The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1922, Page 3

m* ee WARD, SET FE W $50.00 BL, S BACK AT WORK Takes Up Routine at Bronx Plant After Twenty-Six Days in Jail, GREETED BY FRIENDS. Murder Indictment Stands, but TrialMay Wait Till After Election. Walter S. Ward, freed on $50,000 bail until his trial for the murder of Clarence Peters, appeared at the Bronx plant of the Ward bakery to- day and busied himself at his desk with his duties as purchasing agent. He held an ihformal reception among his office associates when he reached the building and then gave instructions that he would see no vis- {tors and would answer no inquirles regarding the Peters case unless they came from his lawyers, He seemed to have recovered entirely his buoyant spirits which he lost in the twenty-six days he was in the White Plains Jail. ‘While his trial may be callea in October, it was reported to-day it will not be held until after election, District Attorney Weeks is a candi- date to succeed himself, and now that Ward is free it is belleved he will let the case rest until the campaign is ovor. Mr. Weeks declined to comment on the decision of Supreme Court Justice Seeger at White Plains yesterday in upholding the first degree murder In- dictment against Ward but admitting im to dail. Aftes the formalities of providing the $50,000 bail, late yesterday, Ward motored to his New Rochelle home with his wife. He mado this statement: “I have nothing but thanks and Kindness for the uniform courtesy with which I was treated at White Plains. Everybody was kind to me. I occupied a regular cell and sought no special favors of any kind. I'm mighty glad to get back to work, end believe there's plenty of it waiting for me.” No information was available to- day at White Plains as to whether an effort was being made to serve a subpoena on Mrs. N. Willard Curtis of Brooklyn, mother of Mrs. Walter Ward, who sat all through the hear- ing yesterday with her daughter without being recognized by the officials, According to members of the fam- ily, she has been with her daughter at New Rochelle since Walter Ward was committed to jail and has made no concealment of her presence there, in spite of the published an- nouncement of District Attorney ‘Weeks that he would have her ar- rested if she were found in this State fs a necessary witness avoiding service. A tentative arrangement was made to-day by which the Ward counsel may take Mrs. Curtis to White Plains to-day or to-morrow to produce her as a voluntary witness in Justice Mor- schauser's inquiry to determine whether George S. Ward and others were in a conspiracy to prevent jus- tice being done by suppressing testi- mony, who was — LARGE ROOF GARDEN FOR MANHATTAN ‘Architects File Plans for Al- terations in Old Opera House. Harrison Wiseman and Hugo Taus- sig, architects have filed plans for making alterations to the old Man- hattan Opera House on West 34th Street to accommodate the Scottish Rite Bodies of New York, Parts of the second, third and fourth balconies are to be removed, two stories added on the 34th Street side making it a ten-story edifice, and a roof gurden built to accommodate 1,200 peo The cost of the alterna tions has been placed at $200,000 ie BANK OF AMERICA MERGER APPROVED Stockholders of Atlantic National Consent to Consolidation. Plans for the merger of the Atlan- tic National Bank with the Bank of America received formal approval yesterday from the stockholders of the former institution and the consoli- dation will become effective at once. ‘The business of the old Atlantic will be continued at No. Broadway, opposite City Hall, and the branch of the Bank of America, With the exception of Herman D. Kountz, President, who with several associates will become directors of the Bank of America, the active ex- ecutives of the Atlantic National will remain at that office as officials of the Bank of America. These are Edward K. Cherrill and Charles F. Junod, Vice Presidents; Frank E, Andrews, Assistant Vice President, and John P, Laird, John H. Brennen, llugh M Garetson and John H. Trowbridge, Asojstant Cashiers, N. Y.Woman on Olympic Has Latest THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1922," Paris Fashion, Hat Two Feet Wide Miss TILIAN ATKINSON Wire TWO FOOTHAT “Uneyltured Money Grabbers, Standardization Victims,” Says Mrs. Asquith of American Men “More Violent Than Free, and Take Constant Interfer- ence With Cowlike Obedience—Leave . Culture to Women.” The opinion of American men formed by Mrs. Herbert Asquith, wife of Great Britain's former Premier, during her recent lecture tour of tais country, it not flattering. It is given in an article in the August McCall's Magazine, and among her criticisms are the charge that American men are uncultured, money-grabbing, lacking in individuality, too engrossed in business, victims of standardization, indifferent to the arts and never insistent upon the principles of freedom. mirable and charming individuals among American men, notably the late John Hay, Marion Crawford, the novelist, and the former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, but “of American men in general—although a little exaggerated—what Oscar Wilde satd describing a cynic 1s a criticism that might be made against them: ‘He {3 a man that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ “Leisure to the American man means loss. He seldom enjoys art, he rarely enjoys music, he has no time to read, and he leaves the things that go by the name of culture to his women. bal be id The average American man I know {s not cultured. He sees things in what we call firm colors; blue, red or yellow. He has no half tones, and he doe. not give himself time to study ‘the drab heroes of life.” . “Not knowing the value of money or of leisure, he works too hard, and either refuses to exercise hie intellect or ts unable to enjoy other people's. There is a great difference between intelligence and intellect. Mental agility 1s inclined to discourage in- tellect. It excites the brain; intellect develops it, and exhaustion of mind is as destructive as gin. “I am told that in the Middle West prosperous lawyers and business men, when they return from their offices, paint thelr fences by way of relaxa- tion, This cannot be amusing for their wives, and while automatic pianos, movies and newspapers may divert their mind, they can never en- courage the soul. ‘America 1s more violent than free, @ says she has met many ad- & a and takes constant interference with cowlike obedience. Pavlowa must dance In long dresses; nor is it only women who are forbidden to smoke in trains or hotels; in certain States the ruling applies to men also, The other day I heard that the manager of a bank in Newark prescribed a uniform tor his female employees. It was to be of a dingy brown, the sleeves so long, the neck so high and petticoats so many inches above the ground. This ridiculous request Was met with unanimous obedience. Too many peo- ple over here make It their business to know what their neighbor Is doing. “Details of private life are regu- lated by the State, or by some society that. claims—and {s tacitly accorded —police powers, If you do anything that you appear to enjoy, you may ‘be quite sure some one will form a society to prevent you from going on with It. “Pre-eminently moral by training and conviction, it is difficult to say how much temperament the Ameri- can man has; but though we pray not to be led into temptation, the Lord's prayer does not forbid it, eisure does not mean laziness; and I do not think the American man values it enough. Both men and women should spend part of their days alone, : “The Americans are a prosperous, generous people; but they strike an outsider as spending too much of their time upon business. It 1s a. kind of pleasure; but accumulation, whether of money, pictures or any other thing, is not really inspiring. It is apt to centre people upon them- selves, and this is a disadvantage.” SUES HER LANDLORD FOR LOSS OF LEG Brooklyn Girl» Fell Over Runway in Apartment: House. Miss Pearl Alwais, eighteen, of No. $20 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, ap- plied to Supreme Court Justice Crop- sey in Brookiyn to-day for permission to amend her complaint so as to en- able her to sue Pincus Lewinter, owner of the apartment house at that address, for $50,000 for the loss of her left leg Miss Alwais in ler complaint said that on Jan. 6 Inst she tripped over a runner in the apartment house, injuring her knee. She brought suit to recover $10,000 from Lewinter be- kneebone had nuse she believed one been fractured, While this suit was pending it was found at the Beth Moses Hospital that her leg would have to be amputated ten inches aboye the knee in‘ order to her life, This was done, Justice 1 decision a boil > sore TAUNTED HER WITH RIVAL, WIFE SAYS Charges Husband Brought “Other Woman” to Laugh at Her. The most cruel thing that Leo Bern- helmer, taxicab owrfer, of No, 238 87th Street ever did to his wife, Mra, Martha Bernheimer of No, 450 Jersey Street, New Brighton, Staten Island, as set forth in her petition for a scpara- say My husband has been Tillie Zinc of Hast 87th Street, New York, On several occasions, while walking arm-in-arm with her, he would cross the street to where 1 was, He would walk up and down emitting cat- calls and laughing loudly as he passed with this woman, He roll of bills, hold them close to my face oing out with and cat-cull while doing so Mrs. Hernhelmer applied yesterday tol t* Justice Cropsey in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn for alimony of $150 a week and counsel fees of $500 pending trial of her sult, Decision was reserved. would flash al! WARNED OF JAIL, WOMAN FAINTS Adjournment of Case Inter- fered With Her Plans to Go to Europe. When Surrogate Cohalan warned Mrs. Martha R. Burkett, a Christian Science practitioner living at the Hotel Laclede, that he would commit her to Ludlow Street Jail swered questions put to her on the witness stand properly and with less unless she an- evasion, she fainted. After being revived she became ex- cited when informed by her counsel that the inquiry into her accounting of her husband's estate had been ad- journed until next Monday. She de- clared it interfered with her plans to g¢ to Europe on Saturday Mrs. Burkett 1s the widow of Wal- ter L. Burkett, former Vice President of the State Bank. A. H. Levy, an alleged creditor of her husband's es- tate, claims that Mrs. Burkett has made a false valuation of the estate. Levy claims to have loaned the late anker money to help him build a 350,000 summer iwine at South Bound (Brook, N. J., and ayers the widow has appropriated this property. The widow alleges the home was given to her by her husband in return for loans she made to him. Mrs. Bur kett claims her husband's estate did not exceed $500, —_—— aS LOSE THEIR MEMORY AT POLICEMAN’S TRIAL joatens Ke ant to Charge of Assault, Host and Pres When Probationary an Pi er Vaughan of No. 499 St 8 Ave nue, the Bronx, was arraigned in Mor- risania Police Court befor: Magistrate Ibermau to-day, charged with an as- sault upon Mrs, Mary 5s and her {, Daniel Byrne their home a le Avenu 6 he was uh ues t Frida nt, the Byrnes we relu testify They dan almost lete los Vaughan was 1 » bail at the Court of Mt Sessions, His six montha’ promatio: period ox pires next Satur and have to undergo which may re- Feuit in his disbarment CITY SWELTERS Gen, Humidity Is With Us Again, and Weather Man Sees No Relief. With old Gen. Humidity in our midst, little wind and a blistering sun, the citizens of this community are in for a spell of summer heat in the Judgment of the weather man, The temperature, which was down to 68 during the night, had climbed to 90 at 2 o'clock and was still meander- ing upward. These taken temperature figures were from the thermometer in the Weather Bureau, away up in the air at the Battery. In the downtown ons between the skyscrapers ther- mometers registered _ considerably higher. Palm Beach suits, which have been only occasional thus far this summer, became general in the street crowds uptown this afternoon. The humidity prevalent to-day will persist, the weather man said, until there is a change in the wind, The hot spell came unexpectedly, as indi- cations last night fe pointed to a com- able, partly cloudy, day to-day. We might as well be as philosophi- about it as the weather man, He said to The Evening World: “Oh, well, we hayen’t had any real hot weather for some time. Heat caused the death to-day of George Neefus, Superintendent of the fire alarm system of Elizabeth, N. J. He was twenty-three years old and lived at No. 636 Westfield Avenue. He was found unconscious at First and Bond Streets, and died on the way to Alexian Brothers Hospital. ——— HEAT WAVE SETTLES ON ATLANTIC COAST Mercury Up 10 Demreen North of Virginia. WASHINGTON, July 12—A heat wave kas settled down over the Atlan- tic Coast, north of Virginia, reports of the Weather Bureau showed to-day. In this region the thermometer thas jumped on an average of 1) degrees in the last twenty-four hours. In spots, thunder showers will bring some rellef to-night and to-morrow. Comparatively cool weather for this season prevails in the interior of the country. ACCUSED OF FRAUD IN SELLING STOCK OF HOOCH CONCERN New Yorker in White Plains Jail on Charge That He Swindled Woman. in Day Alexander E, Muhleman of No, 617 West 152d Street is held in the White Plains Jail under $3,000 bail on an in- dictment charging grand larceny in the first degree in the alleged swin dleing of Westchester County re dents out of several thousand dollars He was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Charles Lent after a hunt of several weeks. Assistant District Attorney Walter Ferris says one specific indictment charges Muhleman with obtaining $1,300 from Mrs, Ella De Schanel of Rye Beach. Ferris says he has infor mation warranting another indictment in that Muhleman procured another $1,500 under alleged false pret Muhlema according to Ferris, worked a ‘clever game."" Knowing the complaining witness personally, he offered to permit her to invest in the “Ryco Pharmacel Co. of Albany,” a firnt which Ferris says exists only on paper. Muhleman, Ferris says, told his clients he was President and the firm would sell booze but, of course the immense profits would be held up until the permit was secured to s¢ booze by prescription. Mrs, De Schanel, it is alleged, be came suspicious and reported the mat ter to the county authorities, They in vestigated and found that while thw Ryco Pharmacel Company had filed « certificate of incorporation in Albany the company had never started busl ness. None of the stockholders, Fer ris says, had ever heard of Muhle man, The chance of huge returns from this form of bootlegging, Ferris. al leges, induced others than Mrs, Dé Schanel to invest, but when no returr for their money was forthcoming, th: indictment was returned a SS GIVES UP CHOIR WORK TO BECOME BANKER Organtiat Helfenstein Rett Atier Grace Charch, years’ service ns Broadway Ohureh, and 10th Stre James M. Helfonstein has giver that work to the uptown bran of Speyor F &c th Avene News of h announcement tha bankers, at No. nt came with nest Mite Trinity Church, would « Grace Chur he fall a n cioirmaster, Mr, Helfenstein, wh founded the first school for choir bx in this country, said he “was tired’ felt he needed a professional cha but might go beck into ehurch cholr work san Of the late Go! our Morris. HEWITT'S NURSE MANANDWIFEHELD What Did You See To-Day? AS HOT WAVE PUTS; TRIED FOR THEFT | DOCTOR FOR $1,000 RCURY ABOVE $0} IN LAMONT HOME} RANSOM, HE SAYS Accused of Taking $900 Dia- mond Ring While Caring for Banker’s Child. Miss Elizabeth Kelly, a nurse, giv- ing her age as thirty-elght but 1olc- ing much older, was placed on trial in the Court of General Sessions ve- fore Judge Koenig to-day on an in* dictment charging her with stealing, in December, 1918, a diamond ring worth $900 from the home of David R. Lamont, the banker, at No. 828 West 82d Street, where she was nursing one of the Lamont children. Patrick J, McDonald, gounsel to Miss Kelly, told reporters before the cas was called that he ‘will try to show in the course of the trial that this prosecution was brought for the pur- pose of discrediting Miss Kelly in a suit for $250,000 damages which she brought last spring in Paris against Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, the New York widow, who is said to have :#- cently rejected seventeen offers of marriage from the Shah of Persla. Miss Kelly nursed Mr. Hewitt In his last iliness in Paris. After the death of Mr. Hewitt his widow accused the nurse of stealing jewelry from the Hewitt home and had her arrested. Miss Kelly was acquitted in a Paris court and institut@d the suit for dam- ages. She returned to New York in April and was arrested soon after her ar- rival on the Lamont charge. The rec- ords show that she was arrested when the ring was first missed by Mrs. La- mont three and a half years ago, but was discharged in. West Side Police Court. The evidence against Miss Kelly, as outlined by the prosecution, is that Mrs. Helen C, mend af No. 127 East 46th Street loaned Miss Kelly $175 on Aug. 1, 1919, taking as security sev- eral pawntickets, among them one for a diamond ring that had been pawned for $300, Miss Kelly did not repay the loan and Mrs, Amend redeemed the ring. Thp diamond was in a Tiffany set- ting and Mrs, Amend took it to Tif- fany’s for valuation. The Tiffany expert recognized it as a ring that had been bought by Mrs. Lamont and reported stolen. Mrs. Amend, almost two years ago, reported the transaction to the Dis- trict Attorney. Miss Kelly had dis- appeared and no trace of her was found until she brought the sult against Mrs, Hewitt in Paris and the publicity revealed her tdentity when she returned to New York. BRIDE, 4 OTHERS, KILLED BY TRAIN Party Motoring to Wedding Sirucle at Crossing in Pennsylvania. GREENVILLE, Pa., July 12.—A family party of five, travelling by au- tomobile from Altoona to Erie to at- tend a wedding to-morrow, was wiped out near here to-day when the ma- chine“Was struck by a train on the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad. Among the dead was Miss Edith Schultz, who was to have been the bride. Harry Schultz, Mrs. Mary Schultz, Florence Schultz, age four years, Miss Edith Schultz and John Hamor, eighty, €ather of Mrs.‘ Schultz, all of Altoona, are dead, The automobile was time as {t approached a sunken cross- ing, The train, two light engines and A caboose, also was said to have been travelling at high speed. ‘Yhe auto- mobile was dragged a quarter of a mile, zd eee GLORIA BURNS’S HUG WAS WORTH $500 making good LOS ANGELES, July 12.—Gloria Burns's alleged $500 hug and other costly caresses figured to-day in the suit to break the urns, wealthy will of Matthew P. shoe-store owne who left practically his entire estate to Gloria and her mother urns married late in life. whom Miss Ida Morris, formerly employed in one of Burns's shoe stores, testi- tied that Gloria was a very affectlon- ate step-daughter and that she fre- juently sat on Burns's knee, hugged him and then asked for funds. Once when she was in New York Burns sent Gloria $500, the witness stated. He also sent her a $100 check to San Francisco The film actress will ulled to-morrow probably be COBBLER'S WIFE HELD AS HOOT Mrs. Mary Vrovanzo, thirty, of No 4 East 29th Street, the wife ybbier, was held in $500 bail for Grand Jury to-day by Magistra berg in Yorkville Court for n Mullan- It was rhe sold unusually potent hooch to em: i of Bellevue Hospital, several of n had been sent to tne ne drunk, land tor — re MPORARY Pon ESTA polnted, yy Surrogate Cc nas temp: {rary administrators of estate of M. Booth, w! low Henry 1 li former headof the Ward Stex | «vip Compa They were placed ur | 1 of $1,000,900 to hn $ Valued at several millions Mrs. Booth dled June 10 «i her home, No. 4 Riverside Drive, Jamaica Couple Arrested on Charge of Threatening Phy- sician With Pistol. * Charles Geskie, twenty-two, a truck driver, and his wife, Grace, twenty four, of No, 76 Douglass Street, Jamaica, denied to-day, when ar- raigned before Magistrate Doyle in the Jamaica Court, a charge of at- tortion preferred by Dr. Shirley N. C. Hicks, No, 28 Hardenbrook Avenue, Jamaica Mr. and Mrs, Geskle, who spent the night In cells in the Richmond Hill Station, were arrested late at night by Policeman John Walsh following a visit to the police by Dr. Hicks, who said he had been threatened with a pistol as an alternative of paying $1,000. MrsyGeskle, Dr, Hicks told the police, called him on the telephone at 9 o'clock last might and asked him to hurry to her apartment to attend hes son Joseph, aged two. What happened after his arrival, accord- ing to the police account of his statement, follows: No sooner had the physician en- tered the parlor than Geskle locked the door. Then, without preamble, Payment of $1,000 was demanded, “I have a pistol In my pocket and will shoot if you try to leave this room without arranging to pay. the mone) skie said. For two hours the doctor was kept prisoner, he declared, during which he and his jailer talked of the ransom demanded. Finally, John Madden, Mrs. Geskie’s father, opened the door and Jr, Hicks ran from the room, entered his automobile and speeded to the Jamul- ca police station. The arrest of the couple follow Mr. and Mrs, Geskie, arraigned be- fore Magistrate Doyle, pleaded not guilty and were held in $1,000 ball for examination July 20. ao SAYSILR.T. FOOLED TRANSIT BOARD ON TRAN SCHEDULES Comptroller Charges It Put on New Trains Then Took More (Off. Comptroller Craig charged at to- day's meeting of the Committee of the Whole of the Board of Estimate that the Interborough Rapid Transit maintaining red to main- As com- Company is no longer the achedule it was o tain by the Transit Commission, a result of the Comptroller's plaint ‘Mayor Hylan appointed a com- mittee composed of Grover A. Wha- len, Commissioner of Plant and Structures; Arthur S Tuttle, Chief Engineer of the Board of Estimate, and examiners from the Board of Es- timate, who will station checkers In the subways and make a report in the near future. Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig will receive the re t and act upon {t with recommendations to the whole Estimate Board The Comptroler said that before the Transit Commissions orders went into effect the headway between ex- press trains during non-rush hours was five minutes. After the order of the Commission became effective, this headway was shortened to 3% min- utes, but only temporarily At the present time, the Comptrol- ler added, he has discovered from personal observations that the head- way has been lengthened to 6 minutes, or a full minute above what it was orginally. William G, Fullen, assistant coun sel of the Transit Commission, vol- unteered to have that body make an investgation of the situation com complained of by Mr. Craix “No, no; we don't want that,’ r plied the Mayor, “You and I know it would be mere camouflage.” Comptroiier Craig was compl mented by the board for bringing the matter to the attention of the mem bers. The vote for the Investigation was unanimous FIND BOY’S CLOTHES AT BRIGHTON BATHS Youth, Thought to Be From Brooklyn, May Ilave Been Drowned. Abraham Blakeman, ausistant man. of the Parkway Baths at Urighton | Beach, reported to the Coney Island] police early to-day that he bud found in one of the bathhouses a pate of knickerbockers, a white shirt, unton) | suit, tan outing shoes, ve cents and a! }tin whistle, On a alip of paper was the | No, 406 St. John's The clothing 19 evt-| that of a boy drowning. is ted Klyn police fou vions at the St. John's Place ad put te lid not know to whom the clothing might have belonged unless « lad] known as Anthony Wellingello, who, lives In the nelghborhvod and ran er rounds or Mra, Blavions until thee days agu when he quit coming. ‘Thi boy did not wear Knickerbockers, ac- cording to Mr, Blavions. Write a few lines to THE EVENING WORLD The Evening World Will Pay $1 for Each Item-Printed. The Evening World Will Pay $2 for Each Snapshot Printed of Some Unusual Scene or Incident With an Accompanying Description. Address “What Did You See?" Editor, Evening World, P. 0, Box 185, Clty Hall arefully. wi ame and addres ilk, name and addres t out weekly jatlome Send as many contributions as you THOUGHTS OF A GENTLEMAN ON, 167th Street the Job was finished and 8 ING SOME SILVER. the adjustment apparently all that A-Hoavy trick, drawn by two ble could be wished. Stopping from the hos » dre y train she dropped a coin on the wet halted before a bank in the] platform, There was nothing to do Ananctal district. Mon and}but take the gloves off or soil them piled up the load. Each carried a brick | Picking up the quarter, She took them of solid silver as large as a loat of [OMf—M. O'Connell, No, 1192 First bread. The procession lasted until thej Avenue. load was all the horses could oairy. Thirty feet away, at his accustomed SAD. hydrant, a man sat selling “Shoe Incea!| Suspended from one of the shelves fe Shoe laces !"" no doubt, he sells several, dred years his sales might equal the value of somo of these bars.—F. F., Equitable Building. A RAIN OF P 1Es. On Nassau Street between Ann and Beekman Streets Tuestiay morning 4 gaw as’ many as one hundred men on both stdewalks pitching pennivs into the street for six small boys to scramble for, The pennies rained for half an hour at the rate of ten a minute, Then a big policeman turned the corner.— H.C, HOW FAR CAN YOU CARRY A WA- TERMELON? i saw the great watermelon contest. The grocer near Audubon Avenue and list Street bet the truck driver that the latter couldn't carry a watermelon round the block without touching It at ‘ast once with the other hand, My brave truckman called it a cinch, He carried the melon down Audubon Ave= nue, through 180th Street and’as far as St. Nicholas Avenue and 18lst Street. Here he knew he was done for and he berately dropped the melon on th: k and saw {t crack into several pleces. He pald the bet,—Henry Fisher, 200 Weat Sith Street THE HANDY HAIRPIN. ere was a basket plenic party near at Coney Island on Sunday ana the time came to share the fow pickles they brought with them they were In great distress, Until one bright young Woman produced a bairpin and proceeded to cut-the pickles into equal parte.—Mlss F, Plapinger, 1670 Wool- worth Building, v re whe MR, MWGUIRE EXPLAINS HIS ItE- TREAT BEFORE THE AMAZONS. Homeward bound from Fort Lee I saw ahead of me as I trudged the Mghway a crowd of girls from twenty to perhaps twenty-five years old, As I approached 1 heard one of them sing: “1 see a man! I sco @ man! a real hue man! We'll oa:ch him if we can! Catch him if wa can!” The rest of the crowd took up the war cry and they came for mo on the run. I feigned fear, em- darrassment, cowardice. When they were within a few hundred fect I jumped a fence at the roadside and Climbed a young hill. 1 looked back to sev if they were following. They were holdiny on to the fence, roar- ing with laughter that could have beon heard a mile away. I'l bet they think Tam still running. I’m not. I believe im laughter, It's the best tonto in the world.—B. F, Mo- Gutre, No. 683 First Avenue, CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS, I saw a cigarette or lighted match fall upon an awing at Broadway and Ablat Street at 8.30 P. M., and set it on fire, In two or three utes two fire companies had responded to the alarm and the district was in an uproar. It was only the work of « second to extinguish the blaze and with another rush the en- gines were off again and peace reigned. —-Ruth Wiener, No. 555 West both Street. PLAYING TO POOR BUSINESS. My niece and I were strolling along Riverside Drive and we reached the intersection of the Drive with 156th and 17th Streets we noticed “one of the finest" directing traffic there with as much ginger, gusto and waving of the arms as if ye were standing at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 42d, There was one lone auto in sight, We were the only pedestrians. My niece, a girl of seventeen, had to laugh, ‘The traitic cop had to laugh, too—Mrs. J. 8. Broadway. HE STANDS IN. 1 saw my friend's landlord, who called whils | was making a visit, My friend had been boasting of the friendship which existed betwoen them, There is going to be a wed- ding in the landlord's family, My friend expected an invitation and, ‘gure enough, the landlord brought a note with him, He handed it to my friend, they exchanged a few pleas- ant words and the landlord with- drew, My friond tossed me the let- ter. He was beanin ‘ead it,” he said. The letter due notice of an increase of 10 per cent, in the rent, beyinning om Sept. 1.—Harry Zahler, 3 ‘0, 62 East 105th Street, HAS YP COME TO THISt In tho ladies’ waiting room at h Street “L' station 1 saw a * Smoking" sign.—E. ©, Post, No, West 38th Street the PROVOKIN At 60th Street 1 saw a young womun passenger In a Lexington Avenue way train start to put on a new white kid gloves, W a Washington Heights — circulatt brary 1 aaw placard reading, “Res em and Weep’ I expected to find the nearest shelf devoted to poker tales, including, perhaps, some of Mr. Curtia’s, I was disappointed. The books are @ collection of tales with tragic endings.— Frances A. Ford, No. 437 West ath Str SH. HOWED THEM. It was the afternoon rush hour, at Fourth Avenue and 28th Street, and no traffic officer anywhere in sight. There were automobiles in a seemingly end« less flow, crowds waiting anxiously fo# the first chance to cross, Suddenly @ little old lady darted forward, a litte old lady in black with her bonnet slight ly askew and a loosely furled umbrella Krasped tightly. Brandishing the “brumberella," she admon'shed the driver of the leading automobile to me to a stop and, while he shook with laughter, she made her way across the street brandishing a powerful and trie umpbant parasol—Miss E, BE, Stow No. 387 Fourth Avenue, SOMEBODY “DIDN'T THINK.” 1 was riding in a Third Avenue car when I noticed a pecullar odor. My neighbor's hat was burning. He had been standing under the “L* structure waiting for the car, he sald, and he aup- posed some one threw a lighted cigar- ette down, The light-weight straw was completely ruined.—R, Greenwald, Nov 940 Third Avenue. READING MATTER, There was a morning paper on one of the seats In the subway train I entered to-day at the Fordham Road atation. A man came in, picked it up, looked at it @ few seconds and put it down again, A second, third, fourth and fifth man followed sult. A young man, who got on at 86th Street, grabbed the paper, held on to it all the way to 43d Street, and carried {t out with him. I was a? his heels, “What's the name of tha? paper?" ked him. “Darned it t know," he sald, “It looks like {t might be Armenian, I saw everybody rubbers ing at me, as if they were ready to cry ‘stung!’ and ‘t just occurred to me to take ‘em for a good ride."—W, B., Irv ing Pla “118 AN ILL WIND.” I saw a baby almost buried beneat the bundles that had been piled Into hi carriage outside a store in Third Aves nue. One of the parcels contained what looked like chipped beef, ‘The child had somehow succeeded In opening it and was dre»ping the contents over the aide of the car, to the greediest little stray dog in all New York.—E. M., Second Avenue, PREPAREDNESS, I saw a smart looking young step into a B. R. T, Subway train at P.M. There was plenty of room, but no vacant seat, He placed a newspaper on the cold hard floor, leaned back comfortably against a post and opened the latest “best sel'er.""—Jack Marlo« witz, No. 162 Hast Fourth Street. WHO WANTS ONE? In the window of a men’s furnishings shop: “Straw Hats Cut In Half."— Edward Wilbur, No, $03 West 111th Street, HOCUS-PoctS. I watched a street faker, on one of the Hurlem streets, selling a game led “Hocus-Pocus." with full direc- 8. He placed a dollar bill in a plece blue paper, folded that Into a pink sheet, enclosed that in lavender, and wrapping the parcel in white placed them all in an envelope. “Are you sure tho dollar bill 18 In the blue paper?” he asked the crowd. Sure? They were poultive. He opened all the papers it turn and in the blue sheet found a» iV: dollar bill where the one had been. “My goodness, Liga,” sald @ stout woman to her companion, “let git one of them contraptions and te- night we'll have some fun with the buneh.” "Not me," I heard Liza say, No, ma'am; not me! If that man o find out I got a five doilar bill they won't be no hocus-pocus in our flat, they'll Just be a fight ti he gits it!”"—Alice Gray, No. 132 West sind Street “ADL IN On the back of a “sight seeing™ bus at the corner of Fifth Avenue an@ oth Street this afternoon, a tired but happy looking old gentleman who had d his shoes and was giving hig ~K. R., West 111th Street, rem feat a rest ON GUARD, GENTLEMEN! 1 saw & man enjoying his pipe on one of the rear seats of an open northe (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) We couidn’t afford to put a guarantee in every package of Piccadilly Little Cigars if they weren’t good enoughtowarrant it. 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