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da a hal THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1922. LJ | A PAGE OF REAL NEWS | EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT,UN USUAL HAPPENINGS ‘A PAGE WORTH READING REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS MANHATTAN OUT OF TOWN NOW YOU SEE IT AND NOW YOU DON’T. T ‘O make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND. Walking in Riverside Park, I saw a boy of the “Penrod” age with 1 2 } 2. , . My fy Half a mile from the Dyckman Street Ferry, der the Palisades, f four or five smaller lads around him, for whose benefit he appeared awarded Daily and Weekly. One Dollar us paid for every item printed ; the prizes are in rang : bi rachel bidet saw a cemetery which apparently has not been used much, if any, for to be performing. The smaller fellows appeared to be “pop-eyed” | addition. Send them to ‘What Did You See?” Editor, Evening World, Post Office Box 185, | nate « century. it appeared to me to have been sadly neglected. Stat te eae oe te are bat one eevee | OY Meu Station. WRITE ABGUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHEGRHOOD, | Tosser tx Wek eens sad. vomeoue shrubs corey me Braves. Of the ten or twelve stones still standing erect, one bears imprisoned in a paper bag. He would take out a erpillar, wave : the date 1811, and the latest date I could find was 1869, Less than boll eel in front of his face in swift motions, and suddenly (to all Tell your story, if possible, in not more than 125 took place. Write your own name and address twenty-five feet from the walls the ground has been cleared and lev- appearances) pop the worm ihto his mouth and chew vigorously. vords. S' hi 1 . . full din full. Check: iled dail elled and tables and benches arranged for the entertainment of thou- “Wool gets in my words, tate where the thing written about carefully and in full. ecks are maile ally. sands of New Yorkers and Jerseyites who come here on Saturdays, teeth! Wool gets in my teeth!” It was a weird performance. He Sundays and holidays. wore soiled overalls and dilapidated shoes, without stockings, but he Englewood, N. J. Pia chug zoguetaerausiy moved igh, © © Tike ton SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ONE SUMMER DAY. ONE OF -have two of my own, grown up—but I had to spoil it. “See here, H * Hy In th 0-d a fleld Bey) 1 adid 15 hicacolued Gaye Leb GRAIL: GHENWRR TRKG POUL! BUDE: If you witness a serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any other BIG neWS | In the country 1 saw to-day a fel a fi of buckwheat as white as newly fallet having seen you do this, they come to believe that a fellow reaily ean | Story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big NEWS. | snow. Fringing the fthe wil taw the | eat a poison old worm" He interrupted immediately. “Aw, lookit, | BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. white here and there a big pink patch fellers,” he said, “it's all the bunk! See? This is how I do it.” And, THAN Oe Uk esc ere can orth ouee repeating }:is performance at about the tempo of a slow movie, he a an" ond’ the | showed us how and when and where he was flipping the woolly worms Once or twice he spat, as if in disgust, and sai Charles P. Cairns, No. 45 Charles Street, bE BOOBY-HATOH Our neiyhbor's chickens broke ow® of the henhouse carly this mornings 1 was awakened by the crowing an looking out the window saw the whole flock busy in the iris bed under the basement window. Pres ently Mr. Rooster saw hia reflection DAILY PRIZES: ple blossoms of the “‘heal all’ and the pink ones of ‘ladles’ thumbs" and WEEKLY PRIZES: i; : , £, f, ry “4 ttered 1 e window, 'e became a Into the grass—Mrs. BE. M,N. 232 West 101st Street. For the best stories each day: First Prize, $25; Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed fates than eorhae, Welles Cee Beatin ate ie ae ra MHEG KEEP YOUR RAT ON. CONSIDER HER WAYS AND BE A second prize, $10; third prize, $5. Ten prizes of $2 each among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; Latha ed Neste Rat ath =| wings, and after strutting, about a Hatless, as usual, 1 walked Into a WISE GUY. for ten next best stories. second prize, $50; third prize, $25; fourth prize, $10. heads,” which when pinched really] 6 ("a cocky way he glared at the large deaprtment store to make a pur-| I have witnessed a miniature battle chase. An elderly woman stopped me] ang ; xi : and asked me the location of the tele- HAC Cl ts bbb God itacls 9 phone booths. When [ told her I didn't] !ong line of red ants followed their know, she muttered, ‘What stupld fools] leader along a beaten path toward their the Lonentter are I heaved ata or my este As they came near it they came Toke these” and threw a pair of ox-|¥Pon three black ants dragging a horse fords into my arins. ‘Delighted,"t {| fly and a beetle. The black ants were sald, but I summoned one of the clerks} promptly robbed of their spoils, which 1 stumbled away. The customer] i iiediately w - ®T] immediately were sent to the rear, and poked as if he thought I were an imbeo) t6 column of red ants formed again reflection and screeched, “Who the devil are you-00-008" Then, aecing the reftection crowing, he gathered himself together and leaped with ald his force at tho window, pecking viciously and striking out with hie apurs at the same time, Twice he did this and then, secitg that he was stopped, he backed off and in- toned, “What am 1 going to do-00-00f"'—Emeline Holland, No, 122 Park Avenue, Tuckahoe, N. ¥. looked Mke their names. 1 saw the wind with its magic change the green of a poplar tree to silver against tho BROOKLYN blue of the sky. I saw the like pal bi SAY “AU REVOIR,” BUT NOT “‘GOODB the vivid orange burries oe toe maces As I was walking along Remsen Street I saw a man who was about bol ash hanging for me to pick, and I to climb a scaffolding.» The structure may have been as safe as Gibral- Et hemecne ee Wal winter eee tar, but to my inexperienced eye it looked consumptive. Anyhow, what 1 started to tell you ts that the man was singing “Goodby, forever! MIDDLE AGE HAS ITS LITT , " q % FLING. Goodby, forever!”"—Edgar Warren Wherry, No. 65 Columbia Heights, tava back yard eh P Bivect, Ber BRON. WHY WAS HUBBY ANGRYt STRAPPED. On the beach at Arverne I saw a] At the Brooklyn Bridge Station of the lifeguard arguing with a woman. He|!. R. T. subway 1 saw two pretty girls reminded her he had repeatedly told her}come along laden with bags, suitcases to keep out of deep water, that he had] and other signs of the vacation, One saved her three times and that it wasn’t] of them had @ tennis racket strapped to wins ‘ a bag. It was strapped too loosely. She or conaiderate of her to risk her} out tne bag down and she tried to 1” THIS ONE FAILS, OUR NEXT “Don't| UPON another ant hill inhabited by what|life again. She glared contemptuously | tighten the st of I had t Brooklyn. mar, I saw a mother hen swing Md bebe ie Pale and sald apologetically, | ““Don't] seemed to be a cross between red and jghten the strap. course, I had to herself in a hammock for a full ve Iw th : Fe seemed to be a De abhitentand tan Inte ie sine an Ul volunteers faye anal aie 4 went down to the news stand for the worry, I'm not stealing this; I'm just] Does ts” Here a fierce battle en- into surf. Five min my assistance, and while do- TALK ABOUT YOUR TALKABOUTS! OUT OF THE FRYING PAN. minutes while her eleven half-grown 1 was crossing Parkway Beach to-day] The St. John's Place car I was riding one ys? Wd and forth under- when a bail whizzed from somewhere | in stopped to take on passengers. In ac-| "20th. Finally, with a gentle flap her wings, Mrs. Hen jumped to and landed at the back of my crantum. | 1 t He Te eet AE the back of my Gore my] cordance with the regulations a taxi! the ground and cluok-cluck-clucked eyes. * * Everything went black. * *| Stopped alongside. I saw the door of pity) ne march for home.—Vir- When I returned to consclousness I ex-| the taxi open and « man step out and| Qe Vall, No. 155 Centre Street, pected to ace the culprite standing] start to enter the car when he was oN. J around me smothering me with tearful | grab! by the conductor, jo YOU! oTnE ” x . Spologies. Instead, I) heard. some one don't!” exclaimed the conductor. ‘fou; OTHER TRUCKS FLEASH Co utes later we heard a cry and saw the| ng the strong man stuff I broke the sume woman struggling vainly to keep| strap. What could I do? I hurried to herself afloat. The lifeguard pulled her] ‘ trunk and bag shop, at Ann and Nas- in to the beach, where the woman's] ‘#U Streets, and got a strap. My re- husband was, Her condition. wasn't| “ard was a sweet smile and a whole serious and the guard spoke to. her| *eTles of pretty “Thank you's.""—Murray again about his warning, whereupon | #0ldwasser, No. 1186 Washington Ave- re Fomes/s biabacal punched him in} ue Bronx. e face.—-Sylvia Gervitz, No. 927 St. Aa eee John Avenue, Bronx. TURN THE CRANK. taking It to the light.” as far as ; ye you wish, madam," I satd, and she} sved and the red ants came off victo- re really a gen-| tious, whereupon they added to their Deamed at me ee ead on my unhappy [spolla the eggs and the young of the van- way and a floorwalker, evidently think-|“u'shed, who were sent flying in every ing I was a ‘special, shouted, ‘‘Say| direction. ‘Go to the ant, thou slug- there, young fellow,’ get to work!"'| gard,” I think now, fs bad advice un- Lthat was the laet straw. I got out,| less you desire someone to be a thief, a nd after this I'll wear a hat.—Law-| murderer and a kidnapper.—Erwin van rence H. Singer, No. 130 W. 117th] Swol, No. 504 West 136th Street. morning papers and saw a youth built on Skinny the Tin Pedler lines sneaking a look at “Wise's Six Winners for @ Quarter" while the man was busy get- ting my change. The boss of the stand turned in time to see what the slender chap was up to and fairly forced him into buying one of the sheets.—M. R. Farrell, Grand Unton Hotel, Saratoga. I had an appointment this morning] calling 1 hi i} pay your taxi bill frat!” Then the], 1" @ truck belonging to the American| ween, SAYS HE, “THEY 5 E alling {mpatiently from the other enc io Apacd eed 3 Ant Ay Y WERE eee BABY'S CUTTING REMARK. GOOD NIGHT! with @ friend whose place of busines of the beach, “Ball, please!''—Babs| iriver of the taxi saw his fure was pea lent thode ae to ay 4 the fol BUM SMOKES, ANYHOW situated at No. 174 Chambers Street. 1] Post, No. 2725 Ocean Parkway, Brook-| trying to beat his bill.—Mra. A. Blake- ic sign: “Safety first. Pedestrians . CHORUS: “ONE MORE RAVER.” I saw a certain kind of shaving MANHATTAN. arrived at 9.30, a trifle late, and found|jyn” nase Bech clear bi i No. 1200 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, [Nave the right of way, In case of| We went to a prize dance at Sylvan Only sixteen automobiles can be taken| cream digplayed in a drug store win: las icine een him trying to crank his automobile. 1] 7™ bai pbsal ¥ "doubt, STOP! Take no chances of hit-| Lake. One of the fellows in our crowd on the ferry at Rhinebeck, and the ferry] dow at Eighth Avenue ond sd “HOME!” helped. Believe me, we had our work en uove ting any one.—Robert J, Herm, No. 40] Jumped to his feet when his name was runs once an hour. Consequently on] Street. There was a picture of a 1 saw a young couple come from |cut out for us. When we were both GRAVEYARD GRAVE TaRD = Sickle Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. and fairly ran to the platform Sunday there's great anxiety to get| man with a profusely lathered face, the doorway of the Bronx Maternity |Perspiring freely a typical lower west WHAT DID HE MEANt Scores of youngsters swim at the —— ve a prize box of cigars. He was 0 in his hand, A across as soon as possible. I saw aman] holding a razor with a battered filvver first in line and] young, woman Raedildn gy) bony approach a car far in the rear, He| paused to look in the ow Offered to sell his place for $5. The| the baby, who was hardly more than Coming home late last night 1 | foot of Hamilton Avenue. They un- SIXTH SENSE. crossed City Hall Park and bumped | dress at the dock and dive in. Their into two sailors in uniform, one of | only trouble 1a the police. Some chase whom said: “Buddie, will you atake | them from the dock, but a few cops will i side youth came along and stopped to Hospital on Grand Concourse and | watch us. He had been looking on for walk slowly, very slowly, toward a |about a minute when, addressing my tazi at the ourb, She was hardly |friend, he said, “What's the matter, to make @ pretty bow and deliver 4 short speech when he learned that the prize had been awarded to another I am & woman conductor on a pay- as-you-enter car in New Jersey, and at i this morning a blind man who got on| Young man of the same name. We gave Person approached Jeered him, but tho] @ year old, pointed tte Wngera at | more than a girl, Sho was leaning {ster?, Don't it play?”—Hterbert Isler,| wa to eight conte to get aoross to | not diaturh them. Instead thew) Join tne car lone gave mea dollar and| our friend a warm reception on” his man replied that he had already made} the picture a Gk fon heavily on his arm and her face ; 2487 Grand Avenue, Bronx, the graveyard? And the other jthe gallery inne i ‘nee that | 28ked for four tokens in his change. 1] feturn to us,—Vincent F. Hoolihan, Box $10 that day.—J, C. Stuart, No. 32] “Daddy hurt hisse: Se geamadapaian anal aniine eaGtinae jackie explained: “We've been out | light tn their faces one can Re Se ST MIM CORON TE TESS ERENT Ria lal Bawilags Ney West 160th Street. SaENTOR, 200." 401" \iekemastne arrest ahe clung to the man at her side, BEATING THE DEVIL. with a couple 0’ Janes and only got | crery action of the boys in swimming! change and as he put his fare in the —— = re ne she looked up at him and amiled | In Islip I saw @ busy man, a really] [0 cents left. —I came across— | |e reminisce’ io ay once knew.—8, < [cash box he said, "Girile, you have THE SKEPTIC. ROOFTREES. SERVICE AND SERVICE. radiantly, In hte arms he carved @ busy man. He is the omcial night| 4. 2+ Fowler, No. 860 Greene Ave- {swung Tile . given me too much." I could see how] In Clover Street 1 saw a little girl From my window on Hust 87th Street | In Morningside Park to-day I saw a bundle wrayped in fay tehite blan- {watchman of the village, but bealdes| ™@ Brooklyn. Ai Breen. he learned he got too much change,|pull a hair out of a horse's tail, She : aoeagpieath caretaker using discarded newspapers . He held tt carefully and as |that he is janitor of the school but T-can't seo, since I hadn't spoken,|sald she was going to placo It In a T can see three small trees growing on tty wipe off the benches so visitora| they stepped along so siowly to- | janitor of the town hall, Janitor ot tive THE FEMACE OF THESE CIEE: aw he a thee nw : Sara ct this house ‘and in some way | could sit on them. One hour later while . om carried to the roof by | Walking through Mount Morris Park 1 eraind: Nase sprouted in the tiny|saw men spraying the trees and leave crevice between two buildings until the|the benches wet with spray so that three trees are about three feet high.—| visitors would not only get wet but ‘arry A. Johnson, No. st 87tn|also spoil their clothes.—George H. treet. Sommers, No. 235 EB, 122d Street. IT'S A GIFT. From my window I watched a crew of men at work in an excava- bottle of water and see ff ft really would turn into a snake.—J. Mansfield, No. 3 South Clover Street, Poughkeepsie. . how he knew, being blind, that I was Down at Manhattan Beaca to-day I saw a happy little family of | ,°voman Leila Lyons, Ni a parents and four children. The children wanted hot dogs. Then they Avenue, West New wanted candy. Next they called for crackerjack. In another minute the Sahaeee vag fi Finally dad said: “Gosh, children, I can't buy ee ue: request wae for cones. Finally dad said: i i ie aae caclenTalt bee VRaa re Scere everything on the beach. I can't afford it. You'll have to quit wanting | number of equally small fellows who 7 ‘ ” were throwing stones and hooting at everything you see.” There was Mlpace for simoat a malnute, and then Wee GhtonIny Gaheroe the. acs ence one of the little girls said: “We can't stop, daddy; you'll simply have | of the latter I inquired the reason for to make more money.”—W. A. Cook, No. 284 East Second Street, Brooklyn. this rough play. After freeing himself gether he looked almost reverently | bank bulldi -s, @t the smiling face turned so ra- Wantly upward to his by the little woman at his side. And then when Janitor, ‘ticket taker, usher and bill poster of the movies, and When he isn’t busy doing something else he serves as a deputy sheriff.—Willi they got into the cab, they kissed | Adair, No. 2000 Were ‘ eeiy each other tenderly.—Harry Mendlo- ee fie SY Webaten Avenue Brons wite, No, 734 Hast 180th Street. sae No. 653 Hudson rk, N. J. BARBY, DEAR, I saw my four-and-a-half months’ old $ baby «irl place her little hands in mine (for the first time) when I raised my arms and sald, , Je: George C. Pal ville Place, Yonkers. While passing a stable on Third Ave- wees nue, near 20th Street, to-day I saw an “YEAR 07 JUBI old horse which seemed to have reached} In the window of a Richmond Avenue tion, my attention being drawn to one man in particular. After eieuieveninen et Fe arenes man puselee shop to-day I saw a sign stat- from my grasp he sald, as he ran after RU 5 watching this gentleman's antics for ten minutes, I am convinced that |gron I. Koffer, No. 1810 Brook Avenue, | carr at, & nice, large head of cabbage “NOBODY'S ROUND.” the bunch, ‘He insulted the flag and] On the train this evening T saw would be given with all orders of corned beef at 10 cents a pound. It sald aleo that with all orders of $1 or more five LAST CALL! pounds of potatoes would be given A special alarm clock, equipped with} away free, Isn't that worth seeing? two glant gongs, is exhibited in the] Pretty soon they may be giving away window of a Jewelry shop on Broadway, | potatoes again as spout caps for kero, near 62d Street. One glance would assure | sene cans.—J. Frankenberg, No. 28 Cote the prospective customer that the clock] tage Place, Port Richmond, S. I. would do its work, but the proprietor pa a adds this: “If this clock won't wake you we're going to make him kiss it.""—Van Fame has come to me after many years of mediocrity. * * * I | ‘Traver, No. 12 Halcyon Place, Yonkers, was walking along 62d Street, wrapped in thought, when I bumped N. Y. heavily into a big Negro. He apologized profusely, and (not at all ANYBODY oN GUARDE unmindful of the fact that he topped me by about two feet) I accepted I saw ten tons of coal dumped into his apology. “Do you know who that was?” asked a sporty looking | the newly finished foundation for a pystander. “That was Harry Wills, the challenger of Jack Dempsey.” | house | The workmen said the house would not be ready for occupancy before —A. Vernon, No. 80 Lott Street, Brooklyn. November.—May C. Hornidge, Mama- I have discovered the World's Champion Staller. While I studied his | Bronx. really scientific loafing I observed the approach of two of his bosses. Now, said i to myself, the poor fellow will have to do a little real work. Did he? Tae minute they were opposite him he took off one shoe and shook an imaginary pebble out of it. Then he put the shoe on. Then he walked to the other end of the job and “drank” water out of an absolutely empty bottle, not forgetting to wipe his mouth. Sud- man writing letters on a portable type- writer, One was headed: “My Dearest Mabelle.""—A. H. Bailey, No. 45 Grand Avenue, Englewood, N. J. FORGEP In the fall of the year 1905 my father while walking through the woods near ho: ‘ame across a small land turtle. Father cut his initials and the date on 7) denly he grabbed a spade and set off to another part of the Job, the Jup, call the undertaker.”—H. A. Wood- NOAH. FRESH FISU, NOTA PROFITS: roneck, N. Y, ag Maren einer tae one be released “ . Seattle ., hy There i# a coal barge at Pier 19, . ia eragl . me turtle arnt speed ene had shown. He's a genius.—Charles Lemp, No. 1026 iaanees, No, 180 Claremont Avenue) Ginn, 8. 1, with @ happy family | over at Sheepshead Bay I saw alively, My wife wanted the dust from her “DAD. was found in the yard of a man living exington Avenue. . aboard. It consists of the Captain, half a mile away. The initials are stsd his wife, their two sons and two 100 men and[ patent teathe: ‘ fish market. At least pal eather ahoes) dusted off andi 1| I saw the motorman of @ Ninth Aveci te iin, visible on the roumh sheik ; nN waited the arrival of boats! age nue “L" train step from the train, sud- A CITIZEN AND WIS HAT, FORCED SALE. NEVER TROUBLE TROUBLE UST! daughters and fifteen” chickens, [Roving fish, As goon us one would tle ane Pavan Whose eiend at the loony halted at TOdth Btreet, and drop | Lawrence Quackenbush, High Stredw TraMc suddenly halted at Madison] An urchin of ten or twelve promptly TROUBLE TROUBLES YOU twelve pigeons, one parrot, one |up to the pier the crowd would warm) (jy al Station of the 8. R. 7. tacea| tothe track. Gazing after him I saw | closer, N. J: Avemue and 43d Street, Pedestr seitled himself in the subway seat Just] I saw an officer of the law sensible] country, two dogs and one black | pout it, buying whatever was for sale} onoas otmrt to do it. 1 sald they nim stoop and pick up a red kite, which — crowded at the curb, Passengers pe emptied by @ lady, but immediately he] ¢nough not to go looking for bother.| snake.—Willam Whyte, No, 4118 |and wrapping thelr purchases up injiriiey ff Utkin. so he carefully! ie carefully lowered to the street below] STRAIGHT FROM THE FEED-BOX, from car windows, Shouts of voices and| called to a woman near the door and| At 42d Street and Highth Avenue, two] Chestnut Avenue, Rosebank, 8, 1. |newspapers. ‘Then those who had not ped them with a At the track yesterday I saw a 10 to 1 shot throw its rider at the barrier and run away the length of the course be- fore being caught. After the horse was clanging of bells filled the air, Every-| offered her the seat. She refused. She body gazed at a traffic policeman point-| was getting out at the next station. ing to the car whels. The motorman] The boy offered the seat to another leaned out, He shouted to the ma-| standing woman, She, too, refused, for. 1{cloth. I offered him a coin, but he re-|‘t® some waiting boys. He climbed back got any waited for jphe nest: boas Bh) fused to take it, “'I_no use material, bo] {© the train grinning—"I couldn't bust every one got, nice, fresh ery erect, | WhY I take money?” he usked. 1 hag] that: I've got three kids of my own, F. O'Neill, a to force a dime on him.—A. H. Green,|C: H. B., No. 117 North 15th Street, gents were forcefully expressing thetr opinions of one another. A crowd gath- CONSPIRACY. ered. They said a great many things} 1 saw two little boys busy nailing up you wouldn't print in the paper. Both/a “Keep Out” sign on the. lot next | Brooklyn. No. 1289 Union Street, Brooklyn. East Orange, N. J. brought back and the jockey had chines and cars behind him. There} the same reason. Then he found’ an-| of them could sce the policeman, who|door. I asked them who told them to = sie mounted again I saw one man place $600 was a great roar and clatter as trame| other standing Moman, but she too wasletood swinging his stick with his back|do it and one answered: “The apples |NO REPORT HAS BEEN REPORTED. | suGG@STING JACKIE COOGAN i" BRAVO! On this antmal to win—Frank J. Fas backed Up e few fests ines meteraas ONE A es ypodants ghia’ er Bald of is resting against the building at the cor-|on these trees ‘ll soon be ripe and we} | saw @& chantenn a Prides Ana Fis “PRM map. AN 3 1 saw the conductor of an orchestra] ell. Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. reversed his car, an ere, lying on ; e ce Lecame satiseddon't want allo oe ert try to check the .! Terereed Nie car, end there, Iite oP | cat down with @ smile Of thanks ae tel 2am wren, ine audience became ex on't want the other fellows getting} ton streets try hestra fied that the hot air wasn't xolng to|them."—Lucy Murphy, No. 1931 Arthur result in a blow everybody laughed and|Kill Road, Rossville, 8. I. walked on. Finally, the two cussers ran out of steam and they too went THE FIFTH MAN, their ways. And there was the cop,| I saw no chauffeur in the first taxi 7 apparently had Near the Atlantic Ave: at a concert stop in the middi frome, leaMioh ts aatiefaction, but when| to-day I aaw w young bootblack stand, [overture and give a justly merited re- it ripove ‘a few feet the plug again dis-|!ng in @ group of ed companions | Uke to @ number of women who were he ary and a steady stream of gasoline| deliberately break @ mirror to show the| talking and depriving others of enjoy lodged “fo be trying to catch up with| ang he was not afraid of seven yea commotion. It was a man's straw hat,| boy beamed at her, and then, as soon black with age. The crowd grinned] @* she had got settled, he plunged a and from among the scores on the pave- | §Timy hand into his blouse and drew ment stepped a little od man with a] forth a box of chewing gum, “B PUBLIC SERVICE. ‘Three people told me I'd never get the umbrella I left in the Lexington Ave- nue “L" train at Jamaica, but I went ing the entertainment. Suddenly miss- : ** he asked, grinning. “Fiv it oO f our future}hard luck. “I brok ing the music, the hall became very|to the end of the line anyway. I found gray beard. He smiled bashfully, ac-| £10 ear » Son ck, with his back|in the line at South Ferry, 7 he, automobile. One of 4 one yesterday, | ing d of pted the hat from the policeman and] She bought. Conrad Streitteld, No, 670) Still ewinging his sic. Wilh Te, mt one in the second, nor, the third; bur | Presidents hereupon walked out into the] too, 10g phonated.—Pauline E. Arnold, | still, and when he had finished speaking Jeverybody courteous. All the | men ie poms to vie motormia Hacked Ou bali” $5 Wert ath Street in the fourth I found four. checizecns | rect and applied a match to the snake-| No. in Avenue, Brooklyn, there was loud applause and later, no| stepped aside to give me an opportunity Polishing the hat with his elbow.—C, playing poker, I went to the fifth, and like trail. I beat @ hasty retreat, but — talking.—Edwin'G. Davis, No. 41 Irving] to talk to the one in charge, Doors were Carson, No. 10 E. 48d Street. CAMOUFLAGE, * Ithough he was busy readi rm scanning all hegdlines now to learn Street, Jersey City, N. J. opened for me and I was agreeably sur- I saw several men working the other DISROSsSESSED. ready to accept 8 SES pares {r'the flame caught up with the car.— QUEENS. pbmeols prised by the nice manners displayed MIGHT AS WELL KILL A MAN As/ ‘iy on the side of the artistic Munson| I saw two little Bo ci Playing |No. 80 Fillmore Streei, New Brighton, | Jane D- Rauch, No, 214 E, 82d Street, “PITTY FOWER.” KPEF YOUR TWHYTY-DOLLAN |by all the BH. T. employres with whom Line building, facing Wall Street. eaceably in a pile of pebbles at S7th|¢°y, Brooklyn. 5 i VODRAELE. came in contact.—Christine Wood SCARE HIM TO DEATH. were painting a false window on the Street and Ninth Avetue, where the : At Long Beach I saw a wee mite of BiLis Fe Black, No, 8823 Hollis Avenue, Hollis, An automobile coming down a side e c 4 While walking up Main Street to-Hlay & child crawl along the sand to the], saw a baby carriage parked In front side of a bather and try to pick thelof a big department store. Fastened Yesterday’s Special Prizes tattooed flower from his arm.—Elea|to the head of the carrihge with two street is being repaired. Along came a crowd of boys about ten years old. “You musn't play with the pebbles, dears,”’ said the, leading daredevil, imi~ A wall to make it balance architectural; ie street was just about to turn into Am-11: now appears from the street ae nc sterdam Avenue when It struck a little! Su tuear window with th it boy a glancing blow and knocked him ie anade bait, down, The driver, scared and worrted, |W". —Richard A. Jessen, No. 60 Wall ™~ a i ’ Bat Conn,, to-day I i Cee ae cer al Taw Terry, No. 4816 97th Avenue, Ric hairpins was a piece of paper on whict iP quarters ¢ re EARBECKY stopped his machine and hur-| Street Haeene Me ecause the watchman has to baaanar iy an = Ral Hin, Led areas: Bishmnend | read: "Please do, not give the baby] tho" Govonutionary, Wars There. were fed to up the lad, His face be: for every pebble that {s First Prize, = anything.""— ard, No. 6 "| Ane old spinning wheels and swords in trayed his anxiety, but as he stooped STAMBOUL. pey (8 Penny on, fea that al- We FTise, * : 3 . a jtou Avenue, Poughkee: e house. ‘The old apple trees are re arn the boy's Injuries the Tattor At Rivington and Orchard streets Eo nen Wee [poral watchman a ISABELLA POST, No. 2725 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. SAP EPROM THN PANE OF SANEAR soy pee A ws how parr oe eppl a te ts are ont jumped up and ran, He was not hurt] to-day I saw a man with . gathered up their _ - fo Targest hotel | wei x “| was ratsed from one of the acorns of the at all. The face of the driver showed|fex on his head and @ pillow ee freee. fine pole ne, iramedi: Second Prize, $16 Pate A irae OF de mialce, L. 1, reads: RAILROADS. Charter Oak. 1 also saw the old mee astonishment, stupefaction, wonder and] to his back. Against the pillow rested | ately the larger lads jumped into the JOHN H. HORAN, No. 71 Sicard Street, New Brunswick, N. J. nile frome macs Four Oante 9 In the window of a Whitestone | house, where prisoners were confined Anally relief as he breathed a huge sigh} a copper cylinder. In front of him| pile of pebbles and began throwing them . 1, No, 72 Sicard & ba wengers. An Exorbitant] market: “Corned Beef, 10 Cents; |and it was so hot there one could and wobbled back to his machine —| swurs's chain of What asrerres tee | nile of pebbles and benen teens vere Third Prize, $5 Charge. Railroad Workers Cannot Be| Cabbage, Free.”—Susan Ostrander, | scarcely breathe, All about are cannon Morris Brandsteln, No, 601 West 12th| ¢imeture turrets, Det Whiee rae eect | ayene gangtner melee. inden “and ird Prize, § Too Well Paid. Why Reduce Their] No, 98 Weat fiat Street, Whitestone, | and shells to remind one of the war Street. HE a a alr 1 25 alae power sue eae er aah an (hole an MARGARET VY. WALTHALL, No. 125 Washington Place, Wane : mone santeres far the} L. 1. which made us a nation.—Charlotte ro adhvine ouna i the which: 3 ond e talk of Jamalca— Stull, No, 07 Bungalow Avenue, F WHERE STRIKES CAUSE No DIs-| [or 4 head ay tes Ha as ae ne ienegent couniananess of 1 Jackson, Ten Prizes of $2 Each Mrs. M. Leavy, No, 2398 Jamaica Ave-] AND WHEN HE GOT HOME WF] geld, Conn vam RUPTION OF SCHEDULES. The top of the cylinder had a curved| No. 401 West 24th Street. MRS. J. D. NUNN, No. 509 West 174th Street. nue, Richmond Hill, L. 1 SAID, ‘WHATCHA GOT TO BAT, MAt = I saw a seaplane leave tts hangar at| spout from which he poured the lemoa MRS, LILLIAN PRICE, No. 315 Crescent Street, Long Island ——e In an ico cream store In this neigh KATY DONEFOR Rumson, N. J. this morning, spin out} juice by leaning over. The more acute| wENBY AND DOLLY VISIT OUR Ct 7 A CHURCH ON WHEELS. porhood last night I saw one nine-[| yp juara nolaa in’ the bushes vena on the water @ little way and and| the angle the faster the juice flowed into i y- tast 32d Street, On Fifth Avenue near Forty-second| year-old boy put away a banana split.}iooxing 1 sawn katyidid. about then head for New York. I learned that|the cup. There were two angles—the ED MRS. E. GARDNER, No. $80 Hest 3 Street to-day T saw a filvver on which] a walnut frappe and a ate ice} inches lony in the grasp of & Wasp, f this plane belongs to Mr, Borden of tho] lesser one for the three cent drink, the} Passing through 23d Street, I saw L. 8. DAVIS, No. 45 East Broadway was mounted @ perfect replica of a] cream soda at one aitting.—Mra. Ethe!| which was hol t with ite two trons Borden Milk Company, who travels to} longer for the five cent drink.—Henry | What looked Ike @ two-room cabin on J. J. BARNES, No. 338 East 23d Street country church. It was painted gray,| Spits, Bell Avenue, Bayside, L. 1 g it through the and from business in it every day.—| Goldschiag, No. 138 West Fourth Street.|® Ford chassis, carrying Virsigls N- FRED C. THOMAS, No. 3110 Buinoridge Avenue, the Bronx, had a pretty Ittle colored-glasa window - - finally reached an ‘Agnes Schuck, No. 414 East 7ist Street. — ‘|canse, On the side of the cabln was MORTIMER HEINEMAN, No. 216) Webster Avenue, the Bronx and on @ black plate waa Inscribed A BOY AND and mounting {t by ON THE JoB. peinied, Henry and Oy yee MILDRED ROBERTS, No. 350 Seminole Avenue, Forest Hills, *hureh of the Holy Bible, Rey, Robert] On the Boardwalk he reached a good TRANSMISSION IS ENOUGH. I saw a gang of men digging a diten| Around, tne World in Five yen bry larke."—-Ruth Nodelman, No. 11006] ents afternoon at 4.2 to a post of the I saw a new flivver going through|to-day on 18th Street between Fourth “the Lord {e. With Us.’ All sorts of ANNA BCHLECISER, No. 102 8 reet, Brooklyn. Slat Street, Richmond Hill 1 boy's kite become ¢ Imbed spirally to West Third Street. One of the rear tires | Avenue and Broadway, Suddenly a oor ving nvng from the roof. On OTe RORTEL ROT Me ea Le n Avenue, Brooklyn. = slecitia Wires Overiieeg ANG 1p Oe. af " Wethesd arate came off, and as the machine hurtlet | burst of flame came from the gas main,| Ci "yront cent sae m young man and a SOHN PORTELROY, No. $18 Losing ! MICHAE forts to Ket it down he puiled down verhead.—Madaline over the cobblestones a shower of sparks| followed by a large cloud of smoke. tiltoang "woman dressed in khaki. On Broa®way, Astoria, I saw a ped-| wires, No one was hurt, but whi NF ew from under ‘the tireless wivel. A] looked serious, but instantly the labor-|Zouldn't make out whether they are Read to-day’s stor Pick the ones you think are bi let's wagon with an Inscription which| tines were being repaired power had t i taxi driver stopped to look at the div-|ers began shovelling sand as rapidly us Just finishing the five-year trip, whether Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial 1 took to be his name. It was | ao] be shut off and as € almost a SESSION, f| and remark: That guy don't! they could and in a few minutes ea-| they are honeymooners, missionaries or (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to-morrow, I looked on lonely and 1 saw| the amusements dependent thereabouts] [saw a chureh last Sunday no magneto,”"James J. Burnes, Nu, tinguished the flames, —James J. Barnes, | just travellers. -Llalo Maasz, No. 438 . MAHERECOMESMIKE."—J. Aulbach,! on electricity had to suspend operations, with a pencil stuck behind one of hie BE. 23d Street. No. 888 E, 23d Street. Becond Avenu: No, 808 First Avemus, Astoria, L, L William P, Smith, Rockaway Beach.!ears.—Jrank Hurst, Callicoon, N, ¥, . \ ¥ 4

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