The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1922, Page 10

HA A PAGE OF REAL NEWS MANHATTAN. UNBREAKABLE GLASS. ON THE SHADY SIDE, 1 saw @ young woman In tle Ine be- fore the ticket offices at Grand Central Station with a book on psychology and ® volume of Swinburne under her arm. She was stylishly but not at spicuously dressed. Between 25 and 28 Businessiike. No foolishness, Looke you straight In the eye. But sho did say something unusual, In my expert- enee. She asked the man in the Pull- man window for a parlor chair for Bos- ton, “on the shady side of the train. H.R. Force, No. 119 East 29th Street. and land upon the walk. were knocked out of the frame, were con- Wast 84th Street, OLOBE. shop in Far Rockawa commuter entered. he said to the barber this next train,’ the chalr in record time. utes later he was back again, take the rest of that shav {n the most matter of fact way, "Once over, Joe, MOVIE STUFF. Between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in 44th Street I had the pleasure of sce ing some pictures taken for the movies, 1 recognized among the other players Madge Kennedy and Monte Blue. One scone Is supposed to show the stare tn & moving taxicab, but the muchine wasn't moving. The driver sat at his wheel and turned it from time to time, but the wheels were stationary. Back of the machine stood two men who, from time to time, at orders froin the director, gave the taxi a goqd shaking from side to side, thus producing the effect of motion.—Mathiida Scommodau, Apt. 201, No. 215 West d4th Street, New York City. No, 13 Hast 107th Street. DIVING CAT, the water, take No. ashore to Holmes, another 492 dive, BABY LOOPS THE LOOP. A young mother, leaving her baby in its carriage on the sidewalk. She neglected to put the brake on and one of those young gusts of wind which have made July endurable pushed the carriage down the slope to the sidewalk and out over the curb with a velocity which in- creased to sifh an extent the buggy turned completely over and landed right side up, on the further side of the roadway.) A frantic young mother ran across the street shrieking, only to find her baby quite unharmed and, indeed, laughing. The child was strapped in securely and had been further protected from harm by the hood of the carriage. —Kate Rooney, No. 31 East 57th Street. WATERMELSN, THE RAKE-OF Two little fellows, fishing through « T saw four small bova on Bighth arate at Seventh Avenue and 24th | Avenue, at 16th Street, three of Street for more than an hour, thelr line conalsting of store string with @ nut at the “bait” end of it, the nut smeared with axle grease, At the end of about five minutes they pulled up a b-cent plece and, throwing awaysthe line, bur. tied to Tony's and bought one slice of | taking one nut in every atx for his watermelon, One of them pulled the} commiasion,— Philip Gustavson, No. slice in two and both pieces fell upon| 266 Weat fiat Strvet, the sidewalk. A little accident like that —— caused only a temporary postponement IN TH RIGH® PLACE. page banquet,—M. Russell, 154 West) | saw a man unmercifully beating hl bandh a horse at 26th Street and Madison Ave FENDER ON A MOTOR CAR. Every day we sve a car parked in Beekman Street and surrounded by a crowd. Ite conspicuous feature ts a fender, intended to serve the same pur- pose as the fender on the front of a trolley car and calculated to pick up safely any pedestrian whom the motor ear may hit.—Sidney Peiltyn, No. 6 Beekman Street, them with their pockets loaded with Brasttian nuts. These threo wero barefooted. The fourth boy wore shoe! He was cracking muta for the other lads with his shoes and nue. Ing is on the corner, soclety appeared and unhiteh the horse and between the shafts. ‘Then made the brut he was or to its barn, ‘The “homo” in an S. P. 95 Madison Avenue.. IT PAYS. Iam a cashier in a theatre. To-night a gentleman came to the window, bought a ticket and departed without his change. “You me $5,” I called after him. “Wel, what about it?” he asked. 1 handed him his correct change. He didn't even say “Thank you," but scooped up the money and went in. When I closed the booth for the night and made my usual visit to the office the manager smilingly handed me $5," I called after him, “Well, what about it?” he asked. I handed left this for you. Said he han“d you a five to-night, thinking It was only a one. Good girl.” So they both made me happy for the night, the chap who I thought was such an unappreciatiye grouch and the manager with his two words of commendation.ffila Gaston, Now 63 West 100th Street. : 7 EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAFFIC ’ corp. Usually we soe a traMc officer at 138th Street and Lenox Avenue but this morn- lug he appeared to be missing. Along came a pusheart vender. TraMc was at its helght. The peddier seemed to have the proverbial chance of an inhabitant of the Celestial Kingdom. He took +a police whistle from his pocket, blew upon it and halted the trafic, While everybody was squinting around, trying to locate the cop, my bold pushcart man orse wast A. wagon, STRAIG I was standing in Bighth Avenue aiting for one of these showers to let up @ little, when I noticed that the ittle boy im an automobite parked at the curb had dropped his ball into the street. The curtains of the car were up and the youngster couldn't open them, While he tupyed at them the rubber ball was sailing along a young river in the gutter. Suddonly 1 saw « bareleyged lad, with no hat on and a single auspen crossed to the other side, Here der hotditey hie 9 de thoughtfully gave another signal with| roma dhorruy and pounce upon the whistle and trofiic was resumed,.— the ball, Instead of sticking 4 un Myrtle Marshall, No, 670 Lenox Avenuc.| dvr jiy tittle waist tiny (o and disappear- I rather expected he would) SUNSHIN DID YOU SEE TODAY EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSU 1 saw © palr of eyeglasses fall from a third-story window in East 8d Street The glasses but found unbroken on the sidewalk. They belonged to a@ little girl.—M. M., Barly In the day | was in a barber When a lawyer- want to make He was turned out of Hifteen min- “TH “he qitd ni sie, the train by an inch.""—Isidore Michaels, I saw some of the men at Brighton Beach Life Saving Station diving into I was surprised to see that a coal black eat was a member of the party, diving off in {ts turn and swim- ming Amsterdam is He picked out a poor place for the exhibition, for the §. B.C, A. bulld- An officer of tne © take its place dered to “giddap,"’ and pull the cart off carried Dan, : he walked up to the automobile and On 11th Strect I saw a bunch of | shoved it wider the ourtatn.——-Virw poor kids 9o overwhelmingly happy yinia Weeks, No, 610 West 124th that I have been happy all day just Beret. thinking of them, They filled a — sight-seving car and were about to ose depart for Kdgemere, L. 1., for two ¥ISLAND SCULPTOR, Siooud woetke at the ahore. It do | 2 S4W 4 young Brooklyn sculptor, his only tool a cl with the wet Coney id, the perfect form of a woman, stretch ot know the persons or the ayen- es responsible, but | am sure they will feel repaid a thousand times tf they wil take the trouble to visit these youngaters and ace how happy their benevolence has made them,— Birdse Goldman, No. 1367 Fifth Ave- wie. shell, working wonder sands the beach edy of the sea.—R. Broadway. THE FINEST. The resentment 1 long have felt toward the Police Department once upon a time I was called in for “speeding’—was increased when I stood in line to renew my license and was ordered by a policeman to the foot of a “class” of seventy-five, My, but I was vexed! What I was saying to myself about the P. D. and its men! And then a big policeman with blue eyes and a cheerful face and a “way” about him was addressing me, “Come, little lady,” he said, “sure these guys won't mind letting you step ahead of them—will ye, boys? Right this way to the window, little lady.” Taking me by the arm he helped me through the crowd, procured my license for me and saw me to the street, I thanked him as well as I knew how and made for home with new impressions of and new feelings toward the New York Police De partment.—Helen Stagg McKim, No. 158 West 58th Street. BETTER THAN A COACH AND FOUR Lad AND GOLD GALORE. A young man in ® pretty girl in while silk, perched high |lions tn front of the Pub on the seat of a brand new truck chass-|}ifth Avenue and 424 St J. Fanning, No of Lions. Washington Heights, out for a Sunday |Papers. Bus passengers atudied pleasure trip.—I. Schlesing, No. 635 West | With Interest, M, Carey, 168d Street. dam Avenue. THE VILLAGE sMITHY, Making a Business of It, On a trip up the Hudson we saw] On Seventh Avenue yesterday after- young men—not boys, but young mwn| noon | saw a huge crowd looking Into diving in the river at Newburgh for| the stage door entrance of a theatre coins tossed from the steamer, There r 40th Street. Being a New Yorker were three of them, and not many colas| 1 looked also and saw—a blacksmith away from them.—George Werner, | shoeing a horse “hack stage.”—L. Les- West 67tb Street, Me Loth, No, 63 East ovth street. 8 at One of his creations was a out in such o way as to suggest a trag- 595. At 11.15 Sunday morning I saw two \is Sunday best and|sirls of about fourteen climb up on the brary at eet and open ts. They were driving up Broadway on|the conile section of thelr Sunday news- them 288 Amster- _ TH E EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 3% te ie REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD ‘READERS addition. City Hall Station. If you witness an accident, the outbreak of a big the City Editor of the Evening World. Liberal awards for first news. Phone Beekman 4000, ask for City Editor’s Wire. for ten next best stories. MANHATTA awarded Daily and Weekly. Send them to ‘‘What Did You See? DAILY PRIZES: For the best stories each dayy First prize, $25; second prize, $10; third prize, $5. One Dollar ” SPECIAL ANNOUNCE MENT Ten prizes of $2 each SAPETY FIRST. 1 saw a woman this afternoon stand- Ing on the curb apparently In @ state of repressed excitement. She eeemed to want to go somewhere in @ hurry and was scanning every taxi as it passed as i{ she wished to hail it. Sev eral came along but evidently she ha no accident polic for she waited until one drew up bearing the sign: “Bonded Taxi."—M. J. Mescall, No. 365 West Suth Street. HOME BREW AWAITS No MAN, While awaiting my turn in a barber shop I saw 4 man whose face had been aved only on one side Jump hurried y from his chair and run from t shop ‘The barber was dumfounded und the patrons mystifed, but the patron returned in a few minutes and explained us actions. He bad put some “stutt ma the gas stove to boll and happened to think of what might happen If It ex- pluded.—C. J, Brande, No. 409° wast 9th Street, TRY AGAIN, ‘Two girls entered the “L" train sat down beside me, One of them had an Ever World which she opened and the first thing she turned to wa the “What Did You See? column, She scanned it cagerly, and a look of dis niment came into her fuce as she they haven't printed It yet other girl said, “Well, better luck uext time.” Harry Mendlowitz, No. 74 cust 1th Street THE CANS TAN While*watking along trect t day t saw a child about three years old sitting in @ go-cart, She was at- tracted La kitten on the sidewalk, so immeusttely whe yot out, put the kitten in hen place in the cart and pushed it dolon the sireet,—Buyene J. Merket, Nu, 426 Kast soth street. WHY THE COP CUSSED, ‘ Increasing numbers of people gath- ered onthe curb on Madison Aven. the other morning at 1 o'ciock and watched the flashing at regular inter Vuls of what seemed to be a Cushligh on the second flog of a building, he hight watchman approached with a pc licoman, ‘They climbed the staies soft ly, ‘The policeman rapped at the door Who's there?” inquired a yolee, “It's an officer, opeu np.” sald the police man, ‘The door oper A man in pujamas appeared. "There's some one flashiag a searchlight in the front said the policeman, “Oh, that's officer,’ suid the mun, “that reading a newspaper.""—Max No. 1742 Madison Avenue. For thirty minutes 6n th with a box, PrECK's BAD BOYS LUCKY, Roys sitting on a stoop making a Jot of nolse. A quick-tempered Janitress reprimands them and, following her threat, throws a pail of water at them They duck and a lady, dressed daintily In white, who is passing, gets the pail- ful. -H. N., No. 124 West 112th Street GOING DOW This evening while going to the baker's I passed a pusheart peddler selling cherries at 15 conta a half pound. When I returned he was aell- tny them at 10 cents, and about fif- tecm minutes later, when 1 passed again, they were being sold at 5 conts.—O. KR. Feodorint, No, $06 West 116th Street. MAY BE A FUTURE SOUSA. The little fellow was straining every inch of his 2 feet & inchea to eee thr band conductor, He was behind the ropes in the free section of the concert on th® green at Columbla University We lifted him to our seat. Oblivious of us and everything else but the music he tie His fatner, a foreign work- man, seid: “He's nevrly tour. We lv i the Bronx, nearly an hour's ride. 1 have ta bring him’ every night. He sleeps in the afternoon so he can cot He IMKes th music.” —Stuart A. Rive No, UL West 12ist Stheet. THEY DO TE OFTEN. 1 saw a liltle girl wearing a Scout suit lve up her seat In tie subway to hy oll and feeble gentleman, ‘The ola rm tared unbelievingly, but her mother smiled proudly @&nd several young men Who remained seated buried ; their heads deeper in thelr newspapers. Mes. M. Abrams, No, 515 Weat 159tiv Stinet PAKEN BY A POLICE WOMAN, didn't look inore than nineteen as sie came aboard the Ninth Avenue L. Sho sat down beside me, opened her vanity t a handkerchiot played a police automatic pis- —Albert st 22d Street. and accident r and t tol 1 ever RK, Thowns, SPOILING TH ILLUSION. A restaurant on Fitth Avenue in Gee Thirties bas a boxed hedge of plants inclosing a few tables in the centre of the Noor 1 saw a country lad go in at break t time, plainly drawn by the sight of the green, Then | saw his look of disappointment as a bus boy cume with a feather duster and gav the artificial plants thelr morning spruc- Yo, 1 West 34th Strees. ing up.—t, L WHEN A BOX ISN'T. west sfde subway a guard argued with a spinster-like woman, When the train got under way the ery of a cat was heard, the other morning She had got aboard and as the guard approached, a “tom,” unmuzzled and with arched in the off with Th back, raised himself would have to get because he was in a box box. the the box had no covering it was not, aceording to sub’ He won, and the woman and “tom” tion, a box. Square.-Katherine L, Farrell, No. NEXT TIME CALL A POLICEMAN, It had just stopped raining. Titre women and a man climbed atop a Fifth Avenue bus, All were native born, ap parently educated. well-dressed | and long past the thoughtless age. Rut, when they found the seats were wet, the man with a show of what he in tend for gallantry broke the United StMtes flag from Its staff on the bus and wiped off the seats with it. And the women, without s¢ to think there was anything wrong with his act, unhesitatingly sat down.—Jean Stuart Scott, No. 41 West Ninth Street. AND A SINGING MOUSE. One of my patients told me he was awakencd during the night by a low musteal sound in bis bedroom and dis: covered It was made by a mouse, He denied the existence of home brow tn the house and I know he wasn’t ailing that way, 1 was almost ready to leay: when he ealled my atten‘ion toa musical sound, U looked in the direction it can from and sure enough {t was made by 4 mouse, ‘There Were four or five dle tinct musi¢al notes.—Dr. N., West 16d) Street. IZZY EINSTEIN'S MORE CARRFU 1 saw two men walk from ua grocers store on Second Avenue, One carried n bottle half full of a brown fuld, A small boy running down the street brushed into him and the bottle crashed on the pavement, The men looked at each other and one said, “Well, there gods the evidence.""—J. G. Kemmler, No. 419 Euat 64th Street, WHEY START PARLY, She was on St. Nicholas Avenue, and she was perhaps fivv years old, ag children’s ages are counted; but she was weariny khaki knickers and @ khaki middy. About her head was a band of seartet ribbo She wore sandals, but no stockings, and us she fox-trotted up the street she strummed a ukelele as soulfully as if she were fifteen, Her mother wheeled the next candidate behind in a pram.—Marte Loscalso, No 1306 Bt, Niholas Avenue, The guard) told the woman sae cat. She argued she would not guard, however, argued that because ay interpreta- ighted at Times 3657 Broadwa IK WALTON IN CITY HALL PARK, In the tountain in Hall Park the other day six or seven urenins were ing in the haif-filled bowl, Sud- y they all became excited, One of them had spied a live fish, and they were trying to catch him barehanded. For twenty minutes they streteheu and plunged thelr hands in the water and then one little fellow caught It. It was quite large, too, and they scam- pered down (he street with It—J. B., No. 271 West 125th Street. SHE'S OFTEN THERE. ast night on Broadway near Tim Square I saw a little gray-haired old Indy, dressed in a black silk dress and old-fashioned black hat draped with a Nowing black vell, selling newspapers.— John J. Muldowney, No. 142 West 105th Street. AN UNCONSCIOUS HOST. I saw a man sitting asleep on a bench in tral Park. A bag of peanuts showed in his coat pocket. A squirrel presently ne Up, Nosed into the bag andgrematned until he had eaten all the peanuts without awakening his host.— M . K., New York, DRAW YOUR OWN MORAL. I saw two dirds to-day struggling for possesion of @ worm, Along came @ laruer bird and took 4 away from thew Then the two email birds joined forces to pursue the thief.—Helena Newer, No. #3 East 124th Street, Everybody's Drinking Water Now: I was on a Second Avenue surface car, one of the “one man’ variety, the motorman of which was captain, cook, mate and all the crew, At 16th Street - ‘WEEKLY PRIZES: Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as followsa First prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25; fourth prize, $10. BRONX. HELD UP FOR A FEW CENT! A car bound for Mount Vernon was passing through Getty Square in Yon- MUCH OBLIGED. Park, On the next seat sat make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be ay for every item printed; the prizes are in ditor Evening World, Post Office Box 185, WRITE ABOUF HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. fire, or any big news story, phone GET FACTS. I was seated on a bench in St. Mary's six men. kers, The conductor claimed that one} Along came a woman pushing a baby of the passengers had not pald his fare. | carriage, As she passed the men a plece They argued back and forth without] of knitting fell from the cart to. the getting anywhere and finally the con-| ground. One of the men called out ductor pulled the bell and sald the car] “Lady, you dropped something!" She wouldn't move until he got the money. | turned about, walked back, picked up We must have been held there all of fif-| the knitting and proceeded on her way teen minutes; anyhow it scemed that] without a word. Without evo giving long. Then a thoroughly disgusted passenger who had no part in the dis- pute handed the conductor the fare and the gentleman gave two bells.—Erlc B, Levy, No. 838 Beck Street, Bronx. them a glance. for a minute said ‘Thank uillian Mae Place, Bronx. They you. Fawcett, No. 740 Hegn WIRELESS COMMUNICATION. I saw three young men standing on AMAZONS. I saw two women tn a regular stand- ip-and-knock-down fight In ‘Trinity Ave- nue, One of the ladies recelved a blow that put her out, or maybe she fainted. ‘There was a big audience, but every- body faded away as a policeman ap- proached.—Ruth Arnstein, No, 764 Trin- ity avenue, Bronx. corner apparently as ff they had an ¢ gagement there, ‘They watted perha three-quarters of an hour and then o1 wrote a note and stuck {t In the spai between the fire-box and the po! Presently three girls.came along, wa “the They'll per. “Oh,” she erted, couldn't wait any longe here to-morrow night 819 Fox Street, Bronx. WHAT SHE WAS TUGGING. 1 eat a woman in tho subway train with a lovely cape aver hor shoulders, I wouldn't want to say she was showing off, but somehow the cape kept sipping. Her con- tinual readjustment of tt attracted attention. She thought she gave one mighty tug at it as sho neared her station, but what she had grabbed was the lower part of tho coat of a little man who sat in front of her, She almost pulled the coat off the little man,—Helen Bornstein, No, $56 Wadsworth Avenue. MOTHER KNEW. My inotor broke down on trip in New Jersey. rage In a tiny village tended by elderly man, but after tinkering awh with the machine he gave up. if 1 know whe Just then his wife, a mother! haired woman, came out and afte tioning him pointed out the the engine trouble. No, 1180 Washing FOUND. Two young girls came into the Willis Avcaue car and stood in tront It had been raining. One of the girls, returning her change to her purse, dropped a dime, “Madam,” she said, “I think I dropped a dime into your pocket.” 1 told her there was no pocket in the dress I was wearing and, rising, I shook my skirt. We it was raining and waen I opened my Boosman, No. 335 St. Ann's Bronx. on Avenue, of me didn't-see any dime. umbrella a dime fell Avenue, HELPFUL YOUNG MAN, An elderly gentleman, quite obviously “under the influence,” was assisted Into a Third Avenue local at Brooklyn Bridge last night by a well dressed young man who (a woman passenger and I are agreed) put one hand into the old man’s To-day out of it.-—Mrs, DOWNFALL OF A HARD MASTER. bag of onfons on his back Montgomery £ .reet. Back of him walk stantly urged the kid to “hurry.” Ti looked after her and finally one of them Don't mention tt." oy Py n pe ne cc le It ed and then one spled the plece of pu fellows be Lola May, No: a recent 1 found a lone ga- an He “Durned » the trouble is," he sald Samuel Schtifman, TASK: I saw a lad of twelve carrying a heavy through ed a stockily built man of forty, who con- trouser's pocket as he helped him into af tittle chap was almost bent- double seat. “he old man felt the hand and], 4,, ily Baa te made a clumsy attempt to grab. the ubtae ip igad Sand arieseaeeriiy De : youth, | it the latter got to the platform] 0 ~‘ow. As he turned the corner o} before the train pulled out, We asked] Market Street he dropped the bag and the elderly one if he had lost anything. He felt through his pockets and sald Years ago, he sald, he was robbed un- der similar circumstances, and he showed us how his money bag was sewed to the bottom of his pocket. The experience appeared to have sobered the man went sprawling over it at length.—Lester I. W. Dayis, Avenue St. John, Bronx. 0. HER BUSY MORNIN it On my way to business this morning him, and at 42d Street he got out un-|1 saw a woman release a baby’s hand In assisted —Thomas J. Woods, No. 1821 ine middle of the roadway and mn bia eal li after a dog. She picked up the dog and PARTICULAR. returned Just In time to get the baby An elderly man stepped into a | out of the way of a truck.—Bertha V Lewington Avenue train. He leaned | Harris, No. 1690 Jerome Avenue, Bronx. over and felt the seats as if trying to find a soft one. He felt all the empty ones and then, apparently dissatisfied, walked into the next car.—Magdalen Kun, No. 778 Pros- pect Avenue, Bronz. RICHMOND. MOTHERLESS CHICKS. their shells, The mother hen had qu her job, and these eggs w the shells quite hard. A tiny hole w: mede and the shell taken off bit by bi first tn a circle around the centre, ‘Thi the skin was broken to give alr, To-d) the chickens are all doing well.—M. Andrews, No. gan Hills, Staten Island. CHAMPIONS GET THEIRS Fins On Gold Street 1 saw two bootblacks having @ fist fight. Frequently some spectator would throw out a few pennics and the boys would suspend hostilities to pick them up, Then they'd start fighting egain.—George Colligan. No 207 Willis Avenue, Bronx, OUT OF TOWN. 7 GIVE AWAY, . STOP: The tramMe officer at Ocean Drive and 10th Avenue, Belmar, ts wonderful in his brown and white’ sport shoes, golf stockings, knickers and white shirt, with only @ visored cap and a billy sticking yesterday I saw a crowd gathered the sidewalk, I discovered a sheepi looking fat woman being weighed I saw some buby chicks helped from ait cold and as it, en ay a. 9 Cromwell Avenue, Don- In front of a Newark movie house on ah on ed from his pocket to show he 1s a police-| scales in the lobby. sign informed man. And he's a good traffic cop.—C,} me that all women weighing over 225 D., Belmar, N, J. pounds would be admitted free that week.—Elizabeth Abel ACCOMMODATION TRAIN IY JERSEY. I saw an automobile stalled on the railroad crossing at Tenafly. The driver held up his hand, stopped the train, and at his request the engineer’ kept his train at @ standstill untit gasoline wes obtained so the machine could be drive away.—Martin Faley, Jefferson Aveny Tenafly, N. J. Street, South, Orange, AN ALERT YOUNG MAN, A pretty girl was about to cross rather busy street. near the cur band out “Stop.” T go machin use, and turned the sixn to girl stopped the street together,—Miss Sylvia Wi stein, No, 156 § Vernon, N. ¥ DISAPPEARING SNAKES. In the country tho other day I saw a snake lying in the road with a lot of DOWN ON THE OSTERVILLE ROA On the Osterville Road I saw one the daughters of he stopped the car, ran across the reet Into Stuyvesnit Square, shooed @ crowd of youngsters wvsy from the ‘bubbler’ drinking fountain, drank tls fll, waived a cheery bye-bye to the ad- miring younger Kenerntion, hurried back to his “private ear’ and we were off again.—Frances B Williains, 9 Living- elon Place Rt. < little snakes playing about, ad the big snake saw us she opened her mouth and all the little ones wriggled ad Yecker, Sag Harbor, N. y, 5 soon saddle in front of her, daily ride," she explained,—Mrs, Phil Hale, Osterville, Mass ' a uddenly a young man rushed to a policeman's stop and of he The man tipped his hat spoke, Joined the girl and they crossed tt Fulton Avenue, Mount D. of 4 summer cottager riding horseback with a dog on tho lack loves his ip the house and start upon a shopping trip, [ was waiting the scheduled arrival of the man from the dry. halted in front of the house, 1 antici- your wash, lady, I'm here with a parcel post package. to look before. 1 Blume, No, THE BEST PLACE Is Ing the child received Rosenberg, Brooklyn, COMMERCE BEGA Avenues where people wait for trolley cars I saw a peanut vendor hall a man who Was selling {ce cold lemonade from wanted a drink and paid nuts.—A. Epstein, No. 764 De Kalb Ave- nue, Brooklyn, saw a milk-wagon horse standing at the side of the’ road with its legs another, get punctured tires at exactly ahd toksed it into a garbage can, that there were no more puncture: more tmpatient motorists, no more sutl- 3 piturously blue atmosphere.—Miss C. Connolly, them. The conductor put him off at th HAT DID YOU SEE TO-DAY? AL HAPPENINGS A PAGE’WORTH READING BROOKLYN. ORE THAN ONE POLICmMAN'S AUTO HAS BEEN STOLEN, At the luncheon hour I saw a Police Department runabout pull up In front of the Pulitzer Bullding. ‘The police- man-chauffeur got out and looked around until he caught the eye.of the MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Nervously anxious to g@t away from. ‘wet wash" laun- At last, observing n automobile pated the ring and grabbing the laundry] patrolman on post, when ho salde bag, opened the front door and thrust it] “Keep your eye on this boat a few out at a man who said, “I don’t want| minutes; you never can tell.” ‘The man on beat promised to be watchful.—M. Next time I'm going] H., Ploneer Street, Brooklyn, leap.—Mrs, C. R. 21 Gold Street, Brooklyn. NOT A MAN BATHR. At Orient, Long Island, Jean and & swam out to the float. He dared me ta swim another half-mile to the lobster pots, but, not being a good swimmer, I declined. He went out alone, saw a fin on the surface, realized a shark was about and, using a fast craw! stroke made for shore. All the way back ta the the float the shark kept about five feet away from him and finally turned and swam out to the Sound again. Later we were told it was a harmles sand shark, but Jean was thoroughly feightened.—August Rechholtz, No, 2617 Hughes st., Brooklyn. HIS OTHER SELF. In Slat Btroet, Broorlyn, I saw a dig man with his fiste doubled up at his own reflection in a mirror. The glass was in the show window of @ furniture shop, Ho didn’t like the way the “other fellow? was looking at him, and he said so, Ho talked louder and louder as he de- scribed the habits, failings and fam- ily connections of hia “adversary,.’ and finally ho had quite’ an audi- ence, the younger element expecting (and rather hoping) to sce the win- dow crashed, Finally the merchant got wind of what was up, and com- ing out, threw his arm around the muddled one and smoothed things over, It must be awful stuff they sell in bottles nowadays.—B. F. C., 2ist Street, Brooklyn COMMUNITY POST OFFICE. Motoring on Long Island we came ta A corner or cross roads where we saw twenty-three Rural Free Delivery letter boxes {n one group.—Howard Warwick, No, 1084 Madison st,, Brooklyn, INNOCENCE. —- While riding in the Lexington Ave DON'T MENTION IT. nue Subway this afternoon it was my Feds) /otlowed) into Buminer. extreme misfortune to be seated near | Avenue cor this afternoon by an- a little boy about five yeara old, His] fer young man who, after T had auestions in @ loud voice annoyed ev-\ dropped my nickel into the ooin-box, crybody, The young mother tried to| Mided a bill to the conductor and hush him. “Arthur,” she said, “you} Sad» “Sorry! haven't got a qokel. niust NOT speak 60 loud" Whereupon | OM» that’s all right, buddy,” said the child asked, ina mo the combination motorman-condue- tone, "Mother, who Is slespir tor, “you'll soon have nineteen of nnocence of the boy captivated all his] them.'” And he counted them ont, sratwhile victims,=Samuel P. Green-| one at @ time.—Manny Zucker, No. berg, No. 438 Blake Street, Brookiyn.| $62 Summer Avenue, Brooklyn. PRECAUTION, I boarded a Lexington Avenue Subway expregs and observed a man comfortably crouched at the end of a seat, cOllarless and with the neckband of his sairt unfastened. When we were some di_tance out from Grand Central, headed south, he aroused himself, fastened the neckband and, reaching into the pocket of his coat, pulled out collar and tie and proceeded to put them on. He was putting the finishing touches to a four-in-hand tie as he left the train at 14th Street. Thus the collar saved from the gruelling wear of a trip In the subway on a sultry day.—C. H. Manire. HE SIDE OF was TELEPHONY, I sao an unwelcome visitor coma to see my employer, The caller had been in the office less than two min- utes when the bosa received a tele- A HILL In the noon hour I saw two boys fly- kite Broadway and Cedar It struck against the Equitable at Bullding and finally plunged into a taxi call. “By George, I’m sor- which shot right along about its busl-| ry," he sad, “but I’m called to the ness with the kite a prisoner, The] bank and will be away probably two oye still have the string.—A. H. Da-| hours.’ They left the office together. vidson, No, 906 Ditmas Avenue, Brook-| Thr boss left the pest at the corner lyn. and immediately returned to ¥ a desk.—Charles, Lincoln Avenue, RANDMA WASN'T AROUND. Brooklyn. I saw. a very young child pull a flower — from his mother's hat. 1 also saw what EXAMPLE. in return.—Harr! Wastern Parkway I looked out from a Sea Reach local as {t ran along through the cut and saw an embankment farm. Wistful goat peered at good green cabbage flourish No. 883 WITH BARTER, The sun was bright and the weather |!"® 1” Peace behind @ unique fence waa Not. Thousands were hurrying to] ™#de of the skeleton forms of blue, the beaches, At De Kalb and Tompkins | Stee?, white, rusting and rusty fron bedsteads, ‘The examples of intensive cultivation all around us should Inspire the native born to make better use of his opportunities. I'm afraid we are The lazy.—K. M., Mapleton, Brooklyn. rickety wagon, Peanut man or it in pea- THE STRANGER WITHIN THE GATES. Battery Park at noon and a boa IT'S A HARD LIFE. - from Elis Island Juat in, Third clase passengers crowd through to the side- walk, They are dressed rather well and On the way to work this morning | ‘ossed. William, Olsen, No. 49 Bast. ‘Third | do not look especially forelgn. Suddenly Street, Brooklyn. a quaint little gure appears, A girl in her teens, blonde hair hanging in a long GOOD BOF: thick brafi, head covered with a white 1 saw five automobiles, one after silk kerchlef tt 1 dermurely under her ‘ chin, skirt Jong and full and bodice same spot on Ocean Parkway before} snort and tight fitting, On one arm one of the boys of the neighborhood de-| oi... carries a bundle tied In a large red elded to 4nvestigate. He found one of| handkerchief and on the other # reed the larger pleces of a broken milk bottle | basket covered with a white cloth. An old world figure among the flapper After no stenographers in Battery Park at noon time.—J. M. G., Brouklyn, REPORTED. No, 682 Hast 28th Street. | 7 caw a man in the automat using Brooklyn, ; = many paper napkins. He had ade a EXCEPTION, cloth with eeveral and several While driving through Connecticut J were in his iap, while frequently saw a billboard advertisement of a done from the stack before him, Wallingford hotel which read: "The| As he upset 2 g)ass of milk Into @is lap Only New England Inn Washington Did|a young man ar the next treble begam Not Vigit."—Alexander Heltout, No, | making notes.—William MecEllizett, Nog 4019 12th Avenue, Brooklyn, 2713 Albermarle Road, Brooklyn ' ———S . QUEE! FROM THE FLY TO THE FLYPAPER. In the window of a Woodhaven butcher shop Sunday momming I saw a kitten, evidently trying to sleep, show annoyance at # fly buzzing about her. She rolled over to escape it, but rolled onto a sheet of flypaper. She rolled the other way and rolled onto another | piece of flypaper.—Harold See, No. 14 Martha Avenue, Jan FROG CAUSES NEAR-PANIC. NO FISHING Riding on the Broadway Brooklyn line, aica ALLOWED, I saw & mun try to get into the bound for Manhattan, I saw a frog hop " out from under one of the seats. Wo-| Aquarium carrying a fish pole and @ nen and giris screamed and kept mov-1\...uet. When the guard told hi ing about from place to place as it| Ske hea th afraid the little creature might devov pole would have to be checked at tha first stop.—L. Curtin, Richmond Hill] entrance the man turned and walked Gittins Wesoataein away.—C. H. G., Forest hills, NO HURRY. I saw a sign in a butcher shop window reading: “Young Man | Wanted Who Can Ride Bicycle About 16 Years."—James Canavan, Ne | 44 39th Street, Corona, L. I. t