The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1922, Page 7

g JERSEY WISDOM. ©m 35th Street between Sixth and @eventh Avenues to-day I saw a small @vto truck with a New Jersey I @ense plate standing at the curb. Two young women, dressed in knickerbock- ere, were carrying scrap wood from 's addition and piling it into the truck, preparing in New York to fore- stall whatever ill effects the Nation's goal strike may have in New Jersey.— ‘W. Douglas, No. 407 West 19th Street, PANHANDLER. I noticed a short man a@beAd of me on Sixth Avenue, Sud- denly, when he reached a corner, he seemed to have suffered a stroke of aome sort and was tabout to collapse. He seemed to pull himself together and then stopped several “well-dressed men, whom he asked for the price of a meal. ‘He was helped as far as the next cor- Rer by two of them, and then T caught on to his trick. He was only pretend- walking fag to be ill, for he got all right he foon as lis benefactors got out of eight.—H, Carley, No. 93 Nassau Btrect. ONE CENT. I saw a man buying a newspaper this morning. He got 3 cents in change and the newsdealer, in making {t, dropped threo other pennies. ‘Two of them the newsd:ler found, but the Other the customer carried off in the @uft of his trousers. —S. Mankowltz, No GB East 120th Street. “Daddy! Daddy!” stairs heard him call “Mamma! home, Mamma!” 16th Street. GOLD DUST. I saw a truck on West 114th Street, ist off Fifth Avenue, to-day unloading the basement of a house coal dust.- Benjamin Kintgsberg, No. 65 East 114th Btreet. IN ONE-PIECE SUITS. At Pler No. 5, Brooklyn, I saw the Captain of a barge throw one of his two @ogs overboard. I wondered what the biz idea could be. for as far as I could ae there was no way the dog could get out of the water again, Then the Captain threw the second dog in. The first dox lifted his forefeet onto a piece of driftwood and paddled back to the boat. Then the Captain lowered a lad der over the side and Dozgle No. 2 began to climb. When he was half way up the Captain slowly pulled the ladder up until the pup was within arm's reach. the other dog mark: time meanwhile on his piece of drift wood. The ladder process was repeat- ed, and jn a minute or two both « were stretched out on the deck of barge drying themselves in the sun ‘Thomas J, Woods, No, 132 Fast 127th Btreet. he STEADY CUSTOME! While talking to-day to a Vesey Breet book dealer he pointed out to me man who was selecting voi- A om “quick’’ methods for learn ug French. The dealer told me that this man has been buying books on “quick” methods for eioht For the best stories each da DAILY PRIZES MANHATTAN SHORT AND NARILOW, The little street I saw to-day must } one of the narrowest and shortest | New York, It Hes midway between and runs parallel to Bleecker end Houston Streets and crosses from Mulberry a matter of two short blocks. to proclaims it to be "Jersey M. A. Beatty, No. 66 West CRAWL STROKE. I eaw a mother to-day finish giving her baby his bath and then, placing ber hand under Mile cht little Swim." He was only six months old, but he and. the that went with it, f lustily and struck out gurgling all the while q finished, his nv of sofa cushions tummy, say knew the worl he kieke with his with delight pn the ta him on that again satd, made the move Rose, No, 60 T saw a man waiting for a Madison Avenue car place an imaginary golf ball on an {maginary swing ai iinagi nary golf club and that Imaginary ball a tremendously imaginary wallop. He even followed with his eyes the imaginary bull's Might, and that's why he missed hi ar.—Madeline Jacobs, No, 417 Kast 80th Street. HOME. I was coming home from work and as I approached the house I heard a shout and saw two pairs of legs come running. one pair shouted “Papa! Papa!" while the other young person cried I saw two pairs of arms surrounding one pair of legs and Daddy stooped to lift his baby girl to his shoulder and, after Kisses of welcome, pat Sonny Boy ‘ fun ahead, enter the house and as he excitedly made his way up the Mamma! I saw lim hold the door open for S @n the threshold for one minute all four heads came toxether. Supper @ame and the doings of the day were talked over. were washed the phonograph was brought into play and Sis and Bonny danced. She climbed into Mamma’s lap and Sonny into Daddy's, and before long the old Sandman came and carried two to Slumberland. After their departure we talked about the children, about expenses, about a raise in salary—and then the sandman was back again. Another day wasdone. * * * There may be happy homes on the different ave- ues, life on Rroadway may be as gay as they say it is, but we would mot exchange places with any of them.—Frank Callahan, No. 646 Tae owner of s head. * * * I saw Sonny Boy Daddy is home! Daddy ts nd Daddy, and When the dishes ast OUT OF THE FOG. Crossing the North River this morn- ing wan an exciting experience. ‘The river was covered with a fox you could cut with a knife. I crossed from Jersey City on the Erte ferryboat Goshen, The careful and experienced Captain made haste slowly and the whistle was blown continuously, * © To the right of us @ deep-toned siren sounded and sud- denly out of the fox loomed a huge ocean liner, which ent across our bow © closely that one could have Jumped from one deck to the other, * * * Some of us thought it a narrow escape —A. F. Little, No 26 Broadway THO: B. OR. At the U.S. Veiorans’ Bureau office in the Grand Central ace Laan typewritten notice reading «#3 follow “Large sum of money found; owner may have same by {dentifyin Apply Room No. 1150.'"—Helen MeNamara, No US West 1ilst Street SERVICE. In Madison Avenue I saw a taxi driver hail a pedestrian and hi ask for a match, He got it, searched through every pocket and burst out laughing. “Well, I'll be dodrotted,”’ he said, “it I didn’t forget the cigartic: The other man laughed and proferred his box of little smokes. The taxi driver took one and then, to make the “‘ser- vice’ all {t should be, the other chap scratched a match on the sole of his own shoe and held it lighted until the yeare.—B. 4., No, 108 Tird |cigaretto was "koing.’’—Lillian N. Blair dvonue. No. 28 Bast 52d Street. TWO H@ARTS THAT “BEAT” AS ONE. ' Boarding a 424 Street crosstown car at Sixth Avenue, a smiling young lady got on ahead of me. a Third Avenue transfer. She deposited her fare and asked for When the car reached Fifth Avenue she tossed the transfer check from tle window to a young man who ap- parently had been waiting for it another transfer and got that. ‘The young man was stil! Walter,” she called to bim, dore J. Brown, No. 149 Hast 117th THEY WHERP, LIKP FUN. On my way from the 284 Street Berry I stopped at Eleventh # venue and 228d Street to inspect a big touring car Rearing an Indiana license and con- taining six young men passengers. The car was fairly plastered with pennants eollected everywhere from here to “the Wabash, far away.” Six suitcases wero strapped to the back of the machine. ‘The six young men were busy making notes on writing pads, I brought away the notion that they were writing FYrst pressions of New York.—George T. cher, No. 685 Ninth Avenue. MONKE YSHINES, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Btreet, just west of Mth Avenue, has fta own Zoo. In & Ilttle out-of-doors shop there are beautiful birds and all @orts of small animals. The drawing eards ure (iree monkeys and a dog fiving in one cage, The monkeys cause excitement and amusement by slapping et the dog and then Jumping quickly to the top of the cage, where he cannot follow. They come down to dinner, eat @lontly while the dog barks, and then they ouff him, one after another, and ghedadaic.— Anna Noll, Ne 60 West 0th Ctenas Immediately she arose and asked for We were held up {n the traffic jam waiting beside ber window ‘Ml meet you at Third Avenue."—Theo- “Hurry, Street. “AND LF THIS BE TREABON JT have just read Katinka’s latest “dumb-bell.’’ “Some people are so 4t says, “they think the President’a Cabinet s# made of wood.” I’vs had a sneaking auapi- cton here lately that if the Presi- dant’s Cabinet is not coniposcd of wood the upper parte of it are J. Bigaouetis, No. 68 Gansevoort Btrest, “AUG. 30-SEPT, 2.1" Between Third and Lexington Ave- ues in East 87th Street I stopped seo what could be the magnet which held so many people near the stage entrance of Loew's Orpheum. It was Thuraday, the day the “bill changes for the latter part of the week, and the new acts were either rehearsing their to music oF putting up their seenery. One of the actresses had a baby girl ¢ bout 4 wt her t held the crnwd Was younger “actress,” who imitated to perfection every movemen of her mother When she was done With the orchestra * saw the young mother take # hammock from one of her trunks. She put the hammock ip dressing 1oom and rocked Abraham Levy, N: THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, ; FIRST PRIZE, $25; SECOND PRIZE, $10; ELi, YOUR STORY, IF POSSIBLE, IN NOT MGRE THAN 125 WORDS. TOOK PLACE. WRITE YOUR OWN NAME AND ADDRESS CAREFULLY AND IN FULL. CHECKS ARE MAILED D. 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T looked up authorities to-day anJ saw that the formal beginning of New York's commerce dates from 1614, Notwith- standing the great changes which have taken place since, there are a number of firms which have been in business nere inore than a century. P. Lorillard Com- pa tobacconists, was established in 1760, FB, W. Devoe and €. T, Raynolds sre the successors of old Billy Post's paint shop, founded in 1766. W. HL. Schiieffelin & Co, began business in 1784. The Bank of New York, which is unique fn that {t occupies the same location since its establishment, also began busi- ness in 1 4, when, too, the real vatate firm of Cruikshank came into being. The Evening Post was founded 122 years ago, R. C. Willams, grocers, began tn 1801, along with the Colgate Company. Other firms @ century old are Cowper- thwait and the National City Bank.— John J. Haas, No. 64 West 124th Street. MR, BORDEN. I was agreeably surprised to find tn a public park on the banks of the Shrews- bury at Rumson, N. J., bath houses with showers and accommodations sur- passing in cleanliness any I have ever seen. ‘There are seventy-five separate booths under the supervision of a cour- teous attendant and no charge is made for their The park also ts equipped with swings, see-saws, sliding boards and the like, and on Friday eve nings there free concerts for the com. munity. All expenses, I was told, are paid by a inan named Borden.—Serah A. Flow: 409 Hast 146th Street. “GESUNDHEITY, down th White walking avenue | saw two nice-looking, well-dressed coming toward me. We were about to. pase, when T happened to sneeze. Im mediately one of them turned and suid God bless you, dear.”—-Mre. F, A Varnio, No, 366 Bast 154th Street, sone have been thereby put out of bust- ness, [ saw to-day what become of one of them, My baker 1s using it to deliver rolls.—Mrs, Edna Glass, No, 700 West 172d Street. ONCH IS RNOUGH, ‘The most interesting Ung [ saw to- dey was a letter lying on the desk of «certain firm downtown. It bore the signature of G, A. Burrows. assistant superintendent of the Consolidated Gas Company, and read as follows: “Den Sir: Bill of $1.88 for gas consumed fran Avril 7 to May 8 was paid by yor Hine 10 and again on Aug. 9 We \n- close, therefore, a money onder similar amount."—John J. Haas, 64 W. 124th Street Ne IN THE At noon. T nee Madison Square PARK. nt every bench Park {= occupted capacity and that almost everyone reading a newspaper. All natlor nf the {wie represented here. ‘Th four sends up gracefil spouts of water. Little birds are flying low, Pj- ong walk daintiiy oy the ground like fat gitla in high-heeled shoes. An olive skinned young ar hrows them a few crumbs. ‘The sparrows join them at luncheon, 4 little boy with Italy's won irous brown eyes ia polishing shoes Re has a young pal with him. He talke Ing what he is going to do “when he kets a dolin Tals may be for the henefit of lis customer of the moment but the customer is wolmpressed and hands him mereiy the customary dime The Metropolitan ‘Tower looks ever so much like a giant protector, Harmony 1s ewerywhare.—Elieon Webster, No. 106 West *3th Street TIP FOR HUSBANDS AND PATHERS Walking east on 118th Street Lenox and Fifty Avenue amazed by the number of rilllinery ex tablishments on this one block, T count ed thirty of them, some with poetle or flowery names, and all of them smart looking,--John McLean, No, 1778 Madl- son Avenue, bet ween, 1 was simply k for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news. QUEENS BREAKING INTO THE MOVIES Hollywood gets into the newspapers oftener, but you know, of course, that there is a famous movie studio on Mills Yesterday, one of our local dealers in sand was called upon to deliver sand at the studio and last night when I saw several big Cooper- Hewitts were lighted I went over to see waat might be doing. * * The sand from Long Island City had become sand of the Sahara and I saw several would-be Valentinos walking in up-stage manner across the burning desert. The cameramen were ready to grind out pictures but the actual shooting was delayed by the persistence of ¢ This “actor” appeared possessed of an ambition to get into the pice They had the divvle’s own time with him, Not an Airedale, St. Bernard, Boston bull, Pekingese or anything else fashionable, but “just dog.” He fell and followed. trotted back to the movie desert with it. taken into an Arab house and tied up. Mountain, the jolliest member of a Jolly party young woman In a red flannel cout, a white and red pleated Hannel skirt, a white flannel thin and white sport shoes, On the way up the river she danced several times, After| — eg dancing she returned to her party and eather. A sale 2 held two infants on her Jap while " this hat, miss?” “Yes; the price, please?’ told how she kuitted a green sweater o in two d: On the return trip shey Wear ite" © translated into German what some here it fs," was the impatient reply Italians were saying, told fairy stories to two Mttle children, discussed crochet | 108 aris and swapped stories with the older folk What! Later she pl ring-around-the- roa: her own blushes. th the children, and when the yo as well as helping a littl «irl 1 could not help being impresse with what a clever girl she was, and imagine my surprise to-day, hile hunting a posi tion, to discover that she was the em wloyment manager of a large firm, © widow and the mother of oue of the Kittle girls on the trip.—Mra. Viola Sterling, No. 463 Grand Avenue, Astoria, L, FLAPPER IN A PAPER BAG. On a Bifth Avenue “1 Brooklyn to-day 1 woman with « train in youny lap saw oa infant in Street in Astoria. and another child of perhaps two weary sitting beside her, twhtle tm her land she held a paper bag con tainity a red hen, The red hen had pecked a hole wm the paper bag and by the tine the woman had left tho train, holding tightly to tha bay with her ryht hand, the hen 5, hod pecked away at the bag wntil supe ft wes only a strip of paper fitting ut her body.—Mra. J. Wood, No. Last Second Street, Brooklyn, The persistent one OWHAT'S THAT?” They tried leading bim Last night my aunt heard a noine in i) the cellar and went down to Inveastigat» When he got the bone he | with aq ighted candle. Suddenly we That settled it. He was |ieard «scream and she appeared shrick “Shoot!"—C. M. B., Halsey ing. “Somebody hit me and put the . candle out!’ My brother, who had just discovered » bent no ash- come in, led the way and w that my aunt had stepped on t end of the poker tited againet can, It had bounded up and struck her over the head, She miatook that for the blow of @ blackjack. In her excite tient she hatl dropped the ea and put out the light, A stray cat bad up set a box of clothesping and made the noise which had been the beginning of my aunt's misfortunes.—Luelle Pazriino, No. 2114 Avenue G, Brooklyn, THE 1 On PROOF the © ARTY. for Bear bound ndvd enrried her share of the pareels I THE ROLLING PIN. At Bergen Avenue and Fult A MINOT OPDRATION, 1 Stre Jamaica, | saw pass a large bus fill On Spring Street, between Varick and entirely with men, and on the back of |Macdougal, on the basement steps of the bus hung a sign reading: “Mothers|an old-fashioned house to-day 1 saw Club."'—Mary Forshaw, No. 16% 5 hale ioenipee nike anh ae Street, Woodhaven, L. I wo little girls of pe nine and snd a iittie boy of eth: All were bare “WHAT HATH GOD WROULGHT foot and the tle gir) had evidently 1 saw the first message rouah'| hurt her big. tae, for the boy, acting ae on the Miami-Harbados cable, receatls : irgeon, was winding a long white ral oper by President Harding. D. re n, was winding & nt if 1 nd ‘round it, As I passed he gave a final oa" wind, surveyed his work f oment BRONX. id then added wn anesthe i per ns ona ee ‘ps an anaesthetic touch to it by ON THE OUTSIDE AT THE ENS srefully tying the ends into a bow On our way home to-nig drove] Prom the expression on the face of the through Wiliamsbridge Road at inal] patient this final attention was oe Tv july appreciated.—J. 8. Lovell, No 167 Be OSloe RENE UN shel nee sth Prospect Place, Brook yn the Woodmansion Inn saw some sir a Te ee eee wand at tte a \() |SHOWING THE LADY A GOOD TIME playing, and while the guests we lis During the Wills-Jackson flaht | eaw posing of late dinners and enjoyi 4 man and @ woman atanding on nw bli mils we young folks about 600 feet from Nbbeta Field, She side" nly were having au was the only woman there nnd 1 much fun. When the music so thought it was cheap and inconsiderate the flappers and their escorts stro! of him to keep her the craning her to the side ef the road and seated | selves more or atone wall.—Sam: Longtellow Aven m- | neck for three hours, or else she was i dyed-in-the-wool fan who could not walt for the papera to print the decison 1 Carey, No. 707 Sterling Place, Brooklyn leas comfortably on 1 Ph. Moses, No | , Bronx Yesterday's Special Prizes First Prize, $25 No, 221 Mast list Street Second Prize, $10 19 Main Stvect, Matawan, N J Third Prize, $5 et, Brooklyn t. WALOVITCH 1 DOMINIC. No 1. WALTEL 1 Ten Prizes of $2 Each Omt 442 Central West K lL. EISENBUD, No. 55 Or-\ued Street, Blizaneth, Now ALICK, He ng. NI A. SCHMIT 0. 599 Nint te, Astoria VEROWNA ERNST, No. 6 Street, Jamutea JOHN J. SILVA, No. 1829 V Kton Avenue, the Bronx IRVING COM Ne 1 id Place, Coney island Ho LYONS, No. 449 0% Brooklyn ALICIA MARTIN, No 24 1 Avenue, f n JAMES B. REILLY, N yoo) 88th t Read to-day's stories. P the ones you think are best Winners will be announced 1) this evening's Night (Green Sheet) edition and in cther editions on Monday Pictorial BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. _BROOKLY FA LIAR NAMES At Pitth Aveawe and Third Streets Brooklyn, I noticed on a witding ahich housed a malt and hops store, @ carpeityr shop and a@ money ex t able about change office, @ bronst three fect square, From the tabict l learned that the building was the site of the famous “Old Cortelvow House,’ where at various times Gen, Washington made his ht quarters. The tablet stated that on this spot Maryland soldiers lost their lines Aug. 27, 1776, ina battle with British troops led by Doheny Brooklyn Gen. No. Sterling.—Francis J) 177 Luqueer Street, EARLY. very day for the past two weeks a girl who comes in on the same train that I take has been busy crochs ing, knitting, sewing or embroidering She was only sixteen, so I discardnd thr be thought that she hope chest might day she was stn ths 8 work boarded she culled to ag usual and another flapper the train, “HL ile, the busy one, “Whateha dotr have th answered ing on Mertens, Brooklyn. ch An >. 679 “TWO FIFTY."" The girl who was almost on my heels as I entered a downtown millinery establishment to-day picked up the nearest hat at bend, tried it on, admired the effect and looked about for a saleswoman. The bat was a brown velvet turban, its only adornment a single woman approached and inquired politely: “Two fifty, please. No. You said two fifty? Here.” “I sald two fifty.” “Well, “My dear girl, the price is two HUNDRED and fifty, for a Bird of Paradise.” * ° * That was all she said. Sbe stood mutely, sizzling In Then she put on her own hat again and hurried out —Alice C. Lockwood, No, 678 McDonough 8 please hurry.” “O, WOODMAN Two “itm start- ou wil reet, Brooklyn. "You'll eh on me when I tell you. ie solemnity. presents Woodward Avenue, wish 1 you men were watching workmen chop down a tree at Fifth Avenue and Garfield vations are ing. The about it There Place, work were she Koes you companion sald, ter? man You look queer. answered, -when that right here, his breast tree wen! and hv when [wos 4 7 Garnett bia “1 feel queer. Brooklyn, eng made for a new bulld n had thrown a nc pulling exclaimed where it exen ae down, te and then turning to his “Why, what's the mat The older Do you know down PAY DIRT Island ing. a “cradle,” In which sand and water the 87th Street it and suddwnly one They had ‘washed ov and @ musty, Samuel Hadar, No. nue, Brooklyn, beach it hur Jaid his hand over “Toused to play under that boy * Rita Clary trooklyn, at 1 saw several amall boy« they #co0 THANK-U. An I was passing the corner of 38th Solemnly they Rave a two quarters pearl-handled min They had an old flour sifter for oped uy ‘ocked whoop. knife 67 Manhattan Ave Street and Third Avenue, Brooklyn, 1 saw in a “saloon” window the old fomiliar sign: “Free Hot Lainch Ser i Here,”—A, J. Bune, No, 663 t, Broklyn BETWIXT While Twas atin night [ saw his five over te hia grandfather ‘andpa. will » vor? and would, the hoy added he kitchen and heat hide tt under you and bi was la t The boy, it the um when the old AND BETWREN year-otd #on wall and whisper ou please do me a fa man aald the “Pleane go Into my bottle and > that no to my xpluined. could IMPORTED, An tw ie fot TP saw Ke coffee I ‘ 5 ub One OF Tin Otsexo 1 pper holdtig at hip heels -stobo Lar lon @treet, Brooklya to Bisep without hia bottle and ny to see thar nie Kort walyn, mieth & a hay 1 Villian 11 Ave COMBOR nn rt " «dog 2, 194 Ful- FIRST PRIZE, $100; SECOND PRIZE, $50; THIRD PRIZE, $25; OUT OF TOWN, “THE MAN ON HORSEBACK.” Every day at noon it is from various busines coming down the street ] this time monopolized the place to pansagewa: 24th and 25th Street on the other side of Sixth Avenue as big and as mounted officer obnoxious as policeman gave up. Avenue.—Rert J He Garvey, No. 71 C4 MEAN CUSTOWER), On the night train te Washington my berth neighbor let all and sundry know he Was a Congressman. But the porter, whom I have known for some time, dtd not appear particularly impressed, though he was as usual courteous end obliging to the man's exacting demands AS We approached Baltimore, where he kot off, the porter was brushing him off und the man said, “Ry the way, George, T dropped a handfid of change behind my berth, Wind it and keep it’' ‘The porter Kot this in lieu of a tip. He thanked the Congressman, but hie face I thought, showed # tinge of doubt. The porter yanked the back-rest of the ox pas stopp: Ker's seat into place and suddenty 1, his face covered with a comical expression us he muttered: “L knowed it! Tf knowed | T looked over his shoulder and saw two Lincoln pennies and a brass collar button.—Coleme Duckett, No. 9031 Sherman Avenu W., Washington G FATHER, HAVE ¥ NEwset In the shop windows of Fifth A HEARD THE nur to-day I saw what {x to be worn this season, Vrown is to be very popular, It is shown tn thing, from hand- Kerehlets “Ita to furs, New Inn Rose’ a vlors Introduce Couleur de chon rather crude pink ‘kyptian influence tx noticeable In the frequency with whieh meets the front drapery for dress Moet alite trimming i# much used on large haty and entire turbans are fashtoned of metal cloth, Shoes are still low and t most popular iodel is the Colontal, meaning a revival lovely buckle cut steel —Mra, 88 Ridgewood many of them mat Lillian V. Biggin, Road, Maplewood, N WRIT SARCASTIC. As 1 wan riding in an uptown subway train thie afternoon I was surprised to find every one of the windows polished and clean enough to see through to read the names of the stations.—S. Vitzhum, No, 812 Garton Street, Hoboken, N. J CARING. Into A LITTLE HARD OF The other day a woman the grocery store where Tam employed and usked the price of « certain éind of coffee. ‘The clerk replied it was 34 cents « pound. Not hearing him, she said, “Did you say cents or 35 nts?" Reullzing she was deat he shouted nt the top of his voce, “34 cent Again she said, ‘0 cents, did you aay?" ‘Th wrote on a plece of paper "24 when the women tndignantly 1am not deat Helen ¢ No, 36 Summnit street, Bristol, you ever see a chicken | Did My sister and 1 creek to a place whe were returning the ugly t Into the creek chicken! king of a dow burg, N. J PREPARED FOR ANY FATE, In Newark thin evening I naw a ¢ arrying « bicycle as a “spare.” Thr driver evidently was twking no chan on being able to get home —A. 1 Albis No. 2) Hickory © Maplewa! “BACK TO NORMALCY The crowd made the usual wild rush for seate on the ear bound for Rrooklun from the Bridga. A managed somy way to first and acomed certain of a seat but the erush of the crowd behind him awept him afratght through the ud out onto the front platforms Wttle man get in he ptond in a dazed , his fou was completed G, Sickles } PRYDE AND PRE tan wy Mttle friend, Donald Who te cent years old. Te had a co oon t 1 1 sked him wha ne Mo MoSi« JENS w he Haeker finsh of lie ui ler of the river Street, Jer sth and t i John y City, Dolan, customary housea to assemble on Sixth Avenue and stand in the middle of the sidewalk in conversation the other rode across and cleared that sidewalk. doing so, a new crowd took possession of the first side. swiny from a nileman number of pullets, apparently running wild One of them We thought surely ft would be drowned It swam, sir, almost like a duck, using both feet and wings, until 1t reached the anchor-line tied to the side of a houseboat. rope being wet, the chick fell hack {nto the water again. It then «wam over to the beams or bulkhead of the creek and my sister and TI reached down from the boathouse and rescued it—Agnes V. for large crowds of workers 'o-day, Wednesday, Aug, 30, while walking along Sixth Avenue I saw a mounted policeman As he approacaed the corner of 25th Street he drove his horse onto the sidewalk to di perse the crowd, whioh by the exclusion of pedestrians, The officer chased everybody to the curb and then proceeded to keep the clear by riding up and down on the sidewalk between This drew an immense crowd to the sidewalk and eventually this crowd became had been. Seeing this, the While he was 8) At this point (it may have been because the “nooning” was almost over) the took to the roadwa y and went off down the Ames Avenue, Rutherford, N. J “OH, A WOODPECKER LIVED IN \ HOLE IN A TREE.” I saw a red-cappel black-and-white: spotted woodpecker clinging to one of the trees in front of a Yorktown resi- dence, All the afternoon hts stron, chixel-like bill tapped, tapped on the k in h of insects, He reminded of sounds one hears in. the M. G. Cobb, the shoemaker's shop. — Yorktown Heights, SUMATRA WRAP AND HAVANA FILLER, On the outskirts of New Milford, Conn. to-day L saw Li tobacco farnsi and acres and neres. ¢ wore cutting the crop and tenms we wilting to ear off to the dryin barns. —John Fox, P. Q. Box 313, Brew - tobacco, Mer ster, N. Y. MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY. 1 was in Hoboken taking orders tor household suppl Ing to the woma: her little a While L was tatk- of the house, in one ighter came in from ring pot. planted a penny in the garden, explained.—Alex Auerbach, No, Rlum Street, Unton Hill, Ir DOHSN’r HURT I went to-day to a free vaccination clinic where L saw about seventy-five Idren walting to be vaccinated be: entering school next week. They rai from five to seven years of age and not me of them eried while being vs ated.—Mrs, Rose Burke, No. 122 Jefter: son Street, Hoboken THE PIPER, I was altting at my window last night when one of the most severe electrical storms of the season was raging. 1 heard a peculiar musical sound and after a few minutes a flash of lightning disclosed to me a Scottish bagpiper in full regimentals marching on the other side of the street playing his pipes, Not inother soul was in sight and in an in- stant he was enveloped again tn inky blockness, but I could still hear the wild notes of his Instrument as he con- Hinued his march through the wild night —Joseph Dransfield, No. 29 Wayne Avenue, Paterson, N. J. FAIR: WARNING 1 Robert ix being prepared for his day at school, He showed all the dental to taking the id then to-day he delivered his im: “Well, Ui go to school just one year and then I'm going to work.” 1. C. Sweeney, Saugerties, N.Y THE SWIMMING CHICKEN OF KEANSBURG, 2 We did, swim and at NX. J. along the a poultry farm. We saw a ‘They were frightened by w directly past us and out but not this Keansburg, walked The Everett, Keans- CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT, teas examining Nitto girls’ dreyses piled up on a counte She pulled one after of the pile and did i o chamstiy that soon the whole A woman another ow teas a dworderly mass, which f aay it would take me @ half hour to re arrange. Finally she atarted to walk atony as sf sha had lost in tevest in the dreases and 1 asked her if she wanted any of them On, nol’ ashe replied. °C don't od them. | have no Kittle gtrls Mux Finkelstem, No. 12 Owford Avenue, Jerany City We'ne wet LOOKS LIKE WAVE SoM t A i rad r ding fonmouth County clam diggers, pre winter, ‘This morning | 1 u cuckoo tn the Rui W and this call & be wave over Labor OVE OF THE OLD RAMILEES, 4 villas . cntly ! n clo ‘ . i 1 : b this vic Py indérs and descendants of thy bod. - ser Washington's offices when those soldiers were encamped i this valley. HL Suyder, Hillbura, N. Xe ——— arcane