The evening world. Newspaper, August 29, 1922, Page 10

ee Fe en a as ON ETE EL IACONO MNS TES ANE TR ENR N DAILY PRIZES For the best stories each day: FIRST PRIZE, $25; SECOND PRIZE, $10; THIRD PRIZE, $5. TEN PRIZES of $2 each for ten next best stories. OUI OF TOW. VAGRANT—"WITHOUT VISIBLE MEANS OF SUPPORT.” The writer is one of the keepers at the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack. This morning an interesting prisoner was brought to us. Under the rules he had to be uperticial examina tion produced several scraps of paper, a bunch of keys, @ tobacco can and 91.98. When he told to step out of coat, vest and step into the jall garb he hesitated. Usually they strip without hesitation and this man's actions made me Finally he de eided to observe the rules and | made a thorough search of his clothing In the pockets of his vest I fond ten $100 bills, The inside pocket of his coat revealed seventeen $50 bills. The tobacco box was taken from the waste paper basket and gave up twenty $20 bills, and total of $2,251.98. The, prisoner's name is Michael Nykiel s he was employed for sever) years in an electric power plant in Virginia and saved his money with the intention of going back to the Old Country to join wife und children, He was arrested here for vagrancy and his property will be returned to him when his time is up.—Harold 8. Staib, Bergen County Jail, Hackensack, N. J. searcaed and a and trousers was Eve: auspicious. VELi TOOK PLACE. WRITE YOUR He 8 If you witne: main hall in Walker Street, led by ceipts at Grand Street under the * * * A blaze in a warehouse on backing out of an alley on Beac Backfiring for Joy! * * * Steady through A goodly argo of hooch, * * * OH! WHAT A DIFFERENCE IN THE oN THE WHISTL é n what Canal Street 1s filled with clerks, MORNID oe Seventh aunts Near aie and a patrolman. * * © The sk vorking yntls’ on an express a boy carrying a long stu a fe . euekcut Nanunche t Pler delivering} had been cut about twenty notches The bridges alive with tri trunks to the fashionable. One bay about an inch apart. In each notch tenement chimneys. * * * Sub Father Bartley, of the loci me that| Aung the handic of a pint duoket. first of the morning rush hour cro el ed my friend and me tha He went into a doughnut and coffee out in a few minutes the church was giving « iobster supper at The Breakers. Both of us attended.| — srop and cume The younger society set was there, and} with each of his buckets filled with Vann ee i eicererniae cor nie: te Atel steaming coffre.—Heriman Ruts, No. torney for Rhode Island, asked us Sf] $49 Beryentine Avenue, Union Hill, we'd care to meet uny of the buds} yoy 9!” We cid, and there I styod like a hero, in white flannels, chatting with one of Gonmivenet the fair damsels of the Blue Book a#] 1 4.4 te neh peddier drive his wagon pe § te oe ‘eran rien “Tinto Page Avenue. His arrival | 9p Fegretful farewell, ‘The next day wel Peured to be a signal to all the ca or pulled up to the hotel with the truck] the district, Bix ca =u ve stad and to take back the chairs to the church] low, gray, brindle, white, spotted ts ran from all directions to scraps of fish as fell from Maltese pick up su and who should be sitting on the ve! b heroine of the ev VANISHING TREES OF THE BRONX, anda but my young heroine of the c ning before. There I was in my over-| the cart or were tossed to them by th I am wondering as I sit here at my alle and dirty shirt and there she was| driver. How do cats recognize the man] window what can be the matter with fn something white and filmy, and| who brings their favorite food?—Arthur lithe jovely trees on this avenue. They then she saw me! Her nose went up| Lane, No, 237 Page Avenue, Lyndhurst, | i ae dying off. One right across e old country, | N. J. Ks Ree Pte fie i speantd N. J. ont the way has been cut down, and not a of the Six Million shouldn't try to eNTY OF TIME young tree, either, So far as T can see mingle with the Four Pe ireenil Clover, ‘i Aft rai Bsc on the city does not do much spraying, It . Rosenberg, No. 4113 Bergenlin deserves’ a ts, but my respect |e 4 ene Goer Union Hil, Nya! Neary ee atnee goes to the horse which {8eems such a pity! On private property 4 —— has two pastures to graze in here. They [across the way is a fine horse-chestnut SAFETY FIRST! He across the road from each othe? and|tree, In a few years, | am told, we On the Long Island’ allroad to-day|ihie is allowed to enter elther at will! sia have no horse-chestnut trees, And 1 read the following sign: “A penny| He must, of course, cross the road, ayes lah 4 stved is a penny earned.” “A minute] and while he was doing so to-day an{our hickorynut and chestnut trees are lost ts a life saved. A stitch in time waves nine.” ‘A thought in time | was in the way. automobile honked to let him know he What did my equine practically gone, What can be the rea- son? Some say it is a natural result lives. And all of this struck me as] friend do? He played safe, Heé stood }of using so much oil on the roads.— particularly true because [ had just re stock still, the autoist passed him and Deith, No. 2601 Bainbridge turned from the funeral of one who was {then ambled, leisu to the pas- Bronx. hit by a train at Lindenhurst.—Harry | tu Ben Gossett, No. 163 Park Ave- . — E. M. Jones, Babylon, L. 1. nue, Saranac Lake, N. Y. TRANSFORMATION, r While I was visiting at the home of a Mader) wealthy Austrian friend, his family re- Isawthe three times Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, | waved a telegram that two nieces the Gregt Commoner, the Honorable William Jennings Bryan of Flor- | ,waited them at Ellis Island, I accom- fda, whd is spending a few day Asbury Park. He is not as hand- ied my friend and his wife and saw some as the picutres I have seen of a younger Bryan, the Boy Orator th een and of the Platte, but his face is impressive and he is the sort of man peo- ple point at and ask, “Who ts he?” Determined to make the best of my opportunity to'study greatness near to I trailed the distinguished visitor along the boardwalk. * * * Mr. Bryan stopped at a little candy shop. He bought a package of Mr. Wrigley’s celebrated gum. He walked to a nearby bench and sat down. I saw Willlam J. Bryan chewing gum!—G, C. Astavita, No, 311 Euclid Avenue, Asbury Park, two girls, aged about nin years. In their ill-ftting, too clean clothes, such as nearly y one in thelr country wears now, they presented a rather sorry spec= tucie. My friend's wife took us all to a hotel and the girls were taken to th Deauty parlors, Meanwhile my friend's wife went shopping. Two hours later these two girls came back completely transformed—bob - haired, silk + stock- inged, nicely dressed, heautiful.—Henry H. Abel, No. 764 Tinton Avenue, Bronx, twenty-one nor NEW YORKERS. Questioning passengers on one of the $1-the-round-trip-Chinatown buses" I loarned to-day that of forty-four passen- gers more than three-fourths had lived thelr lives and had never visited in the neighborhood of Doyers and Pell Streets, ‘The sudden influx into Chinatown had been caused by the murder of a Tong leader.—Arthur W. Levy, No. 897 Beck Street, Bronx, in New York all DRESSING ROOM. To-day, on the beach at Wainscott, L. 1, we saw two boys digging a hole VS GROAT oWAa- DRS, nings Bryan at the in’the sand. Soon it was large enough| Ocean Grove Auditorium. The papers eopegs KING UP THE PARK, fot them to stand in, completely hidden| reported that he had had a haircut. He 00 Ay ee ee from view. Then we saw clothes tossed] spoke for two hours and. thirty-five WOE MERE, ANN ie from It. In a few minutes they ap-|™inutes to an audience of 8,000 per-|Park about 12.45 A. M., when along peared, dremed in bathing suits, —Kath.|%M% and believe me, brother, he eld] eqmne a policeman and told everybody erine Morgan, Wainscott, L. I. * a ae wart ee at em ‘Jie would have to get out as the park —~ amon, No; #48 Corlles Avenue, AsbUrY | cioned at 1A, M. Then l saw him draw WALKING, TALKING “DoLL. |! NS eS a” bench across ntranoe. = Elarhy 1 went downtown on a Ninth Avenue Lr ec RAE Swanson, No. 305 Beekman Avenue, surface car, 1 gaw a woman holding | 1, Crotan 1 naw a ten or ctv atey | eee ie pillow on her lap and with what T first) vo wig hus worked for one an foc{ PRINCE DEMBANS HIMSELE, took to be a doll lying on the pillow. |{0\'" N00 lle Monk for ame nan Our Bt, Bernard dog Prince waa When the ‘doll’ moved 1 received the : a MPER= 1 dozing on the porch when a foolish sirorise of my fe. ‘The doll was the |*Uon only the food and tobacco ne] flere dog began howling tn the wite Pleat tate t ever aaw, weighing not | Uses: * place to sleep und money for an| ter. Prince vot up, walked delib- smallest baby T ever saw, weighing not} coasional work sult. If heh Y | evately to the gutter, slapped the an ounce over four ‘pounds Mrs. |mroney left trom this purchase: he ttle dog with his paw and then Hauseh, Box 48, Point Lookout, N.'F. liurns it to hia employer, He ina toam-| returned to, Anish hie nap in quiet.— hey ster and labore Jo good worker Charlotte: Manning “rt Hab 1 was in a little variety store at the|teon Martin: Hichfonk vee ie. corner of Union Road and Westfield AND THEY CALL THEM “GULLS.” ‘Avenue when I saw a nervous y ei BOEALULH. Birds have been known to understand, the door man jump excitedly foi the street crying, ‘Whoa! whoa! whoa! On th door f th newly-built nd 1 saw i shel intelll 1 thought the young man Kon prison at Wingdale, N. Y., to-day 1 | gence on my return from Europe the balmy. There wasn't a horse sight saw the sign, “Keep Out.”’—Robert | other day, When { noticed a flock of © °° He was yelling at his Ford, He| Groner jr, Wingdale, N.Y, gulls begin following in the wake of had come in without shutting it off and ‘ship between Sandy Hook anc the car was gliding away.—Mrs. bi. J YOUNGEST AND SWERTEST, — bere Mest asl an a su ie HARRY MENDLOWIT do, No. 209 Walnut Street, Roselle; Verhaps the youngest wireless fan in] antine, Toei Obra | lara orem te eae One-balf year old ‘nlece of Phin: W. Ambrose Light and they folloy ROLD LIEBERMAN, Centri On the Lexington Avenue subway to-|nls Club, I suw Miss Phoebe in her] uy they f3 back to follow the nest day 1 saw @ man anxiously look at the] Msh chatr on her poreh to-day chutes eee ie stent rthur W, Levy, Aah stations as we passed them. As the] Is at a milk bottle while she listened | Mom tree, Throne JOP WIENER, No, 646 East 1 train left Worth Street he drew from} 1th rapt atte tlon at a musical num-| N° ssl his pocket a compass and, setting it] ber relayed to her via a head set, —B, vel, he determined in which direction] 4+ Hekota, N. J. RICHMOND. JAMES S. MAHER, No, 888 F tee Pa ad pao thetecne SERVICE, EXCUSABLE, MRS. H. A, GOLDSTONE, No. ase and sat back with « look of relief on te deracy Central Railroad tos On the ferryboat this morning 1 saw ZELDA JACOBS, No, 407 Mervin 8. Near Jr. 265 Garden|) iy 1 mw eas tanh Hive tt a man who looked at peace with all the G, B. CAMPBELL, No, 880 Jef 3 ne couches using a fly sWatter.--Am: t Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. ¥, Eavaretla Na. 1th Donel Meanie ott | weld He wus a well dressed, pros DAVID A, PLINER, No. 451 coneliee . field, N. J perous looking Kent. He was humm CULNMER-AMBRIOAN, : ‘ane He had hts ¢ ne pea HW. 8. Glen Cove, To In the elevator of a Brooklyn depart- ANY RAGS, bay casas ith Hint > orite morning iment store to-day I saw a young Chi-} Remember the rag and bone plekers | wow aneP yy Peaches tite aed ih out CHARLES J. LA SPINA, No nese girl In native costume of natural] who made dally rounds In the good old | Opoket, BrOUsNt forthe goat Maer HERMAN pongee elaborately embroidered In| days? Well, to-day 4 big van half filled | und sald something naaghee case brown, She had on even the usual Chl-] with newspapers and rage passed ourl was empty. From tie time nwints Read to-day’s stories. nese slippers, but her ha a8 Dobbed | house and two men were 9 Raga? | he was the shinmest looking. person wil and curled and fluffed in quite the New ! Newspaper Mee cont A Pi doo Pre Re Winners will be announced York flapper fashion.—Ellen Wolcott, et Ro. Bh No. | Overiovk Avenuc, Dongan Mills, Staten Ne 1212 South Avenue, Plainfleld, N. J. $56 Ocewn Avenue, Lakewood, N. J. | island. j 4 YOUR STORY, IF POSSIBLE The collection car of the Sixth Avenue “L,” up on the seventeenth floor, pounding brass while the city sleeps. Francis McEneyy, No. 448 Bast 147th Street, the Bronx. . THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1922. Send them to ‘ IN NOT OWN NAMI MCRE THAN 12 AND ADDRESS C 5 WORDS. AREFULLY AND IN FULL. Cl SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT NIGHT TELEGRAPHER, What I saw yesterday. * * * Harrigan’s gang, mopping up the the Big Swede singing a chanty. * * * collecting the day's re- protection of half a dozen guards. Hudson Street. * * * Mail truck h Street. Three sharp explosions. stream of motor cars st and west anal Street, interspersed with produce and other trucks, * * * It ts time to eat. Krist’s bakery on truckies, chauffeurs, letter carriérs a ball of fire, rising in the east. aff_ic. * * * Wisps of smoke from way disgorging an army of toilers, wds.* * * And where am I? Oh, ORE BREAKFAST This morning I was in a butcher shop at Third Avenue and East 180th Street One of the women customers who wert ahead of me bought steak and asked for ‘st big news. STATE WHERE THE THIN Capital prizes for best FOURTH PRIZE, $10. EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS "| tae 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 addition. g World, Post Office Box 185, City Hall Station. ‘What Did You See?’’ Editor, WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. 3 WRITTEN ABOUT HECKS ARE MAILED DAILY. @ 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 BRONX BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. MANHATTAN WHY THEY SAY “ENJOYING POOR HEALTH.” Last evening I was walking thoughtfully on St. Nicholas Avenue when suddenly my attention was arrested by a sign in a store window near 181st Street. The sign read in big letter: and Wines.” place is a drug store and at tae bo the Volsteadian warning—“Sold on) sick.—A. A. T., East 40th Street. I rubbed my eyes to make sure I was not dreaming. “Attention—Reliable Whiskey, Brandy But the next moment I knew I was dreaming, for the ttom of the sign in small letters was ly on doctor's orders.” And I wasn’t ATTENTION! RELIABLE BRANDY, AND SHINES) Bevo on ORESCRIvis OBSERVANT CITIZ: I walted up Eighth Avenue from 42d Street to Columbus Circle. I saw a woman carrying a pink umbrella and wearing red rubbers; a man selling a paper called Matrimonial News; a midget 30 years old and 3 feet tall har- assed by a crowd of children; an auto- mobile carrying eight passengers on their way from the White Mountains to Tulsa, Okla.; a peddler selling peaches from a Ford car; two men preaching on street corners; a messenger boy run- ning as {f the Indians were after him.— Frank Lee, No. 690 Eighth Avenue. WHO WANTS FIREW Many old buildings are being torn down and remodeled on upper Madison Avenue. This morning I saw a sign in front of one of them, between 53d and 54th Streets, which read: ‘Firewood some suet. The butcher cut a gener- ous piece of suet and placed it in the bag with her other purchases. — She grabbed the bag from him, pulled ou the suet and placed jt on the block “That's twice as much as I want," she said angrily; “twice as much.” “ my dear lady, there isn’t any charge for it," said the market man, She didn’t care; she walked out declaring shy | never would enter the place again, I felt for her and sorry for the butcher. “T don't understand it," said he to me* “the queer thing about it is that that woman 1s in business,"’—Mary A, Bhan, No. 1831 Marmion Avenue BIRDS. T saw one sparrow apparently playing nurse to another one. I first saw them early this morning when I went to the window. The nurse flew away and brought hack bread crumbs to the pa- tient. Later in the day, when I was sweeping the alley, an excited sparrow kept hopping up and down in front of me. IT recognized the nurse, in a frenzy of excitement lest my sweeping should molest the injured one. It was tmpos- sible for me continue.—Mra. William Sargeant, No. 2059 Anthony Avenue, Bronx. ALTHOUGH THEYRE FALS WANTS THEM BACK, The Leader Observer of this district enlists the interests of al! good eltizens in the hunt for the false teeth recently lost by a distinguished eltizen. They are described as 1922 model. ‘The own- er longs to again sink them into a Juicy steak." Leave them at the Leader of- fice. Helen B. Mills, No. sith Road, Woodhaven, SMART SIGN, I stepped into a shop in 66th Street to a loaf of cake, and, examining my change on the way out, found I bad been given 10 cents too much, As 1 walked back to the counter I happened to note the warning No Mistakes Rectified After Leaving the Counter.” Ruth Meyer, No, 23 Beach 69th Street, Arverne, QUEE: (ree! Save | coal W. Chandler, No, 410 Central Park West. LUCKY FOR ALL CONCERNED. At 136th Street and Broadway I saw the smashed window of a bakery and saw an automobile wheel resting un- comfortably on rolls, cakes and cream puffs. Across the way there was a crowd gathered around a truck carrying a big crane. In front of the truck, part- ly on Its side, was a pleasure car with one wheel gone. Broads is at its widest here and that wheel had taken a tong journey diagonally across the strect.—Pearl® L, Berthoud, No. 2643 Broadway CAUGHT, 1 saw my sister's four-year-old son, He was trying to get me to “read” the comic cuts to him. I tried to get rid of him by saying I was busy “thinking.” He watched me quietly for about a minute and said, ‘You ain't.”"—A, J, Jones, No, + SMART FELLER. On Broadway at 40th Street to-day I saw a young lady wearing Russlan boots. Two young fellows passed her and grinned. In a moment she Jumping up and down on the sidewalk yelling. Then she sat down on the curb, regardless of the looks of pedestrians, and took off a boot. One of the young men had flipped a cigarette in the open top.—Edward T. Simmons Jr., No, 808 Crescent Street, Astorfa, L. I. NOTHING DOWN AND TWICE MUCH PER ANNUM. 1 saw a small boy in our neighborhood placing @ ‘For Sale’ sign on a recently bullt bird-house, Then he thoughtfully added: ‘Tax Exempt.''—Janice Traubl, ». 40 Harvest Street, Forest Hills, L. 1 Yesterday’s Special Prizes peewee First Prize, $25 No. 734 East 180th Street. Second Prize, $10 Third Prize, $5 Ten Prizes of $2 Each Decatur East MRS. LILLIAN LUTZ, No. 9712 Flatlands Avenue, Arverne, ELLA A, CONLEY, No, 158 Beach Street, New Dorp, 8, I. 163 A. KIRSHBAUM, No, 70 Essex Street Pick the ones you think are best. in this evening's Night Pictorial (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to-morrow, al Fire Station, Norwich, Conn, 2th Street. sfth Avenue, Brooklyn, 1763 61st Street, Brooklyn. Street, Brooklyn yerson Avenue, Krooklyn, 46th Street, Brooklyn, 4 Madison Avenue, BILL OF FARE. In a daycoach of a train to-day I saw a family of four grown-ups and five children seat themselves and Just as the train started open parcels con taining food, This they proceeded to eat. They ate during the whole of the four and one-half hours’ journey to the city. There was food or nearly every description, including fruit. I over- heard one woman who was eating an orange and drinking some milk say to another she had a pickle for the baby. The other sald she would not let the éhild have any then it had just had one. Then she gave the child its bottle. —Grace Sterling, No. 565 West 162d St. BUSY CORNER. I stepped out of the subway station at 125th Street and Broadway and people going everywhere. ‘Where do you get the Coney Island boat?" one man asked me; and another, “Am I on the right path to the Albany Day Line?” There isn't another place in the world, I believe, from which one may reach so many places of enjoyment: Fort Lee, Coney Island, Rockaway, Poughkeepsie, Palisade Park, the ‘way stations” and stations beyond.—Simon Bennett, No. 3197 Broadway. AND THAT'S THAT, With swings, a sand-boxr and two swoodsheds, the children have in our back yard a playground of their own. Sometimes older boys climb on to the woodsheds, however, and make a terrible racket. 1 ‘came home to-day and saw my husband trying to chase them away by throwing COAL at them! I nearly fainted. I soon put a stop to the coal throwing, let me tell wou, The coal is locked up now, and I know where the kev is.—Mrs. M. Stienwirth, No. 311 Hast 48th Street, PEOPLE'S CONCERTS. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings I attended the People's Con- certs at City College husband and children. 1 saw thousands of delighted people, young and old, mothers with infants in their ar Joying the wonderful music of the Department, the Department of § Cleaning and the Police Department bands. On one evening the music had the effect of making one old gentleman a boy again, He must have been eighty, but you should have seen him dance! Here is hoping these concerts may he continued.—Mrs. Frank Holdenecker, No. 1733 Amsterdam Avenue. Stadium with my Fire DRESS REHEARSAL, In the stove at the uptown station o the Interborough, Third Avenue and 116th Street, I saw a rei hot coal fire, Wm. La Bell, No, 334 Hast 116th Strect IS THERE SUCH AV ANIMAL In the window of a store at Michth Street and St. Mark’s Place there ts a sign reading: tented cows.” Stuyvesant Street. We have milk from cor Kaufman, No. 15 8UT THAT Is NOT THE QUESTION, In a window at Madison Avenue and 41st Street to-day, I saw on dis- play a bucket of coal and beside it @ placard reading: “It takes a mill- ion years to make a piece of coal and only one minute to waste it.’ W. J. Garrity, No. 501 Fifth Avenue, + A BIT OMINOUS, WHAT? In Far Rockaway I saw a sign on a restaurant which read: ‘First Last Stop.""—Fred Schippel, No. West 41st Street. SHOES SPINED FRER. In Nassau Street, near Ann Street, 1 saw to-day a shoe repairing p! where they shine your shoes for nothing demonstrating an electric shoe-polishi machine.—Mrs. Gombert, No, st 142d Street. as follows: FIRST PRIZE, $100; WEEKLY PRIZES stories of week di tributed among daily prize winners SECOND PRIZE, $50; THIRD PRIZE, $25; BROOKLYN WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE HIM? At the Polo Grounds this afternoon several thousand fans were entertained by the part the St. Louis mascot, a husky youngster of about ten years, played in the practice prior to the game. After play ing shadow to Sisler, mimicking that player's movements from the aching box behind the first base line, the little fellow took tae bag when it was vacated by Sisler and the crowd stopped laughing and be- gan to applaud. The boy took an active part in the practice, jumped for the high ones, stopped the hot ones—the Browns did not spare him ~made excellent throws from first to third and performed other feats. The way he walked off the field when the show was over, aead high and chest out, showed that he appreciates the responsibility of his Position. He made his way to the Yank dugout for a conference with the New York mascot and both lads humored “those newspaper fel- lows” to the extent of posing for their photographs. Then the young gentleman from St. Louis, envy of every other boy in the park, rejoined his teammates.—E. T. McBarron, No. 609 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, MR. EBBETS LOSES A BASERAL While riding in an automobile past Ebbets Field on Bedford Avenue during a ball game, I saw a man in @ car ahead of us tean out and make @ perfect one-handed catch of a fly bail which had been driven over the right fleld wall. The next day 1 learned it was the home run drive BOYS OF LONG AGO HAD TO READ THEM IN THE WOODSHED, f saw a group of “shine” boys in the Public Library on 42d Street engrossed in the exhibit of the Beadle “Dime Novels." They were on tiptoe leaning over the glass cases to read the alluring titles, among which were ‘Red Ax, the ete ‘0 Indian Giant," ‘Buffalo Bill's Grip, or of Back Wheat.—J. F. Cameron jr, |Oath Bound to Custer,” “Norwest at $29 Bainbridge Street, Brook- | Nick, the Border Detective, or Dan yn. n Brown's Fight for Life." “Can youse git ‘em out on a card?’ one asked another. “Nothin’ doin’, yuh dumbell!”" replied the other. ‘Can't you read? They're @ ulme aptece !""—H, MaxonNNo, 3140 Em- mons Avenue, Sheepshead Bay, L. L “AIN'T WE GOT FUN On Spring Street to-day I saw a group of children having a Joyous time on a merry-go-round of their own make. It consisted of an old bed spring fitted — over a fire hydrant. Six children rode FISH STOR while two pushed, to the tune of While 1 was out on a launch owned by J. J. Fitzhenry of Holland, Rook- away, N. ¥., I saw Mr, Fitzhenry pull vi In his line, which was taut. “When ON WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE IN | pulled his catch in tt proved to be a cele THE EVENING. Iuloid fish with the hook’in the mouth,— On the Williamsburg Bridge the other] J. J. O'Connor, No, 8 Rutland Road, night I saw the people of the lower east] Brooklyn, side occupying the benches. on the bridge and enjoying themselves by sing- * ing and playing on all types of instru ments. There are no parks in this vi- cinity and these people were also Joying the breeze from the East River.— Henry Spett, No. 765 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, “Margy.""—Robert A. Armstrong, { No. 746 5dth Street, Brookly THRIFT AND FAMILY, On the car going to Coney Island to- day I saw a mother and three caugh- ters, aged about elght, twelve and four- teen years, looking very nice in criep gingham dresses. On arriving at the beach the mother and the girls un aressed and disclosed they wore bathing suits beneath their dresses, Later, after bathing, they stood around until’ their bathing sults dried and then put on THE COUNTRY’S SAFE, On lower Fulton Street, Brooklyn, I saw in a clgar-maker's window. this sign: "Come in and try Joe's hand- made Se speclals."—F, X. H., ly their dresses again.—Mrs. Hllen Camp- Brook- | bell, No. 1496 Bushwick Avenue, Brook- GO sLow: On the State highway we came upon a sharp curve in the road, near which we saw a tombstone on which was carved the words ‘Dead Man's Curve." —Theodore Goldman, No. 127 Chester Street, Brooklyn, FOR SALE. Twd pupples were brought to a pet shop on Moffatt Street to be sold and the mother of the puppies followed. Since then she trots a mile and a haif every day to visit those* pupples.—Rita Som- erville, No. 6 Moffatt Street, Brooklyn, TIME TO GET BUSY. What I have seen lately is that the clocks have been removed from every one of the Brooklyn and Long Island branches of a big grocery organization which covers this part of the world with a chain of stores, In the place formerly occupied by the clock there is now, in eery store, an engraved likeness of the President of the company. I am told the management came to the conclusion that the clerks were losing too much time looking at the clocks, and that the presence of the time- pieces distracted attention from business, Now when a clerk thought- lessly glances where the clock used to be he sees the stern features of the Big Boss and immediately is inspird to put more pep into his work. --M. Grant Flynn, No, 57 Hale Avenue, Brooklyn. ANDY, On a@ Fifth Avenue (Brooklyn) trolley car to-day I saw the conductor come to the door of the suddenly halted car and cry out, “Can any lady lend me « hair pin? Getting no immediate an- swer, he explained he wanted it to start T saw some bous playing on t| opposite side of the street. In the street I saw lying an electric bulb, 1 was just about to go and pick it up when along came an automobile and ran over it. There was a loud repore The driver the of car ‘the car. T gave him a hair pin and jumped out and began exainininy after a few minutes of waiting the hiss tires. He took quite a tony |car started again on Its way.—Mary @. time about. it, and finding nothing Magrath, No, 2 3 Bay Eighth Street, wrong, he got into the car, mumbling profanely to himself while the boys across the street rocked with laugh ter.—Mra, Ellen Geier, No, 881 Lex- ington Avenue, Brooklyn, Brookly1. “MAY YOU ALL LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.” After a hard day's work at the office, where I had to go over a set of books TWICE because of an error in my ao- counts of TWO cents, L went home and came face to face with a nurse and @ doctor, 1 waited to ask no questions, but rushed to my wife’s room and I saw TWINS! Really, two of them, both boys, and Wontlerful as an; boys ever born. Only a coincidence, o} course, but, nevertheless, I'm glad that my error of the morning was only TWO cents and not any more.—B, Mantle, No. 66 Howard Avenue, Brooke lyn, THERE'S AN ALARM ON "1 DIAL, In Tuesday's “What Did You See To- Day?" Miss Hamtlton, under the title Flowerland,” reported visiting a friend in whose garden she smelled a lovely perfume and attributed It to the flowers, which were four o'clocks. Now, what I'd like to know fs whether the flowers recognized daylight saving or were they three o'elocks--Herman Schron, No, 354 Van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn, Fm SUN IN AUGUST. BEA I saw » boy beating his way across 125th Street on surface cars. First, 1 aw him board a westbound car at Third Avenue, I saw him again at the next block, where he stepped onto an- other car, One block beyond I beheld him once more. Thinking he might be a stranger I asked if I could be of help. He laughed, “I haven't got a jitney,” he explained, ‘and I feel like riding. If I get onto a car marked ‘crosstown,’ I ask if it 1s an Amaterdam Avenue, car. Ry the time I have found out what I already know we havo gone a block ana I get off. If it's an Amsterdam Avenue car Lask the other question Thomas P, Scanion, No. 2677 Highth Avenue. We were suffering intensely to-day ear from the heat in the office of our face RAPARE DNESS. tory. We use heat in the manufacture near the beach and to-day % lof a food product, but it was never saw one of my né ighbors coming from before as hot as this, We were gasp-|the beach in his filvver, which was ing for breath. Suddenly I heard afloaded with “driftwood, His daughter pecullar sound and walking over to the|told me later tyat his cellar now is radiator I found it as hot as it should] half filled with food, all chopped and be on a cold winter day The heat for} nicely stacked in preparation for the drying the food had been by mistake expected coal shortage.—Mrs, D, Imhof, turned into the radiators, The ther-|No. 143 Bay 8th Street, Brooklyn, mometer,in the office registered 105 de- grees.—J. Maier, No. 2031 Sist Street, SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE SON OF THE Brooklyn, U. 8. A, — To-day as 1 walked through Mott WHILE IT LASTS, Street I saw a number of Chinese lads, On Fulton Street near Nostrand Ave- sovoral with pajama-like coats, playing nue to-day 1 saw In front of a row of|paseball. As I watched them an argue houses which had been reconstructed a|Snent developed over a play and one of sign which read: "Firewood given} these ttlé Orientals exclaimed, ‘Aw, away free—Conl $20 a ton this winter." | how do you get that way—you're out I" Charles Melele, No, 235 Grand Aye-|—Robert Aco, nue, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, No. 652 Lincoln Placa, é 3