRaer i OBaRte aeiaen ew Equitable Building, on the Some women think more of the heap’ 4 Plied Mrs. Jarr. “It's all very pus | — ace — Lane. Called “Oswego Market" it S#e site, is the largest office buil!- home as @ house than the house as ‘as ling, but it all goes to prove : = SAME BLOCK N was abolished ax a mutgance in 1 ir fe ane qo. ‘em Union Tete. ® Home: And many a man is glad ero is such @ thing as banks simply impose on wor: | Pian! iee of insbion and financo haunt c besausaniialnacirace ipermitted (ntsaias in (a eee mi graph office at Dey Birect was one 10 get away frem the place that Is too Sn ectthan haere « euee, ous ane eS ete ane | ower Broadway 1 » to stay on it and extinguish Where the new International Mer- 0! Wie tallest buildings, and on its roof Well kept; and therein lies the tragedy man's domicile should P40ks?" asked Mr. Jarr The Dutch christencd tho strect the burning brands, Next to at, canile Marino building now stands Was vstubliahed the famous time oall of many an wahappy marriuge where he tn constantly OU E EO. RORNE Heid AE. ee QUESTIONS. 4 i : " ; pov 4 peaks ; : 1! No. ‘oadWay was the famous ich dropped at noon and by whic SHG ealnertlas hy AN s¢ he becomes disgusied didn’t want ther account because she { Heere Straat. ‘The English changed it Paul's, Trinity Churc ected iM Kennedy House. ‘Dhis was used by New Yorkers regulated their wate! In truth, euch @ men ove On! the sini te should be & b com: ne t “ “ey 1, In what apparatus is a laquit to Broadway when Peter Stuyvesant 1559, is the oldest building stanc a 1776, also. Gens. he site of 3 Chureb theory that there no place Hke firt miy do practically what Courr weet & laree enough balance changed into vaper by heat and jfher surrendered tho city in 1664 to Col, “yufnection Gf Broadway, Of all the Gharlos i Israel Putnam. tt 2 a wheat home, and it is a good Uning there shan aHingue ane fi and because she overdrew it, and the again liquefied? rh | : y yuildings that, stood on both sidey of escaped the fire of 1776 and was used 5, Ww te difference does it make if the Other bamk did the sume,” suid Mre 2. How many miles long ter the Nicolls. ; the street, from the Green to Bt, by Sir William Howe, Sir Henry after his inauguration ‘ ie Paes dead ee do have to be washed again? Jarr, “and yet Mrs. Kittingly says Great Wall of Chins i | ry trace of the Dutch has dise Paul's in 1899, only seven remain to- Clinton, Sir Gu Sariton and from having burned down). m5 20K FO: DURRANG WhORe atter is it Ghat the tablecloth m red here except Bowling day here Major Andre correspond Washington's and Gov. Geort 1 friend of mine spoke to me Ir or Uiat “Ther tug ‘abnotehe that at both places, when she opened .,#) In what country was dames d ] audlanmie ot tho nainea lot errects clone wenn west side of Brond- Henedict Arnold. La ws < now marked eomathinaice ants wept up again? Doosn't he contrib. "er account they were as smiling a6 pomp We oy mere so ames of streets way ts American ore ton Hotel it housed Talleyrand, hard 3 ite these comforts in big measure? @ basket of chips, although I've found ‘ ‘ Broadway. Banking Corporation; Wessels [uild- poleon's exiled Minister killed in the assault on Mary is a wonderful girl and @ OG course, every man who loves bis out that those pooplo who are too ent eawnet, oer ef Mamma me i ‘The only pre-Revolutionary relics 1g Southwest corner of Cortlandt On the site of the present Bowling Wis buried with honors wondertul housekeeper, but I would family will pe considerate and save vee a the whale and porpoise belong? / ‘standing are the iron fence arouna Str¢ under the City Invest- Green building stood the Ki Arms In front of the chureh at Fulton exchange all of it just to have a won- unnecessary labor. sweet to be wholesome always play § What name is given te a j ‘standing ‘are the irc ment per; No. 175, Germania tavern from 1766 to 1858, Here Arnold, Street stood in 1867 the Loew foot gertul wife—a pal. ‘The trouble of it. But the | ho forever tries 80M trick on you hike t oceanic island group? ‘ j Bowling Green And St. Paul's Chureh. puildi 1 No. 188. the traitor, was nearly captured bridge across Broadway, (Broadway “) . ake her meth “How can Mrs, Kitting! 8 6. What is the State flower of Ken 4 The fence was put up to keep out the On Side are Nos, 152 daring Sergt. Chi needs bridges (o-day.) 1 is that under such circumstances Qqieat ny only one way Aarne ed peal TCL.) t ij ane ay of stoo ti un varades up t section if has aceon in two banks If she has “neighborhood filth” when the statue @d ight building, north of stood th MOUs pirat p HL sur wolf in the pos x 7. Fre hat countrs j PA hanes ai ne rey i onthe weer and the AY ding on the inalud la oan tion as de the man men il wn them?” asked Mr. Jurr. PH * ee Henne. a 3 Jeorge as ed hO southeast corner of John Street matriot Kossuth, 4 ned abov 10 went to jail rather “That's just the point!" said Mrs CAT EET ‘4 Hi iy, ane : ’ AOTC j 5 SB. What is the mast that green by grateful colmists at the ree On the site of the Custom House Wales (edward VIL. a RANDOM FACTS. Vian be subjected to too “much or- Jurr, "She dida't overdraw them, next abaft the mainmast of a Fes peal ot the Stamp Act in To. 4 iis a Mort Anisiandani et Herein’ (6 case b Rae it ano Aand H# largest radio station in Gono aro the days when the grind OP bank notified her that there vessel called? interesting to examine the tops of the . Van Twiller built a more pre- tector Street was name i Andre, 1831 will be erected 9 of er licr was necessary or Wasn't sufficient funds, after hor luir- 9 What material, manufactured pMars of the fence to-day and wonder tentious fort costing $1,688. In 1787 rector of ‘Trinity Church, the Monroe, 1835; Pres nal by an Amerie @ Wanted the labor-saving dee dresser had come and created a ecene shredded woolen is used as; what “grateful colonists” rudely broke the fort Was torn down and its William Vesey, who lived on the son, 1840; Presider ) v day, one can care for her because hit check h i wool substitute nnd leaden tralia “Ones used for the foundations of street. His namo also is found im Henry Clay and Danicl Wobst can company and wiil be power- ; A ae ane fon tr Because hit check had come back of cheap clothing fabri eff the royal crowns and leaden balls the new Government House, ‘In- Ve Street. : President Lincoln, 1865; Ge ful enough to transmit messages worst of ull is the Woman who ™rked ‘Not sufficient funds.’ It was 10, What are a child’s first} testi ; that ornamented them when ¢ tended jas President’ Washington's | Trinity Chureh came into being tn nt, 18 v. Clinton, 1908 a cedka tha tinisla either mins about these things. In grand- for $40, ‘and yet the bank wrote her called? % ulled from his high horwe by the residence, it was not completed be- 1696, enli troyed by Among the great receptions we or’s day recrea and pleas ne hac em, when ANSWERS, oe ig ly, 1776, bial fore the Government moved to Phila- fire in in 1791, present Roosevelt's return from Africa, and Only about one married couple emardod as luxury, “ne ine May pont £56: Dad AY PINE ORL SR WHER <4 oon 1,500; 3, Canada) ¢ ‘populace, July, ‘ delphia. Governors Clinton and Jay structure erected in 1839. Marshal Joffre, Balfour, King and @ in 11,000 live to celebrate their neceusives. And, what man secke ? alimony came she was so mad cot, cean; 5, archipelago: @, trum Bt, Paul's was erected in 1765, and used if til the State capital was re- Capt. James Lawrence (of “Don't Queen of Belgium and present ce i a at | wife t y at shat bank that she went to an- vine : xs | Bilge a is + Ls 4 p Prince iamond anniversary, tin his wife ts not only a help- vine; Italy; 8, migzen 1 was «ved from the great fire moved to io 1799, It then give up the ship” fame), Robert Ful- of Wales after the great war, mate but @ playmate as well, otheraaad now it has done practically shoddy; AQ, mill, techie ‘ . 44 3