The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 20

For the best stories each da: DAILY PRIZES FIRST PRIZE, $2: MANHATTAN ON THOUGHTFULNES: Gitting in my office now 1 look at something I ace every day—flowers. My employer, who lives in Far Rockaway brings fowers almost every morning to the office. These flowers are placed th ‘vases on the window sills and can also de seen from our showrooms. It is to work for a man who gives both tim and thought toward making the sur- roundings pleasant.—Mollle Sirop, No. 18 Hast Fifth Street. LONG DISTANCES. ‘To-day while standing near the Ca Schurs statue on the wall in Morning- side Park, I got a wonderful view of the tong Hell Gate Freight Bridge over the East River. I could also see very plainly the Quensboro Bridge down at 59th Street and a wooded section of the Bronx which looked like a park, It seemed as if I had an airplane view.— Arnold A. Beiner, No. 53 West 112th Street. good ‘ TRY, TRY AGAIN. ‘A mute tragedy may be seen a tow doors from No, —— Third Avenue, The doors of a store are closed. The goote inside are beginning to be covered with dust and cobwebs. On the locked door $s a notice of attachment for debt, and then one can see on a shelf tn the shop faded wreath of artificial flowers, bearing the single word of a well- wisher: ‘Success."—B, A., New York. A POLITE AND HEL Coming down the Grand Conco up for the crosstown traffic and a | “Mister, you're going to lose your were two other little boys standing PORFECTLY HAPPY. Our dog, & small mongrel » a foot heh, 18 a lovable little tyke, but one d hardly claim lw particular breed. He waa standing wi! me outside a store when tWo little chaye same along. One was giving nformation about the sight my dog he sald: “That's a German 1 lice dog.” I thought that {f every he saw on thelr walk was as highly co! ored as that he was having a jolly ex cursion.—A. H. T., No. 613 West 179th Street, ONE OF THR SUTHERLAND noYs. The elevator in a department store on Fifth Avenue was full. The doors were about to be closed when a young man, @ handsome fellow, got in, He removed his hat and I noticed he had lovely hatr with @ silght, natural wave Just then a man in the corner of th car, who wore hia derby despite the mber of women beside him, erled out; That's right, sonny, I would take off my hat if I had hair like yours!"—Allen Bixby, No. 123 West 57th Street, HARDLY A CUSTOM. On Spring Street to-day I saw 4 young woman on roller sk: tes wheeling a baby carriage In which was @ bat No doubt this is an everyda in New York, but beinz Scotland, I thought It | —Angus MacLellan, No. Street. PFUL LITTLE BOY, urse on Sunday evening, IT slowed ittle boy came alongside and said, rear bumper; it's down.” There near the rear end of the machine, occurrenc fresh from oked rather odd 739 Greenwiea but they paid no attention to me—in fact, their backs were toward me—nor did they notice this othe: ee r little man. The back bumper was bent far downward, as if some force had been used. I got out the wrench and after several minutes had it tight again, The small boy watched me intently. The two other lads were quite uncon- cerned. I waved to the one boy a stupped, at 40th Street and Eighth ‘saw the same THRBEE little boys. yelled “Thanks for the ride, mister nd motored off. * * * When I Avenue, to call on some friends, I They hopped off my rear bumper, !” and disappeared, It is clear to me now that they were my passengers all the way from Van Cortlandt Park, When the bumper began to gi lve and became uncomfortable, they made me fix it for them.—Aaron Rauch, No. 18 Third Avenue. A MESSAGE FROM THE DE- PARTED, 1 went apartment hunting. one I liked fairly well, ‘The super- intendent sald the rent was $80 o month, I looked at the rooms and en- tered the bathroom. On a shelf of the medicine chest I found a card with writing on it. It read: “This is writ- ten by the last tenant. Do not pay more than $48 a month, because that is the sum we paid when we moved.” T found 1 didn't take the apartinent.—Benja- min Brandstein, No, 601 W. 124th Street, RETURN OF CINDEREL On Riverside Drive this evening 1 saw two gentlemen, a woman and a chilé step from an automobile. The gentlemen started unloading the car, First they took out a trunk, then a sultcase and several handbags and then, which caught my eye most, a large yellow pumpkin.—Elsa Philipsen, No. 749 Amsterdam Avenue. CEASE FIRING. Tho war is positively over. I saw a German fing decorating a building at Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, to-day—the first | have seen since 1914.—Morris Feller, No, 251 E Houston Street, “WHEN YOU AIN'T GOT NO MONEY.” T sat on a bench in Union Squ ette and thinking how much the youDs woman sat down beside me. “Yer,” I answered. Ho's in Albany. up your job,’" “And shall I write, no,” rhe sald. “No love. He shou No, 323 West Fourth Street, IF THE MIDDLE WEsT CONSIEV'S, I saw @ group of boys im Central Park to-day playing a game 1 haven't seen played in thirty years. It is called “Duck on the rock.” It her trim figure that displayed consists of a rock on a rock and |churmingly the youthful gown she wor knock the rock off with a rock. One | As 1 watched her tripping along 1 nt Uitle red-haired fellow of twelve | most envied her youth, her elan, her years showed remarkable skill. He |style, ‘Then at 83d Strect she tur ever missed once, but hit fair and | toward me. 1 suw ber face. She wa equare. He told me his name és |% grandmother—1922 sodel!—-L. N. A, Peter Reilly, that he lives iw Bast w York 85th Street, and that some day he going to be President of the United ONE TWENTY. Biates.—A. A. La Belle, No. 5 Weat Taw aman and hla wite with a baby aid Street inn car staring at an elaborate dis ply of meats ina butcher's window or “WHEN THE % TO] Steinway i Astoria, t sald something to him. He a wr On 4 trip through Central Park to-| deep and drow up bls hand, palm up day ij saw the Museum of Art, the Sheep] word. gnve one look and exchalnued Meadows, the Obelisk with its queer ine] My Lori! A dollar and twenty cent spirations, Central Park Lake with Ite} will ese. what 1 want is noeists and the Zoo with its numerous| a> don and he followed, pushing the animals. I saw two elderly tlemin]} perambulator.—G. F. D., New York. playing a game of croquet. A larce . United States flay was stuck in the LIGHT grass beside them, and admiring beat Ughted block in tho city 4s cruwd looked on, 1 saw y baseball AVPRURRIHES Geee Bincanisenta games in session. And the only] Tern inal, venty-twe lamps in thi ead thing 1 saw, was the first sign of &@} block nightly throw thelr glare againat summer that is nearing its end—brown| the darknes” und turn nisht into tes leaves falling to the ground.—Bella] James J, Wilson, No. sho Woat Brouner, No. 716 E. 6th 8 Btre WYBADIITY. I saw hanging behind the bar in a once happy !'ttle saloon a white ard bearing the mystic inscription, “WYBADIITY.” “What does that mean?” J asked the chap standing next to me. “Will you buy a { 1 tell you?” he replied. “Sure,” said J, So I ordered another and waited for him. “Well,” I urged him, “what does it mean?” °T just told you,” he sald. © * * Yours in despaim J. O'Donnell, N Columbus Ave~s's. “Please write on this postal to my young man Write, ‘It is very BROADWAY GAMBLERS. T heard high-priced juvenile volees In the street this afternoon and looking out 1 saw five small boys, none of them over eight, squatting in a circle under my window. They was playing a game with a deck of cards and using cigar store coupons as stakes. One little chap who Appeared to be the banker dealt each of the boys a grimy card, face down. As the card was dealt each player made a bet of whatever size he wished with the coupons, Then the banker turped the deck bottom up. ‘The players turtied their cards face up. ‘Those whose cards were lower than the card on the dealer's deck lost the amounts of thelr wax to him, while he had to pay those with higher ea, While 1 watched the game waxed so fast and furious that the Jan- itor came out of the building and dis persed the gamblers.—Feurl L. Ber- thoud, No. 2013 Broadway. MOVE UP IN THE OAR, PLEA Just before theatre hour this evening I noticed a Second Avenue "L train ned quite crowded, but looking again I saw that in every ear people Were crowded about the door, leaving the centre of the cars almost empty if ali had moved up a bit the tra Would not only have been more co: fortwble but more persons would have been able to get on.—Robert H. Wil Mams, No. 116% Second Avenue, uare, admiring the statue of Lafay- General meant to our country. A . “You write English?” she asked. warm here. Iam sorry you pave ‘Yours, with love?" I asked. "No, Id not give up his job."—N. Fallon, A GAY YOUNG "THING. 1 saw her to-day on Broadway, and as T walked behind her T admired her slen der ankles, her smull, exquisitely shor THE EVENING WORLD, 5; SECOND PRIZE, $10; Capi FOURTH PRIZE, $10. EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS © make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. T One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in addition. Send them to “What Did You See?” Editor, Evening World, Pest Office Box 185, City Hall Station. WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN. YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. TELL YOUR STORY, IF POSSIBLE, IN NOT MORE THAN 125 WORDS. STATE WHERE THE THING WRITTEN ABOUT TOOK PLACE. WRITE YOUR OWN NAME AND ADDRESS CAREFULLY AND IN FULL. CHECKS ARE MAILED DAILY, SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT If you witness a serious aceldent, the outbreak of what threatens to be « BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World, Liberal awards for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. QUEENS A RINGER FOR THE WRIST WATCH. I happened to be looking at a woman pushing a baby carriage along Steinway Avenue, in the most crowded section of Astorla, when she stopped in the midst of the crowd, stepped to the front of the car- riage, lifted the coverlet and picked up a man’s size alarm clock. xlaneed at the hour, appeared satisfied and put the clock back under the blanket. Then I noticed she had stopped in front of a jewelry shop. The jeweller was in the doorway. “Hey,” she sald, “how about that Is it ready?” “This is only Thesday,” replied the jew- BROOKLYN, THE WAY TO Do IT, Riding down Coney Island Avenue on a Smith Street car I have noticed from time to time for the past three months three men building a house at the corner of Avenue N. I have seen them only on Sundays, but a conductor tells me they sive a few hours to the Job every day, early In the morning and until late at hight. —Irvine Feinson, No. 852 Eastern MOTHER LOVE, TMs happened during visiting hour to-day in the children’s ward of a large Brooklyn hospital. There were ten Uttle patients there, but only nine mothers had called. Little Frankie watched his little neighbor receive her goodies, and then half crying, he said, “My mamma di come to-day.” His neighbor's moth- er hesitated only a second, and then She wrist watch? 5 " going to his cot she smilingly said, eller; “be ready to-morrow.” She walked on, looking a bit disap- | '“!W&y, Brooklyn. “No, dear, she can't come to-day, pointed.Mrs. A. A. Blauvelt, No, 497 Third Avenue, Astoria, L. 1 HE HAS NEVER BEEN dut she sent you this (kissing him) BROKE. While in a food shop at Seventh Ave- nue and Mth Street to-day I heard the manager asking the netghborhood ice- man why he has a dollar and fifty cents nailed on the front of his house. "“Be- enuse,” said the Iceman, "that was the first money 1 earned after coming to America.” On my way home from the store I looked at the upper part of the man’s house and saw a dollar bill with a twenty-five cent piece on elther side and fruit and a picture book.” She gave him half of hex child's fruit and one of the books. When I left, Frankie was asleep with a smile on hia face with his arms around his treasures.—Anna L. Shumway, N 1451 Bath Avenue, Brooklyn. FINDINGS. Last night as I entered an empty train at Lefferts Avenue station’ Brook- ‘al prizes for best stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as follows: FIRST PRIZE, $100; SECOND PRIZE, $50; THIRD PRIZE, $25; he seat BEFORE AND APTER. ORKER” lyn, I saw a triinman lifting t In one of the lor ae ie uber Tread] He was anise ee a toot beside a | ters. A. McAree, No. 460 Seventh | pads and looking under them. T asked nano of the local nowspapers T read] Ho was sitting on a stool beside a) Avenue, Brooklyn. him what he was doing and he replied auion.. Bho waventl Te EGGOAMAIGE Hbiace otlee Maou erie: tee enn eer that he was loo%ing for colns dropped atio advertisement |g e he east side. He was only twelve ATTER OF BUSIN by passengers, The next seat he raised i ena eae Ot ® Liars ected Ma) Pe aay Tae Berar Ae Lack There were eight bootblacks in my|was worth a dime to him —E, Owens, And on the following day I find his name] exclaimed my friend, “is the answer Leytisah Aes ay Han atk but No, 193 Chestnut Street ‘ooklys n the obituary column.—E T. hy these foreigners succee Study- 7 mp ‘ 7 BinAAE Ie NOL RUE aeOeRe teal tear eet mlgners succeed. Study Vquestion. I wondered why. Certainly| THE TAX COLLECTOR KNOWS. Astoria, 14 7 +] Ing and improving his mind with every] 1 needed a chine this morning. 1] 1 saw yesterday a veritable “No Man's a —— spare moment while putting in lon€ | stepped up to one urchin. “How much| Land." At the end of the city of Derby, weurs at an lininteresting task. Td) tor @ shine?” I asked him. ‘Ten|Conn., there is a sixn telling the trav- « BRONX give @ good deal to see the title of that he replied, I wanted toleller he is leaving the town. Fifty feet , are ; gp | Dog Telanced over the lads shoulder! know why, since the ether lads were|away {s another sign announcing the AT MAKES THE CURRENT Jand read the title of the book, It was|cetting only a nickel. “Well,” he sald, |city of Ansonia. Between the two stood CROSS, PAPAT ‘A Lover's Dilomma."—Mrs, Charles| ‘you got hard shoes to shine, thick} a frame house, and I wonder In sehich At Edgewater, Camp in the Upper | Abbott, No. 23 Buell ce, East Elm- ther.” The oxfords are being re-|town the occupant claims residence.— Bronz 1 saw four men start of ina | DUTSt Corona, N.Y, paired and I Was wearing heavy met cin i No. 464 Riverdale Ave- canoe on what had been planned to = brogues, The boys simply had passed | Ue, Brooklyn, RICHMOND. me up asa bum bet at a nickel.—A. H. Green, No, 1289 Union Street, Brooklyn BIGHT. FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN. Tn Chambers Street T saw the statues This evening while having a soda tn 7 MUSTN'T TELL, Now. of eight celebrities more or less well- a drug store on Castleton Avenue T saw 4 OE tad known, adorning the top of the cornice be @ three-day camping trip, The They had @ small phonograph and carried sup- canoe carrind two sai plies enough for the three dava. liwo little girls about ten years old ap-| 4, us morning while riding on the of the Hall of Records. They all bulked With the heavy wind pressing on the |{AtOn ask for “two > cent plates Of} puinting @ display board. ‘The half of it aie tacuillap with (help adhterementeand sails, cavacd an upset, The canoe |{Co, cream. Peach, please. if you have} which had been painted red, “Write tamer atlliccan identify their images. fitned over, © © © She fay mon fi To my surprise the dispenser! about {t and win rize,”* and at the | Ver hefete “ight they ares Pantoon swan ashore and a motdr boat |cerved them with very generous por-| bottom was one word “World.” I ex-| Prom left to right they are: Pantoon Hroupht. in the canoe, ‘The phonos |tO%, "They come in often,"* he told} pect to see the other half finished to-|De Cries, Mayor Heathenie, Gove PROCES ei bea Ste Oe) ee ono” | me, “and always give the same order."| morrow, on my way to Manhattan, I{ Clinton, Mayor Hewltt, Mayor Hone, graph cand food enough to last him Vr think it nice to know that in this tired] think I know what it will be—M. K,| Director General Sou conan, or File iain Okay, opel, and worried and hard pressed old world| Wilbert, No. 248 Grove Street, Brooklyn, | Golden and Mayor Duane.—Samuy jo well known Ar. 1). Jones—JON® there still are peopla who make con- RAR No: (bsb atopeInaon (Avenue, H. Dwyer, No. 1195 Fulton Avenue. | ceasions to the children.—Miss G. B. O'- OUT NEAR THE NARROWS. Brooklyn. ron. Reilly, No. 60 Alaska Str Brighton, Staten Island °T END OF A DAK. et, West New] ‘The part of Brooklyn in which I live was until a few years ago a very quiet place. It {s Fort Hamilton, Many peo- ple, even in New York, didn't even know where It was One SITTING ON B PORCH. While sitting on the porch this eve- ning I saw the following business opera- tions performed on horse drawn vehicles .E BOO'TBLACKS, trough City Hall Folice Department RAID ON LIT I was walking Park when I saw THE PERFE! It was real countr; nutomobile coming along at full speed. | 97 came fram Porth Amboy to Tot- | ew everybody, The subway Yin the|—e. scissors grinder, whose machinery ‘There were tro officers in tt and, gudg-| fenvitie by fermy at 6.26 o'clock this | Tne and evening waa fled with| was eriven by a emall gasoline engine, a ug by the speed. 1 thowht they must} evening, and) soon afier the Boat | iiends who got on at 86th Street and| merry-go-round with seven wooden be chasing burglars. ‘The ear stopped} docked saw the musicvan who Ane Fourth Avenue, Then two years ago 1] horses on it, a neat looking waffle stand, inside the park near a subway atation ne PiGU Es Gie aces aha BRR Ray moved to New York. I returned to-day. | an tce cream brick vender, The latter's and one of the officers Jumped out, ran vega rite late CAEN ol ‘There are residences, stores, even apart-| vehicle was {iluminated with electric up toa small boy: standing near the en~ | Man las tatin eel Bie ment houses in places where I once| lights.—George H. Hall, No. 82 Seeley chine, box from. the "kid's shoulder, | Boat musician and arcay went the | Kit, On vate Te er se areda | ee One BERS. axed it into the Ford. Five minutes | Ca7-—Miss Fone Aeserole, oe of people came out of the station and 1| yor soyeral weeks I had noticed a later T saw the same machine make a] Stinnerton Avenue, Tottenville, 8.1. w only three 1 knew. The remainder] swarm of bees golng down @ hole in the tour of the park. In the back iN it cosTt ME PL ay. were all newcomers.—H. W. F., Brook-|hack yard of our house. = nearing ithe there were at least a dozen shine kits.— - - ‘- lyn, c e be stuni poures oll~ Sam Mintz, No. 1280 Stebbins Avenue, While eating supper this evening 1] '°™ eee eS the hole Reh ‘y night, Bronx gazed out upon the merriest show Ham-| yop KNOCKING OR ANYTHING. | hut to no avail. Then I tried ammonia, iiton Street has seen this summer, The! 7 was the bone of contention between| but still without results. Finally a re- OUR OWN, formers we e this children, felphiei two City Hall Park bootblacks. One's] sorted to gasoline, which killed them. I from Fort Schuyler Road, 1 saw af Bae tt or father. Thee were railing | belligerent and sneering that I chose| discovered innumerable bee woman in tan overalls carrying a nodful {12 mother or father. ‘They were rolling | 0 latter, all the while he was shin- | layer of soll contained bees and the fur- around in the street, doing all manner of stunts, Imitations of all the actors, acrobats und strange animals they ever saw. ‘To-day I learned that thelr mother had been cleaning out the attic and the of bricks to ® man laying brick on a house in process of construction. ‘This In the nelghborhood [ was man and wife are building a ther down I went the smaller they be- came until at the greatest depth they were only larvae.—A Benzenberg, No. 674 East 32d Street, Brooklyn. ing my shoes the contentious one wateh- ed himt My shine completed, I paid for it and, turning around, the sneer- ing one came to me and in a manner on Sunday. told thig home intthelr spare time, This “home been Slictcedn axteamiaie ineuiting to0chertoy: muare, } ; children had appropriated the old cloth END OF THE STRIKE, PERHA p House; when comple ay au be }ing of more than twenty years ago.—| Who had Just shined my shoes, he asked, | 0 1 was waiting for a train on’ the an eleven-room affalr with all the 04° Ip, A. Browne, No, 49 Hamilton Street, ine, mister?"—A, H. Green, No.| Ad | wae welling tort ret Pough- ern Improvements.—Samuel_ Jackowlt%, | stanioton, 8. I 9 Union Street, Brooklyn. jocomotive pulled in, No. 313 Crimmins Avenue, Bronx keepsle a freight | P oS eSses stopped and discharged a volume of PERFECTLY ILLING, xteam from its boiler for several min- PEED oelait AIAKE dennaan tes, filling the alr with particles of Hed aNd Rovontn 4 1 aaw moisture, ‘The sun shining through this Kirth and Seve venues, 1 saw hithie f flappers’ ddot, Rodolph’ Vaten- produced the most perfect and tho He. White, No. 470 Bast {fully colored rainbow tt has been my 163d Street, Bronx, pleasure to see.—Hugh H. Flaherty, No 954 Crown Street, Brooklyn, PMBARRASSMENE OF els Kighth Avenue and ANY THUMB WILL D0. 1 small enndy and cigarette stand. Bvery week I take my baby to the 1 wae going to luncheon to-day T saw numery on Johnson Avenue to be \ boy of about five mining up to the weighed, To-day, while waiting for her stand and 1 stopped to wn him chance, I saw her sucking a thumb, To he looked the candies over, Apparently A ny surprise, it was not her own thumb he could: not quite make up hla mind > : Pp TO ire or the baby alongside of her.— torn toledt upto thie mia tn ohare Yesterday’s Special Prizes SH ee i ae nla Ave> und sald: “Hey, Tony, what's three for nue. Brooklyn. Mint tocdagt—Mary Fishler, No. 368 ere Irings Avenue, Bronx . A ; MAN AROUND THE 1 Ay B First Prize, $25 A HANDY MAN AT LONGEST WAY ROUND 18 sont. LOUIS B. SCHWARTZ, No. 160 Hendrix Street, Brooklyn. I visited friends in Jersey. About two RSP WAY Howe Prize, $10 hours before dinner the father of the The “short-cut? fend is tolled. From Second Prize, family, a busy and capable business atime when the mind of nnn runneth CLARA: VALENTI wo s66 ganat eth Streets farmlly, & DOR ANC int tie rempvesrod Hitlers bound. Ming i 1 which in- Dee ee LUNN BEN aiceet litre Third Prize, $5 in time for an excellent meal which in Brondway points above fh Street have ivd Prize, cluded consomme, an entree, . VOR A iW pean ae EENWS biel IER, N. 3 itt Jewark, N. J. x jessert and coffee. In the i * ALFRED MBIER, No. 7 outh 17th Street, Newark, N. J. etables, 4 nile way from the subway station at BIER, 711 South course of the dinner I learned that he eM NM RRR. TIN Sibcae Ten Prizes of $2 Each had cooked and prepared this dinner NG (aso LT eae cinta) theses Ns i 2 {son Street, Brookty: \inalded. And, although he never has how, For official ever noted: the de- MRS. LOUISE GARRISON, No. 1642 Madison Street, Brookyn. unaided, And. aitheut? i partioulerly plorable state of the coment walks tn MES. W. D. RICHARDSON, No. 251 Lawrence Street, Astoria, prides himselt on his pastry. It was he the park, and for the past four or fve a brides hiniselt oF Bie Pa creen sha Ne. See ne Tuoadee. gad’ -eeninadioelle MARGARET ULLMAN, No. 89 Tompkins Avenue, Stapleton, MSE Berkeley, Place, Brooklyn. crred, barticuded and emphatten , josed' to the short-cutter by “Street . : ART. ch oH horses and overturned benche D. J. GEORGE, No. 150 Lenox Avenue, AN EYE roe me ecitan ‘Harold Goluger, No. 1024 Trinity: Ave MINNIE BRAUN, No, 2018 Bryant Avenue, the Bronx. Thta afternoon at the Metropolitan nue, Bronx MBS. D. ERICKSON, No. 218 Woodward Street, Jersey City, Musoum of Art I saw two girle kezing c . Ap reet, Ni io A ‘aptly at a painting. a POLAT 9 George Btrect, New Brunswick, N. J re hare, in this flapper age, I could a ant FRED CORVINUB, No, g9f iat Sweet, West New York, NJ soo two whose thoughts were not wholly In the whol 1 saw boys MARGARET 0. SULLIVAN, No, 214 Kingston Avenue Om clothen und fripperies, walked over mo et deahic Sa ; i i lyn to see what painting they were admir- esau pe ae Mit AMUEL. FISHMAN, No, 548 Hopkinaon Avenue, Brooklyn Ine Tt wanted to hear thelr comments he nidewalie r H ‘ N, No sae on art--to get, as It were, @ giimpae, at dering whey they Ked on ~—— , thelr souls, “You see the color of tha Id me that Road to-day's stories, Pick the ones you think are best. hele Moule, gone, i'm going to make anlp nee J igh iT iT biel 7 o that " » learn th Winners will be announced in thie evening's N ght Pictorial ny next Koitted vestne 1 at Ie # Bet titar's oustqmers (Green Bhoot) edition and in other editions to-morrow, ‘Aaron ¥, Beilin, > 2018 Bryant Avenue, Mionx Parkway, Brooklyn. WEEKLY PRIZES OUT OF TOWN. NO JOKING MATTER. Yesterday the hospital bought a new ambulance from the Reo Motor Car Company, and when {t was delivered the manager, a demon- strator and some other men came to the hospital and we all started to talk and “kid.” “Better not ‘kid’ about an ambulance,” the manager said, “or you may find that you will be the first passenger.” * © © Everything was quiet until 10.30 P. M., when we got our first call. Gentleman taken with acute appendicitis. Had to be operated on right away. I was around when he came out of the ether. When he recog= nized me he smiled @ bit weakly and asked, “Do the other fellows know?” * © © Our first passenger was the manager for the Reo Company.—William Fitzsimmons, New Rochelle Hospital, New Ro- chelle, N. Y. DON'T YOU REMEMBER? Yesterday in this neighborhood I saw dozens of kites In the air, but how dif- ferent were these from those | flew as a boy. To-day one sees only four-cor- nered, tailless Kites, bought at the cor- her store for a few cents and seldom failing to fly. In the old days we made our own with tails on them. And do you remember how we used to have to adjust the tail, adding a little or taking off @ little, so that it would balance and fly? And then all the fun we used to have with a bit of glass or steel tied to the tails? Each of us would try to cut the string of the other fellow’s kite, and the last to remain in the air was cham- pion. I didn’t s ny boys doing that yesterday.—M. Gwilliam, No. 8 West- octt Street, Bloomfield, N. J “BILLY As I entered the Hudson Terminal I saw in the crowd ahead of me a young couple, evidently husband and wife. Somehow or other they became sepa- rated, and as we came to the stairway I noticed that a stranger was walking beside the young woman, Suddenly she grasped his arm and cried: “Oh, Bill, let's get a soda!” ‘The stranger replied quickly, “Certainly, come along.” Of course, she immediately realized per error and blushed furiously. She looxed appealingly at her e: rt, who war grin- ning behind her, and I suppose be boughi her the soda,—F, M. K., Montclair, N. J. COLD MOLASSES.” At the county falr at Warrenburg wa EXCESS BAGGAGE. counted in the ficld 90 automobiles and IT was In a Broadway department store | Just one lone horse which had conveyed to-day when I saw a large lady and al people to the grounds,—G. L. Martin, small man at the hat cases for men Albany, N. ¥, She seemed to be having difficulty se- lecting @ hat which would fit him but sult her, She placed them on hubb head and turned him around with one twist of her large hand to get the effect No. 4 High Street. PIPPINS, Near Middletown, N. Y¥., fn my mother’s garden, I saw a rare freak of nature. A tree was bearing a numbe! from all angles. Ie was thoroughly|of immense twin apples. They were quiet. Finally she told the clerk to wrap] beautiful and lusclous red apples with one up. I did not think she would eve: a twig extending from the point where two perfect apples had been Joined. The twin apples average about three pounds nh in welght.—Lottle C. Burgoyne, No. 124 Bigelow Street, Newark. trust him to carry the package home but I was mistaken. When the left he had a satchel, two bags and a box in his arms.—Mildred H. Riley, No. 21 Rutgers Place, Passaic, N. J. THROWING NOTHING AWAY. In Wallingford, Conn., {s a unique sidewalk made of headstones taken from a graveyard. The owner replaced the old headstones with new ones, but betnw of an economical turn of mind he did ‘ot wish to throw the old stones away. Consequently he used them to build the sidewalk, where one may rend the names of his ancestors and learn the dates of their births and deaths,—Helen ©. Large, No. 36 Summit Street, Bristol, Conn. SILENCE IS GOLDEN. While walking past Public School No. 28 this afternoon I heard a teacaer say (rather sternly, I thought, on the first day of school), ‘Keep on writing, young man!” I turned and looked through the win- cow. A small boy was at the blackboard, writing over and over again: “I am in school and I must not talk. I am in school and I must not talk I am in school and I must not talk.”—Leglie Kinley, No. 104 Hancock Avenue, Jersey City. THE ARTIST. In the Bridgeport station there Is a ragged little urchin of six who has his own way of making money. He stops passengers and ask shyly, “Would you like to hear me sing three sungs for a nickel?" Few can resist him, and those who wait to hour him get their money's worth. He sings with a baby lisp and beats time with one foot.—Rachel Ma- grauth, No. 28 Badeau Avenue, Summit, N. J. FP anniw Mes ‘ Xf 0 Ford Im wut : f. not t A LITTLE CHURCH IN KEYPORT. I visited an nteresting church to-day at Shrewsbury, N. J. The shingles of “MOVE ONIY A motorman on « Bloomfleld trolley car, having after repeated clangings of the gong fatled to induce an obstinate truce driver to pull off the tracks, tried] from England. ‘The buildin; was used another method, I saw mim take «fas a barracks during the Revolutionary whistle from his pocket. He blew two| War, There ts a stone outside the door quick blasts. Magically the truck pulled] from which the copper plate is missing. aside. It was a police whistle.—John| Tradition says it was melted Into bul- 8. Elliott, No. 122 ‘Third Street, New-|lets. Bullet holes ean be seen tn the ark, N. J. wooden ball surmounting the steeple =. and on top of the weather vane ie a £0 SEN THE FUN. crown which was sent to this church Anne. by ol . 5 There (x a sharp decline at a certain iy Suen ‘The eburch owns ‘one point in the Boston Post Road with an Jot the three famous Vinegar Bibles, Gbrupt turn at right angles. This turn | pewter collection plates over 100 years fe paved with a substance which be- fold and many other Interesting relles. qomes aiprery in wet weather, Hun |The body of Theodosla Bartrom, the Gt ikl ape eeing. @ crowd there | mother-in-law of Aaron Burr, ts buried this rainy day 1 hurried forward. But |in thin church—Mrs. W. L, Van Gleson, there had been no accident. These pe Kevpory Nod le were atanding there, 1 learned, watt- np for an accilent to happen !—Philip W. Schulte, Norwalk, OVER THE GARDEN WALL. I was among the dahlias in my gar- den when a thunder shower came up. and as the darkness increased I looked over the Westchester hills toward the great black clouds that seemed to be hurrying toward me. I went on picking flowers and suddenly I heard the quict Conn, STILL GOING STRONG, Elizabeth, N. J., 1s old—258 years ol in fact—but she has new ideas. For tt stance, to-day I counted nine housew in our block being painted. On Broad Street, $500,000 is being spent in build- ing the Regent Theatre. Kress & Co. « building a $100,000 building. In addi- tion to these, buildings are being put up for other stores, restaurants and of+ fall of heavy raindrops, but 1 dit 20" | aces, besides the remodeling of num ee teed came, Tt war ber of other buildings. Elizabeth seems oa ‘ A to be coming along.-yFlorence BE. Du- raining on the other side of the garden | °°. nk : hedge, but on my side {t was dry. ae) No, 124 Union Street, Elizabeth, Lucella Lunt, East View, N. Y. THE ICEMAN. When I opened the back door this morning to take in the milk T saw sus THE FIRE. On the road not far from where T lve I smelled smi Then [ saw smoke in pended from the two uprights of the| big clouds pouring from a chimney. stoop the most delicate piece of work-| knew right away that house was going manship I have ever beheld. A spider] to suffer from chimney fire, But In @ had woven a web about fifteen inches in| Moment 1 saw # lad of 15 years of age diameter. The design was exquisite. | Place a ladder against the roof. «Im= There bad been a heavy dew during | Medistely am; imbed up with what the night and with the early morning]! 88W Was a small bag of salt under his sun shining upon it, all I could Mken|#f'™, and when he reached the roof he the web to Is a wonderful plece of the| Poured the salt down the chimney, Al= rarest old lace encrusted with diamonds. | 0st Instantly the blaze was extin« I turned to call my daughter so che) Sulshed-—Peppa Exkolin, North Coles also could see It when I heard a voice | Dok, Conn and saw the iceman come through the gate. He had destroyed that work of *LASSES art.-Mrs, Meta Rossell, Haworth, N. J T went into a grocery to-day and asked for molasses. The proprietor TRAGEDY OF THE FOUR CHICKENS. 1 was astonished while feeding the chickens this morning to ses four young binds lying dead near the coop. ‘The waa nothing to suggest that the cat waa at faull and as the mouths were all opened wide we examined closely and found that the ehicks had choked to death on wild cherries,—J, ©. Sweeney, Saugerties, N. ¥, anid, “Do you want it for hooch? 1 laughed and asked if 1 looked like @ hooch drinker, Then in a serious tome he said, “You know, ma’am, so many have their home brew ¢ days,” But I’m an old-fashioned womem who still makes fruit cakes, and that ts what I bought my mo lasses for.—Mra. Sarah Nash, Wem cester, Mase, which the church Is bullt were brought © % of ¥ , Yr