The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1922, Page 10

4 RETR RPE ST TT EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, A PAGE OF REAL NEWS MANHATTAN. “THAT REMINDS MB." I saw @ man take a newspaper from & Madison Avenue stand and start away BUSINESS WOMAN. On Broadway at 12th Street I saw a woman pushing baby carriage while fwithout giving any thought to the mat-/a child of perhaps three toddled along fer of paying for it. He gave one hur-Jat her side. In the carriage was a big ied glance about, saw a policem@n| bundle of half made coats which the Biving him the up and down and re- turning, deposited his pennies. ank No. 73 East 118th Street. woman was cartying home to finish.— A. A. Beiner, No. 63 West 112th Street. HUMAN FLY. I saw a boy climbing up the front Wall of a building in West 15th Street. When he reached the third story he got stuck, somehow or other, and held ‘on by his fingertips, bawling until help ame. 8. Goblet, No. 160 Bleecker Street, HE WAS NEVER AFRAID or IT. While I stood in Park Row during the storm a flash of lightning struck Ben Franklin's atatue and passed {nto the xround.—Frank Lowe, No, 118 West 101st Street. IRISH CABARET. At Coney Island I was atfracted by an “Irish Cabaret” sign and entering the place discovered that the waiters, each in his turn aings one of the old or more modern Irish ballads, Two of them are good dancers and jigs and reels were generoosly applauded.—Jules Maarsen, No. 60 Weat 118th Street, THERE ARE TRICKS IN ALL TRADES. Going up Fifth Avenue to-day I saw at 68th Street two painters at work on an fron railing, I judged they had just reached the “finishing touches.” One of them had a small mirror, like those you see thé ladies take from their handbags. He drew this along under the railing while the other chap touched his brush to such spots as the looking-glass showed had been left unpainted.—cC. B. Wareing, No. 110 West 104th Street. i “DING, DONG, BELLI" | Laaw a Uittle boy of three walking along the atreet with a cat in his arma, the cat trying sta best to get away without committing assault and battery. In front of the bake shop the boy found himself weaken- ing, and walking over to a giant milk can he dropped Thomas into it and closed the cover over him, There was no milk in the can.— Irene Phelan, No. 44 Bast Bighth Street. “THEM WAS THK HAPPY DAYS." In the window of an Ann Street bar- ber shop, neatly framed, a poker hand consisting of the ace, ten, Jack, king and queen of spades, a royal fu Below the cards 1s written a date never to be forgotten, ‘October 10, 190: McCarthy, No. 86 Ann Stre: ANIMAL INTELLIGENOB. At Amsterdam Avenue and La Salle Street a shower has been set up for the children of the neighborhood. 1 saw a wagon pull up at the curb to- day. When the driver disappeared into # nearby store the horse stepped along a short distance until he was unde! the bath, No kid on the block ever has shown that he enjoyed {t more.—Ethel Brandstein, No. 501 West 124th Street. A “REGULARY FELLOW. In 84th Btreet I saw a newsboy drop one of hia papers which blew out into the middle of the wet street before the Uttle fellow knew what had happened. When he got to it the different sheets or sections had sep- arated and the paper was a mess. A taxi stopped while the boy sur- veyed the wreck. “Gimme that paper,” said the driver, “No, the wet one.” The kid handed it to him, The taxt driver tossed Mm a coin and the boy dug for change. Before he could get st the taat had departed, I wish I could tell that taxi driver what one woman thinks of Mis generous act.—M. 7. 8., No 167 Bast 40th Street. GROUCH, It was almost the closing hour wher 1 stepped into the frulterer's. While the clerk was packing things away for the night, the proprietor waited upon me In person. Another woman entered while the clerk was earrying a basket of peaches, and the woman, who appeared to be ina hurry (but didn't say #0), left the store. The proprietor was mad as # hatter. He berated the clerk roundly. He still was going strong when the woman returned. ‘Thought I'd go in next door and get an evening paper,” she said. The boss of the fruit shop looked pretty cheap.—C. Eleanor Reitz, Wo, 146 Hast 44th Street. AND GENTLEMAN, Not far from the Poplar Street Police Btation, in Henry Street, Brooklyn, | saw “one of the finest’ it ever been TAXI GONDQLAS, my pleasure to gaze upon. This gentle-| The sidewalks and streets in my man—from three to five years old, 1] neikhborhood were flooded the other should say—was arrayed in full police} night after a heavy downpour. People could not cross the streets and enter- prising taxi drivers ferried them over at 10 cents each,—Isadore Markowitz, No. 99 Avenue C, CALL A TAXI. Below Riverside Drive at 106th Street I saw five boys enjoying @ swim in the Hudson. Each was lying “swim fashion” on a log. They were taking things easy when suddenly a large wave was back- washed upon them by a passing steamboat and two of them rolled from their logs. The logs floated away and the two boys swam for shore while their sympathetic companions yelled “Get a horse! Get a horse!"”—Benjamin Siegel, No. 209 East 103d Street. uniform—pertect fitting sult, cap, stick, everything. He was erect and alert, every inch the officer.—B. C. 8., West Pith Street. TRACKS WHICH TELL NOTHING. I was lighting a cigarette at the cor- ner of Hudson and Gansevoort Stri “BOY” FROM THE FARM. It wus noon, Broadway at Kighth Street was crowded with pedestrians A sweet, motherly, little, old wor going to lunch, No one paid any was standing near. “lL beg your p attention to a horse having trouble don, young man," said she; “but can] with his feed bay. which had been you teil me how long I'll have to walt] put on awry. His driver was not for a Hudson Street car?" When I| there at the moment, and he was told her the line has been out of op-| looking pitvously at the passing eration bout four years she sald, people as if imploring them for help. An elderly man, well dressed, but with a worried, almost grouchy ex preasion, came near hy 1 did not think he would even ser the horae, but it was he who went over and adjusted the bay a the animal could have his oat ladys Brown, No. 252 Bast Seventh Street, “Gractout And I've been standing here 10 minutes.""—M. L. Dolan, No. 67 Gansevoort Street. SHADES OF ‘SANDLOTS' KEARNKY, Pasted onto the bill of fare in a Chi- nese restaurant: “Owing to the high cost of LABOR and materials patrons are respectfully requested to order at least one item at 50 cents.'’—Bernard Levy, No. 3569 Broadway. Hox I saw a futy and Columbus Ave the iron horse which fountain. He had tied cord for reinw about the horse's cars and was working his arms and feet as if he were riding no less a racer than Man O' War, A good-sized crowd cheered his efforts, — Elizabeth Blerbaum, No, 192 Hast 45th Street, New York SOME ONE WAITS FOR SOME ONE. I was passing Leonard and Centre Streets when I saw a you woman lift’ her baby from its carriage and hold it toward one of the windows of the City Prison, I who was in the window and | did not want to stare, but he was the woman and her baby thre kisses to bim for minutes.—J. J. Graham, No. 311 t 52d Street, N CEPY. at 66th St He was ast surmounts WHY LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCK- gS MITHS. Walking up Seventh Avenue, I saw this sign in the window of a lock- sinith's shop: “If your wife disobeya you, take this key and lock her up, lock her in. or lock her out.”—Jeremiah Stevens, No. 26 Madison Street, with could its face not see whoever several WHY SHE WAS FINICKY. SPA ISLAND'S GHAND OLD MAN, I saw a couple come into a movi On Staten Island tues a quaitn theatre near my home. The wo WeMINee aa Reieai aston searched diligently for a seat in the oh am Gaple-ohecked,, shite Fear Gf the house. Unable to fini haired old man. He weave an im one she came nearer the front avd PiaGUIRDALAN IGAIN saahite naltel: hak @noyed all by her search for aci!s with no collar, and always, sunmer she wanted. Pinally, owiny to (i+ froteata of other apeciate and winter, he carries his coat over Ler caoort were asked by an usher his arm. Often he ix seen on the seat themselves, Then she annoue the spectators further by refusing to her hat, An usher hadgto r to do that and then we naw GoW train eating an with a spoon dd conversing with romove a. the paxsengers 106 West Sit Strect awhy she had searched so for a xut dm the rear ne eernned ie remove NO AUDIENCE. her hat. Her hair was done up While standing at Broadway and 91st curl japers.—John J. Connor, Strevt, where a new bullding 18 in course 43 West 56th Street. of erection, 1 saw a blind map with a tha ‘fan stop and play, It was after OLD FASHIONED LADY. work hours, Hardly any one was pass- J sew a woman about forty years ot} !ng. He played wearing @ bathing suit coming down to| hour, holding out his hi her ankles at Rockaway Beach.—Sidney | butions.—Walter Frawle Behlinski, No, 117 East list Street. [55th Street, New York gor READ TO-DAY JULY 27, 199%," REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be O T awarded Daily and Weekly. Send fam to “What ‘Did You See?” addition. City Hall Station. If you witness an accident, the outbreak of a big Editor of the Evening ekman 4000, ask for City Editor’s Wire. the Cit Phone ditor Evening SPECIAL ANNOUNCE MENT DAILY PRIZES: For the best stories each day: second prize, $10; third prize, $5. for ten next best stories. First prize, $25; Ten prizes of $2 each One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in World,: Post Office Box 185, WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. fire, or any big news story, phone World. Liberal avant for first news. GET FACTS. WEEKLY PRIZES: Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25; fourth prize, $10. MANHATTAN. A FROG HE WOULD A-RIDING GO In a certain 126th Street novelty shop you may buy things like pocket combs, pistols, toys, put-and-take tops, knives and compasses. I saw a man there to-day who wan’ ted a leaping frog. When the toy was wound up and placeg on the counter it appeared to be defective. The frog wouldn't do his stuff. gentleman turned his attention wound up and successfully set in when something happened in the he made up his mind that he wanted a ride. It being the last of the stock, the to a mechanical auto. This was motion, It had made one circult ttle frog's innards—or perhaps Anyhow, he took one jump and -leaped Into the auto—George Weill, No. 243 West 116th Street. GooD cop. There 1s a traffic policeman at Grand Street and the Bowery whom every- body In the neighborhood likes. He hax smile and a good word for all.—Louis Smolow!tz, No. 56 Ludlow Street. FASTIDIOUS KITTENS. Yesterday in the park I saw a woman open a_valise and take from {t two cats. Then she took out a cloth and spread it on the ground, where she place two saucers of milk.—Florence B. Frank, No. 229 West 110th Street, MAYBE HE'D SEEN IT ALL. 1 saw a man asleep on a sight-seeing bont.—F. L, Adams, No. 161 West 36th Street, INDIFFERENT CROWDS. I saw an airship sailing over the city to-day at noon, but not one tn the crowd ralsed an eye to watch ft, A few years ago it would have been enough to stop all traffie.—John Mead, No. 344 West 19th Street. BRONX WHOLE FAMILY—A TRAIN. I saw a lady get on a train with five amall children whom she dis- tributed in thres or four seats. She handed the oénductor only one ticket, remarking as she did so that all her children wore under five year of age. He took the ticket, looked at st, then at the woman and then fastened an exasperated gaze on the children. “Good Lord, lady,” he exclaimed, “you take up @ whole car with one ticket.”—A, H, Wheeler, No. 470 B. 1616t Street, Bronz. EVER MISS AN OGDEN AVENUE Rn At 16}th Street a woman came aboard the Ogden Avenue street car and was just about to deposit her fare when she said: “Weill, now and I was SO glad to catch this car! Does 't it beat ALL? I left my parcel at the corner.” The con- ductor opened the car and she left us. The incident may not impress you, sir, but I am sure ét will be appreciated by any ono who has missed an Ogden Avenue car.—Mra, A. W. Kasten, No, 957 Anderson Avenue. NIGH HORSE FRIGHTENS CLARA. My desk at the office {is close opportunity to see what is going-on in the street. horse truck was at the curb. Tw line with the whiffletrees. been keeping yourself" “Why, I time,” &c. a pesky fly, switched his long tall all of three feet in the air, “Clara!” Grace laughed, to the window where I have an To-day our two- young ladies met almost in a “Grace!” “Where have you haven't seen you for the longest At this point the nigh horse, in a frantic effort to reach in Clara's face, and she jumped Clara laughed—after a minute—and I had a pretty good chuckle myself—Mae Rodden, No. 2443 Tigbout Avenue, Bronx. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. Few, it seems can resist taking some- thing that 1s offered for nothing, even If {t Is no good to them, At the 149th Street Station of the Thing Avenue “'L’' every one Is offered a transfer to the subway. Nearly ery one T saw took one and then, 1 saw also, hardly half —Willis 1426 Washington Avenue, Kroll, Bronx, No, QUE: LUCKY. During 2 thunderstorm last week my boy was running my filvver delivery truck when a stroke of lghtning yped the engine. The same stroke eda tree, which fell directly In front of the d machine, which probably, had it not been stopped, would have been demolished and the boy killed by the falling — tre Morgan Washburo, No. 1615 Benson Street, Bronx, NS Query, o) the baker's wagon went up the street this morning 1 side of it a white placard, on were painted In red letters the word "Horse for 8: I've wondering how many horses they can carry in that wagon.—Rich Wagner, 2 Town send Avenue, Laurel Hill, L. 1 Wh noticed on which IRE, Spring Street THERE MUS! In a@ hallway near the Bowery 1 five drinking what looked like milk and water from @ bottle with a long neck. asked a denisen of the dis trict what the stu was, and was told it 4s called * , bE. D, Farrell, St RICHMOND DISPOSSESED. he sents on thi on saw men Albans, L. 1. upper promenade for a quarter of an 1 for contri- Hust deck of the Staten Island ferry boat were still moist from a recent rain, 1 saw a little girl with her mother and distance away from them a man read ing & newspaper Which, within a min ite or tWo, Was lifted from his hand by the wind and after (uttering a bit foll upon the deck and was blown and tossed about until it came within: the visio: of the ehild irsted and captured it, only to have it taken from her by the man, “Thank you,’ he Plainly put out by the incident, f¢ did not know the paper belonged co any one in particular, the little girl re turned downcast to her seat. “Arline, said her mother, “I certainly am. sur prised and disappointed; you should have said ‘you're welcome,’ at least “Aw.” said the young lady, “1 was going to ait on it.”—T. ¥. Fowler, No. 831 Carey Avenue, West New Lrighton. THE Hoss, The gentleman tn front wus compelled to come to Main Street of whom I a halt in a (Plushing) street ped his hat and was sur- rendering his plice to me when his woman companion grabbed him by the crow ose, arm and pu d him down again. Af argument began Immediately. I edged my way as fur away from them as I could get.—Mrs. E Wilson Avenue, R. Phelps, Flushing, L. 1. No. 43 HENRY & ROVERT, No. 829 MILDRED THURBER, No. JOSEPH N. KLI SORGHE ALBE PAR MRS. E. RICHARDS, No. 228 GERTRUDE BORRIE, No. the MILDRED H. MICHAEL, No. Staten Island. OUT OF TOWN curr, I saw two little boys on the street carrying what I took to be baskets of freshly picked raspberries. When I asked if the berries were for sale the little fellows laughed and showed me there was only one layer of berires in each box, arranged on top of all kinds of leaves. They were playing ‘‘a Joke on mother."—Leon D. Martin, Box 103, Richford, Vt. EVERY BOY SHOULD KNOW HOW. I saw one boy lying across the lap of another boy while the latter sewed a pateh on his pants—J. T, Manning, No. 305 Willow Avenue, Lyndhurst, N, J. HE'LL COMP AGAIN, Before me tn the line before the pay- Ing teller’s window In a local bank was a boy of five or six years who held a check in his hand. When I lifted him to the window I found he was trying to cash a check such as are used in teaching bookkeeping. We all laughed. A business man ‘‘cashed" the check for one cent—Wm. H. Meyer, No. 1075 Summit Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. On my way te business this morn- mg I saw a woman stick her head out of a window and give two chil- dren an awful tongue lashing. “Queer sort of parents you must have,” she said (in part) “to let you run wild this way. The idea of making #0 much noise and waking everybody up at this hour of the morning. Go ‘long about your buat- ness.” I looked at my watch. It was 8.25. —Vse A, Coyle, Jersey City. (Please send address.) WHAT THE DAY TENDER. At the bathing beach I saw a man tn @ raincoat who also wore, in addition to the customary “get up," a pair of long stockings and carried an umbrella. I had to ask the question, and he sald, “To keep from gvtting sinburned.”"—J. Farrington, Baldwin, L. 1. A FENCE IN CHESTER. While motoring through Orange Coun- ty recently our attention was drawn to a fence near the town of Chester which the natives call the “crazy fence." In- terwoven with the ordinary stone and cement are broken rakes, clocks, bottles, clay pipes, automobile number plates, wagon wheels, parts of ploughs and other things. The effect {s not at all unpleasant.—Joseph_ Rossall, Brookside Farm, Monroe, N. Y. ROVER. In Van Cortland Park I saw a big dog pick up a baseball and run away with It while the bateman who had knocked {t far out into the fleld was headed for second base.—Kathleen Schneider, Upper Nyack, N. Y. “AFTER YOU, JACK?” In Grand Central Station I saw two Httle newsboys, ages eleven and seven perhaps, the older of thom was puffing away at a cigarette. The Uttler fellow watched with what I at first thought was admiration, but tr-ned out to be nervous ex- pectancy, hope, desire and maybe greedingss. One last long lingering puff an® the “big” fellow handed over the cigarette. The smaller boy puffed away at {t like a veteran.— ¥. G. Merritt, No. 242 South Second Avenue, Mount Vernon, BROUGHT FORTH. Passing through Spring Valley to Bear Mountain one Sunday morning a short time ago we remarked how picturesque was a little house, on the porch of which sat children playing at ner feet, whil fully in the garden. That was about 11 o'clock after 5 and looked again toward a woman with a baby and several le their father was working peace- We returned shortly the pretty cottage with its beau- tiful picture of domesticity, and we saw the family huddled together gazing at a pile of smouldering timbers—Edward E. Foster, No. 297 West Palisade Avenue, Englewood, WHY HE COULDN'T EXPLAIN. On East Houston Street I saw a man brush against a woman, She thought he did it intentionally and turned as If to slap him. He ralsed his hands in defense. A gang of men, thinking he was preparing to strike the woman, leaped at him. He dodged, uttering strange sounds, as they fell on him and as they were beating him he seeme to be trying to explain, but was unable to make a sound. Presently a police- man came along and {t was discovered the man was deaf and dumb. Eddie L. Hirtauster, No, 220 Beach 69th Street, Arverne, L. L. BACK BEFORE THEY STARTED. I saw two be carried about 100 feet. They were scarcely seated when one asked, ‘Have you got the bag, Ruth? * "Oh, om goodness!” said Ruth, “I. forgot tt They ft us, then and there,—Heler Ord, No. 2% Bowdoin Str Maple- wood, N. J. ONE SUMMER NIGHT IN J 1 saw two boys sitting on the grass, row after row of stuck in the ground around them, last night, here In Roselle Park. 'T. H., Roselle Park, N. J. Mrs, Arverne, L. CAROL ie HOAGLAND, No. 190 North Grove Street, omerville, N. J CATHERINE KIRKHAM, No. 6 Washington Avenue, White Plains SRMAN MOSS, No, 407 Georgia Avenue, Brooklyn. COWAN, No, 120 Bast 102d Stree KY, No. 49 Catharine St 425 Washington Avenue, Avon-by- EDITH M'COMB, No. 139 West 44th Street. LL, Yesterday’s Special Prize Winners ne . First Prize, $25 Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn Second Prize, $10 321 Boulevard, Passaic, N. J. Third Prize, $5 CARMEN CHUISANO, No. 62 Skillman Street, Brooklyn. . Ten Prizes of $2 Each , No. 10 Springer Court, Beach 68th Street, Fisher Avenue, ‘ottenville, S. I, 49 Flemlock Street, Brooklyn. South Orange girls pay the Public Service Corporation 16 cents to SEY. lighted Joss sticks This N.J. MOMENTARY TRUCE. T saw two women enter a Long Island station quarrelling. The train pulled in. hey ceased quarrelling for a moment and kissed each other. Then they resumed the quarrel, one from a win- dow of the train, the other from the platform melia Montgomery, East Union Street, ve I saw a street fakir on Park Place, Newark, selling a cure-all linlment. He washed bis mouth with it and then: to show how efficacious it was he od to scrape a hot soldering iron across his tongue. The Iron was hot because he lighted a cigarette with It.—H, G. Davis, No. 82 Centre Street, Newark, PEELING BARK. During the recent thunder storm «# e near my home was struck by light- Kg. The holt a down through he branches until it struck a large limb, § » Instead of going directly {t eperated and neatly peeled the limb, fter which it descended the trunk of the tree and took off two strips of bark Walter B. Wilder, Studio Lane, Bronxville, N. Y. FAWN AT NEWPORT. I saw a fawn a fortnight ago romp- ng on the lawn of our City Hall. It vas no larger than a good sized New- foundland dog and bewildered to be n the city. It ran through a crowd which gave chase to Broadway, where, blindly, it leaped through a dry good store window. The police took It av fh a patrol and tater Hberated It, but I learned It died. No one knows how he animal got here.—James E. Lyons, Newport, R. 1. IN HOSPITABLE CONNECTICUT, Some friends and I in the country he other day, went into a yard and 4 up some apples lying on th ground under a tree, We were a litt tartled when a man came out of th house, but almost fainted when hb eld: “If there aren't enough on the ound, shake the t Mary Me ath, 55 t Avenue, New Can- n, Conn. NO OASIS. 1 saw a motorist hail a policeman on the Merrick Road, Long Island, “Hey, there, Sheik,” he shouted, “is this ‘the road to Araby?” We stopped to see the fun, but the cop merely said: “Yes, about one mile ahead—to the left.” Araby, we learned, is the name of a new real estate development,—George Rowan, No, 11 Broadway, Spring- field Garden@® N.Y EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS [ q pace WoRTH READIIC BROOKLYN POSE! P I saw little Beatrice standing beside her mother, who was writing a letter, and heard her say, ‘Mother, how does the pen know what to write, when It cannot hear you?'—David Stolach, No, 343 Christopher Avenue, Brooklyn. ASCENDING TO THE MONKEY. There was such a crowd in front of an Avenue K house to-day I thought It must be on fire. Somebody's pet mon- key had escaped and a boy with a bea shooter was trying to frighten the litt simian from the roof,—Charles D. Rice, No. 1088 East 19th Street, Brooklyn, OPPORTUNITY FOR YANKEES. In front of the Greenpoint Theatre, a big cake of ice on which was a placard reading: ‘Guess How Shong It Will Take to Melt, and Win a Season Ticket."— ©, Walsh, No. 175 Russell st., Brooklyn. THE BABY. I saw a dozen men surrounding a thirteenth, who held a baby sparrow In his hands, at the Prospect Park Sta- tion of the B. R. T. Company. The bird had fallen from a nest on one of the iron girders of the roof. After some jumping and considerable climbing on shoulders the ‘“baby’* was at home again.—C. W. James, No. 497 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, RADIO IN BROOKLYN. While riding on the Fulton Street “L" I counted thirty-four radio aerials. —D. E. Landau, No. 420 Miller Avenue, Brooklyn. TENDER HEARTED PIRATE. In the sixth inning at Ebbets Field on Sunday I saw Bigbee of the Pittsburgh Pirates crawling around on his tummy, near home plate trying to pick up a crippled sparrow.—J. F,, Hancock Street, Brooklyn. HOW ABOUT THE SIDE DOORt T crossed om the 125th Street ferry on Sunday and saw thie notice fas- tened to a chain which shut off the stairway to the upper deck; “Saloon Emergenoy Exit Closed.” All right enough in its way, but some Smart Alexander had printed below it in big, black letters, ‘“Prohibition.”— Frederick B, Reams, No. 857 Dean Street, Brooklyn. IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE DAY. T took a stroll around to a block party and found the crowd split about 50-50 between co.legiate dancers, so to speak, and estler: When the dancing began the wrestlers, with their lelsurely movements, interfered with the gallop- ing finale hoppers. Finally the commit- tee ruled that. wrest’'ng must stop. The cake-eaters left in‘unconcealed disgust. —A. Finkelstein, No, 1552 East Fourth Street, Brooklyn, JOKE ON THE “JOKERS! I saw four boys snenk up In fr¢ of 4 market in this neighborhoodast night and hang a ‘Boy Wanted'4gn on the window, This morning ere were several boys waiting for thence to open. I would call it a rottenind of Joke but for the fact that the nket man decided he needed a boy andred one of them,—Howell McElfresh) 472 Montgomery Street, Brooklyn. 1S THE RACE GOING BACK I saw two girls of my acquaimoe playing jackstones with their fore bandaged. ‘They explained thathe bandages were to gave wear andar on thelr little fingers.—L. J joo. President Street, Brooklyn, UNDER A LADDER, Down the street, Where a bulid! te in process of construction, T saw aan walk under a ladder just as a briciell from the ctaging at the third stoi I thought I was going to see somene take a ride to tue hospital, but dts way down the brick clicked agait a part of the scaffolding and waal- verted. It’ missed the gentlematby inches. He never knew {t—AM. Cohen, No. 89 Meserole Street, Bk- lyn, GIVING EVERYBODY A CHAN( I copted thd following announcent from the front of a motion plcturae- atre on the Bowery: “Notlee, I nea. rest. My motion picture theatre wibe closed to my patrons for the ére month of July, opening Aug. 1 withe latest Broadway productions, givinny patrons and customers a chance tie- cumulate enough money to come often, Moving Picture Sam.""—B. stadt, No, 115 South 2a Street, Broon, AMOST A FIGHT. I was lounging on the beach wi % saw a little girl throwing sand a little boy. The boy's fath slappmer (not enough to hurt), and told hto quit and not do ft again, She crieaer daddy appeared, asked the man whe and sald if he did it ain d break his Jaw for him, “I'd 1 to see you do it,” sald the boy's fier, rising from the sand, and a crowd th- ered around to see the two men psnel one another, Before the mill coube- gin, however, a policeman appear He, listened to both men ‘and advisechem get onto themselves and cut othe boy business.’ They took his vice and peace relgned once more und s' Baths.—Nathan Pfeffer, | 369 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, FINANCIAL NEWS, In a bank the other day Iw a young woman with what seemeo be a handsomely bound leather boc She opened tt and I ‘saw it was a verly designed pocketbook, with jarate mpartments for bills and ver— James O'Brien, No. 27 Monrostreet, Brooklyn. FIREMEN'S PICNIC. In most fire houses there {s a blackboard near the doi on which {s written the number of the box and the time of each arm turned in. canteloupe, 28; My friend suggested that we cal! 85th Street, Brooklyn. DOLLING UP DOBBIN. I saw the driver of a garbage wagon at Ninth Street and Jighth Avenue, Brooklyn, using to good advantage what had apparently been thrown away. It was a lace curtain and he was using it as a cover for his horse.—Harold Schwartz, No, 667 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn. CENSOROUS COP. Last Saturday I saw a policeman standing at the exit of the women's bath house at Manhattan Beach and make every girl respond to “roll ‘em above the knees there." I saw ‘em rolled down again as soon as the girls got beyond his gaze, but girls with merely a patch of bathing sult passed onto the beach uncensored.—Mrs, R. B. Booth, No. 412 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn SOME GOOD PLAYERS COME FROM THE LOTS. While playing baseball with an ag- gregation of “sandlotters,” I was aston- ished to gee our opponents make a triple play.—William Hecht, No. 28 Nor- wood Avenue, Brooklyn, THE “PULLER-IN.” I was walking along the Bowery the other day when a man stopped me and asked the time, I told him but noticed he stopped another man and several others. 1 waited wntit finally a man said he had no watch. Then the fellow tried to pull him into a jewelry store behind him so he could sell him one.—Jack 8. verton, No. 383 South Third Str Brooklyn. WHPRE ARE YOU, MAMIET A policeman sat next to me fn a car. Suddenly he sald: ‘Where you going, Stranger?” I thought he was spehking to some one behind me, so I paid no at tention, ‘You don't notice the ‘poor any more, do you?" he continue I looked at him and he flushed, * cust me,” he sald, ‘1 thought you wer: Mamie.” F, M. C,, No, 629 Manhattan Avenue, Brookly PRESENC OF MIND. 1 saw a young lady, evidently a recruit at office work, drop many unstamped letters down a m chute in a butlding. A co-worker called attention to her error and she promptly got @ sheet of stamps and sent thom down the chute after the detters.—P. J. W ‘0, 1239 Pacisic Street, Brooklyn, °S STORIES AND PICK OUT THOSE YOU THINK BEST. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THIS EVENING NIGHT PICTORIAL (GREEN SHEET) EDITION AND OTHER EDITIONS TO-MORROW. deen eee ee ee a a A a a een aaa tacoma I was showing a friend around on Sunday and we ited an engine house near Madison Square. how/many fires have occurred to-day.” time, however, what we saw on the bulletin board was: lettuce, 13; potatoes, 09; “Now,” said I, In place of “let 1800 tationsand “Beef,!.93; onions, 30; tomatoe 22.” 1 a walter—A. Lundberg, ) 488 HAVEN'T You HEARD OM BABY MINE.” While I was in the fruitore o woman and a little girl ne im Tha child wore a white #\s on each of the two pockets wuem- broidered in red, the word ‘Snes —8. Frank, No. 628 Leonard Seot, Brooklyn, PROGRESS OF TEN 610W, New Yorkers dn the makin, on the east side sometimes lose their td-worll habits slowly. I saw one on Mtt Street the other day roasting coffee ina prim! Uve roaster made of a sheet of trot rolled into a cylinder under which h had built a fire of wood.—Pau McG@ir nis, No. 830 President Street, Hrookly? POOR RICH MAN, ‘The other afternoon I saw a man w had been arrested for vagrancy tak into a police station. I followed saw at the desk, where they searc him, that the policemen were tal money and Liberty bonds from ® pockets, Altogether his wealth total $2,000.—Tuba Goodman, Brooklyn, SHE WINS ON B, R, T, The Coney Island car was crovd. A woman entered with four chin. She offered the conductor one fardte asked for 20 cents more, but shin- awered: “I'm not going to pafor them because they have to stand, She didn't. pay another fare and wmot put off. fae, Brooklyn, ON THE MINUTE, At the foundation for the new iton Exchange Building in Hanover iare I saw a ng of laborers unlling cement from a truck to the silk, The driver was helping by slidi the bags down the inclined bed of thauek, Suddenly the quitting time wtles blew. Every one left immediat exe cept the driver, who the remainder of the Richard R. Bjorn Brooklyn. pained toloud cement 10,— 8, No, 763 43dreet, THE UMP WAS WRONG At a movie show the other't I saw a slow motion picture of day that had been. disputed in dig league game and in which thw ner had been catled out, Hee trying to beat out a bunt. Thin showed he had crossed the bde- fore the ball reached first, -un, No, 115 South Ninth Street, jk- ta,