The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1922, Page 8

| } i | , 5 ‘ Hl A PAGE OF REAL NEWS MANHATTA ' MR. BELASCO PRESENTS. ™ the alley of the Belasco Theatre, @ summer house made of cardboard after the red and white brick Colonial style. This little house, three feet high, has a window and is covered with “stag vines. Over the doorway is printed in red and white letters “Camille Villa.” ‘The occupants are Camille, the Belasco black cat, and her little kittens.—Caro- lym Darling, No. 251 West 87th Str WHo Is HE I saw a young woman sitting ona Benoh in Hester Park while the rain Poured down. As I approached she turned her wild eyes toward me and eked, “Where is he? Whore is he?” 2 was told the young woman has cx- | Perienced a great tragedy and that few hear her talk except to ask this question.—Ralph Glen. TAKE ONE. At the corner of Church and Cort- Jandt Strects, a man passing out sam- ples of a breakfast food. Two blocks away, two youngsters, loaded to the eyebrows with them. One pedestrian after another added his mite to the kids’ pile. The way I figured it was that the homegoers didn’t want to be bothered with the package and at the fasme time couldn't resist the lure of “something for nothing.”—J. Reich, No, 149 Broadway. THE LETTER OF THE LAW. In a downtown store I bought two articles, one priced at 87 and the other ‘at 45 cents, With the itemized ticket I handed the cashier a $2 bill. He gave me back 78 cents and the slip. have given me too much,” I ‘Bill is $1.32." ‘‘No,"’ he objected, ticket says $1.22. I looked at the slip ‘and, sure enough, the salesman had made an error. ‘I can't make it any more,” complained the cashier, “I gotta go by the ticket."—H. J, Latham, No. 61 Ann Street. AFTER A BAD DAY AT THE TRACK. ‘At Broadway and 36th Street I saw a man hail a taxi, call the driver's at- tention to the diamond ring he was wearing and ask to be driven to “‘the nearest pawnbroker's.”—E. Everitt, No. 161 West 36th Street. HE HASN'T BEEN OUT OF HER SIGHT SINCE ‘93. Passing along Fifth Avenue at 424 Street 1 saw two sightseeing buses filled ‘with women. At about the middle of the second bus, an animated “hen "all around him, sat one lone man.—Walter Hartman, No. 633 Ninth Avenue. FROM THE HAPPY MAN OF BELLEVUE. I am a patient in Bellevue Hospital and while sitting out on the porch just now, gazing upon river, 1 saw a Police Department boat come in. always interesting, so I watched to see what was up. brought two bodies off that boat and carried them into the tempo- rary morgue which faces my porch! : Was that NOT an encouraging sight for a guy in a hospital? Yours truly.—I. Eisenberg, Ward L 2, Bellevue needa’t answer. Hospital. PROTECTING HER DRESS. In a garage at Park Avenue and 126th PEDESTRIANS TO THE RESCUE. I saw a motorist stall his engine to- v REE TIMES AND OUT. A pretty girl started watking through the I. R ubway train I was on this morning had just started when the train made a sharp turn and she fell into a man's Tap, In attempting to get up she tumbled into another man's lap. As she was ubout to get out, at Fulton Street, she slipped and fell on the tloor, That settled it, she laughed. She laughed so heartily, in- deed, that the whole car was in a roa She missed Fulton Street and travelled along with us to Wall.—Helen Gaffney, No. 475 West 159th Strect NOT THE CITY DIRECTORY, A young woman passenger on a sightsceing tour, who read a book every minute of the hour-and-a-half trip, At Grant's Tomb, where a stop was made and passengers yiven the opportunity to inspect the interior, every one left the bus except the reader. E. Watson, No. 534 West 24th Street. 8. LIFE GUARD SQUARE, In Stuyvesant Square, isth and Rutherford Place, I saw a young man climb over the fence which sur- rounds the fountain and rescue a small bird whieh had fallen into the water.— Florence E. Brooks, No. 286 West 115th Street. STUYVESANT at Street DOWN, PERHAPS, BUT NOT OUT, In front of St. Paul's on Lower Broadway, is a box in which newspa- pers and magazines may be left for the poor sick in the hospitals. I saw a man reach through the small opening, pull out papers until he found the one he stuff it under his coat and —Paul Humphrey. PRiSTO! A motor car stopped almost in front of me as I stood near Canal and Mul- berry Streets, and the driver got down and came toward me. Within two feet of me he stooped and picked up a $5 bill, Then he was off again. I had been standing there fifteen minutes. A. Verdi, No. 88 Mulberry Street. YOU KNOW, POSSESS ONE INALIENABLE RIGHT, I saw an alley cat stretched out, sound asleep, close to the vestibule door of the J. P. Morgaw house, on Madison Avenue, at 37th Street. Private wate hon and passing po- Hicemen meant nothing to Thomas. —Carolyn Darling, No. #51 West 87th Street, CATS, the ever changing picture of the The police are My boy. they And I have a question to ask HANDSOME. I saw a newlywed whose furniture I had been moving to-day wash dishes while she wore kid gloves and a wrist watch.—William Plunkett, No. 476 Ninth Avenue, DOUBLE KILLING. bring the show that he is more than an ordinary window ledge gardener, has a large sun- flower growing in the window of his apartment visible from the at 130th Street.—Milton B. No. 2101 Harrison Avenue, @ay on the tracks of the Long Island Railroad at 69th Street, Arverne, The train was approaching. People gathered immediately and about a dozen men the automobile from the tracks. ‘was a narrow escape.—Samuel Frank, 101 Park Avenue. ‘TEAMWORK, I saw a dog chasing a cat to-day as an automobile truck was passing. The cat ran v~lor the front wheels of the truck an yus Killed instantly, The dog, just behind her, was run over by the rear wheels and killed instantly.— W. McAuliffe, No, 626 W. 118th Up in the Bronx | saw a i) boy with a kitten in his lap driving @ soap NATURE'S FREAKISH, box wagon drawn by a goat and a dog,| 1 saw it raining to-day on the side- pulled in perfect unison. Frances A. Ford, No. 437 W. Miss 4th Street. walk on the south side of 106th Street near Broadway, but on the north side of the same street it was perfectly dry. —J. N. Alston, No, 930 West End Ave- NATIONAL, @ lawn in Central Park to-day I blast and saw a great geyser like spray of water come up out of the river, On saw a game of baseball in which as many women as men were playing.— Mrs. Clara Kimel, No, 2031 Second Ave- nue. nue, New York, “BANG! AMOTHRR REDSKINY— The passing of Old Cap Colker, Old King Brady, Nick Carter 4 Oo. don’t aa final as some of ua may think, I saw a messenger boy near Times Square to-day carrying a package in one hand and a regular old-time thriller in the other, and he wasn't in a hurry.—John J. Mo- Carthy, No. 81 Fort Washington Avenue, Now York, , ITEM, I saw a hobo, ragged and wn Bempt, making a speech to-day at Lenow Avenue and 116th Street. Hi declared he was a member of the Migratory Workers of America, and he sold a newspaper called the Ho- bo News.—Lewis Weber, No, 18 Bast 114th Street. No CONDUCTOR, BHT At the 18th Avenue Station of the Sea Beach line to-day, 1 saw the porter Piek ® comic section of a newspaper off the tracks and while the watching People on the platform gasped, seat him. self on the third rail guard to read it. —Mre. E. A. Nobles, No. 416 West 215th A BOY OF SIX WOULD SAY “Do IT AGINY At No. 11 West 36th Street a twelve- story building is under construction, nine stories already completed. At the top of the framework stands an enor- mous hoisting derrick with long steel wire cable. At the end the cable branches off into two ten-foot lengths of wire, with big hook at ehe end of each, Ast passing to-day | saw two men, each standing on one of these hooks and holding on for dear life, being lowered to the ground from the ninth floor. I'll bet those fellows felt relieved when finally they reached the ground.—Jack Hayward, 156 Broadwa; FACTS. I saw a child, Virgiel Swednen, five years old, drop from the second story Window of No. 6721 Eighth Avenue to the concrete sidewalk without hurting hhimself.—C. A. Lybeik, No, 143 Hast ‘Béth Street. SHIMIZU SPEAKS U. 5. During a tennis tournament in which Kashio and Shimizu, the Jap- @ese stars, were playing two Untt» 8 States opponents, a terrific over- Read shot upset Shimizu. Gather- ing Mmself up quickly he turned to countryman and remarked: “Bome shot, hot dog!”—H. Kinkel- stein, No. 3 West 16th Street, THE GENTLEMAN WAS VEXED. At Eighth Street this afternoon I saw A man smash the glass in the rear door of a Tihrd Avenue car because the con- ductor wouldn't open it between blocks and let him out. ‘The conductor blew a whistle, but no policeman appeared and the car went on.—H. G,, Second Ave- nue, THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1922, EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS A PAGE WORTH READING REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS O make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. addition. City Hall Station. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT If you witness an accident, the outbreak ot a big the City Editor of the Evening World. fire, or any Liberal aware for first news. Phone Betrcan 4000, ask for City Editor's Wire. DAILY PRIZES: For the best stories each day: First prize, $25; second prize, $10; third prize, $5. Ten prizes of $2 each for ten next best stories. BRONX POLLY WANTS A PINT. On a walk in First “For God's dishevelled w Was a parrot of “How dry Avenue this afternoon I heard somebody yell ike give me a drink!” and turned expecting to see some »man with florid face and bloodshot eyes. What I saw 1! ha!” and sang one line Yo. 1158 Simpson Street, Bronx. which gave me the “Ha —B. 1 am.” Rosenberg, SOMETIMES LIFE ITS A GKEASED POL Some frionds and I walked over Is LIKE HER IS A WISE WOMAN. ot the one neighborhood 1oon when a wee to 188th Street und Belmont Avenuc, came in and made ent pur- where the Italian folk were bring- ‘The storekeeper offered her ing to a conclusion a celebration of Jeonts in change and she declined to one of their religious festivals. Tioke it, “Mother does not permit me There were two band stands and |to take money from strangers,’ she colored electric bulbs made many Joos) He tried to explain and I offered arches across the street. Mays were }q neipful word or two, but the little Aying. There were no Areworks, OM Jone would not have It. He induced account of the new law, but there | another child to carry the money to the twas everything else calculated to Jittie one's mother.-Mrs. B. J. Kehoe, please the children and entertain the Vx6 sory scingsbridge Avenue grown-ups. One of the most inter- pabstebs esting things was the “greased |couRTESY AND GOOD JUDGMENT. po A smooth wooden pole was we young woman on a 138th Street cross-town car, who said to the conduc- tor, “I'm awfully sorry, but I have no money with except this $20 bill.” He offered no argument but handed the erected. At the top were auspended two giorious hams and two wonder- ful Italian cheeses. Then, the pole was greased—and well greased— with common, everyday lard. Boys me an girl a nickel, “I couldn't’ change a were shinnying up the pole—or try- i ” Aen oe Ing ton for the Veh retards at the twenty,” he said, ‘without loading you top. We watched for nearly half |With more silver than a horse could an hour, but when we left the ham carry. Put this nickel in the box and and the cheese were still up there in | pay me sometime when you ride with the crow's nest.—Anna Schlisman, \me again.""—Edward J. Wall, No, 171 No, 494 Hast 165th Stret, Southern Boulevard. NO BOUQUETS, PLEASE. As I was walking along Forest Avenue near 163d Street I heard @ crash and, turning, observed that a young woman pedestrian on the other side of the street had barely escaped being struck—and seri- ously hurt, perhaps—by the e which had just tumbled from an upper window. No heads appeared, no apologies were offered, no excuses made by anybody. I expected the young woman to relieve her natural feelings by a few well chosen remarks but instead she carefully picked up the lovely roses, which had survived the fall, and calmly went her way.—J. S., No. 1021 Boston Road. (Contributors will please sign full names; checks cannot be made out without them.) PROBABLY BOTH. Some New Yorker in an country “to the NATURE FALLS DOWN MISERABLY, 1 saw a young man standing on the curb with a new cigarette in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other, At the end of five minutes he apparently came to the conclusion that the oun wasn't strong enough to-day and taking a match-bor from Ms pocket he lighted the “ciggy”? and walked on.—Leo Rosenewe ‘0, No. 858 Hewitt Place, Bronx, effort to clty, or to 4" station pasonwain, Bronx, WORKING ON COENTIES REEF. Crossing on the Hamilton Ferry 1 heard a loud but somewhat muffled LOVE OR ~ OPFISHNESS? I saw the cat eating her dinner, from & plate on the kitchen floor. One kitten has been left to her and whenever this kitten approached the plate and began to nibble at the goodies the mother cat would surrender the layout and depart Another plate, therefore, was made ready for the older cat. She resumed her meal but being followed by the kit- ten she again walked away, returning to the first plate and leaving the young one an entire dish.—Benj, Fenerstein, No. 761 Forest Avenue, RICHMOND Mrs. Mary Grimes, No. 1866 Jerome Avenue, NOT EXACTLY A “GULL.” From a Fort Lee ferry I saw a son gull dip toward the water, but Instead of touching it he rested himself on a floating board and let the tide carry him along.—Elsie Fuccl, No. 2114 JUn- ton Avenue, Bronx, DOGGONE! On one of our Port Richmond streets to-day I saw a woman with a small bull pup. The doggic was at one end of a chain big enough and heavy enough to hold a yoke of oxen. He wore a heavy collar that must have been made for his grandfather. And he wore a muzzle —John Schultes, No, 15 St. Mary’s Ave- nue, Port Richmond, 8. 1, PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF, I saw an automobile piled high with new tire.s One of the tires on the car was as flat as @ pancake,—Ruth Larkin, No. 126 Pennsylvanta Avenue, Rose- bank, 8. I, MINNIE'S BEAD. In an “L" yesterday a husky six- footer sat beside a dimunitive girl, evi- dently his sweetheart, As the train stopped at one of the stations a man tripped over the girl's foot. Tenth Stré , New Dorp, Staten Island wood, N. J. BOOMERANG. On the municipal ferry I sat opposite an old man on the upper deck. He wanted to throw aWay his newspaper MISS M. T. 2NNIS, No. WEEKLY Capital prizes for best One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in Send thin to ‘‘What Did You See?” Editor Evening World, Post Office Pox i85, WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NeIGHBUKHUUD. big news story, phone GET FACTS. PRIZES: stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25; fourth prize, $10. BROOKLYN —ee SPEAKING AS PROHIBITIONIST OR ANTI? 1 got my first glimpse, last night of the new style long skirt. A girl about eighteen wore it. With bobbed hair i low-heeled shoes. She looked Ike a long drink of w No. ter.—Edward Daniel 157 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn. THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE ONE TAP you. Just outside one of the side shows at 4 Park 1 saw a lion curried by its The man brushed, scraped and trimmed the lion until the old boy was Just beautifully groomed. When one side was ‘done’ the lion turned over. He appeared to thoroughly enjoy the treatment, now and then playfully tap- ping the trainer with one paw.—Ceell Hitzel, No, 248 Seventh Avenue, Brook- lyn. OBJECTION SUSTAINED, Wife and 1 were on a downtown Lexington Avenue subway express this afternoon when, at 86th Street, a real healthy-looking dame weigh- ing about $00 pounds, came aboard. 1 was just about to give my seat to her, the bench being crowded, when the Mrs, whispered, “It can’t be done! Anthony Mugno, No, 117 Jewell Street, Brooklyn. SAVING HIMSELF FOR THE STUMY. At the Willink entrance to Prospect Park, a vendor of toy ballons, getting ready for the business of the day by inflating his wares. Instead of using lung power, as was the custom in the happy days of childhood, he was using a bellows. S. Lovell, No. 167 Pros- pect Place, Brooklyn. THERE MAY HAVE BEEN REASON FOR IT. Street at Hammel (in Territory) has been irs and this morning several wagon loads of gravel were duraped on the sidewalk there. After luncheon wagons appeared and took this gravel aw ‘One hour later other wagons arrived with more gravel.—B, Hardy, No. 357 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, STOOPS WITH THE Near City Hall I saw two little bow-over-the-shoulder bootblacks importuning an tmportant-looking youth of sixteen or seventeen, wear- ing what may be his first “longies,”” to have his shoes shined. The youth was SO important that my guess 4s Reach 84th Rockaway Ben: undergoing re PARL TO MOB. CAPITA) he has just “accepted” his first “position.” “Shine your —shoca? me on, let's give you @ good The Business Man shook his head in a please-don't-bother- me-children sort of way. “Aw,” said the second kid, “he ain't got a qickel to his name!” “Ia that sat Is that sof” asked the gentleman, and flashing an extremely thin “sheaf” of bills, he waved his Firat Pay in their faces.—G, Dawkins, No $39 41st Street, Brooklyn, shine.” IF YOU HAVE TEARS. In a Subway train I saw an old Indy sitting with a shawl in her lap over her hands. Suddenly I noticed tears rolling down her cheeks, The people bn either side of her were slmilarly Affected, The train lurched, the shawl tained for an instant and I saw that the old woman was peeling onlona— John Hall, No. 665 Lafayette Avenue, sHOWDOWN. I saw four young men playing what they call “automobile poker.” The first five numbers on the license plate of @ machine ts tho “hand.” 7 "Kessler, No. 1558 Hast Fourth Street, Brooklyn. Special Prize Winners eeeeeeaESaEEEESESaE~Ew~wOwé»™ First Prize, $25 J. J, GRAHAM, No, 814 East 62d Street. Second Prize, $10 MAE RODDEN, No, 2443 Tiebout Avenue, Bronx. BIS hENtS Third Prize, $5 a cry of patn. Her escort turned to her ss fe Third Prize, $5 and demanded: “Why didn't you kick GEORGD WEILL, No. 243 West 116th Street him, Minnte' H. J. Reich, No. 7) Ten Prizes of $2 Each EDWARD BP. FOSTER, No, 297 West Palisade Avenue, Engle- A. LUNDBERG, No. 488 s6th Street, Brooklyn. BENJAMIN SIDGEL, No. 209 Hast 1084 Street. C. E. WAREING, No, 110 West 104th Street. 167 East 40th Street. «AN, No. 44 East Bighth Street. 242 South Second Avenue, Mount and pitched it over his shoulder toward aha . Jersey City, N. J. the water, but a strong breexe carried MISS V. G. MERRITT, No. it down the rall a dozen feet and a Vernon. the wind suddenly shifted, it came di MRS. A. W rectly back to him.—Miss Cora A, Taub, Princess Buy, 8. 1. KASTEN, No. 957 Anderson Avenue, Bronx. FREDERICK B, BEAMS, No. 857 Doan Street, Brooklyn, NO DINNER BELL. Looking out the office window every day at the noon hour I see a flock of pigeons gather on the roof of a factory. Every day at noon one of the factory workers shares his dinner with the birds.—David Orzeck, No. 1324 St. John's Place, Brooklyn. 1922, Unable to borrow a lead pencil, an old gentleman at asked one after the same table take a penknife. the Public Library another of the men at it they would let him “T could sharpen this pencil," he said, “If I could get a knife.” But none of the men had a knife. “Here's one, old dear,” said a pretty girl at the end of the table, and passed over a peari-handled affair. The old gentleman sharpened his pencil, the flapper returned to Ser novel and all was quiet under the rules and rogula- tions.—-C. A. McGinn, No, 2019 58th Street, Brooklyn. “aT AT INSTANT LORD DUCH-~ HAM ENTERED THE ROOM, AND" — A young woman, whose mind ap- peared to be firmly fired upon the hero of the novel she was reading, walking along Havemuyer Street, Brooklyn, As she stepped from the sidewalk at the South Ninth Street crossing an automobile missed her by two inches, and the driver of an- other car, blowing his Klaxon like a ten-alarm fire, managed to stop his car just short of knocking her over. She looked up, dropped the book and burst into tears.—Charles A. Bur- stein, No. 208 Marcy Avenue, Brook- lyn. L WATCH OUT FOR THIS FELLOW. My up-stairs neighbor has a room to let and was delighted this morning when a man looked at it, expressed his complete satisfaction and said he would pay $3 in advance. He gave her a $10 till and departed with the change, whietling merrily. This afternoon s' Gixcovered that the $10 bill is counte: felt.—Mrs. Kate Kean, No. 572 Lexing- ton Avenue, Brooklyn. AUTO STATISTICS. I counted from my window in twenty- five minutes to-day the following auto- mobiles: 49 Fords, 18 Cadillacs, 13 Studebakers, 5 Buicks, 7 Hudsons, 4 Chevrolets, 18 Dodges, 4 Chandlers, 4 Packards, 1 Nash, 4 Overlands, 4 Mer- cers, 3 Maxwells, 1 Chalmers, 1 Cleyt- land, 1 Reo, 3 Oldsmobiles, 1 Stutz, 2 Lexingtons, 1 Franklin, 1 Peerless, 1 Paige and 1 Haynes.—George Chandler, No. 927 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. COPPER BECOMES A FAN. Some boys were playing a game of ball on Hart Street to-day .when they were interrupted by a policeman. The game was in its final inning and when they begged the policeman to let them finish he agreed, even joining the spec- tators.—Paul Harmel, No. 219 Vernon Avenue, Brooklyn, BELATED TRAVELERS. I saw while sitting at the foot of Montague Street, Brooklyn, this c ning, a wedge of nine wild ducks wing ing toward Long Island,—Andrew Bren- nan, Jr., No. 65 Third Place, Brooklyn. TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLDEE, On Sunday at Far Rockaway I saw a woman about twenty-five years old wearing a short sweater over her two- Plece bathing sult. She wore high- heeled pumps and NO STOCKINGS. There was a crowd on the boardwalk, including policemen, of course, but no- body noticed her or said a word to her. Yet at Coney Island girig of sixteen and Seventeen are forbidden to wear socks, let alone go bare-legged!—Mrs, Lulu Seioney, No, 601 Fourth Avenue, Brook- yn. THE MONDAY WASH. It was Monday morning and the usual large crowd of week-enders and com- muters were hurrying up Barclay Street from the ferry. In the strect auto trucks were laboring heavily. Every- where there was bustle and confusion, but nothing seemed to disturb a be - draggled gray pussy which sat in the middle of the street lelsurely washing her two kittens. ‘The trucks swung aside for her and the passersby smiled thelr approval, but pussy only attended to her licking—Fern ‘Thrasher, No. 245 Carlton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. RULE-BREAKING HERO, 1 saw @ man riding on the front plat- form of a southbound Fifth Avenue (Brooklyn) car in violation of the rules. Suddenly he got into a crouching posi- tion on the step, and with a sweep of his arm snatched up a child from the street. The car came to a stop with q grinding of brakes, and the man set the nila safely on its feet. The motorman head not seen her until the car was upon her, Had not the man been rid+ ing where he was the child would have been killed.—O, D. Comstock, No. 898A Ninth Street, Brooklyn. OUT OF TOWN CALLED. THAT'S DIFFERENT, While on a trolley car to-day I saw On Morgan Street I saw a twelve- a well dressed man (somehow or other| year-old boy playing ball im the he suggested J, Rufus Wallingford) street. “Hubert,” 1 heard his offer the conductor a $50 bill in payment mother call, “I want you to go to of his fare. he conductor pocketed| the store for me, dear.” No answer the bill without showing any emotion from, No move by, Master Hubert. and when we reached the car barn, in] Three times came the call and thrice fifteen or twenty minutes, went to the the young gentleman was unmoved. office and returned with a hatful of sil- Thon his FATHER called, and Ru- ver. When he passed me I heard him| bert responded on the run.—Anna mutter, "I called his old bluff, alright."| Mader, No. 610 Morgan Street, Un- —Miss M, Coffin, No. 28 Boyd Ave-{ ‘on, N. J. nue, Jersey City. CEPTION, “JUST OUT OF A BANDBOX.” On a Hawthorne car I saw a young woman in white stand for six miles rather than take a seat. She did not want to have the white suit golled o7 creased.—Audrey Van Ness, Van Winkle Avenue, Hawthorne, the father carrying . As® he was crossing et the handle broke and when he picked up the case it was leaking olive oll.—L, C. M., Farming- dale, L. 1. THINKING OF THE OTHER FELLOW. Just as a car was passing our house last night the lens of one of {ts head- lights broke and fell into the road. The driver stopped, came back, picku:l up the glass and threw ft far in at one side of the road. This thoughtfulnese, I am sure, saved many tires for other men.—Arthur Hopper, Pearl River, CO-OPERATIVE PASTURE. On the road to Great Barrington to-day our machine passed two horses standing side by side in a pasture with their heads at oppo- site points of the compass. There were, of course, files in the im- mediate vicinity but they were not bothering these horses. Both tails were switching vigorously, the tall of one horse keeping the flies off the face, neck and shoulders of the other.—Clifford Wm. Lebrecht, No. 618 State Street, Hudson, N. Y. A MORTIFYING MISTAKE. A bricklayer, hard at work high up on a roadside tower. When he tossed a trowel filled with mortar upon the brick he was laying something went wrong and the mortar landed on the head of a laborer, fifty feet below.—M. Hynds, No. 17 Washington Avenue, Lyndbrook, N. Y. “HAVING A GOOD TIME; WISH YOU MAKING DEPARTURDS GAY. WERE HERE. While at a pier to see a friend off on At a posteard stand in Asbury Park Jan ocean liner I saw the steamship we saw at least fifty persons address- ing post. car There was scarcely | COMPANY help make the departures live- roi m to turn around, One woman, with | !¥ by supplying everyone with rolls of as many as twenty cards to send away,| Paper which they threw as if it were oe her husband's back for | Confettl, They certainly made a pretty writing table. One card, “to Sadie,” | Sight, for there were thousands of then tnolevaiciierof \elities you almost | Margaret M. Sullivan, Pawling, N. \ done?" we heard him ay when th utching stopped. "No," she sald, "I BROADWAY IN PRAYER. can't think of what to say to Sadie."—| 1 saw a funeral service in Trinity Mrs. eae Byrne, No. 158 Howari| Churchyard. In addition to those with Street, Passaic, N. J. heads bared there and praying hun enor dreds stood vi vi MGinaBaiNe. tood at the windows in the offic: buildings overlooking them apparently Out in the back garden I saw also in prayer while scores stopped on a mother hen giving her baby chicks | Broadway to bare their heads and stant a ide around the garden on her silent for few moments.—D. A. back.—Mrs. F. B. Turner, No. 9 Sec- | tery, No. 394 Romaine Avenue, Je ond Street, Mamaroneck. city’ : CUCKOO! We were coming back to Weehawken after the theatre in New York, and while waiting in the Tube Station for our train saw a tall, thin young gentleman of just about voting age descend the stair- way with noticeable difficulty. When he reached the bottom he yelled “Cuckoo!” at the top of his voice, giving it the “koo-koo” sound. Then he threw his arms around a peanut jar, yelled “cuckoo” again and demanded ice cream. On the train he was given one end of a car all to himself. He removed his hat and coat and continued to talk to himself or sing. Just before the train started he recognized a friend. I was sorry for the friend, until when they were leaving us at Hoboken he punched the sontuaton in the eye—C. M, Lehman, No. 415 Gregory Avenue, Weehawkeu, N. TIES WHILE You Downtown to-day I saw a man at an odd-looking machine. He was making neckties with his samples all about him and a great crowd watching him work. The novelty of having one's neckties made while one waited brought the old man much trade.—Elizabeth B. Lufburrow, No, 441 West F Plainfleld, N. J. 5 aac ati WAIT, JERS) Driving through to-day, noticed sign posts put up by the Stand ard Oil Company about We passed six, all pointing the same way and reading: “Tappan—two mile: Marjorie Cooper, Demarest, N. J. MILE: New Jersey a mile apart. MISS CARPENTER. I saw what appeared to be the heads of two men working on the roof of a house as carpenters, but when I arrived at the building I saw that one of the COMFORT FOR Cops, In New Haven to-day I saw that the policeman were comfortably dressed in light-weight blue trousers, white shirts and blue caps—not at all like the heavy, Workmen was a girl sixteen years old, |°t-l0oking uniforms other policemen and I learned she was as xood a car-|Te compelled to wear.—Mary Boll, No. penter as the man.—J, W. P., Yonkers. |34 Cambridge Avenue, Jersey City. UEENS ICE HAD FORMED IN THE GENTLEMAN'S SHOES, 1 stood near the Pullman reservation window at Pennsylvania Station, waiting for a friend, and heard the agent tell an inquirer that there was nothing left in the way of a parlor car chair for Atlantic City. “Oh, yes there 1s, too,” he corrected himself, “I've Street, Woodhaven, along the boardwalic and the most tn- In Far Rockaway I saw a cobbler forsake His shop and do his work under hady tree by the curb.—-John Browne, 40 Market Strect, Rockaway Point No, pw READ TO-DAY’S STORIES AND PICK OUT THOSE YOU THINK BEST. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN TO-DAY’S NIGHT PICTORIAL (GREEN SHEET) EDITION AND OTHER EDITIONS _TO-MORROW. got a No. 13, but you might not want that. “Why not?” asked the man. “I don’t know,” said the agent, “but you'll find No. 13 unoccupied on many trains. People shy at the number.” ‘Gimme {t," said the customer, “there's nothing superstitious about this chicken.” * * © Well, sir, he was back in ten minutes. Plans changed all of a sudden, “on account of a big business deal.” “In- tirely unforeseen.” Changed the “entire situation.” He may have been telling the truth, but I hae me doots,—J. B. Kelly, $804 88th YOU MUST GET THEM WHILE, TO THE FOOT OF THE CLASS THEY'RE THERE. Our machine was one of « great line I've been taking nocturnal strolls} of cars Hned up tn proper order over on the Jersey elde to-day waiting for 4 chance to cross tho ferry at Dyck teresting thing that has come to my|%,” bby ite notice {s the way the scale of prices 1s erate, Fe vie BUY Sf about the middie adjusted and readjusted. At the open-] Prine lime: wes By ap dail ar ing of the season the price of an “air-| fom his place and made for the ferry OF Sie eeRACR ANG PION OF AN TBs | Sctradse,.” He nailed within. ten plane" ride, for ple, feet by a. traf “How d'ya get for adults ‘and 15 cents for children. | {ret DY a, aint adore ita At present the prices are 15 and 10. fie Pare Harri At about 10.20 at night, however, whon] fent him clear back to the ond of the the crowd has almost evaporated, the] ji” 1 oybect ie Got on the ferry In ay tariff ts 10 and 5. I'm not finding fault | hour on twa, but I don't care a hoot if with the arrangement, goodness knows! X" 123'Ticen Sirect, South Ozone Track, the concesstonaires are entitled toeym-| N14 STEN EORS PAIK pathy in this Yoar of the Big Rain,| 4 7 i and merely send it along as something : intereating.—Arthur Kane, No, 170 B] bi ToL Ps ATP 116th Street, Rockaway Par! ice cream from the cone, He erted and his sister carefully picking up the ball WISP OLD COBALER. of cream licked it clean, spit out the sand and replaced it in the cone, where- upon the child ceased crying.— Marion Grim, No. 10455 Atlantle nue, Richmond Hill, New York,