The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1922, Page 9

A PAGE OF REAL NEWS MANHATTAN RUNNING AWAY FROM A SUMMONS. Standing in front of the Broadway Central Hotel this afternoon, I @aw a mounted policeman stop beside an automobile parked at the curb and, reaching over, sound its horn repeatedly. A crowd gathered from fowhere and everywhere, but they were disappointed. The copper tired of his exercise after a while and rode away, Fifteen minutes Jater I heard the same horn and saw that the mounted cop was back again, I joined the crowd. The officer kept the horn going three minutes. “Stick around,” every man said to his neighbor, “and you'll fee some guy get a summons for leaving the car there.” That's what ‘ene man said to me and what I sald to my neighbor. The latter qmiled. “Easy, bo,” sald he, “it’s my car. When the cop gets tired Waiting I'll hop into the old boat what happened.—David Landsman, FOUR-WHEELED ELEPHANT. On Wednesday night at about 10.30 @'olock I saw 4 handsome 5-passenger car standing in front of an orangeade stand In 42d Street, near Ninth Avenuc The man in charge of the stand told me a fellow had asked him to keep an ye on the machine while he stepped In- to the cigar store. ‘This, he raid, was on Tuewday night at about 10 o'clock and the car now had been standing at the curb twenty-four hours. The man never came back. I learned that the Police took charge of the oar at 4 e'clock Thursday afternoon, It had been stolen. ‘The thief had taken the aalest way to rid himself of what jad become an elephant on his hands.— B. J. Abrams, No. 401 West 424 Street. PERHAPS, GENTLEMAN. At Interstate Park I saw a young man and a young woman walk far @ut on the rooks and sit down for a @hat. When a big boat passed i left such a “awell’ that the young woman's skirt was completely soaked. They found a higher rook end remained there in the swn until the girl was presentable again. Mre. A. Bongiorno, No. 689 West 10th Street. SWELL, BUT NO NE WOMAN'S PLACE. I saw a woman repairing watches in a window at No. 260 West 4th Street. I mever before saw or heard of a woman watchmaker. I passed the window @everal times. There was always a crowd there,—Julius Purk, No. 268 Bast 62d Street. NEAR THE NEW HOMB OF TH YANKS, At the comer of Cromwel Avenue and i¢ist Street I saw two baseball teams in action. The backstop was made of an old rusty boiler, several pieces of tin, heavy cardboard paper. floor cloth and barrel staves, reinforced and held together with rope and wire. Propping it up at either end were pleces of pine and two-by-fours, Directly fcross the street the new ball park of the nkees {s In process of construc- tion. Perhaps one of these amateurs will one day be playing In the big high- toned park across the way.—Charles McEnroe, No. $19 East 30th Street. LIGHTININ’ White motoring through Long Tee end yesterday we passed several apiaries. Near Mineola one man in @ dig cage was literally covered with bees. They swarmed over him by the thousand. He would brush the bees off his arms and face and they would come back again. A gumber of motorists watched the demonstration. He sold considerad honey.—Amy Wiener, No, 655 West 160th Street. and beat it.” And that is exactly No. 673 Broadway. RESPECT FOR THE DEAT. To-day at 945 I was atop a Fifth Avenue — bus, southbound. At Sist Street the green iight was showing. Just as it was switched off and the yellow light turned on, the hearse of an eastbound funeral reached the avenue. traffic cop instantly raised his hand. He kept it raised. The funeral consisted of about twenty-five coaches. that yellow light the policeman held the north and southbound traffic until ever conch in the co had crossed. There would be no ‘cutting through” a funeral while he was there. the respect he showed for the dead and the mourners contrasting with the seeming Indifference of some of the drivers of funeral vehicles, Urging thetr horses to the limit they appeared to be trying to get through with thelr “day's work” as quickly as possible.—Gertrude Hunter, Washington Square Book Shop, No. 27 W. 8th Street. THE WORLD HADN'T COME TO AN BEND APTER ALL, On Northern Avenue this morning I heard a child screaming and looking out of the window I saw a little girl who was rocking herself back and forth sobbing, “My mother’s gone away! My mother’s ne away!’ From across the road a neighbor called, ‘Your mother hasn't gone away: she is on the roof, hanging out the clothes, Instantly the girl ceased sobbing. She knew where mother was.—Evelyn M. Gordon, No. 830 West 179th Street. NO. 1 BROADWAY. In Bowling Green to-day 1 saw on a new building a large bronse teblet which read: “Adjoining this site was the firat Dutch fort on Manhattan Island, known as Fort Amsterdam. The first house was erected here before 1664. In 177) Capt. Archibald Kennedy built here his residence, which was used in 1776 by Gen, George Washington as his head- quarters, and later by Gen. Howe during the British occupation. Tt ow later used asa hotel. Torn down tn 1882, it was replaced by the Washington Bulld- ing, which was transformed in 1920-1921 into this building for ocoupancy by Its owners, the International Mercantile Marine Company, and known as No. 1 Broadway.’—Mrs. Josephine Keating, No. 267 W. Tenth Street. “por.” On the dock at the foot of West 97th Street to-day I saw a girl “talking” to her friend on the U. 8. 8. Maryland, anchored In the Hudson River. She had quite a time getting him to answer and seemed to be getting peeved, when finally he saw her signalling and an- swered, She was as good as lota of signalmen I've seen in the navy and a whole lot better than some.—C, G. He U. 8. 8. Illinois, foot of West S7th Street. THREE BOYS AND ONE HAT. At 117th, Street and Park Avenue I w three little boys tieing a black cord to a hat and made up my mind that if I waited a few min- utes I might see something more interesting. * * * They threw the cord over the strect sign on the lamp post. Then they carried the eord across the street and passed the New York Central pillars, it through a hole on top of one of When they were “all set,” the hat was resting on the letter box at the lamp post. One of the little boys held the other end of the string, one wa ‘minding his own business” in a nearby doorway, and the third, Dpareheaded, was walking along 117th Street looking for a victim. me? A tough boy put it up on the fell. The minute one of them reached for the hat, of course it w “Mister, will you please get my hat for letter box.” Most of the “Miste pulled up to the street sign. Usually the victim joined in the laugh. Only one got sore. The fifth man had fallen when I moved on—Loutis Goldstein, No. 1669 Park Avenue. @BxX DATS SHALT THOU LanoRt” Last week at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Beaw on 8 Monday morning « consiier- Pte amount of lumber being unloaded fm a mall clearing. Tuesday I saw the framework for a bungalow erected ‘Wednesday 1 saw the sides of the house being nafled on. Thursday T exw the roof, a tiny front porch and a small ack porch being built. Friday I saw the electric wiring and plumbing tIn- wtalled and the outside of the house painted. Saturday I saw the furniture of the house being moved in. Sunday morning I saw a family of five leave Whetr home at 10.30 o'clock in the morn- ing and go to the church « half mile own the road.—Ruth Wiener, No. 560 . 100th Street. FIGHT FANNY. On my way to work this morning saw two flappers in my car. One explaining to tho other the prize fight she had seen the night before. From the expressions sne used I could see she went to fights often, and as slic talked sho told and filustrated how each round was fought.—Arthur J, Sin- lair, No. 65 Broadway. MILLIONAIRES! OLUB. ‘On the wall of a large restaurant in Coney Island I saw this sign: "No Cheoka Under $20,000 Cashed. By Or- @er of the Management.""—Adelaide warts, No. 86 Fort Washington Avo- ou, DANIELSO Emoticed a sign in the wolf's cage Centra! Park which rend: "Keep finge: out of cage as this animal is vicious." But at the same time a man with two fingers through the wire caressed the sol. He said he had been coming to the Zoo for three years and always jetted this animal.—H. A. Parsons, New Kou, “THERE rs A GARDEN,” To-day I saw @ garden of O16 World oharm én the back yard of « former stable, at No, 16 Hast a9th Strest. There were gayly painted tables and chairs, under huge awn- (ngs. Blue smocked wattresses were serving English mufine and doll cious hot tea and cocoa, to the music of a fountain, It was hard to belleva T «waa leva than three blocks distant from the notse and confuston and heat of ome of the dusivat corners in the world.—Rove Flynn, No. 128 Bast 40th street, MILLIONAIRE MOUSB, In Lower Sixth Avenue ts a store in the window of which are many good things to eat. Most of them I ean pass with a casual glance, but before the cheese I am lost. I am rooted to the spot, my nose pressed against the plate glass, More fascinated than in a pic- ture gallery or @ HMbrary, I stand to read the names of the delectable things, picturing the time when I perhaps may have them, But insid window there sits, upon the most expensive box lof cheese, u Uttle mouse; and while 1 stand outside, hungry, ‘he enty the cheese through @ hole which he ha, drilled bimself—he eats and looks at me contemplatively.—8, B, Gober, No 117 Waverley Place, NOTHING FOR NOTHING, I noticed to-day that @ ewe. dealer at Lexington Avenue and 96th Street turns his newspapers upaide down and his customers have to pay him before they can read the headlines.—B, A., No. 1708 Third Avenue. GONE At an auction sale in New Ro chelle to-day I saw a $1.98 » bring #3.50,—Tilic Marks, No, Weat 162d Street. 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OUT OF TOWN WHY “TEDDY” ISN'T GOING TO CONNECTICUT. 1 saw @ notice tacked up in our Village Hall—which also serves a8 Police Station, Public Library, Post Office and Court House—read- {ng as follows: “Wanted—A good home for a thoroughbred fox-terrier puppy, ten months old.” As we are moving next week to Connecticut, 1 shall want a dog and I thought a fox terrier would be a good play- mate for my small boy of ten; so on reaching home I telephoned to the advertiser, a lady, who explained that she was devoted to her Teddy, but found him a great care and tie living in an apartment, and felt that she really ought to give him up to folks who could give him more room and more play. Finally she sald she would think {t over and would bring the dog to see us, 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 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 AMBPRICA, Jim Lee, proprietor of an old-fashioned Chinese wrangle laundry in East 75th Street, recently brought his small son from China. To-day I saw the young- hi wetting in thick” with the otter children of the nelghbornuod. Just out aide the shop the little fellow was at work with a bottle of ink, a brush, a basin of water and a sponge. There was @ long line of kids, each with his aleeve rolled up, waiting at Young Jim's foap box studio to have an awe tn- aspiring bit of Chirmese scroll placed on the under side of thetr arms. I asked the old man what the kid was writing, and Jim said 'Melica.”"—Leo Bloch, No. 201 East 75th Street. HIGH STEPPERS. At the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge I saw a notice announcing: “THIS STAIRWAY FOR SURFACE CARS ONLY." I know they're nigh steppers, but im‘t this carrying favorit- ism a little too far?—Harry B. Car- penter, No. 246 Water Street. PRISOMOR ON A WINDOW LEDGE. Just across the street from where I live is a five-story apartment house. The front part of the fourth story is unoccupied. Yesterday I saw a cat on the narrow window ledge, trapped by the sudden closing of a window. The cat was still there thts morning. Un- til I naw it there again this evening. I did not understand the situation. I no- tifled the landlady.—Stanley ‘Welnert, No. 352 Bast 50th Street HIS WIFE WILL SEE THROUGH IT. Opposite me in the Elghth Avenue car sat a lady in a tallored sult. She was absorbed in her newspaper, Every win- dow was down, the alr was hot and sultry betw showers. The lady re- moved a black veil from her face and thruat {it into a pocket—not her own as she Intended, but into the pocket of a serious-faced man who sat next to her. He didn’t notice and alighted at the next corner with the filmy edges hang- Ing from her pocket. The Indy at my right smilingly remarke to me: “I wonder what his wife will say when she seen that other woman's vell in his pocket?" I wondered, too.—Mabel Jones, No. 1 West 93rd Street, WRONG THUMB. I called to-day on my neighbor— Granny—whose daughter was there with her brood of young, Beach, aged two years, hubby and cheruble, nestled in Granny's arms, digging a tiny fist into tear-stained eyes and complaining that his “‘fingy’’ hurt. The thumbnail was torn, Granny berated her daugh- ter for neglect and tenderly bandaged the darling's hand, The little fellow's sobs stopped and he clung tighter to Granny, while his face lighted with « smile. Then we smiled, for Granny had THE bandaged the wrong thumb Dorothy Durkin, No, 101 West Street. PLAY. While passing @ public school build- ing in the Bronx I heard music coming from within. I stepped inside and enw @ hundred happy children gathered about @ piano, all singing at the top of their voices, Almost as many more Were engaged in supervised games in different parts of the grounds, while othera were being taught modelling and other hand work. Better by far, It seemed to mo, than to have them trying to play and wrangling in the hot, dusty streats.—Dan Fraser, No. 534 West 1534 Street. COMING AND GOING, On the “L" this morning in front of me sat a ehabbily dressed young man reading the stock page of a newspaper and seriously making notes on an en- velope, Next to him sat an elderly, well- @ressed man reading the comic sheet of his paper and laughing.—Herman Pons, No. 301 Weat 147th Street. SHAMELESS. At Jjth Streot and Ninth Avenue thie morning | sav a large George Bhret truck loaded to capacity with near-beer and the driver and hia helper seated in front eating chooo- late eclairs,—Frank A, Brockway, No, 489 Weat joth Street. G AND SWELL DRESS- ING, In a delicatessen store In the Seven- ties, just off dway, to-day 1 saw ease he height a girl, beautiful, dressed in t of fashion, order 3 cents’ worth of but- PLAIN LY tered bread and one-quarter of a pound) a The although and for costing , the ne of turkey necks. meat, stripped fre dark, makes Ke ‘a total outlay enough materin ks, sandy saved the r : Ja half dollar, wh re would have charged for {wo sandwiches.— Willlam D. Barry, No. 36 Amsterdam | Avenue, DAILY PRIZES: For the best stories each day: second prize, $10; third prize, $5. Ten prizes of $2 each jer, wearing pajama-like garments of First Prize, $25; Capital prizes for best ee HPR LUCKY YEAR, In the mountains on my vacation I walked along the village street with my friends and in front of the grocery saw something on the sidewalk that I thought looked Ike a leaf of spinach. That fs what my friends thought too, aa they afterward admitted, But I saw a speck of white, concluded to investigate and pi up a five-dollar bill! It was the first tlme in my life I ever found more than a penny. But perhaps this ts to be my lucky year, To-day I found in the road a nt plece, which looked as if it had been lying there since the first. settlement.—Catherine Maue, No. 133 Fitth Avenue. On 11th Avenue, between 36th daughters, husbands. Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. “PLENTY OF ROOM UP FRONT.” I was riding in an already crowded Eighth Avenue car when, at 34th Street, another crowd got on and the car was jammed front, middle and back, All along the line the tor, having his own troubles, san} Please move up front! Plenty of room up front, there !"* After he had yelled this about a hun- dred times, more or less, one young woman gave him a cold eye and sald: “Why, there's no room up front. there ts," insisted the conductor. there's PLENTY of room up front. you're so sure,” the young thing came back at him, walk along through and we'll be glad to follow you.” I give you my word, sir, we didn’t hear another yip out of that conductor for the reat of “A SLICE OFF A OUT LOAF 19 NEVER MISSHD.” This afternoon from my rear window T could see a man repatring a chimney. He needed one brick to complete the Job. He looked at his Job for # moment in perplexity and then glanced toward the other houses. Three houses below he saw a chimney in which there were loose bricks. Walking deliberately to {t he pulled out a brick; then he brought {t to his own chimney fitte® It into the remaining space and called It a day.—Mary D. Bourne, No. 528 Fifth Street, Brooklyn. MASTER BAKER. ‘Two little boys sitting near me on the the trip.—Andrew J. McDonald, No, 661]sand at Brighton Re&ch were engaged Ninth Avenue. in the all-important task of making mud ples. An old gentleman accidently “THE FELLOWS AT THE OLUB.” Neat door to the Municipal Lodg- ing House on 25th Street at the Bast River 1 came upon a shack about 7 feet high and 10 or 12 feet square which the boys of the dis- trict use for a club room, There is @ window én it, if you please, with @ piece of burlap for a curtam. J looked im and saw that the chairs atepped on one of them. One of the boys began blubbering, He spolled the best one! He spoiled the best one!” The old man, visibly embarrassed, tried to soothe his feelings without success, so, finally, he sat down heside him and made a whole.row of ples, ‘Then with his knarled cane he was able to make an artistle ridge in the earthy pastry, and the boys seemed no more pleased are butter tubs and egy boxes. The | than the old man,—S. Freeman, No, 894 bicycles of two of the members | Manhattan Aven Broolelyn were parked at the entrance. It toas the coolest spot I found to-day in New York.—Jamea J. Barnes, No. 388 East 28d Street. CONGRATULATIONS, CHARLIE. Noticing the expansive look of pleas ure to-day on the face of Charlie Col- ling, the popular trafic officer statione jat Broadway and Dey Street, I m: inquiries and learned that the visited Charlie's house last night left twing—W. E. Morris, No. Broadway. He 191 week I would be broke. * * * AN EAST SIDE CONEY. In 11th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A you can see another “miniature Coney Island." I believe it is a kind of bazaar, in aid of the Italian Church In the district. The amusements include srousel, the Whip, a. Ferris Wheel ar to-win-the- Kewpte- Doll. Here and there are small tents which your future will be revealed fc one dime. In another tent “Slim Jim. the window. * * * mood had vanished. Thanks to My thoughts Reverently I stole away. the living skeleton, {s on exhibition.| dreamed of Italy.—Andrew P. Lo And crowds? They have Coney beaten!| storia, L. 1. The show {s on a vacant lot and I am = . told will continue for two weeks.—Bdna MARCHLLINE. Goodman, No. 149 First Avenue. Ste Clason Batak terey boat ree tering the dock at College Point. As it came in the boat veered sharply to the right. I happened to glance at the chauffeur of the first motor car in the Une on the boat and noted the tense expression on his faco. Wondering what might be the reason I observed that he was pulling the steering gear as far to the left as possible and it dawned on me that the young man was trying to steer the ferry boat! He caught my eye and ‘came to.” We both ughed.—F, J. Van Til, No. 44 West goth Avenue, Corona, 1, I RICHMOND. AROUND THE FIRE IN AUGUST, Many people on Staten Island who £0 bathing put thetr bathing suits on at home and drive down to the beach. When we come out of the water our sults, of course, are wet and every effort 1s made to dry them before returning to th car. ‘To-day 1 saw one party of bathers standing around a barn fire on the sunds.—-Mae McHugh, No. 150 Van Buren Street, New Brighton, S. I Yesterday’s Special Prizes First Prize, $25 M. PEREZ, No. 117 Park Row Second Prize, $10 M, GWILLIAM, No. 2 Columbus Circle, Third Prize, $5 42 Cornelia Street, Brooklyn Ten Prizes of $2 Each . 96-98 Franklin Street. No. 62 Hast 105th Street. KY. P. BOWNE, No. O, V. C, SMITH, N BARNIB GUMBERG H. PRESLBY, } JAMES J. BARN MRS, IRA G, GE MRS. A, JACKSON, Brighton, 8. I J, HOWARD REYNOLDS JOSEPH LOTTE RAY R. HICKS, No HERMAN GOLD, Ni 289th Street, the Bronx Quinlan Avenue, West New Fast Fifth Street, Brooklyn 7th Street, Coney Island White Plains, N.Y. reet, Paterson, N. J Read to-day’s stories. Pick the ones you think are b Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions on Monday. WEEKLY PRIZES: among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25; fourth prize, $10. stories of week distributed BROOKLYN STAY-OUT-ALL-NIGHTS. and 58th Streets, at 2 o'clock Mon- day morning, I counted twenty-six women between the ages of thirty and fifty, I should say, looking up and down the avenue from their windows. Every time a belated pedestrian happened along you could see women leaning far out until the pedestrian was near enough to be vecognized. Usually their disappointment was quite evident. who were they waiting for? that question, and I have been wondering {f the various stories, ex- cuses, explanations and alibis wouldn't make a page almost as in- teresting as “What Did You See To-Day?’—Mrs. L. Jones, No. 6012 Sons, I asked myself THE OLDER GENPRATION. In an old trunk to-day I found a copy cf The Byening World of April 30, 1889. There was a red stripe on one side of the paper and a blue atripe on the other, I read accounts of the presenc: of President Harrison and former Preal dent Cleveland at the Centennial Day of the Giants continuing to nda, defeating ‘Washington by the score of 9 to 7; of “Joacelyn." Clara Morris in “New Magdalen” and T read celebratio: win on their new Rose Coghlan playing in Corinne tn "Monte Cristo jr.” also of R. H. Macy displaying a repro. duction of Martha Washington's china service, presented In 1783 by the French oMfcers, and George Phrot’s Hell Gate “Centen- nial beer {a on draught for all my cus- Bradbury, No. 653 Brewery announcement that tomers.""—Mrs, 40th Street, Brooklyn PLAYING THE OUTFIPLD. At a farmhouse In Chester, N. Y., saw a cow and a hen which seemed to exelted over the prospect. * * * self as the owner of Teddy. eagerly behind her, thing calmly I just COULDN'T vu being tled down. He 8 a care, love him." # # © bination watchdog-playmate.—Mr Bronxville, N. Y. RALPH RACKSTRAW. T saw a boy about 7 or 8 years old dressed from head to foot in the regu- lation garb of a “'gob."’ He wae march- ing down the street In the company of three girls a little older, one of whom appeared to be his big sister. An el- derly gentleman who approached from the opposite direction greeted one of the kirls as he passed and with quite Unexpected gallantry the “‘satlor” lifted his hat, swinging it from his head with a stately bow. A minute later he re- placed the bonnet with a flourish which was distinctly that of a man of the world.—Jennie B. Perry, No. 342 Union Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. ¥. ON THE BEACH AT RYB. On the beach at Rye, N. Y. It was twilight. We strolled slowly along ad- miring the grandeur of the evening's gathering shadows. Hush! Faintly there came to yr enra the soft strains of “Thais,"" played by a master violiniat. We drew nearer, ‘There on the project- Ing rock sat an old man playing, but his Instrument was a cigar box on which he had fitted one string. Yet how he could play!—W. R. Blackwell, 6] Oradell, N. J. Box 318. “PAD In a Lexington Avenue Subway train near me sat a family—father, mother and four children. Suddenly the father looked intently at the youngest child, who sat beside him. Father leaned over and whispered to the child next to -|the baby. Child number two whispered a. th Number three ber Four, who duly exsuge to mother. Mother looked sharply nt the baby, arose, walked up the alsie to him and wiped the child's nose.—Stella L. Wilhelms, No. 178 Forley Street, Elmhurst, L. I. SHE'S A SMART ONE. 1 In antictpation of the opening of another achool year and for the be on the best of terms. While the cow] Purpose of avolding automoDile ac- was grazing the hen would stand near] cldents a great wide chatk line to scratch so that when a fly lighted on| warning, consisting of the letters her bovine friend she could spring up| 8-T-0- has been placed at the and shoo it away with her wings.—| corner near the schoolhouse. This Joseph R. Gabriel, No. 1045 Tedford] morning 1 saw Mr. Denton, the lo- Avenue, Brooklyn. QUEENS THE SERENADE, Several business deals had fallen through, my finances were run- ning low and my frame of mind wa: anything but agreeable. At mid- night I left the train at the Ditmars Avenue station of the Astoria line, rf almost fighting mad, The prospect appeared to be that for at least a I was within 100 feet of my door when I heard some one singing a beautiful love song {n my native language. The singer was accompanied by a mandolin and two guitars T was curious and, investigating, found the singer and his musicians standing in the dark close to a building. young lady recently arrived from Italy. ‘They were serenading a Alas! she would not come to the magic of the song, my ugly travelled swiftly over the seas to sunny Italy and the sweetheart who awaits the word and the money. I went to bed determined to achieve success. IT SHALL make good in spite of all! * * # Most of the night Y Piccolo, No. 194 Lawrence Street, LYTHRARY FELLAS, When a child signs an application at Seaside Branch Library we mail {t to me home of the applicant and inform that It must be signed by either his father or his mother, One boy, who concluded that would be better than ono, a card t indorsed by “Harry and Sadie" © © © Another of our clients had been forbidden the use of books by his parente. Informed that they must send written permission before he could be reinstated, he turned up to-day with & note reading as follows: Please re- turn the Mbrary to Max and oblige. Mrs. "e © © Almost our vinitora ask to be “initiated or t us they want to “take libraries.” or declare an ambition to Marie G. Cokely, Seaside Branch Li- brary, Boulevard, Rockawny Beach, L. T brought me SHAM BATTLE. T saw the soldiers at Rockaway Point manning new anti-aircraft © which we were told are calibre As the | KNOCKING FE HOSPITAL BEDS. shot went hurtling through the sly You may be interested im the rumbling noise was heard and when the shell burat there was white amoe, which pr solv The spectacl Interesting to the bunga of whom were glad It was ¢ cloud of A Kren engely ny. ail rnice belleve.”—George A, O'Brien, Fort T den, N. Y, on It was 8 o'clock this morning when I went down Avtohen to warm the baby's t ing somebody proi the next yard T qui back door and took«d one waa moving « mist things on the clothes and saw that my new $ husband was takiny + \ Mrs. Dean Korach, No. % 5 Htreet, Woodhaven, L. | two names dally e a joiner."— cal milkman, driving his old gray mare along the street, Reaching the schooihouse corner, and seeing for the first e this unfamiliar object, “Nancy"’ came to a stop and wouldn't budge. The Police Com- missioner, a patrolman and five citizens finally coped her away.— Arthur Lally, Roosevelt, L. 2. A CITIZEN OF ROOSEVEL’ I saw a splendid example of true pub- lle spirit shown by an old resident of our village. He is the caretaker of large tract of wooded land and he an nounce that as there may be a coal shortage’ in the coming winter, any resident of Roosevelt may cut ‘down certain specified trees which have out- lived their usefulness.—Margaret Lally, Roosevelt, L. I. “DEAD” HANDKERCHIEFS. 1 am employed in a local dry goods shop. ‘To-day two little customers about eight years old, approached me with 20 cents and asked for “two dead handkerchiefs." ‘They wanted mourn- ing handkerchlefs.—Josephine Martin, No. 202 Bergenline Avenue, West Ho- boken, N. J. a ring at the door, and I recelved a young woman who introduced he! “Did you bring him?” I asked, look! io,” she faltered; “when I began to consider Well, I told Rod, and we were greatly Shortly after luncheon there was do it. I'm afraid I shall have to go but we have no children and I DO So, that’s that, and we are still hunting a com- 8S. M. Case, Gramatan Court, «MILLTONAIRES FLYER.” I came home on the Sandy Hook boat known aa the ‘Millionaires’ Flyer." At Atlantic Highlands I boarded the train. It had gone but @ short distance from the pler when “Atlantic Highlands Sta- tion” was announced and I was left alone in the car, I saw my sixteen erat- while travelling companions go to & garage across the way from the at tion, Before the train pulled out they were bound for their summer homes in their own automobiles, Quite a change from the rush and push and hurry and crush of the homeward hour In New York.—Richard A. Jessen, P. O. Box 83, Keansburg, N. J. ART AND ECONOMY. Saw the neighbor across the way making a “home-made ofictoth’ for the kitchen, Making it from a Brussels rug from which the wool had been worn, It was tacked, warp side up, on the side of the barn and given three or four coats of lead-color paint and marked off in yellow with a diamond pattern, A coat of yarnish completed this “art’* square.—I. Tichenor, Bruen Avenue, Irvington, N. J. UNDAUNTED. At Sheepshead Bay 1 saw a gigantic steamrofer operated by a one-armed man. His mantpulation of this giant and its wheels and levers was perfect.— ‘Tom Power, No. 78 Oak Street, Jersey City. A QUESTION OF COLOR, A painter employed by the town had just started to-day to paint the hydrant in front of the residence of a former “olty fellow’ when the lady of the houre came to the front door and {n- quired under whose orders he wi ‘I'm working for the bor- he sald; “‘all the hydrants are to be painted, “But I don't Iike that color, that awful red,” she said, “it spoils the looks of the place. 7 shall fee the proper authorities at onve and elect a shade more in harmony with © color of the house." * © * When I walked past to-night that hy- drant was as red as the rest of ‘em— Harry A. Nelson, No. 37 Manila Ave- nue, Haverstraw, N. Y. SHADOW BOXING. As 1 was walking along Hudson Roulevard this morning T a young man of about twenty emerge from a side street and make motions as If he were fighting somebody. He would crouch and move his head and feint with his right and jab the air flereely with his left, All the time he had a kind of a leer on his face. 1 couldn't ee anybody, but It was a wicked fight When he saw me he began to whistle and walked straight away.—Donald Gill, No. Boulevard, North Bergen, N. J. IT's A LONG LANE, ETC. I saw an old farmer in a Wagon driv- ing across a narrow bridge. Behind him came @ man In an automobile anxious © to pass. He sounded his horn, but the farmer paid no attention, The horse continued his slow galt, The man in the machine shouted angrily, “Hey, there. Get a move on! The farmer retorted, and it seemed to me there was a not of gloating In hia voice: “You got to time. This horse has the right '—Mrs. E. D. Newboner, Pratte- FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER. I visited the Observation Tower of the tallest buflding im the which I believe to be unsurpi sky and water appear to meet, big of Liberty and the hills of Staten little islands and great bridges alik water, Mke pigmios hurrying hither and t and unbellevably tiny automobiles. ture, too vast and too wonderful t like mine.—Harry Menlow!ttz, No. 7: placard I saw to-day on the daeh- board of a taricab: “A Bed im the Homa Is Worth Two in pital, Don’t Take Chanoea Boulah Neal, No, #17 St, Ann nue, Bronw. OPFIOn BOY'S STRANGE DUTY. Fivery morning [I see a certain office hoy enter a Jerome Avenue subway Kingsbridge Road at preeis o'clock and march to the same seat the right of the middle door of the lust car, Te I saw New York Harbor, the Narrows, Governor’ world, and there, from the top of the Woolworth, enjoyed a view ed in this world, rpread out below me like a giant map; the Hudson, with the sun shim- mering on {ts waters; beyond, the picturesque Highlands. Island and the mighty Atlantic, and far distant on the horizon, where I saw the great city T saw Long and little ships passing to and fro. Island, the Statue Island. I saw the East River, ite ¢ seeming to rest directly upon the And, looking down to the streets, [ saw multitudes who looked hither; saw minature trolley cars An amazing and bewildering pic- o be adequately plotured by a pen 34 Rast 180th Street, Bronx. ONE OF THE OLD GUARD, On the Ninth Avenue "Li" train thie morning (he guard on the last car was about 70 years of age. After the passengers had boarded or alighted at each station, he would shut the gates, ring the bell and shout Giddap," as if once he might have driven a horse ear.— D. J. Elliott, No. 48 Convent Avenue, Bronx KISS AND MAKE UP. I saw two little girls who were ‘mad’ at each other walk down @ stoop on Hast 135th Street and close their eyes is they passed, Luter they played to- xother In @ ring game with other girls @ wanted to communicate with she would say to a compan Finally a mutual friend ft 167th Street and the min He (s assured of a seat moming and the boy, 1 imagine is certain of advancement. —Philip Cox ton, No. Montwomery Avenue, reunited them by making one aay "A" and the other “B". This made them ind’ —Dora Afbert, No, 631 B. 135th Street, Bronx ee nunnes