The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1922, Page 13

THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1922. HH'LL NE 'E entered the ferry house of the D.] 1 saw a nilddle-aged man walking Js & W, at the foot of Christopher|down Sixth Avenue. He carried an Street last night to cross to Hoboken] umbrella wider his arm and was read- and was approached by an clderiv}ing a newspaper. Not far from Eighth woman with three or four parcels, wito| Street a woman was watering window eked “when this blame old boat” was] plants. A few drops of water hit him soing to move. 1 appeared that for] Without looking up he raised the wn more than an hour she had been wait-| brelia.—J. 1. Jackson, No. L0G West 47th ing for the ferry house to pull out.—] Street William J, Shea, No. 7 Van Nest Plove. — RINGING UP SHEP. REMEMBER WHAT CROMWs i SAID, Cee ane While visiting a friend in Westchester the Yorkville part of ‘hind Ave-] 1 saw a beautiful collie in the yard next Tread this sign, at the entrance to| door. ‘What # beautiful dog!” [ ex- & photographer's: "We Make You As|claimed. ‘‘Yes,”” said my friend, “he You Are or As You Would Like to B -Arthur Bloom, No. 2334 Eighth Ave- nu ought to be. He was brought up on Grade A milk—three bottles @ day.’ — W. Douglas, No, 407 West 19th Street, wilt DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? 1 There is at least one little gir] in Harlem who believes in fairies. She was watching a merry-go-round, its merry organ and its merry load of passengers to-day, and when almost every other little person on the block except herself bad enjoyed a ride she was heard to ex- claim: “How I wish some good fairy would drop me a penny!” Almost immediately a grown-up standing back behind her dropped a cent down the child's back. It “tickled,” she squirmed and the penny rolled upon the sidewalk, In less than two minutes she was riding a fiery, untamed wooden sieed.—M. D., Bradhurst Avenue. DIDNT YOU BVER HEAR oF “GRAMMY? 4 On my way to worl this morning T sao @ woman wheeling a baby KEEPING 10 IN THE FAMILY. While on a gocial service visil to a widow who has a small store and sells penny ice cream and candies { saw her carriage with twins in it. There |seven children eating ice cream sand- was another child on esther side of |wiches. 1 remonstrated with the woman her, and there were four more |that if she gave her ice cream to her bringing up the rear. The oldest {family she'd have none to sell. She red to be about tiwelve, And 1 |answered: "I don’t give it to them. 1 ight to myself, how does she |sive them pennies each morning and aver manage fo get out so early |they spend them here.”—Florence W. with so many of them and all of |Cohen, No. $539 Brosdway them so spic and span.—B. Morreti, No. 136 West 149th Street. AS THE SUN WENT DOWN. T lay beneath the shade of a tree. ALL INN. 1, satwo silver clouds turn a rosy Hikers in Interstate Park see signs on cottages reading: Come Inn, Dew Drop Inn, Climb Inn, Wontchacum Inn, Stumble Inn, Saunter Inn, Tip-Toe Inn, Tumble Inn, ad infinitum.—J. Solomon, No, 218 Lenox Avenue. , the azure aky a crimson gotd behind purple mountains saw e setting of the sui. I sus one of the beauties of nature—the close of day.—Helon Ortner, N 8 East 426th Street NARROW ESCAPE. I saw a big piece of solid porcelain insulator fall from the structure at 72d Street and Columbus Avenue to the ground. It missed the head of Patrolman $8,108 on duty there, by a few inches. This at 6.20 o'clock in the late afternoon. 1 think an investigation would be of interest to the public.—E. 1. Rockwood. No. 121 West 72d Street. COUNTRY LIFE IN MANHATTAN, | 49D DIDV'T THEY “COMP To SUR Just ton minutes’ ride from 126(h MISS JINNIA JONES?” Street on the Jerome Avenuo line On the Dyckman Street Ferry IT saw there are farina on either side of |two elderly men dancing while they the tracks. One needs but to tools | sang children’s songs. They sane from the train windows to see farmi- | ‘London Bridge” and “In and Out the ava harvest their crope in tho city, | Window.’ “Helen Smith, No. 106 West Imoidentally I recall that only last _ aummer cova grazed on Burneide \ Avenue lots on which to-day stand HIS RIGHT OF WAT. apartment houecs.-Emanuel Feist, | Because a pedestrian didn’t step out WD Morrtes Medison avenue of his way lively enough to suit him I ae —— ° saw the driver of # big truck lean out ; and give the man a slap in the face. PRAXB ELBE WO} This in Third Avenue, Manhattan.— 1 saw a man to-day immaculately Auron Rauch, No. 18 Bible House. and irreproachably dressed, but he wore a brown @erby.—Joo Albert, No. 606 East 6th Street HOT WEATHER NEWS. 1 saw in a New York ice plant the making of ice from boiling water.— 5] Arthur 8. Thomson, New York. MUSIC HATH CHARMS. At Pawling, Y., a turtle followed me everywhere as long aa I played upon a wither, 1 was told that he would al- ways come out of hiding when music was made.—Joun Sulllvan, No. 621 West 179th Street OTHANIK YOR, Coming down on the Broadway sub- R, FOR NOTHING.” AND ALL IS VANITY, Three clderly women while T was shopping {n Mount Vernon. The first} Way I saw a young woman get on at two were tall, stately, old-fashioned. | 15 Most of the seats were occupied by gentlemen very busy with their morning newspapers, She selected a gallant of twenty-one or twenty-two as the man to stand In front of. He retained his seat end, as stations rolled by, became more and more intent upon They wore small black hats on gray hair combed high from the forehead, Large white veils covered their faces. They wore stiff lace collars, long, straight tan coats, white shoes and stockiny Behind them was tho third, | his paper. As the blinking lights told with @ big brown Airedale. Her bobbed | of the approac! of 72d Street, however, hair was curled tightly about a thin,/the young man spparently became wrinkled face. She wore a one-plece| aware of the girl's presence. He arose, Javender dress with low neck and short| bowed in the manner of a very Chester- sleeves. Low heeled white pumps] fteld, and with a sweep of his hat of- adorned her small feet. The first two] fered his seat. She accepted with a are living In thelr own age. The third, tn my opinion, ts trying to live her lite ver -again.—Dorothy Mylan, No, 682 Bast 238d Street, Bronx, gracious stuile, but didn’t have time to acknowledge it for we had reached 72d Street and he got out.—John J. Mc- Carthy. 5 CENTS FOR A BOX OF BERRIES. g I paid a vendor 30 cents to-day for a box of berries. and when L began picking them over found a quarter of a dollar among them. Having been unable to locate the seller, I find that the blackberries ‘cost me 6 cents.—M. Abeles, No. 941 Simpson Street, Bronx UNLICENSED VIVE I suw near a basebull park to-day a] ‘While passing through Wall Street policeman arrest a man because he wus] f saw a prosperous looking geatieman selling “hot doge’ without a lteenn pick up a five dollar bil and give it to Wdward J. Wall, No. 171 Southern }an old mun who waa beseing.—George 3 Boulevard, Bronx B No. 557 Must 139th Street, Bronx. NEIGHBORLY—GENIAL AND CONSIDERATE; SOCIABLE. [WEBSTER.) I saw a woman come to one of the uppe Webster Avenue, between Ford and East 183d Streets, and clean a mop-cloth by shaking It from the window. In the window immediate- ly below a young woman who had just washed her hatr was drying it in the sun.+-Mrs, T, Gilligan, No. 918 Brook Avenue, Bronx windows of a house in DISODEDIENT. At a Rye Bouch outing mother expressly forbid her little eight th year-old daughter from going into the water deeper than her head. Later tn the day I sew the same Iittle girl win the 26-yard swim for children.—James Delaney, No. 2064 Anthony Avenue, Bronx. IRON CROSS. sow a man strong rd Avenue, don, wn) Kis Nada: GN pocketa and hs coat thrown wide open dis- Playing on Mts vest a German Iron Crosa dangling from Ma vest pocket one Edward Acker, So. 996 East 6th Street, Brows. to-day a ! Gbr USED ro rt ] EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENING REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS addition. City Hall Statwn. ‘Tell vour story, if possible, in not more than 125 words. State where story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. -warded Daily and Weekly. Send them to ‘What Did You See?” Editor E took place. carefully and in full. <: the thing written about SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT '* If you witness a serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news Liberal awards for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. DAILY For second prize, $10; third prize, $5. Ten prizes of $2 each for ten next best stories. OUT OF TOWN HAY On my way fvom a motor trip over Rawling Mountain I saw a farmer with a load of hay which was being drawn by @ horse and an ox, He wasn't hav- ing any trouble.—Mrs. A. Faulkuer, Noxon Street, Poughkeepste. REGISTERED. | saw a kitten walking back and forth In the window of the Great Neck Post Office. On its neck was a little leather collar, plainly stamped “P. O. D. Frank Anderson, Great Neck, L. I. ROWDIES BREAK UP A MEBRTI In Lawrence Street this morning I saw two women stop to chat together in the shadow of a wall six feet high. Sud- denly there was a terrible commotion on the other side of the wall and a cat feaped over and landed directly on one woman's head, tearing the vell from her hat. It was less than a minute, only a matter of seconds, before the cat was followed by a dog. The mecting broke up in confusion.—Mrs. L, A. Shannon, No. 642 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue, Yonkers. ws 4 GIFT. On the beach at Como four or fcc fishermen, all wonderfully equipped with rod. rect, bait, tackle, dc., were patiently fishing in the surf. I watched them for ons solid jour and nary @ bite. Meanwhile 1 saw two fish hawks neatly dip their clawa into the water and bring good sized fish. Tha fishermen became glooméer and gloomier, finally packing up and scandering sadly homeward. —Gertrude Bor- rie, No, 425 Washington Avenue, Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J ARE MEN 1 came from Park Row on an room in the car, she was NOT going to stand. LADY, LADY! 1 boarded a New Haven train at Grand Central bound for my home in Connecticut. At the 125th Btreet Station a woman came aboard with @ girt of seven and a babe in arnis. When the conductor appeared she handed him one ticket. Ho insisted upon a half-fare for the girl. Tha ‘oonian was indignant, Why, she said, she had never patd fare for her. The conductor patiently made it plain thet the law requires half- fare for children between the agea of flve and treelve, and finally she paid but under auch protest that the gentleman gave her a receipt for the money and suggested that she take the matter up with his su- periors. On arriving at her station she halted on the platform, faced the conductor and called out trie umphantly, “I had to pay to-day, but tce’ve beaten your dirty old raliroad for two years, anyway.”— “Bobby” Grace Elaton, No. 17 Bound View Terrace, South Nor- watk, Conn TWO WOMDN ON 4 BARGE. We were passengers on a New Yori: Centra) train which crossed Harlem River Bridge immediately after a big barge had gone under it loaded with sand, On top of the hand, piled, pressed and flattened so that it looked like a huge bri f brdwn sugar two women sat ns matentic calm as if they were on their own private yacht. They were 4 i in blue and pink gingham, were cc fortably In camp chafrs and, paying little or no attention trains or other things about or above them were erocheting.—Sue McNamara, No. 1 Ridgefield Place, ngs-on-Hud- son, N.Y. THE SiDe- RIGHT THs WAY TO sHOW. Our neighbor's cat has four kit- (ens, ordinary enough kittens ex- cept thut each of them has seven or nine toca om each paw.—Frances Davis, Hicksville, L. 7 CLEANSING Up THE SKEBTETS, 1 saw my neighbor using her vacuum cleaner to rid her houss and sidewalk of monquitoes, She eatd it was an effective way to clean out the pests.— A. L. Lemarie, No. 82 Queen Avenue Road, Bogota, N. J war SEE PAGE 5 FOR NAMES OF LAST WEEK’S $100 AND OTHER CAPITAL, PRIZE WINNERS. EVENING IN THE NIGHT PICTORIAL (GREEN SHEET) EDITION. the best stories each day: “L" train, and after the crowd came on at Atlantic Avenue there wasn’ There was one woman who had made up her mind When nobody offered her his seat, she boldly addressed herself to a man who was reading a néwspaper. “Would you mind moving over, please?” she said. The man looked around him, There was only one thing to do. his place—J. W. Henry, No. 245 Grand Avenue, Baldwin, L. I PRIZES: First prize, $25 $Y WEEKLY PRIZES: Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $: O make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in Evening World, Post Office Box 185,|*=» WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. Write your own name and address Checks are mailed daily. 5; fourth prize, $10. OUT OF TOWN GO BASY. During the celebration of the Atiieth anniversary of the incorporation of the little City of Rochester, N. H., T saw a traffic policeman stop ail cars which en- tered the main street, He asked each driver if he had come to the celebra- tion or was going through. Those who wished to stop were told to park their cars, while those who were passing through were dismissed with this admo- nition: “Well, now, go as quietly as possible. Make no unnecessary noise. There's a band concert going on and people want to hear it.”—A, H. Nason, No. 92 Cottage Street, Everett, M 4 Bhs teh An elderly woman sat opposite me to- day in # vestaurant and ordered but- tered toast and hot water, When it was brought to her she drew a silver tea ball from her purse and deposited it in her cup. IT was astounded to see anyone but equally clever, in my opinion, te so particular about her tea.—Helen| the slogan T saw to-day on the aside of Pavan cmeneinn cea a Northport taundry wagon: “WIFE 9 SAVING STATION.'—John Guerin, No, 63 Fifth Avenue, Northport, L. I. COMFORT AND STYLE. A young man and his girl came into the movie theatre luet night and sat di- rectly in front of me. It was very MOTORIZED BATR HOUSE, Out here nour Sea Ciift, L. 1, where the road follows the beach for a long stretch, a sedan car with curtains drawn pulled off the road and stopped in about @ foot of water. A door opened and two women and (hree chil- dren stepped out into the water in bathing togs. "Pa" (it could have been ho other) backed the car onto the road again and smoked away contentedly un- tila signal from the water advised him that the folks wanted the “bath house" bright out to them. They stepped in he and he drove away.—Otto C. Meyer, TAKING THR BLUEING MONDAY, I observed some days ago the report by some brother ar sister of the laundry sign reading: “Don't Kill Your Wife— Let Us Do the Dirty Work.’ Not bad, our oF THEY DO STICK TO SOMD FOLKS, T saw a young n stop suddenly in his dash up the “L" steps, Something ‘as stuck to hty shoe, It looked like # small bit of dirty paper. He tried to kick it off, It stuck. He tried again, arm. He ately removed hi It-stuck. ‘Then he pulled it off with his| Warm Ho immediately removed | his hand. TL Mas @ dollar pillL—O. AT hep ‘neck.—Robert McMichael, Appleby Building, Asbury Park, N. J HANDY. In the rear of the Westchester County] “@CIT YOU LIKE MEN; DE Court House, sdjoining the White STRONG.” Plains Police Headquarters and the In the noon hour I saw a young County Jail, T saw in one of the cor-| man with drawn white face atand- ners of the building a group of men| tig in Old Trinity churchyard look~ pitching pennies.—Anna L, Albert, No. ing imtently at a curious boat- 30 Oakley Avenue, White Plains, shaped stone. Suddenly hie face re- laced, and straightening up he PEOPLE? tcalhed bravely away. Taking a place where he had beon standing 1 found myself looking at the monu- iment erected to the memory of the famous commander of the sloop “Hornet,” Capt. James Lawrence, tcho fell in action June J, 1813. And 1 read: “Neither the fury of battle, the anguish of a mortal tcound nor the horrors of approaching death could subdue his gallant spirit. His dying worda were: “Don't Give Up the Ship!’—L, 8. 7., Orange, N. J. t a spare sixteenth of an inch of He did it, and she took ‘VHOUGHTFULNESS. A shower accompanied by thunder and lightning came up while T wes at church, In the third pew ahead of me, across the aisle, were two little children unaccompanied. I saw a woman leave her own seat and, aithough she did not know them, go over to keep them com- ON SECOND THOUGH’ At the theatre last evening I saw lit- tle Leslie, one of our town boys, rush- ing out before the show was half over, Lasked him why the hurry, and he said: “Tam going to run home and ask my mother if I can stay and see the reat of it; she warned me not to come to- pany. How few of us are so thoughtful] Misht.”—Anita Banca, Stony Creek, of others.—Mrs. J. Wooley, Wasualc,| COM" N, Y. ——— HONEY W. UNDER THE RAT, I saw standing on the train platform this morning a young woman who wore a large orange-colored hat trimmed with yellow buttercups, Suddenly a number of bees appeared, flew about a bit and headed toward the lifelike flowers on her hat, thinking no doubt they could REWARD OF PATIENCE AND iN DUSTRY, After watching @ certain man fishing —or trying to flsh—on the peaches at Asbury Park and Deal for the past nine- ears, 1 saw him on Sunday land an elghteen-pound black bass on.the| extract honey from them. However, Deal Beach. Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Now| she escaped unstung.—Mrs, A. J. Har- T know he can fish, He got the club| decker, No. 415 Manor Avenue, Wood- button.—C. C., Asbury Park haven, L. Le THIS WEATHER, SHE SAYS, ts SO HARD OX THE CHILDREY Riding downtown on the Ninth Ave-~ nue L" I saw, below Rector Street, a little girl sitting out on a fire-eacape ROCK-A-BYE BABY, At Grand Central Station I saw a soldier and his wife carrying between them a@ short canvas bag, Sitting con- tendedty in the bag was a year-old] fanning her doll with a paper fan.— daby.—Della T. Wright, Edgewater, | Ralph Bartlett, Castle Point, Hoboken, N i Saturday’s Special Prize Winners First Prize, $25 196 Richmond Turnpike, Tompiinayitie Second Prize, $10 SADIE SCHENKER, Nyack, N. ¥ Third Prize, $5 MISSAK TURPANJIAN, No. 803 Angelique Street, West Hobo- ken, N. J. Ten Prizes of $2 Each RUTH H. LARRISEN, Dover, N. J. ELLA J. MILLER, No. 844 West 724 Street. MRS. R. H. MacCREADY, No, 635 West 111th Btreet JOSEPH HOCHFELD, No. 1292 Washington Avenue, the Bronx. IRENE TAYLOR, No. 1162 74th Street, Brooklyn. CLEMENTINE ECKRODE, No. 27 North Sixth Avenue, New Brunswick, N. J. C. B. CONSTANT, No. 16 Cane Street, Bogota, N. J FLORINE CLARK, No. 8. I JOSEPH LIST, No, 184 South Becond Btreet, Brooklyn SAMUEL DUBIN, No. 449 East 187th Street, the Bronx. MRS. MARY L. BROCKWAY, No. 208 West 98th Street. SE —————————) FISHERMAN'S LOCK. On one of the Sheepshead fishing bouts I saw a fisherman got a strike and by the way he was reeling ft in he had apparently a good-sized flah on the hook and knew it. But, suddenly disappoint- ment showed in his face. His line be- came ck and then we saw he had only the head of @ fish. The remainder had been cleanly bitten off by a shark.— William Delb, No. 120 West Lincoln Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. ¥. THE HOUSE DOWN THE LANE. ‘The little house down the lane, painted yellow. A n fence around it, Holly hocks, gaily colored, in the yard. A breeze spread their perfume all about In the back yard a little garden of vegetables and other flowers. Several chickens stepping about in front of thr house. In the doorway a little, old woman with a black dress, a white apron and a white cap, ‘That is what 1 saw to-day.—Miss Mary Danbury, No. 61 Lincoln Avenue, Trenton, N. J. CHEATING A CHHATEN. Returning from Canada by train 1 saw as we reached the border a man take a beautiful set of furs from his Auitcase and ask the woman next (o him to wear them so that he would not fave to pay the duty, She was a stranger but took them willingly, After the customs officer had examined all our luggage I not!-ed the man expostu- lating with the » man. He wanted her to return the furs. She got off the train at the next station, keeping them. Masterson, No. 173 Weed Avenue, Stam- ford, Conn, SPRING GARDEN. Near Flushing Meadows th garden near a garbage dump, This gar- den is entirely inclosed by bed springs obtained from this dump.—Mrs, L. H. M., Bayside, L. 1. ORAD FIGHTS RAT TO DRAW. One of the crabs brought home by the boys escaped as we prepared to boil them and disappeared through # hole In the floor of the old summer kitchen, In a few minutes there was a squealing and a acrambling sound from the hole and @ rat came through it followed by the crab, which was hanging to {ts tail by one claw. The rat's nose was bleed- ing. They struggled for quite a while, but finally the crab's claw was broken and the rat scampered off. The crab scaped down the hole.—Mrs, I. R. Hart, ‘armel, N. Y. HOW TO OPEN CLAMS. White crossing Oceanio Bridge {o- day I saw a fish hawk dive into th water, come up, fy about 100 feet (nto the atr and drop something on the bridge. Then ho flew down and began to eat something, On arrtv- ing oloser I nottced that he was eating a clam, He had broken st open by dropping tt from the air Mrs. E. V. Stanhope, Atlantic High- lands, N. J. BLUE TOWN On the Albany Post Road there is a village called Blue Stores. All the stores in the town are painted @ bright blue.—William H. Meyer, No. 1025 Sun mit Avenue, Jersey City. MAKING DICKIE GAY I saw to-day an improvement of the idea of hanging one's canary cage under the grape arbor to give the bird a treat Near Hartford I saw a small tree of the California variety covered with nettiny Tt made an elaborate cage for a canary who showed his delight by hopping from branch to branch, twittering happlly.- Miss Maude A, Thorpe, No. 257 South Street, Newark, N. J ACTIVE FCONOMY 1 saw a man alight from a Plerce- Arrow car containing five other people and walk Into a drug store, He inquired the price of Ice cream sodas and was told they were 15 cents, Hy then asked the price of plain sodas and ice creani cones, which he was told ware five centn each. He ordered six of ach and in sight of the clerk emptied the cones In wen and made hia own tee crear ta raving of five cents each.— Edna Crookston, Florida, N.Y THE FIRE COMES VEX On the Rwer Road at Fdyewater Taqwa man with a big stick astride @ mule trying to make him go, al- though a fivver ahead of them waa pulling tha animal # an effort to do the same thing.—Edward J. Oater- man, No. 869 Broad Street, Clift aide, N. J BROOKLYN Rk, Five smait shops, side by side in De Avenue. Over the five is one ‘sen- eral sign reading ‘Old Mother Hub- bard's ‘Tradespeopie.”” ‘Then the indi- vidual ehops are designated, "Ye i “Ye Painterer,” "Ye Delicat: nr. "Ye Tailores* and "Ye Lake Robert Wade 195 Stockho Street, Brooklyn. ONCE LET THE PASSION For BLING GET LOU AND YoU aM ARE LOST (a Prospect Park, two young men Playing checkers. Their “‘checker- rd” was a pare from a notebook, the spaces marked off in pencil, Au other up in “men Street, page from the notebook was cut small ploces to represent the Palmer, No, 424 Heney Brooklyn DANCING IN THE 8OBWAY, On account of the vain, the flood and one thing and another the train | was on was stalled in the subway, just south of Christopher Street Station, In the forward car were the members of a brass band of 15 pieces. Upon the re- quest of fellow sufferers they came to the middle car of the train and gave us all @ most enjoyable concert Three couples managed to dance. There would have been more but, singularly enough, we were shy on girls of dancing uge.— Robert P. Nelaon, Third Officer, 8. 8, President Pierce, Erle Basin, Brooklyn. In the subway T saw a cranky old man, his newspaper spréad out and his spectacles perched on tho tip of bis nose. There were girly standing in front of him and ho covered much more room than he was entitled to, At Pul- ton Street a woman of forty-five, tal stout, businesslike, came on, walked liherately over to him, placed her hands under the old boy's legs, swung them out of the way and without a single word on any subject whatsoever sat down herself, He looked at her, and I think he was going to address the meet- Ing, but she gave him an fey stare that froze the words in his pipes.—John H. COZY CORNER DESPOILED, Waiting in a Halsey Street doorway for # car, while the rain was coming down, | suw two gitls in white hurrying along under an enormous and gayly é 1 Japanese paper parasol Carey, No. 470 Putnam Avenue, Br lyn. PLEASURE CAR. , In front of a Brooklyn «partment house, a runabout piled high with household goods. On top of everything else was a bed spring. When the driver climbed in he had to bend forward to keep from striking his head ai bed spring.—Evelyn Evenson, Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, rage ' TWIN CIty, 1 strolled through Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, to-day and in the apace of four short blocks counted four seta of twins.—D, Landau, No. 420 Miller Avenue, Brooklyn. ! ICE CREAM. In the drug atore at Clark and Henry Streets the clerks were busy putting up ice cream for customers to carry home. “What's yours, sonny?” one of the men in white coats asked a “Which melts the fastest,’* boy “chocolate or vanill answer. ‘Then gimme anilla; I gotta go ten I, Funnel!, No. 150 Hicke Street. Brooklyn. UNMOVED. ning home from Franklin Pa found the Franklin Avenue car filled with bathers from Coney Island. 1 stood in front of a man who was very comfortably seated, In the seat in front sat his wife, Their little girl atoort In front of the mother. A woman sitting next to the wife got off at Gates Ave- nue and a little boy rushed for the seat. Like a flash the buaband and father poked him out of the place and put his own little girl in ft. "Don't you know the rule, ‘Indien first?” "’ he asked the boy. "No," said the boy, “and (pointing at me) “I see you don’t either!” ‘The man looked through the O'Brien, No. 682 Vanderbilt Avenue, | window and had nothing further to say. Brooklyn. —Miss J. S., Keap Street, Brooklyn, HAHADY! The conductor on a crowded Wilson Avenue (Canarsie) trolley car had just completed his collection of the second fare to-day when @ young woman arose and, pointing to a man opposite her, said in a loud votce: chap thus designated handed the “Mr. Conductor, that man has NOT paid his far The conductor a nickel without argu- ment.—Albert Adler, No, 19 Louistana Avenue, Brooklyn. SANCTUARY, Sitting side by side on the top step of the main entrange to Dr. Cadman’ Church, I saw 4 young yellow cat and terrier dog if wajting for the door to oper. Wa: it the environment that made hem appear friendly?—Grace A EB. Paterson, No. 566 Macon Street, Brooklyn. KIND HEARTED “UNCLE.” 1 saw two small boys enter a pawn- shop and ask the pawnbroker how mu he would give on a gold filled bracelet. apparently worth fifty cents, as their mother was sick and needed the money. ‘The pawnbroker after asking their names and adresses gave them two dol- lars and told them to take it to their mother.--Mrs. F, B. Thorner, No, 312 Avenue N, Brooklyn. HE MAKHS Goov. T saw a litle boy pay for a quart of fee cream in a drug store, In a few minutes he returned and raid to the proprietor: "My mother said for you to fill the bottom of the box as well as t top." The proprietor thought the joke wan on him and filled the box anew.— Genevieve Allen, No. 653 Prospect Ave- nue, Brooklyn. WISE OLD DOG. At noon the other day, when there wasn't a single shady spot in the street, I saw a junkman’a dog find one by walking under his master’s wagon as it passed down the road,— Lerner, No, 1036 g6th Street, Brooklyn. e}eat in at night.”-—W SPILLED MILK I saw my neighbor's youngster carrying milk from the grocery store. She dropped a@ bottle on the street, but to my surprise instead of erying she hurried into the house and returned in a moment with @ black cat.—Mrs. G, S,, Brooklyn, EVER-FRESH PAINT. ‘The family next door to me recently erected a fence to protect their lawn from people who waited on street cars going to the beach, But these people broke down the fence by leaning on it ‘Therefore, since then she has applied a fresh coat of paint to the fence each day and has hung upon It a sign: “Fresh Paint.’ The results proved satisfactory —Anna L. Shumway, No. 1451 Bath Avenue, Brooklyn. CAT CALL, As 1 was leaving a sick friend's home one night he asked me to rattle twa dishes together in the back yard. Sur prised, I ‘asked him why. Hoe said “That's the only way I can get the Vollmer, No. 174 didert Street, Brooklyn. WHY THE CAR WAS LATE Our starter did not start the car off in Ume and I wanted to learn the cause of the delay, I saw our starter, who had discovered a chick cating crumbs off the footboard, chase the chick to tts mother tn a lot because he was afrait Mr. Chick would be killed.—William F, Wangerien, No. 358 Bainbridge Street, Brooklyn QUEENS GATHERING CORN, Laat night I saw a farmer's truck golng to market with a load of corn, Every time the truck hit a bump an ear or two would drop off, Three workmen in a fiivver on thelr way home stopped gach time to pick them up and put them, In their car, Soon they had their car half full and other drivers of other filvvers were. joining them in an effort to get enough corn for thelr dinners, Sam Rabb, No, 81 Madison Street, Jamaica, N. ¥ EXTRY! WRECK ONT Lien At Nostrand Avenue Tac a young man board a Long Island Raitroad train bound for the Flat- bush At al, He wore a Panam ri wh nuit, grey spate, a wrist watch, an Minviathle Gired ta go from one enr to another but naturally (an this make-up) toould not take « mee tn the raw So he wotted until the train entered the tunnel, and ho was nping, as st were, bisthely from one plat- form to the next when a deluge fell upon him as the train passed under one of the ventilator-openings to the street ahove. The poor boy was a wreck —J. W. 8., Woodhaven ROUND 1 Near Dutch Street, on John str Manhattan, at 1 o'clock tn the after noon, [ saw two boyy of thirteen or fourteen having a regular acentific box- Ing bout, with gloves and everything Both lads showed some science. A big crowd saw the * ©, M. Edgerton, No. 19436 Jamatca Avenue, Richmond Hill OFFICER, CALL A COP The most Interesting person I saw at the City Hall reception to the visiting Chicago firemen was a policeman. He was all of six feet tall and had every appearance of being the man's man we read about in stories of the great out of doors and the open spaces. But he wore ‘w pair of patent leather dan- cing pumps, old dear, and clocked sili hosiery of the sh i mat imagin- able,—C. B. Wohleking, No, 763 Seneea Avenue, Ridgewood, L. 1 FUNNY BUSINESS. Twas standing tn front of the hous vente veniys when 1 saw the aute mobil a phy a pull up in. fron of th of one of the neighbors. While tor waa calling on a pa tlent there three or four boys, ten to fourteen yeurs old, lot the alr out of hin two back tires. The doctor came out of the house hurriedly anid, Ing, drove off with two flattening tlres, Alice BE. Fogus $5 1u2d Road, Woodhaven, L. 1 OTHE FISHMAN HAS CAME Our fish market ser ut a dellvery wagon which at night ts lit up Uke a cleus, With many Mhts of Various col- ors, The most striking thing of about it, however, be one of the Ing tlone: “Mamma, Here's the Fleh Man’? Mra, W., Beach 70th Street, Arverne, JOTHING ON HER, On Third Avenuc | saw a@ little gir? stop and speak erying boy. “I'ny lost That'e nothing,” ahe answer tones, too." —M M. Fallon, No. 4% Jomaica Ave Astoria TO-DAY’S “SPECIAL” AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED THIS IN OTHER EDITIONS TO-MORROW.