The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1922, Page 16

oes ea ei ete kt ee oe ae hee ~wwBtrest District, 1s to attend to send) THE EVENING WORLD 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. MANHATTAN FREIGHT BRAKEMAN VISITS NEW YORK. i I rode uptown on a Fifth Avenue bus and when the vebicle was travelling through 57th Street the conductor came to the upper deck, as the custom is, to caution everybody that we were approaching a low bridge. As a rule everybody on the upper deck comes to atten- , =, =T/ Nae Vea ; any ’ Spin tion when this announcement is made and the incident soon is for- gotten. We had with us this afternoon, however, a stranger in New York who was going to take no chances. He sighted the low bridge ahead of us and promptly dropped prone on the deck between the two lines of cross seats. I haven't been able to figure whether this was this man's first experience on a bus or whether he was not In his rigat senses.—Dorothy Weller, No. 820 Riverside Drive. MR. AND MRS. WRECKED AND SAVED. At Pier A, Battery Park, last Sat- On the Sound to-day I saw a family erday, I saw a number of people |party aboard the motorboat Claire, be- very much disappointed because the | hind which trailed a wide, flat-bottomed Bear Mountain boat Ontrora did |rowboat. One by one, Dad, Granny, mot make its advertised exoursion | Mother, Sister and Baby emerged trom trtp. The announced reason wat the cabin in bathing sults, Dad hauled ee ee ane ne wuple [the rowboat alongside and Granny, who Raving words about it. He said; | 8" very large and very fat, attempted Well, now f hope you're satisned, |'0 step Into It. But the space beween @ragoing me all the way over here |the two boats widened and Granny fell fatund!”” ‘She eatd: 7 into the water, Shrieks of distress ant POURE eatisted benides being |ctles of consternation filled tho alr. the world’s biggest grouch, you're |D&d dived and brought Granny up. He New York's biggest Jonah!—wil- |took hold of the rowboat, but strong ‘tq | man though he was he could not litt Sites AIM NOE Weak HE Vie into it. He shouted for a Ife pre- + server. It was fastened about Granny - He called for a rope. It, too, was fas- mast ed dal tened about her and one end was tled to In the window of a dressmaking es- the rowboat. Then Dad pulled for the Sr acces, eect OF And teeth |shore, towing Granny, who, this way, without matertal."—Murlel Goldamith, | "7%" *#ved.—C. A. A.. New York. BUNKING OUT. I have been watching something for three days. A fellow in our nelghbor- hood was thrown out of his house on Monday. He had 15 cents and got a No. 543 Wost 1624 Street. HELP WANTED. I saw more than 2,000 Help Wanted advertisements in the morning edition of The World. Males, 1,853; females | rel) of cakes and coffes. He stayed $88-—Timothy Keating, No. 257 West), i 2 A. M. and then slept in 1 ‘Tenth Street. hallway. All the next day on an empty. stomach he looked for work and at night crept into the hallway and his father kicked him out. One of the boys brought him up to a house and gave him a meal. With anot fellow he BIRDSEYE VIEW. The Pennsylvania is the largest Rotel in the world, but that fact didn’t daunt the man I saw to-day ing to take a picture of it with | went looking for work as a strike e camera.—James J. Wilson, | breaker. ‘The other fellow was hired, No. $60. West 29th Street. but he was not. That night he slept in i ° the hallway again. IT can see him y w $- crawling in there again hungry to-nigh: The prtnelpal duty of one ofice ey: luniess he gets a job.—Gus Careppoli in the office of & broker in the Wali] No, 164 Second Avenue. out the mall. ‘His principal ‘business, on the other hand, is to get out on the stroke of five every afternoon. When the hour approached to-day, and he was busy with the mail, one of the young Indies reminded him of a registered that “must surely go to-ni, ht” to P. 8. Brown. Joe said nothing, hustled with the mail, was ready to go and impatiently asked, ‘Well, now, where's that parcel for Public School Brown?’—S. Janet Gilmore, No. 296 ‘West 9th Strect. A MAN'S MAN, In one of New York's largest motion picture studios I saw a little boy of three made up in girl's clothes for « little girl's part he was expected to play, but he was crying bitterly and refused to rehearse his scenes. He buried his face in his mother's lap, sobbing: “God made me & boy and I won't be a girl!''—He didn’t be, either. —Mra. L. Parker, No. 561 W. 180th Street. ME AND MYSELF ANDI. I was on top of a Fifth Avenue bus in St. Nicholas Avenue when I saw a big sightseeing car coming along. It carried a single passenger alone in all his glory. He sat about midships and appeared to be well pleased with himself. One of the bus concern’s employee was telling him all about everything through a megaphone.—W. Muller, No. 565 Fifth Avenue. ‘THIS MAY BE WORTH OUR AT- TION, WATSON. * I was having my shoes shined at BHighth Avenue and 13th Street when I saw a tall man.in a palm deach suit enter the barber shop across the way. He carried a cane and wore a full beard I was on the sidewalk when, about ten minutes later the same man came out of the barber shop with nary a whisker, * © © My detective instinct urged me to run him down, but what, I ask you, ure we paying the police for?—Anthony Forlenza, No. 617 Hudson Street. THE VANISHED HEIRLOOM. ‘My srandfather was a lover of antiques. He had many beautiful things, ‘among them being several paintings. My mother was not with him when he died, and altho she received his painting she grieved because one in particular ‘was missing. No trace of it could be found. Mother and I walked into an antique dealer's on Sixth Avenue yester- , and there on the wall hung the ting! It had been missing seventeen years.—Mrs, J. B, Hall, No, 18 West ‘37th Street. THANK You. Some one contributed to the “What Did You See To-day?’ page the fac that there are hotels on the Bowery with rooms ranging in price from 16 cents to $1, but one doesn’t need money really In a binch in New York. On 261: Street, for instance, is a Municipal lodg ing house where one may get supper, 4 bath, an examination by a doctor anu ® nice clean bed for nothing. In addi- tion to this he can be called at 4.31 o'clock in the morning in time to go ou and hunt a Job, and get a breakfast for nothing, too, Then he may walk down to 16th Street and Third Avenue tc Moler'a and get @ {ree haircut, shave and a massage just because the student barbers want practice. Further, if he needs « clean collar, or maybe a shirt and carfare, why all he needs to do ir to step into the Helping Hand on 1btn Street near First Avenue. Also a free shine may be had at Klein's Shoe Re pairing shop on Nassau Street, whic! he can get on his way to Battery Park, where on moat any bench he can pick up @ newspaper, also free, to look over the Help Wanted columns, Some people think because they've stopped selling drink here this i not a free country. B. Harris, No, 98 Fulton strétt GoopBY, SUMMER! MER! On the way home from the dance last night I saw a crowd in front of @ Grand Street hat shop, and of course went over to see what all the shooting was for. Not a darned thing, except that the straws had disappeared and tho window was dolled up in new felt hats.—Lew Bmith, No. 64 Suffolk Street, INFORMAL, I saw a man, his wife and their two ttle boys in Battery Place thie morning, The Wttle boys wore bath- dng sults and old sho: They board- ed the Iron Steamboat, bound for Coney Island, where on the boys’ Dehalf, at least, they wouldn't be subjected to the necesssty of renting @ bdathhouss.-Herman 3, Hoene, No. 688 Weet 171at Btreet. scour, ‘The lights went out fm the Subway train on Lexington Avenue at 724 Street yesterday afternoon, and the emergency GoopBY, sum DID YOU KNOW THIST In the south exterior wall of the City lights were insufficient to read by. But] Hall a somewhat weatherbeaten plaqu one youthful business man of fourteen | bearin this inscription: ‘Near this ‘was prepared for just such an occasion.| spot, in the presence of Gen, George He took @ flashlight from his pocket and read his paper by it until the regular lights came on again.—Albert E, Mints, jo. 609 West 178th Street, Washington, the Declaration of Inde- pendence was read and published to the American Army, July 9, 1776.""—Samuel Kaufman, 103d Street and Third Ave FORTY WINKS, When I neared Bowling Green late to-day at the end of a walk in Jower Broadway 1 obseryed that the sandwich man ahead of me was off duty, for he carried his sign over his shoulder on a long stick Opposite the subway entrance he stopped, lowered iis sign, held the stick in the crook of his arm and leaned against the famous tron fence. Almost as soon as I could catch up with him the man ap- parently was fast asleep! I watched him a minute or two and then called the attention of the news vendor to aim, The newsdealer barely glanced at the man. “That's nothing,” he said, “he'll sleep there that way for an hour or two.” And evidently it was nothing new In that neighborhood, for no one paid the slightest attention to a man “asleep on his feet."”—Jobn Olsson, No. 1 Manaattan Avenue. > 4 little one was an unusually pretty blonde. gether, when do they change the water?” she asked, “when it gets dirty?” This was an easy one; he sald, “Yes.” “How do EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS FOURTH PRIZE, $10. REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS make this news feature even more entertaining and interes One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in addition. g Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. Send them to ‘‘What Did You See?’’ Editor, Evening World, Post Office Box 185, City Hall Station. WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. TELi. YOUR STORY, IF POSSIBL. . MANHATTAN LIKES CHILDREN; “CAN'T STAND” BABIES. In 57th Street near First Avenue I saw a girl of ten who appeared to be in charge of sixteen smaller children. The younger ones were seated on the stoop of a vacant, house; their director sat factng them Om a emall box on the sidewalk. What first caught my attention was Miss Ten waving @ small flag, while her class, standing, tried to sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Next there was a lesson in English. Then “2 wD she took animal crackers from a paper Noah's Ark and had them name the animals and spell the names. When the name was spelled cor- rectly the speller devoured the animal. I offered Little Teacher money to buy another ark, and I discovered, my dear sir, that I was butting in. She told me to “tend strickly” to my own affairs. I asked her her name and she sald Rosa Freudi She refused to give me ner address. Said 1 might go and tell her mother. When I told her her mother would be proud of her, Rosa begged leave to differ. “She wants me to mind HER kids,” she said.—Mrs, Ida Faludy, No. 180 West 94th Street. A DOG IN AUGUST. On Third Avenue tn the Pronx to-day 1 naw a fox terrier crouching, cowed, in a doorway. He \as surrounded, at a tactful distance, by a crowd of small boys, who pelted him with various mis- siles. Naturally the animal barked and snarled, Some one suggested that it was mad and that a cop should be called to kill it. The idea seemed to be tak- ing hold when an elderly man pushed through thé crowd, approached te dog, spoke kindly to It, patted it on the head and finally, picking tt up in his arma, carrted It off. It was merely overheated and had resented the teasing of the boys.—B. J. Abrams, No, 401 W. 42d Street. BABY. On @ Mineola trolley car I saw a big, husky man raise the window and put Ate elbow om the sill, A passenger, noticing that the window toaa not held securely, spoke about {t, and the giant scowlingly told his informant to mind his own business. Quiet reigned. Now, the Mineola cars in motion are not untke the Irish jaunting cars, and in a few moments the window came down hard on the man’s elbow. With a velp he pulled his arm from beneath the sash, and I held my breath, ex- pecting something terrible to hap- pen. I even began picturing the motorman, conductor and passengers . “ALS At one of the wild animal shows on Surf Avenue, Coney Island, I saw former Gov. Al, Smith feeding the ele- being hurled to the road by the big phants. Mr, Smith was lavish with —! o . 5th ei 14 ip epee ree A REN NOARE: Went pocket, drew out a handkerchief, and, looking at him more closely, I aaw the big stiff was orying.—Leo Striepecke, Springfteld Gardens, L. 1. “PATIENCE 18 A VIRTUD.” I see every single morning, five ex- press trains pull out of the City Hall station before ONE local pulls in. I enough to try the patience of a saint.— Frances Mossberg, No. 961 Second Ave- nue. THAT'S WHERE THE DWELLS! While entering tne town of Hacken- sack by trolley to-day, I saw lima beans growing on poles at ieast fifteen feet high, tho vines being filled with thick pods which had grown to the top and then bushed. I was wondering if they weren't owned, by a steeplejack?—M, L. S., Rutherford, N. J sHt GIAN” THE OPEN DOOR. As the Richard Peck glided through the Sound to New Haven Sunday the Nappers, of course, had much adjust- ment of veils and hairnets to attend to fn the ladies’ dressing room. One modest flowerlet objected to the door being open while she wielded lip- stick, so she closed {t. Im tely the stewardess bore down the corridor! and swung the door back as far as It would reach. ‘Keep this door open and save your facea,"’ she shouted. Then I tearned that in a Jam on the boat once the door had Iiterally swung to and had cut a woman's cheek. Since then It has been kept open actually to save their faces.—F’., No, 216 E. 3ith Street, New York. A BOY AGAIN. When I got home this evening I saw something which surprised me more than anything I have ever seen before. My father had shaved off the mustache he had worn for twenty years.—Ade- laide Kirch, No. 347 Reno Street, New Rochelle, N. ¥. PEP. Yesterday I saw a young girl sweep- ing her porch. Her halr was bobbed and she wore a very short dress. In a moment she turned the doormat over and began doing a lively fix on It. After a moment or two of that she picked up the rug, disclosing on the floor a con- siderable amount of sand which she proceeded to sweep off the porch. Then she placed the rug back, showing that the modern girl can make her work play.—J. A. Moore, No. 417 East 33d Street, Paterson, N. J- STUMPED. I was seated in the men's compart- ment on the Municipal ferryboat, Brooklyn, bound for Staten Island, when a man came in holding by the hand a child of perhaps three. The As we passed the Statue of Liberty they were at the window to- The water, thanks to the oll, colors. “Daddy,” said the little girl, “who paints the water so pretty?” “He pointed at the statue and said, “That lady over there ‘And was all they empty the water out, Daddy, when they want to put in clean water?" He took the little girl in his arms and watted around to see if he couldn't change the subject.Frank #. Vath,| & No. 640 Bighth Avenue. THE PUNISHMENT FITS THE ORIMINAL, 1 wan watching the crowd hunting for Monte Cristo’s certificates in 44th Street. Interested particularly in threo little One of the kids was told there was a certificate in the mail box, He Was trying to break it open with a stone when a policeman caught him, Arrested? Nope. Boiled in ofl? Cer- Blectrocuted? boys, not Nonsense. Ask me what the policeman did to him, Well. Mr, Rainey, what Ad the cop do the little boy?, Gosh, he spanked him: spanked him as ne@uy as a professional spanker could have done. No, 220 Bast g0th 5! MAD. In the shuttle train of the Interboro on 42d Street to-d aw a man in my car smoking a clg@r (against the rules), but what struck me as even more note- worthy was that between puffs he took a bite from an onlon.—Norman No, 886 Amsterdam Avenue tainly ~ J. Rainey, ret. No, 1843 624 Finlay, HELPING MOTHER, H, PETRIE, Last wight af Sth Sieet and Bighth Avenue I saw a y oman ait. ting doside her news stand, white her ittle aon slept ona shvif_ be neath it.-Frank larag\yy First avenue, Read to-day’s stori 13568 (Gr 3, IN NOT MCRE THAN 125 WORDS. TOOK PLACE. WRITE YOUR OWN NAME AND ADDRESS CAREFULLY AND IN FULL. CHECKS ARE MAILED DAILY. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 4 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 4CO0 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news, BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. OUT OF TOWN. Yesterday’s Special Prizes First Prize, $25 PHILIP B. DOONER, No. 289 East 38th Street. Second Prize, $10 W. DOUGLAS, No. 407 West 19th Street. Third Prize, $5 GERTRUDE BENDER, No, 121 East 126th Street, Ten Prizes of $2 Each ANDREW G. MILLER, No. 453 West 23d Street. . 1069 Simpson Street, Bronx. ER, No. 869 Edgecombe Avenue. (OCH, No, 2749 Etghth Avenue. URIEL WHITCOMB, No, 198 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, BILL LYNCH, } MRS, A. SKI MAURICE K M JOSEPH WEISS KE. MURTHA, No. 995 East 38th Street, Flatbush. ALICE HOFFMAN, No, 82 Webster Avenue, New Rochelte, GEORGE H. HALL, No, 82 Seeley Street, Brook! 0. 851 Madison Avenuc, Paterson, N. J Pick the one i Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial n Sheet) edition and in other editions to-morrow, STATE WHERE THE THING WRITTEN ABOUT BRONX THROWING COLD WATER ON THE PARTY. There is a certain group of boys and young men in the neighbor- hood of Tinton Avenue and 153d Street who are not intensely popular with all the householders of the district. The young fellows hang out on the corner, This is their headquarters or “club room.” They sing, whistle or talk far into the uours of the early morning and so bring discomfort to older folk who would much prefer to sleep. eee One tenant, as yet unidentified, has been known to drive them from un- derneath his windows by dumping a pall of cold water onto them. * * * They were under his window again at 1 o'clock yesterday morn- ing and the “concert” was going good when a policeman happened along. Not being the arresting kind, this copper, he told the boys to “cut it out” and “beat it.” * * * The party was breaking up when Irate Citizen came to the window with his little old pail o' water. *** The policeman got every last drop of it! * * * We saw the officer climbing fire escapes trying to locate a wet windowsill.—Jack Lembeck, No. 1061 Boston Road, Bronx. A PENNY SAVED. A man leaving the subway train left a paper on his seat. Two old gen- tlemen grasped the paper at the samc time. Neither was willing to relin deen accurate, and this time he fore- |auish his hold and there ensued a told of an early winter. The katy- | silent tug of war until the paper part- dids made their appearance weeks |ed in two. Each, without saying a earlier this year than usual, and he | word, cast malevolent looks at. the claims this is a@ never failing sign J other and then took his seat, where that frosty nights are near, Some Junon he began reading his share of fur-bearing animals have already put ing pal Nach N A oraatne ta per.—J. Nachbar, No. 1329 on their winter coats, Cornstik Drobwect Avenues BRtke, heavier and the husks are thicker and tighter than usual. Wild ducks and geese are alre uly flying south- ward. Swallows have been covering telephone and telegraph wires for a fortnight in large numbers, migrat- ing southward. He declared all these weather COAL! COAL! WE WANT COAL! I met a weather prophet at the market place in Ited Bank to-day. His predictions im the past have CLEANING " My mother was ill to-day and un- able to do her housework, and what do you think I saw? I saw myself mopping up our six rooms.—Sidney d if ld si 4 ne were 1 NeLean, Red Bank, |Shulman, No, 2017 Hughes Avenue Bon =O. Ds 3 Bronx. Ned MISS BRONX SALUTES MISS ANSWERING THE CALL. LIBERTY. On Park Avenue, between 634 and I saw my little sister, aged 7, when she saw for the first time the Statuc of Liberty. Daddy had been promising her the treat for a long time and this was the first day of his vacation. We crossed to Staten Island on the ferry. When we came near to the famous statue Sister reached up, took Daddy's hat, waived tt and called out “How do you do, Miss Liberty?"—Margaret Duhme, No. 469 Fast 147th Street. 54th Streets, at noon to-day I saw five pretty office girls having thelr pictures taken under ¢ sign in the parkway read- ing: "Try to make this Park more beautiful."’ — Bernadette I. Leach, No. 360 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers. OR, POSSIBLY, A PRINTER. On Bast 41st Street, between Madison and Park Avenues, to-day I saw a coupe with thirty-five tickets for the Police Field Day games pasted in the rear win- dow, as if the owner were either en- riched with a great number of acquaint- ances in the Department or else were prepared for the worst in a possible A RECOUNT IS IN ORDER. Sitting in front of a store on Third Avenue to-day I counted the womer between eighteen and thirty year: PMc jani-J. D. Miller, No. 151| Who passed to determine what propor ‘Thomas Street, Bloomfetd, N. J. tion wore bobbed hair. Thirty-eigh a of fifty I counted wore bobs,—Abe Sil CHEAP, verstein, No, 8747 Third Avenue, I saw potatoes sold on a farm near} Bronx, here to-day for $2 a barrel.—Arthur oe Lally, Roosevelt, L. I. BROOKLYN. A CHECK AND A BOW Wow. I saw yesterday a delightful prize check come to ime from The Evening World for a little story about a dog that I failed to get, and I saw also a pleasant letter from a charming man who has five fox terrier puppies and who, after reading my contribution and thinking we would be kind to a dog, offered to give me one for a pet as soon as it can leave its mother. Need- less to say we are all delighted.—M. 8. M. Case, Darien, Conn. GET A HORSE! Every few minutes the earth at Mad- ison Avenue and 86th Street 1s shaken by blasts of dynamite for the excava- Uons for @ new apartment hotel. Great blocks of granite are loaded Into trucks but they find the grade difMcult; anu then the foreman reverts to the old and time-tried reliables—horses, which art hitched in teams to the trucks, and each time they make the grade.—M. L. Ret- Ug, No. 1084 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, A DANCING MAN. At the Shore Inn dance hall at Ca narsie | saw the floor manager step to the middle of the floor with a young Woman and heard him announce that during the previous dance number shc had lost a ring, The question was, he said, whether any one had seen it. Promptly a young man seated at one of the tables called out “I've got it!” and stepped forward to hand {t over to its owner. There was a burst of applausr and—the dance went on.—Mrs. Dorothy Kraus, No. 490 Myrtle Avenue, Brook- yn, COUNTING THE HOUSE. On Broadway at 70th Stre¢ I saw a@ one-man circus, An urchin of six or seven years was standing on his head while passersby threw coins to him, He had four assistants picking up the penni and after every y he would check up to see how much his collectors had garnered.—BD R. Metz, No. 588 78th Street, Brooklyn, “OH, WHERE, TELL ME WHERE" I saw a sign to-day on a hay barge \n Wallabout Creek which read: “Why buy an auto truck? It costs only 85 cents A day to feed a horse.”"—Fred Sherman Jr. No. 65 Marion Street, Brooklyn. A SWIMMING HOLE IN THE SEA, ‘The boys at Brighton Beach have a place they called the “old swimming hole." It ts about 16 yards wie ant very deep. Two jetttes protec: 't from rough weather, keeping tha water calm and placid, When a_ policeman ap- proaches the lookout gives the signal, “Cheese it, the cop!’ and the boys nus- lily put on shirts and climb back onto the jetties. When the pollcoman moves away the shirte are 1 again and everybody goes in,—I % 3061 Lakeland Place, Coney Island Street, Brooklyn. you think are best. WEEKLY PRIZES Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as follows: FIRST PRIZE, $100; SECOND PRIZE, $50; THIRD PRIZE, $25; which must travel up a small inciine,| the Ferry.""—Gertrude J. Nisbet, No, to-day] #4 one goose for the past six years, BROOKLYN. POLICEMAN WITH A PULL. I saw about a dozen of New York's “finest,” but you never would recognize them in the “get-ups” they wore as they came trooping from the dressing rooms of the Betsey Head Playgrounds in Brownsville, Why? Because in place of the spic and span blue and brass, with which we are all familiar, these young men wore their very oldest old clothes. They stopped in front of our house, hitched to a tele- graph pole a mechanism with a strong spring, and using an old milk can for support, tied a heavy rope to this spring, Taen while one policeman coached them with an open watch in his hand, the others dug their heels into the dirt and pulled with thelr hands at the heavy rope. Whenever they gave a mighty tug I saw the spring “give” a little. With each’ succeeding pull it stretched a wee bit more, * * © The men have two weeks th which to fit themselves for the Police Field Days. This was a tug-of-war team. * * * Got your tickets yet? — Joseph Berman, No. 359 Amboy Street, Brooklyn. THE GOBOLINS WILL GET YER, IF) WHY YOU DON'T WATCH our. 4 My father and I live alone to- gether in a ground floor apartment, When he went out for the evening I undressed and, grabbing a book from the table, jumped into bed to read myself to sieep. The book was “True Ghost Stories.” It must have been 1 A, M. before I shut my eyes. I dreamed of white ghosts, yhoata of foul orimes, ahricking ghosts, wioked ghosts, and altogether had as tough a time as tf I had supped heavily on Welsh rarebit and mince pie. A rattling and banging at the windows woke me up. I could hear the rain. The cold chills ran up and down my spine, My tecth chattered. * * * “Hey, Frank, wake wp!” I heard my father calling; “open the door! I forgot my key.”—Frank Rosen- 1" berg, No. 1983 St. John's Place, Brooklyn. TELEPHONE GO MAD. In Kline's drug store at Schenectady Avenue and St. John's Place a woman was exerting all her energy In an effort to get a telephone number, which she insisted was Gramercy. She evidently learned this was not right and shouted to the operator to wait a moment or two until she learned what the right number was. She ran out of the atore and {nto a house a hundred yards away, returning in about five minutes with « card in her hand, Then she picked up the recelver and asked for a number in the Glenmore exchange. She got It im- mediately.—Robert B. Suskind, No. 1382 8t. John’s Place, Brooklyn. OPERATORS LITERATE BURGLARS, ‘ In the window of a haberdashery at the corner of Greene and Knickerbocker Avenues to-day I lamped the following, which I call deuced clever: “Poiles catch burglars who broke in Thursday GUARDING THE GAME. The train on which we were going to Rockaway Beach was held up for a]™Orning. It stands to reason they had time at Woodhaven Junction, where the] °t seen our low prices or they would L. 1. R. R. has its repair shops, and[&ve dropped in during the day."—Har- through the window I saw a train con-|‘y Ha No. 181 St. Nicholas Avenue, ‘sting of two Pullmans, an express- | Brooklyn. freight car and a coach. The express r was being used by shopmen as a] THEM DADDIES PLAY JACKS dining car, In the day coach five shop- men were having a quiet game of stud. Too, In Chinatown I saw three ttle Chi- There were two policemen on each car| nese girls playing at Jackstones,—Harry platform.—John C. Henry, No, 1075] Weiner, No. 675 Hast 29th Street, Brook. Greene Avenue, Brooklyn. lyn, ADAM SAID IT FIRST, This morning the woman who lives on he floor above us cut her daughter's iair. The child is two years of age, and this evening when her father came home he looked at her and, turning his wife, sald: “Who is this little boy Alfred Romeo, No, 7516 14th Avenue, DIVERTISSEMPENT, On a carnival programme to-day I read the following: “The most wne popular letter in the alphabet is the letter E, for it is the beginning and the last of Eve, the beginning of Bterntty, the end of Time and Space; the beginning of every End este and the end of every Race; is never tm Cash, always in Debt, everlast- Lak ingly in Misery, nover out of Danger 6 the movies in MoLaughiin Park and always in Rent, Hell and Near Beer.’ —Thomas For, No. $0 Garnett last night I saw views of Niagara Binsel, Breouin, Falls, Holyoke, Mass.; Easthampton, different kinds of fish, boy scouts going through their daily routine Bob's Bug Fight” and, last of al SHE TALKED. In an Interborough sub y train this Pons Bee Rian. ee ¥g evening 1 saw a young man surrender Boonton nee 3 Powder,” | hls seat to a young woman. Not many Margaret G. Ronan, No. 194 Pearl | Minutes later he was turning the shoete Street, Brooklyn, of his. newspaper and accidentally knocked her hat awry. I never heard yanbico, such a torrent of language! She looked While the Police Band played a selec-| Ke @ lady, but she could give a fish- wile carda and epades and beat her at her own game. He apologized, of course, |but she paid no attention. Finally, his face scarlet, the poor fellow elbowed his way to the car ahead.—A, Carraro, No, 740 Monroe Street, Brookly aon from “Aida’’ at. Prospect Park Tuesday evening T saw & s@uirrel sitting vn bis haunches on a lower branch of a cearby tree. A sudden blast of the trumpets caused the little creature to un frantically to and fro and finally tt toppled from the tree into the audience. —R. W. Ruelberg, No. 6 Lloyd Street, Flatbush, FALLING IN LOVE WITH BLOSSOM, 1 was amazed to-day to see the hus- band of one of my neighbors rolling the baby carriage. He “is reluctant, she has clatmed, to be of any assistance to her In any capacity beyond that of provider, thinking jt beneath the dig- nity of @ man to attend even to the baby. I thought I wouldn’t survive the shock when I learned that he ts on hing vacation and {s staying home and rock- ing the baby to slecp every afternoon. RECALLING AN OLD SAYING, “BEG- GAR ON HORSEBACK. While motoring through Englewood, N. J., I saw two boys neaded for the Dyckman Street Ferry in a run-down automobile, Written {n soap across the windshield was: ‘We need 25 C to Cross (408 77th Street, Brooklyn. Tete eee Nee Georgte EENS etiE totale FEATHERS. : On Perry Street, near Weat Street, tha afternoon I saw half a dozen boys carrying a big bag of feathers, Tho wind was blowing tm from the river, These boys carried their bag into the middle of the street, opened SOMETHING ALMOST HAPPENS. In the subway to-day the man who sat across from me had a Gladstone bag and a tennis racquet. I saw him take a pair of tennis shoes from the bag, replace the old laces with new onos and tos the old laces under the seat. I presume it would make a better story Mt and dumped the feathers: The. Jif he chansed. his shoos in full view of f dience, but Tam a reporter, slr, wind did the reat. Within five min- Jang shall write the truth, the whole utes every soindow in the neighbor- hood was closed tight.—W, A, Burn, No, 605 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Lt truth ard-pothine but the truth.—C. E, Day, No. 14 Winslow Place, Astoria, LT ALL MALE SUBWAYITRS si10) CARRY STOOLS, On the Long Istand Rallroad train from Arverne to Manhattan this morning I-saw @ young man give a voung woman a seat. It was not the chair he wag-occupying, but the camp stool he carried with him. When he left the trnin at Woovside he took the camp stool end gave her the other seat. Iam the young woman.—L. H. Flsch- hein, No, 34 Springer Court, 58th Street, GOOSY, GOOSY, GANDER, The family living across the way has | have always been told that a goose is a silly thing, absolutely without brains. If the saying is true the bird across the street {8 the exception that proves the rule. ‘The man of the house is a Captain and spends his evenings in the rooms of the Boatmen's Associa- tion, not far from his home. If he has| aryerne, L. 1. not returned to the bosom of his family at 9 or 9.30 o'clock we see Johnny (the goose) walk down the way to meet RICHMO. him, The Captiin invariably greets him * with “Hello, Johnny!” and the entire} AN OFFICER oF 2 LAW. neighborhood hears the answer,—Mrs.| ~ was walking along Castleton Avenue F. W. Keegan, No. 1 Bay View Street,fthis afternoon when I suw a policeman Bay Shore, L. I single one youngster out of a crowd a of hoys standing near an automobile at A WOODHAVEN FISHERMAN. ]o comer and heard him ask the tad At Jamaica Avenue and Forest Park-|how old he is. "I'm fifteen," the boy way we saw workmen from the telé-| replied, #0 loudly that it sounded Uke phone company feeding cable Into thebd “Well.” said the officer, conduit through a manhole. Ever notice’ how quick the children are to copy?/on my beat; throw that out of your Not far away a boy of about eight mouth and throw ft out NOW." I was feeding a home-made fishing linéYnever in my life saw such surprise req- into the manhole of the sewer. I sup-Jistered on a human countenance, but pose he figured that If men had to ure] the boy dropped the cigarette. 1 wish such @ heavy line he'd take his chances} we had more policemen who would get of landing some of the smaller on after the “baby smokers.—Mrs. J. J. J. B. Kelly, No. 8804 8th Street, Wood-| McGuirk, No. 1119 Castleton Avenue haven. West New Brighton, &, L too young to be smoking pills