The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1922, Page 14

‘ ' { | ! MANHATTAN No duubt many have seen, but WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN AGAIN? how few (or how many) have given thought to the fact that the standing of all cities having teams in both the ational and the American Leagues is the same in both leagues? In first place in each league (I write on Friday, Aug. 11) we find the St. Louls Browns and the St. Louls Cardinals; second, New York Giants and New York Yankees; White Sox; seventh, Philadelphia Quakers and Philadelphia Athletics; eighth, Boston Braves and Boston tunity for the mathematically incli sort of line-up occurring again?—P: HOW HIGH Is A HATT I saw a group of young men to- day having a heated argument as to the height of a crown of an ordinary silk hat. Wagers were made and to the surprise of nearly all it was earned that the crown is but four inches tall.—J. W. Hudson, No, 520 West 166th Street. MALE JURY FAVORS HANGING. ‘As I stepped into a Broadway sub- sway train at Times Square I had a fecl- ing as if I were in the court room fre- ing “twelve good men and true.” There they were, dozen of them, filling all the space from the end door to the side door. I joined ten other women who were hanging to straps in front of this “Jury of their peers."—Selma M. Ada- nia, No, 540 West 136th Street. THERE WASN'T ANY CANARY, I saw a crowd in front of a Ler- fnoton Avenue dird shop, They were looking at a puppy in a ca- nary's gilded cage. The puppy wus darking. There wasn’t any canary. —Margaret Grosskopf, No. 168 East 48th Street. WHEY NEVER LEARNED THIS IN THE RAR Within the yery shadow of our Fifth ‘Avenue storehouse of collected wisdom J saw two kid« pull some Ings A “conn stuff, While one appeared to be doing his best to magnetize and recover the I saw two kids pull some class A ‘con the grating the other lad played the blubbering part and did a magnificent fob at it. They had collected five times the amount of the alleged loss when Policeman Charles Henry Wise _ told them to beat {t—Thomas McCaffrey, No. 556 West 42d Street. SEEN AND HEARD AT THE B. Z. G. I enjoyed an excursion to the Bronx Zoological Gardens, Here are some of the things I saw and some of the things I heard: At all entrances the warning, “Do not carry peanuts into the park.” . Boston Post Road and other entrances young men announced, “Baby carriages for hire.” Scores of sign the animals, a fine of $3 will be imposed.” the park” is another prohibition. tap on the glas: at the elephant stockade. And, as the grass” signs.—Mrs. Dorothy Durkin, No, 101 West 70th Street. SAILING DOWN THE HUDSON. Salling down the Hudson on the Coney Island boat I saw at some distance across the water what I took to be a eculling crew at rest. It was such an unusual sight to see a boat and crew motionless for se long a time that my curiosity: was aroused. Calling the at- tention of my companions to the ob- fect we watched and waited. Presently the “crew” arose in the air and flew over the river, My “scull’ proved to be @ pleco of driftwood, It had been manned by gulls sitting an equal dis- tance from one — anbther.—Richard Bchayer, No, 854 18ist Street. ONE WHO CRIED FOR Ko Low. I saw the funeral procession of. the recently murdered Chinese, You will have heard of it from the regular re- portefs. I was impressed by tfle wealth ‘of flowers, by the marching Chinese, by the thousands who filled all the windows in the district or looked down from the roofs and fire escapes. There was a bus Joad of Chinese musicians, One of the automobiles was filled with white women. In another one little Chinese ‘woman sat forlornly in a corner, weep- ing her Meart out. She was the only person I saw weeping.—J, P. Freeman, 203-205 Madison Street. TREADKWASS. | Yatw a man in a Turkish fez selling Russtan “breadkwass’ on Rivington Street, He had a huge urn on his back and carried sanitary cups in a rack fastened to his belt. He dispensed the liquid by bending his almost at right angles, tilting the liquid into the cup, He chanted in Yiddish, | tiave put one over on yours truly. “A cooling drink for one penny!""—Sam | Martin F, O'Leary, No. 480 East. 6th Stein, No. 134 Bast Second Street, Street MR. GOODFELLOW. MARVELLOUS. On St. Nicholas Avenue, near 123d] At Starlight Park to-day I saw a Street, 1 saw a yellow dog run over by|young man of twenty-five who was an automobile, One of its lege wan in-| totally blind playing checkera with fured, but, instead of leaving it Me in| throw different spergons at ono time, He the street to be shot hy a@ policeman,|took his affliction lghtly, and as he as drivers do, this driver felt for the moves of his opponents he bundled the announced | to & veterinarian OK » his machine and was &@ member of the Good Sports’ Club. William Precht, No. 61 E. 113th Street OFFIC I saw Policeman No. 9569, an something about him. lutely One of the Finest. night one morning in a pouring down to my store. say that the man, well dressed an personality, was merely dead dr declined to appear against him. the fellow’s hand and heard him bite to eat” and “bed.” Since th He is attached to the Fifth Street Station. © © ©@ limping. “I chased two men into a basement. could bave got them if I wanted was noontime and there were ¢ myself than bring death to some my neighborhood is proud of th ) Avenue. PS “Ride the elephant for 10 cents,” cried an attendant trunk forward | taking the animal| trying He should be elected | answer himself gayly, ‘“Ah-ha! He is young and tall and handsome and abso- He came to my living quart Tt had been broken into, and a man, apparently dead, was etretched out on the floor, They shot a man and a little girl in Second Avenue. | fourth, Chicago Cubs and Chicago Red Sox. Here is a great oppor- ined. What are the chances of this aul G. L, Hilken, No. 49 Wall Street. PUSSY CAT, PUSSY CAT, WHERE ARE, YOU BOUND? Cats certainly have a contempt for wet 8, After the water wagon passed our house to-day you could see the usual number of dry spots which the sprinkler failed to touch. Along came a tabby cat, which evisently wanted to cross the street, It shimmied from one dry space to another and finally completed the Journey, Then, characteristically, it went in behind some garbage cans and disappeared into a cellar, 1. 13, West 2ist Street. Ww. RISKS FIs LIFE FOR SOME RUB- BER BALLS. On Wadsworth Avenue, at 1824 Street, stands Public School No, 132 ‘The boys have access to the school yard for the purpose of playing handball. While I watched the other evening sev~ eral balls were accidentally knocked into a room on the first floor above the ground. One brave boy started to climb up and get them, but unfortunately be- came dizzy when he looked back to the ground and suddenly lost his bat- ance and fell to the pavement. I am told his skull was fractured and that he was injured otherwise and ts not ex- pected to recover.—Mre. A. E, Cook, No. 188 Wadsworth Avenue. HARD MONEY. When 334 Street was being repnved some of the chauffeurs who make their stand at the Park Avenue corner placed al nickels in the wet cement, At ‘clock, when office staffs and sales- people were rushing homeward, the chauffeurs had a hilarious time watching people reaching for the nickels and finding them imbedded and stuck fast ‘The fun lasted until A boy of twelve peared with a hammer and @ knife,— ‘ary Acton, Park Avenue Hotel. At the s screaming, “Do not feed or annoy “Cameras not allowed in In tae House of Reptiles, “Do not far as the eye could see, “Keep off DIVERS. In Flushing Bay I saw several boys diving from a home-made springboard consisting of a long board placed across a log. Four or five boys sat on one end of the board to permit one Ind to dive from the other. ‘They took turns.—Miss Jo Regan, No. 346 West 56th Street. GOLDIN LOCKS CROSSES MADI- SON AVENUE. Standing on the street corner waiting for an opportunity to cross Madison Avenue was a golden haired little girl. As the strect car slowed down and came to a stop the big motorman amiled at her re- assuringly and motioned to her that all was well, He did more than that, He held the oar until Goldie Lock® was safe on the other side, When he started the car again I ob- served that he was amiling, He looked a0 happy, as only the true lover of children can look. I warmed toward the man, I wanted to shake hands with him and talk with him, The rule painted above hia head for- bade it.—Charles M, Stead, No, 1 East 39th Stre . it. GREEN GOODS, On my way home from work I stooped down to pick up what looked lke a dol- lar bill and was on the point of stuffing {t into my pocket and hurrying on when two little boys ran out of a hallway and assailed me with, “Oh, Mister! please give It back to us; we wanna fool some one else." It was a tobacco coupon. Vil gh another one any time to two Kids as happy as it made this pair to would ask him to do If, “What {6 this man whereupon he would | Now I re waste Rothback, No. 1636 Madl- son Avenue ER 9569. nd perhaps you would like to know after mid- and hurry rain to ask me to dres To make the story short, let me id (as it turned out) with a pleasing unk. Nothing was missing, and I I saw No, $569 press something into say something about “coffee and a en I have seen No. 9569 every To-day he was a yard,” he explained, “and fell into to use the gun on the street, but it rowds about, and Vd rather croak innocent bystande: body in 4s cop.—Aron Rauch, No, 18 Third she laid the bag on the cart. mentioned went REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in Send them to ‘What Did You See?” Editor, Evening World, Post Office Box 185, WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. T°? addition. City Hall Station. Tell your story, if possible, in not more than 125 State where the thing written about words. _THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, carefully and in full. ‘SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT took place. Write your own name and address Checks are mailed daily. If you witness a serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. for ten next best stories. MANHATTAN THRIFT. For forty years I crossed the Hudson at the (new and the old) 125th Street Ferry to Fort Lee and Edgewater. I made the acquaintance of scores if not hundreds of persons in or One of my acquaintances was combination bootblack and deckhand. Joe came from Italy. He was * © To-day I went to Edgewater One, in a three-family brick, proved most I asked to see the landlord, and Joe, who shined my shoes for years, appeared in response to the call. the apartments was $60 a month on a one year's lease. with a variety of thoughts about the incident: in business; my old bootblack owns an apartment house.—Ed Schu- attached to the ferry service. hard-working, polite, modest * looking for an apartment. interesting, mann, No. 551 West 169th Street. THE HAT CAME BACK. She had just emerged from a millinery store carrying her purchase In a bag. She stopped in front of a push cart at Fifth Avenue and 116th Street, and while she was selecting her purchases Suddenly a policeman came tn sight and the push cart man hurriedly pushed his cart away, The woman, astonished, watched her hat depart with ft, but before she could make up her mind to follow a gust of wind picked up the bag and de- posited it at her feet.—I, H., No. 14 W 107th Street. GIUSEPPE, There is a statue at Broadway and 724 Street which I have never seen in a newspaper, I have never met any one who could tell me what or whom it commemorated. 1 to-day to look at it and learned that It commemorates a man who has given much real pleasure to all the world through his muste—Verdl. ‘The atatue Stands on a pedestal surroundet by four figures of characters from his —Mary Weare, No. 212 W. 78th WHY, PRINCIE In Central Pate to-day [ saw a lady with two dogs. One of the dogs carried his muzzle in his mouth, but he dropped it. The lady walked on a@ few steps before she noticed what had happened. Thon sho cried: “Prince, you go right back and pick up your mussle.”” Prince did and carried it meokly.—Della McNally, No. 307 West tist Street, 69th Street. A SHRINE BY PROXY, A group of Iittle bootblacks, aged be- tween eight and fourteen, do business outside Central Park at Fifth and 110th Street. Thia afternoon a young miss, nine years of ase, & pair of men'’a shoves under her arm and locking quite business like, up to them. After looking th carefully she selected aged For a while he struggled manfully with a shoe, trying to hold it with one little hand and to shine it with the other. The little girl hit upon a better plan. She slipped the big shoes over her own and found a seat on a park bench. Thu enthroned and acting proxy for father or brother, she so! 1 the boot black's problem and her own and the big shoes were shined without dimMculty —S, Wolff, $4 East 108th Street, Avenue carrying came over one, ten. EMPTy,. On Fifth Avenue at 34th Street T saw a gentleman pick up a bottle from the middle of the street, continue on his way and then place the bottle on the curb, I wondered what his | 51 beth Sweene NOTHING LIKE IT. T saw a man last night on Fifth Ave- nue at 60th Strect wearing evening clothes and smoking @ corn cob pipg.— G. F. D., New York. I saw what I think i “wise-cracking §U: deseribed as a I had stopped to DAILY PRIZES: For the best storjes each day: First Prize, $25; ra second prize, $10; third prize, $5. Ten prizes of $2 each NOT QUITE LIKE STORY BOOKS. It was midnight and I saw a woman walk through Third She was shabbily| 7 840 my youngest son take a spoon dressed, A man came up beside her] @"d march straight to the yard. I and spoke gruffly, She paid no atten-| twoatched him dig a hole in the tion. He grabbed hold of her arm. Sho screamed ning clothe: of the street. The electric light sh bury the cone. “I’m gonna plant on their white shirt fronts, their silk| "he said, “an’ I'll have a big hats, their patent leather shoes, One| ice cream twee and we'll have a tapped the sidewalk with a yellow cane, | cone evry day.”"—Mrs, Margaret The woman struggled frantically. sobbed. * to the two young fellow or what ar she down the sidewalk, peared and the two gentlemen stood un- der the ¢ yellow cane contined to tap it against the Gramercy Park. . I saw a small bulldog hanging onto In the block where T live T get al the seat of a boy's new sult. Another glimps day of nearly every na-|boy had the dog by the tail, pulling tionality In Europe. Here sroup of|in the opposite direction and pleading boys and girls sitting « porch of| with the dog to let go. The dog didn’t an unc house. One of them is a] obey until he had taken a piece from young Irish girl, playing a “uke.” while] the boy's trousers, L. Bauer, No. 67 comments are belng n Russian, | Home Avenue, Rutherford, N. J. German, English, Kk and Spanish youngsters, Nearby is a house Inhabited by a Spanish along lives a Jewish rabbi, notice in front of a new! mi building is Hons.—J. ¥ 158th Street. BREAD LINE. While visiting a friend in a West Slat Street apartment house I saw the ingenious overhead tram one of the neighbors has arranged in order to send crumbs of food to the pigeons and other birds which make their headquarters on the root of the adjacent church. every day the bread box is filled and lowered to the birds, coming to a rest after a journey of thirty feet—Margle Bellaire, No. 231 West “MY LOVE HAS Gor A RED, HED flapper who was. ins fom J could: find two young girls Jn front or She] Fine.”’—Roger Quick, No. 6 Bank had in her hand a powder ana al Strect, Waite Plains file} ae ti) buat taken SEARCHER NO. 26. tyes ening raptly . e Atlain- to the conversation, I saw a letter from across th n the rouge puff to her nose at what she sons around her werr Norman Hathaway, No, 287 15 Street. watch the efforts fouring car was stalled in front of the North Shore fee plant. ‘There was one chap among the bystanders who looked fs i¢ he had been there from the besin- hing and didn't cary how long he re mained, 60 T asked him what the trouble I dunno, Staten was. says he; "T sup the engine fs froze." Then he laughed Is homiclde ever Justituble?—Arthur | Connelly, Ni Du Bois Avenue \ Ina Broadway \ smartly WEEKLY Capital prizes for best A LOVELY LIG Naturally, in that time Z.,“ They commented our guest. I didn't lik sex, I demanded proof, suggesting lon't know how to drive. Joe, a the driver was man or woman. * His price for one of I came away I have lost some money Zambont disagreed. steering wheel. A lovely light fair companion was wearing his Maple Avenue, Suffern, N. Y. MAGICIAN, After I had given an tee cream Gramercy Park toward] Cone to each of the children to-day Avenue. ground with the big spoon and Two yonng fellows in eve- siete " eee atoppod him just as he was about to appeared on the other side she | Reteel Box 202, Parlin, N. J. she cried ‘Are ye men, The man with whom struggling dragged hor No policeman ap- er God's sake Two Boys at the Beach, At the beach ‘to-day I saw dive and come up covered with mud. Then I saw another one @lve and come up a few seconds later with a hors shoe crab In one hand and a golf ball in the other, Henry Pattrack, 695 Atlantle Street, Stamford, Conn. Rad Dog. ye been hoy had tric light, and he with the si 1k.—Loulse Coleman, No, 15 OUR BLOCK, A RIDE GOING BEGGING, In front of the New Haven railroad station to-day I s an automobile with a Massachusetts license ‘plate carrying @ sign on which was roughly printed, “Wunted—Two or three desirable peo- ple to ride to Springfield, Free! F Free !""—Harold Moore, No. 36 Street, New Haven, Conn, priest. A little further There's a erected apart ry apartment in the ulpped with radio conne Hudson, 0 West t house that ung RF. D. In Connecticut to-day T saw a large wagon wheel mounted on a post with five mail boxes on the wheel. wheel revolved, making it easy for the postman to drop letters into the boxes. Dorothy Skinner, Mt, Kisco, N. Y. Twice TAKING NO CHANCES, On the outskirts of Mount Kisco T saw two boys dismount from their bicycles and push them @ consider- able distance along the highway. The only explanation I could find NOSE town car T saw a dressed besan applying | ¢c, It was written by my mother. On the front of the envelope was my name, the name of the street and t me of the State. ‘Searcher Ni went it along to New Rochotle. I wonder how 6th] he came to know.—Mra, A. Binr 16 Horton Avenue, New Rochelle. She got off realizing yet n the per- smiling brondly,— the next station, not had do} th Yesterday’s Special Prizes First Prize, $25 RENDER, No, 824 Terrace Avenue, Jersey City Second Prize, $10 I, M. MORTON, No, 603 Eagle Avenue, Bronx. Third Prize, $5 MRS. DANIEL A, MALONE, No. 811 Alexander Avenue, Bronx. Ten Prizes of $2 Each SIDNEY REESE, Ward L-4, Bellevue Hospital, DIANA GOODMAN 149 First Avenue. WILLIAM PRECHT 61 East 118th Street. ROBERT J. SULLIVAN, No, 71 Amsterdam Avenue. CATHIE Height NE FRANK D. BANTA, No, 161 Nelson Street, Brooklyn, JOSEPH RAINKE, 74 82a “Street, Brooklyn, GERTRUDE MING, No, 2414 Van Cortlandt Avenue, Ridge- wood, 1, bis PO Sa Avenue, ‘Tompktnaville, Staten Island. MARIE DE MAURIE, P.O, Box 428 Point Pleasant, N. J. CHARLES iL, BASSrORD, No, 117 North 1th Street, East oO j a Read today's stories, Pick the ones you think are best. Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions tex morrow. My husband, our guest and I were motoring. It appears like the: ‘re all over the road at once. came to was holding to its own side of the road very ‘When we passed the car we looked t blue hat was on the head of the gentleman at the steering wheel. PRIZES: stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25; fourth prize, $10. QUT OF TO HT-BLUE HAT. “Women,” said Mr. on’t get the knack, “Just what MY husband say eit. Always the champion of my that he proceed to demonstrate by telling us before we passed a car going in the same direction whether * * I thought the next car we well, but Mr. rernible over the The light- His hat.—Mrs, Jack Zamboni, No. 13 “blue hat was dis IN PRIVATE LIF I saw “Hurricane Huteh, of movie serial fame, cross Aus Chasm by his teeth and subsequently drop from the roof of a building onto a moving freight car. 1 ha the local hotels, lunehi “Hutch” mat one of had beaten HO (ue ining Geoue “paaenceth ta | eee When the train reached] ‘The shoe stare opposite my office had het? aida the saltre “Well, i , | Mare, rhe arose and gave «| advertised for salesmen and long before he is, but he Insists upon making hia [Jerk at the ting’ of the hat, clenched | th © opened there was In the line own tea.”—Hiwood Hi. Neener, Cusack | "er teeth and threw the lining down to ja every type of man from the fop Hotel, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Wagenheim, No. SU] to the unmistakuble bam. Some etood Brooklyn. 1 small groups, chatting and laughing. ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND THE - Others we alone. Here was a sertou STATUTES. SATISHIED? oking chap, fumbling nervously at the Th . é % 4 On the B. R. T. to-day T waw the}erumpled newspaper in his hands, The man who lives tn’ the apartment rewood, hmond HI, Jamaica, | There on the doorstep eat a yawning over ours, was getting apples froin a | 3 treet, Flatbush, Fifth Avenus|dude, with a Panama pulled far down BOGE GHG HCAS IUAOR Geom fap an anduoae rede ions of Brooklyn for] over his ears, Now and then a new- Wacoal BeAr This bt rpathoniee G 1 single fare of 5 x, —- Edward | comer would pause and, apparently dis- ee eerthe his Branch hangs over} oNelil, No, 808 Monroe Street, Brook- | mayed by the magnitude of the crowd, the biggest and heat. apples dropped walk away In despair. Finally, when ppoee cena be res Laas the merchant anpived there was'a mad bitew' ot ‘then: back throvah' the care YOUNG. scramble for admittan riesenen: ket fynee. She ¢ him in Last night 1 passed through |No. 824 Manha Brooklyn, nd, ina perfeet torrent of non- | Bushwick Avenue I saw a woman _ seed shnion of him, | sitting at a window reading a pap coum his. grandparents his] Through anot. window I could ung girl to-day wearing a grandparents, and their rela-| sce a man washing dishes. On my ernate broad stripes of red . North, eist, south and v The| way back I saw the woman still | and white and a pale blue silk walst poor man. ft ‘Then she gathered up| reading and the same man in the WAtytt first «lance looked like all the applies that were left on her side room with her rocking a baby to an flag. Sane strolled along s of the wall and disappeared into her| sleep. Where do they fond husbands carrying herself wilh a regal air itchkn —Leonw Pal No. 444 West] $0 sood?—Bdna Schraner, 1189 1d Iiissfully unconscious of the stares Fourth Street, Plainfleta, No Je Greene Avenue, Brooklyn A of the onlookers.— D. HL, Brooklyn, “EVEN THE WORTHY HOMER BRONX SOMET IES NODE IN A MAKE RELIEVE ‘TOWN URSUIT OF READING MATTER After reading in imetropotitan daily BY A MAKE WSLIEVE SEA. UNDER DIFFICULTY, Swuten [wan startled by the following | /8aw to little tots seated at the | On Rockaway Beach Boulevard at cloain graph: The present King. | foot of @ telepraph pole on Kast | th Strect, I saw two girls in bathing Oscar II., is a liberal n of the art Ijist Street near Cypress Avenue. | suits. Bathing sults are forbidden on © 8 © To make sure I was not roaa-| @ construction job in the neiyhbor- | apparently dodging, 1 followed and saw ing’a Journal fifteen years old T looke hood they had constructed a minia= iem buy & magazine and then pro- ie ae cteriureine: 10, ipo ture beach and with spades und | ceed to dodge back to the beach. Sud. eee ar It, died December, | Small buckets were building castles |denly a policeman came into view and 1907, and was ‘ied by his con,| @* magnificent ax any you can A Gustay V.—Eugene Park, > mark, Palisades IN THE RIGHT PL. c I saw the LIBERTY car on at No, Broadwa. Johannes Ho- way, Box 124, Kutonah, N. Y. by YHAR, 7 saw a youny woman “enter a restaurant on 149th Street and seru- tinize the menu carefully. Then she began writing on a sheet of r @s if she were copying fro menu, 1 asked the manager were an employee and he rep! “Oh, no! She's just marrind and comes in here sometines to get an idea of what to cook for her hus- band’s dinner.”"—L. Goodman, No, 518 East 135th Street. SPRY. In the quiet village of Miller Place, LiL, we met a man who told us he Is ninety-two years old and tired of the monotony of th Therefore he in- Vited us to hia house, where one of party started playing an or surprise the old man Later he told us he | York since the Civil War seen a movie; but he was keen in of his isolation. ~- Harriet Shuttle worth, No. $43 87th Street, Woodhaven, mur > Our - RATS, I was walking along Springfeld Ave- lewving nue to-night, after the 16 train, when I noticed in the distane something moving along slowly in the rowl, 1 thought tt might y cat, but as I approached I rized to distinguish two rats. middle be a etr was sur One of them was lying on its back hold- Ing a bil in its four feet. The second rat was pulling this one along by the tail.—George F. Rowan, No. 11 Broad- way, Springfleld Gardens, L. 1. A COLD CUSTOMER, Hot in Auge Who sald morning at fock 1 saw Watchman of a F uilding on G Avenue wearing an overcout Kuhn, No, 646 Grand Aven Lh JUST A FLURRY. In d4th between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, Brooklyn, I saw a cat sitting behind a window of a house. He seemed to be asleep. Suddenly another cat of the neighborhood came Into sight and leaped toward the cat behind the window, He smashed agninst the glass pane, but did not break ft, He did awake the ent inside, however, and for several minutes there was a great to-do between them on the window sill, with- out the loss of a single hair, ‘Then, just as suddenly as it all started, they each lad do n the sill and went to sle Jeaste Graham, No, 730 Str Rrooklyn, NEW COATS FOR OLD. Through my rear window to-day 1 saw a janitor in St. John's Place in bis backyard painting his old tan rain He gave it application of black point this morning and another this afternoon.—Alfred B, Thorner, No. 319 Lincoln P! t. ce, Brooklyn, PEACE IN THE FAMILY, A couple boarded the Interboro at 42d Street to-day with their two ehil- dren, one about three years old and th other about a year old, The mother handed a baby's filled bottle of milk to the Infant. The other child started er; ing that she wanted It. The father gave it to h Then the baby ered and he ive the bottle back to it, and he kept this up until the two children between them had finished the bottle.—Willam Harris, No, 1157 51st Street, Brooklyn, ON TH OOD BEMAVIOR, On Ocean Avenue kway we were going rather lively clip ant Ame Up g line of cars mov! forward sedately, 4 while to learr We slowed down for the reason for such coming conduct and saw that a pol flivver ahead was unconsciously act as pacemaker.—A. Kessler, No. Kensington Street, Manhi an Beach, srooklyn, JUST HAD HER HANDS OV SsOMEBODY— R. T. train crossing the Brid I vaw your woman who seemed yery ur about somethir was giving vent to her feelings by pricking with pin the crown of a white hat embroidered with silk. She jabbed often, and s the hat began to look frayed. ‘Then she began pulling the threads wf the frayed ends of silk ag if she would tear them IF SH On the RB. Williamsburg ch at the shore. So far as they were concerned at the moment these big houses of brick and stone and this rour and hum of traffic were no- ewistent.—J. S. Dodd, No, 2157 Cline ton Avenue, Bron. SNOOZE ere enjoy AND SNEEZE the pictures last ight at Loew's Open Air Burland Th atre. In the feature film the hero, slave to the charms of was trylng to muster up cou hay- fleen enough to kiss the supposnd- - sleeping fair one who, in reality, h n him coming and merely feign- slumber, He glanced all around 1s if to make certain no one was watching nd Was bending over to grab the 4 when a stout man in the audience let what I can de » only as the © of Shoes en 4wol the instant, B, K. Lincoln lost a ki and the roared with laughter. P. Ui ds, No, 1361 Southern Boulevard, Bronx TIN THE ACT. cat While waiting for a shuttle train at Times Square at 12.30 k this morn- ding [ saw a plainly dressed man walk ike All he said was, "Although up to two youths and them both by the collar at once. “Well, 1 gotcha this tim their intended victim did not know it, they had been caught in the act of re- Heving a man of his wallet, They of fered no resistance but stood stock still while the plain clothes man placed the handenffs on them.=Harry Thurnturs, 500 East 138th Street, Bronx. THERE'S NO PLACE LUKE IT. Near the Erle Basin to-day I saw a coal barge being loaded from the Steamship Sunelseco at Pier 46, Brook- lyn, Aft on the barge were the living quarters of the captain, his wife and thelr three children, The barefooted and ragged children were playing in the dust and grime and through the door of the unpainted, grimy cabin I could see the cuptain's wife cookin dinner for the family. They all looked happy and cunt 1 wondered how they could be in such an environ ment when my eye saw painted t wall of the cabin in erude letter: “Home, Sweet Hy John -Hartieid No. O19 L, 2 reet, Brona, care Oliveri, BROOKLY. a IZEN OF THE UNDERWORLD chum and I were walking in Bat- Park at noon and were lucky enough to find an unoccupied bench. it was directly over a manhole the cover of which Was slightly tilted. We took it for granted that the bench had been tumbling {nto the hole. We had been tery seated about five minutes when we Heard a volce coming, like the ven- triloquix from “down cellar.” “Hey there, Jack!" called the voice, “git off the bench for a minute; I want « peek at the sky!" “The speaker was a mid- . dark skinned workman who boring in the cesspool. Marks, No, 219 14th Street, Brooklyn. A BROOKLYN CO I saw a feeble old lady and a young girl waiting to-day for a car at Fulton 1 Court Streets. ‘The pavement is ripped up at this point and 1 wondered how they would get aboard. Just then NDUCTOR. the car stopped and the conductor, jumping to the street, lifted the old lady hodily, crying “Up she goes,” and leposited her gently on the platform. hen he assisted the young girl aboard. he approving glances directed toward him were mute evidence that the paa- sengers considered his actions note- worthy.—John J, O'Mara, No. 319 Macon Street, Brooklyn. NAME YOUR OWN TAXT FARE, After the show at the Brighton Beach movies my friend and T found a taxi at the gate and directed the driver to take us to Avenue J and East 18th Street, Rrooklyn, When we arrived, my friend auffeur look at the meter, kazed at encn other, The clstared, 20 cents! “Well, ," gaid the chauffeur, “the meter is busted; how much do you think the ride was worth?’ My friend handed a two-dollar bill, For the firat t in m » T saw a taxt-drver at the mer his passenger.—Lillan Nathan, 1148 East 18th Street, Brookly BURLESON WIL GLAD TO HEAR THIS, About sir weeks ago one of my friends bought-a new hat in a shop not far from Ads home. The old hat twas left at thr atore to be sent, I aw it arrive.teeday by parcel post nd special délibery.4M. D. 8., Lin- coin Place, Bfookiun. HELP WANTED. they slipped behind some bushes, This cop passed, but several more appeared rand they hid behind a house To their amazement they dis the house to be the police sta However, they got away uncaught.— Jane Reuben, No, 876 Southern Boule- yard, Bronx, BALM. Three little Inds, in charge of thelr fourteen-year-old slater, were crossing the bay from St, George on the ferry- boat Richmond, and the youngest of the threo embarrassed the “little mother’ by a Joyous insistence on climbing every pole on deck in spite of her orders to alt quietly. She evidently felt his disregard 1 reflection on her disely but a kindly old man's w r bur- den of responsibillt her pride when he r et him do it, That's how hi et _musele,”* And for the remainder of the trip the yboat was a gymnastum.—Regina Bryant Avenue, Bronx, ‘ound to CASUAL, On Seventh Av to-day, near the Christopher Street Subway Station, » unt eat 1 madly by me, with a stnall boy in full pursuit, It was plainly an “alley'’ cat and the boy was a gatnin, returning exjdontly on an errand, for as he ran past {ne I caught sight of him deftly balancing # small pall of milk, I found the two a minute or so later on the ourb together, The cat eagerly lapped the small quantities of mills the boy poured on the pavement. ho donation the b peered Into the bucket if he » the shortage as near as % to the s mark, "Your eat?’ I inquired. "Naw," he answered, looked up and discovered Stra he muttered, and alming # nalf-Kick at the surprised cat he sped away, Whistling shrilly,—ENMz: eth A, Henn, No, 1662 Grand Avenue, Bronx, A CITY ORDINANCE On William Street I saw some men throwing colr to boys scrambling in A pe man came up just ) Was about to throw out Placed him under arrest. He 1] other arrests for the nav.” I've been wondering what Jaw th en broke.—A. Lang, No, 399 Willie Avenue, Brong,