The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1922, Page 23

Additional Daily Prize for Contributions to Thie OPEN TO ALL READERS Name of Winner in To-Night’s Pictorial Edition. MANHATTAN PAGE MR. HERRMANN, A friend who has a rooming house on Bast 125th Street told me to-day while I was visiting her that there was an ‘extra girl stopping in the house with a Toomer friend and evading her to avold Paying room rent. She asked me tu go with her while she tried to find the elu- sive one and we went to the apartment of the roomer, whom we found sittin ona folding couch. My friend spint a long time sweeping, dusting and clean- Ing the room, during which the girl sat on the couch. It was apparent the roomer had hidden her friend inside the couch, and finally my friend opened it, assisted the girl to climb from her em- Darrassing position, and had her talk with her.—Mrs. Marie Walsh, No. 324 Bast 125th Street. FINALLY SOME ONE SAID HOWDY! I have been In New York more than ® month, yet the first time I have had a stranger speak to me as if I were a human being occurred this morning when the cashier of a restaurant on 34th Street, between Seventh and Bighth Avenues, startled me with a hearty “‘Well, how are you this morn- ing?’ as I approached him to pay my check. And he actually sald ‘Thank you" as I was departing.--Bert Men- dell, No. 461 Bighth Avenue. A RACE ON THE BAR, Between Huntington and Melville, L. YL, last night I stopped at a road house for @ drink of soda, The bartender asked me to walt until after the “race.” I tnquired what he meant. His reply was to produce a box. He asked a party of men if all bets were latd, He opened the box and six roaches, each with a number, darted along the bar to ailine a few feet away, ‘No, 5" won by a “neck.” ‘The bartender w bookmaker, starter and Judge, lucky bettor blew the crowd to drinks,— George Fey, No. 40 Rector Street. NOT THE WORK OF FIVE OR TEN MINUTES. Walking along Centre Street at noon to-day I saw a small crowd gathered about a young woman who was seated on a camp stool. She was making, 1 found, a pen and ink sketch of the Woolworth Building as seen through one of the arches of the Municipal Building, a really artistic setting.— John Foy, No. 449 West 19th Street. BUT THERE WAS NO FIGHT. At Tenth Avenue and 43d Street I saw a big lumber truck coming down Tenth Avenue almost collide with another truck rounding the ‘The drivers of both trucks jumped off in the excitement and I looked for a mix-up, when suddenly the driver of the one truck stopped short and said to the chauffeur of the lumber truck, Sure enough the latter was a woman, so outfitted in khaki and sweater, with her hair done up tightly under her cap, that her sex was almost concealed.—Pauline Engel, N corner from 43d Street. “Pardon me, ladies first.” 114th Street. PROTECTING HER FROM OLD SOL, On upper Broadway I saw a window Gresser in a prominent shop remove a fown from a figure, leaving the wax model dressed only in tissue paper and a petticoat. He then m@estly pinned a large sheet of paper about her head 80 that her features would not be vist- dle to the p: —Margaret Merri- man, No. 1 9th Street WELL, IT COULD HAPPEN, While at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 18th Street to-day I saw an auto- mobile come within a few inches of Hitting a pedestrian. Then tmagine my surprise when, instead of the usual abuse of one to another, I heard the Griver sa; Sor o'd man!" and re- ceive in rep hat's ell right: you @idn't hit m Harry A. Sanger, No. &3 St. Nicholas Piac FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF THRIFT, Are the Scotch thrifty? We'll say! Coming out of an Eighth Avenue cigar store on Saturday a boy of ten asked us for the cigar coupons. He wes as Scotch as Bobbie Burns and told me he had been in America but treo day er Cassidy fr., No, $42 West 57th Street. “AND ARE THES! YOUR BEST STAMPS t” Ina drug store on Lexington Av nue I saw a richly dressed woman ho exhaled importance and self- eateem, occupy a quarter of cn hour of a clerk's time tooking at various articles and then purchase a 2-cent stamp. She said she would try else- tohere for her other serds.— John Cray, No, $21 Kast 2%d Street. THRER OV, At the 72d Street Station of the Rroadway subway this evening I aaw a Chesterfieldian who stepped from a crowded car to permit a fer passengers to detrain, crowded to ne side and unable to vecenter, At 6th Street 1 saw the young man who had elbowed him aside a0 at he might enter, forced out rad of an outieard rush and hin- unable to get back, And at 103d stepping out to permit a girl to aight, Thad @ chance to know how it feels to be stranded.—George §, Kane, No. $11 West 145th Street, SOMEBODY'S BONS. 1 raw fifteen American War Mothers taking a lot of disabled soldiers from Beton Hospital to the War Mothers’ np at Interstate Park, ‘There the carters cooked @ fine meal for the boys ever ¥ and afterward. the } was music 1 dancing for those who ee bie to danee, Every one of those foldilers insisted upon trying to do some- to the gayety and show his (the kindness shown him. No Post Avenue, thing t Daniel “A FORD A DAY.” FREE show, To-day in my neighborhood on West 40th Street I saw a large crowd gathered on the sidewalk and in the street. Men, women and chil- dren were coming from every direo- tion, making the crowd larger. I drew near, timidly, fearing some one had been hurt. Then as I got at the edge of the mob, I saw they were all lookmg at a pile of coal on the sidewalk. Only coal, but the sight of it had caused men to forget their business, children their play and women their homes. Bvery one was staring in amazement at a pile of mere coal.—Anna B. Mullins, No, 486 Weat 40th Street. A BRAVE MAN, While “buying back’* my hat tn the check room of a fashionable up-town restaurant I saw the most courageous man in New York. He presented his hat check to the young man tn charge and asked: “Is there any charge for that?” and, assured there was not, made a sweeping bow, sald ‘Thank you" and walked out without giving the checker a tip.—M. Lincoln Schuster, No, 670 West 57th Street. ALL, FOR LOVE OF A LADY. Flirting with a girl who was walking on the sidewalk at Madison Avenue and 104th Street, the chauffeur of a truck loaded with eggs failed to notice a hole !n the pavement and I saw a case containing thirty dozen eggs topple off. Bang! The eggs were scrambled in the gutter.—Mrs. Anna Berstien, No. 60 East 104th Stree! WHERE THE HEART I8. The best thing I have seen for a long time is what I see now—our little apart- ment, thoroughly renovated and re- decorated—for which we pay $32.50 a month less than we paid for an iden- tical apartment in the same house last year, furnished. During the two years we have lived in New York, hoping al- ways we could go back home, we have paid $500 for the use of other people's shabby, misfit furniture. Now we have our own-—largely second hand, but made nice and attractive with paint and varnish and elbow grease. We love it, and f so much fun making a home this way that we don't want to leave New York now ever.—Della T. Wright, No. 189 Claremont Avenue. 102 East FRIENDLY ENEME I saw two peddlers attracting not a little attention and a rather brisk trade at Delancey and Orchard Btreets to- day by knocking each other's goods. Their carts were about § inches apart After the crowd dispersed, I gathered from their friendly talk that they were partners and had hit upon that novei method of stirring up business.—J Sharlop, No. 550 Grand Street. “SOMETHING TI A HAT." In a hat atore on 125th Street last night the salesman who was waiting or me pointed out a man who he said hac been trying on hats for an hour and half. The fussy one had piled befor him hats of all kinds—plushes, jours, derbics, felt hats, inlevery shape and c but still none keemed to satisfy him. Each salesman had tried to make the sale, and now they were hoping silently he would leave so they could close the shop.—Thomas A. Kavanaugh, No. 543 W. 129th Street. ASLEEP IN THE DEEP. I had worked for fifteen hours when { knocked off at 4 o'clock this morning. THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 192%, age for Four Vee EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED BY EVENING W/ORLD READERS O make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in addition, Send them to “What Did You See?” Editor, Evening World, Post 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 100K PLACE. WRITE YOUR OWN NAME ANU ADDREosS CARFFULLY AND IN FULL. CHECKS MAILED DAILY. For the best stories each day: SPECIAL PRIZE, A FORD CAR A DAY FOR FOUR WEEKS; FIRST CASH PRIZE, $25; SECOND CASH PRIZE, $10; THIRD CASH PRIZE, $5. TEN PRIZES of $2 each for next best stories If you witness @ serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any ether BIG news atory, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. BRONX THE OLD SEA CAPTAIN, ‘To-day I saw an old man, an inmate of Ward's Island, standing as close to the water's edge as the attendants would permit, raising and lowering two small flags, and learned that every morning and evening he thus salutes Sound steamers as they go through Hell Gate, He never fails to get an answering salute. He formerly was @ sea captain, I found out, and still delights in recalling the days when his life was spent on the deep.—Mrs. Minnie Zimmer, 2185 Lie! t’ Street, Bronx OUT OF TOWN DISAPPEARING SWEATER, To-day I saw a woman crossing Military Park, Newark, N. J., stop to buy a paper from tbe newsle. She delved into a knitting bag for her purse, gave the boy an extra coin, patted him on the cheek, and as I came abreast of her, remarked to me, “I love these little fellows. The smile this one just gave me fs a sure sign something good will happen to me.” One end of an almost completed sweater was sticking out of her bag, which I admired. She took it out and showed it to me, It was a beautiful blue silk affair, more than three-quarters done, We started on again. When we had about crossed the park she happened to glance back. As far as we could see was a trail of blue yarn. Examining her bag she found she had only a few rows of knitting left of her nearly finished sweater. I've been wondering if she still believes a newsboy’s smile is a good omen.—Mrs. Pauline V. Francis, No. 66 Willoughby Street, New- ark, N. J. , “LEST WE FORGET.” The men seated in a Third Avenu elevated car buried their faces in thetr | 4), newspapers last evening as a one-legged soldier, on whose breast were several medals, entered. A white-halred litt! lady rose from her seat and insisted thaigphe soldier take ft, which he did reluMantly. She came to stand on the platform where I was standing, and 1 noticed she wore a smali service pin on which were two tiny gold stars. The incident made me wonder what the nen had done for their country who wouldn't give a seat to one of her wounded heroes:—Jack Sperana, No. *1 East 163d Street, Bronx. AND IT'S 80 SELDOM HE GETS A BALL NOWADAYS. At the Polo Grounds I saw a man henpecked out of keeping a foul ball he had caught as he sat in the grand- stand near me. Quickly he tucked tye bail beneath his coat, when his wife poke up, “John don't you dare ke that ball," she admonished. John glued NATURE GETS A PUNCTURE. From atop a bus on Riverside Drive afternoon I saw a hydroplane fly ing over the Hudson, In its wake I saw 4 small object and wondered what it was. Soon the plane descended to the water and settled. The object paused and headed toward the drive and then I saw it was a pigeon—defeated by man in its own element.—Henrietta. Me Donald, No. 414 B. 178th Street, Bronx EY ROUTE TO REFORMATORIES. This evening on 98th Street, betw: Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, I saw several boys about twelv: years of age In a game that was new to me. ‘They were armed with bea shooters and pebbles, which they shot at the electric light globes on pol As soon us a globe was broken th ran, In a few minutes, after assurin. themselves no policeman had ap-| daged girl rode proudly past our ho proached, they started all over again trol of the bicycle—-a lesson Maurice Robinson, No, 141 Nagle Ave: | nee.—Mrs, Harry G. Bates, nue, Bronx. uth Bound Brook, N. J. A LITTLE LADY OF THE PERIOD. Looking from my window I saw a oung girl whose head, wrists and knees were bandaged, mount a bicycle, zigzag a few feet and then go kerflam into the road. She remounted and rode awa’ tuking a fall every few feet. Presently my husband entered the house and said he had pulled a girl kid out of the gut- ter and offered to help her learn to ride her bicycle, but she had refused, saying she had to get the hang of the thing herself. An hour later the same ban COMING DOWN, Whila waiting for an elevator on the main floor of a William Stroct office building to-day, I saw by tte indicator that one elevator waa com- ing down with a sperd which sug- gested it was falling. It stopped with a jerk, ita door was bunged open and out poured a great volume of water. Its occupants were drip- ping. Inquiry elicited the fact that @ water pipe had burat on the top floor.—W. Wal No. 89 Bruce Avenuo, Yonkers, N.Y. A SHOT AT RANDOM, his eyes on the game, “John, did you ee sll Last night on a South Orange bus a Deen RUnrec AN masa. pba alte INCOMPETENT SQUIRREL. TWO MOTHERS. crowd rushed in at Broad and Market and, sighing resignedly, John tossed Streets and tho driver, apparently un- I was sitting on a bench in Crotona{ At Lord & Taylor's Jewelry counter ball to r oF 2 ; : ; the hall fouthe fleld-—Frank For, No-} par to-day when suddenly I felt some: TI raw a woman, attired In clothing [corel wherher ell hed pal 7 ? § y ing hit me on the head. Thinking sadly worn, examine longingly some leans iN tens, Berasray Melt. tenes ey sone prankish children were near, 1{ beautiful strings of beads and finally | Diese’, Thice persone. lait fe lay them reluctantly down and move away. Her little son, who was dressed and again until, exasperated, I looked] in @ new sailor suit and hat, urged her up In the tree, and I had to laugh. There | to buy some of the beads for herself, on a branch above me sat the friskiest,| ut she dect'ned, “I really don't need brightest, grayest little squirrel I ever| them, honey.” On my way home on a saw gathering nuts for the winter and| Palisades car I saw another woman looked around but saw none. Agair something hit me on the head, and again Guiers @dmed: forward and paid Ups A guilty conscience certainly does cramp one's style.—F. W. Swartz, No. 171 South Ninth Street, Newark, N. J. DRINKING IN THE BARN. Memy persons have a habit of de- pending upon the time of a clock a window of a tailor shop on Bergen Avenue. This morning I noticed that the clock had stopped, but that the shopkeeper had put an alarm clock beneath ét, and the little |tetting some of them fall on me.—Anna| and her litue boy. This woman was ex-| In the barn to-day | saw a mother friend of carly rising was ticking | anlers, No. 774 Enst 179th Strect, Bronx. | Pensively gowned. Her son was also|hen, after drinking from a bow! of milk out the correct time. — Erwin dressed in a sailor ult, but, it was|that was too high for her chicks to Kehmidt, No, $15 Bast 145th Street, WASN'T SHOCKED. sadly worn. She pafd not the slightest} reach, fill her bill and then let it run Brons. eau cearringed| attention to the child, They were both}out in @ little pool, from which the — Mee or Pearland ceparentiy | mothers.—Marion G, her. No. 1s | chicks drank.—Carolyn Meyerhoff, West- RICHMOND seek to shock an old lady who was|%lst Street, Woodeliff-on-Hudson, N, J. | wood, N. J. MERU EL NAE: seated onposite her by raising her TREED. skirt and taking a handkerchief from @ A CALL FOR HELP. pocket in her pink afl hose, But. In- stead of belng shocked, the old lady smiled and proved her own up-to-date- ness by lifting her long silk shirt and taking a handkerchief from a pocket In her petticoat.—Mrs, 1, Harly, No, 607 West 137th Street, Bronx, In Keith’s Theatre I witnessed a touching exhibition of the natural impulse of children to help those in trouble, Directly in front of me sat a little girl of perhaps four, with her grown-up sister. Immediately following the feature picture came @ performer called Colville in “acrial gymnastics,” Standing on the trapeze the performer appeared to be plunging headlong to the stage, but in the nick of time, of course, his feet were caught in the corners of the swing and he swung sus- urd @ scream last night tn my mother’s room. I rushed in, turned on the light and found my mother wrest ling with a coat tree on which was hung a cap, She had mistaken it in the darkness for a man,—Willlam Kennedy, No, 1196 Castleton Avenue, West srighton, S. 1 Th ROMANCE COMES TO IRVING PLACT WE ER POR TLE LAPPER, On Irving Place this afternoon I saw ee a eee eee reaw(® smiling young man hand i « stn| pended, He repeated the trick a second time and I heard the ilttle gist a boy of nine and his alter, @ Uttle) more smiling young lady a velvet jewel gasping. ‘Then the aerialist swurg from side to s'de and appeared to ox, saw her gasp in dell ishment as she opened it uston= laughing and jumping with . I looked inside and younger, be falling again. In a piteous treble, filled with a nxtety and fear, the le their yard. glee NOLES yA eartans ative hed passed them noted that the | a child turned bravely to the house and exclaimed, “Cats him! cats him, been placed a tiny sweater, T asl heautiful diamond rink. somebody! Cats him!” It almost broke up the show.--John Krzesicki, imagined.—Carolyn Rothenberg, No y this was done and 1 was told that fay t Avenue, Bronx ‘Skinny had no feathers and must be kept wa —Mrs. Minnie Kigney, No. 143 Bancroft Avenue, Grant y, Staten Island. No, 133 Railroad Avenue, Jersey City. PIBTY IN PLALNEE On East Front Street I was watching a Sunday School parade with Its ban- 1 was pretty much all in and fell asleepy DINTY WORK AT SEA. Repay BT Meme feeter dings) on the “'L'' train, should have got] y learned to-dry a way to beat the ih Bult : off at 88th Street, but I didn’t awake] nigh cost of tnundry work. As the J. B. leas you" burst from the lips of an UN we got to the end of the line at| King steam lighter passed our boat at elderly man standing beatde me, 1 issih Street. 1 determined I'd not be] Mariners’ Harbor I saw a declshand pin thought the words had been evoked by caught so on the return trip, but I] his laundry to a line and throw it over the 4 ssion the ie had didn't awake until we reached South} the stern into the water. As the boat spon teay Bat escol Lenk having pear ry. ‘This time I bought a paper! steamed along the churning of the « loud sneeze Just previous.—Henry C, and tried to read. I came to with a] propeller cleansed the clothes, the prin- Riastae Ads dal. Beate Srope Alsea start and discovered I was at 93d] C'ple being the same as that of a wash- Maser, Ne oi f , e'ple being 7 Plainfield, N. J. Street. Then, paying another fare, I] ing machine. By the time the lighter Fe stood up until we reached my station.}renched th: Statue of Liberty the “4 . ‘5 ‘ hee Now the funny part of it is that T]clotnes mhould have been “white as Special Prizes UREE NRE WRRER, couldn't go to slecp efter getting into] foam—K. Wilson, No. 2705 Richmond Settling myself on an Erie train last bed for three hours, and T was up| -rerrace, Mariners’ Harbor, 8. 1. evening I walted to see vhat the day's again at 3 in th noon, with only . » ad Ford Car happening would be, for se mething al- four hours of sl . A. McRae, No. THE PRECIOUS HOSE. MRS. J. ROSENFIELD, Northport, Long Island. ways heppens.on an Hele train, It wee 161 West 36th 8 telephone operator slitting _ e 4 not long In coming. We had been going 1 saw our telephone oper (Winners of Ford Prize please report immediately to City Editor, not more than ten minutes when we = wjth her feet hidden under her inher Evening World, for identification.) s THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS, | Oy). held out a pair of silk stock . 7 . 2 ame to a atop. Some heads were poked In th atre, betwee! {nya in front of an electric fan to dry. First Cash Prize, $95 out of windows and with a roar of pandannan fe wane wild ac >| giks tala me whe had got her shoes wet BEATTRICR CAMIBELL, No. 27 Vernon Terrace, Hast aughter we learned that our engine was for seats which left one aged lady stand-Jand had given them to the engineer Orange, N. J beating it down the tracks without un ir the alsle, Walking with a cane, shel but she wouldn't trust her silk stock- Second Cach Prize, $10 The old girl w oping merrily along atarted for the rear when # gentleman] ings to him. “They're the only patr MRS. KORNELUTH, No. 268 Linden Avenue, Brooklyn ‘ ee ee arose and gave her his seat. When [Tye got.” she said, “and I'm not taking es . she was a mile away had the honor of shuking his hand hefany chances on losing them."—Vernon Third Cash Prize, $5 # necstio and a piece told ine he was from Texas.—Arthur| Holbert, N 1 Lexington Avenue HENRY M. CARI, No. 624 West 121st Street, ly hitehed her up again A 0. 505, 1 Stree Port Richmond, $ : our way. albran, N West 44th Street. rt Richmond Ten Prizes of $2 Each Hae Lic dereeabeg JOSEPH A, McDONALD, No. 118 East 90th Street DON’T BE DISCOURAGED. HBL M, ALLEN, No. West 115th Street. IN FAR OFF WESTCHESTER, LOUIS JACODS, No. 869 Hast 156th Street, Bronx, The water supply has been cut. off m I. RERNSTEIN, No. 150 Westervelt Avenue, New Brighton, S. 1. at Elmsford for days and people here If your contribution does not appear on the day following that Mis, LOTTIE A. FURMAN, No. 6301 Amboy Road, Anna- ubouta have been depending on a shale on waich tt mailed, do not be discouraged. It may appear @ dale, B. I eas aan tare down a country lane day or two later. MATCH tg O'CONNOR, No. 87 Hamilton Street, Btaple- carryi buckets as we used to do in 2 A on, the country. Kneeling bestde the All contributions are read, Awards are made for merit. Receipt JAMES J. NOLAN, No. 144 Guernsey Street, Brooklyn. spring Was @ woman washing vege- of one prize does not bar the receipt of others. Severa} contribu- JEANETTE F. BY HE No, 1568 Geeene Avenue, Brooklyn tables, One woman threatened to bring tors have received three prizes for one story—the $1.00 paid for APOLPH LINDO 321 Davies Street, Arlington. N. J. her Gar ted PARLE Ra each story printed, the $25 prize for the day's best story and the L PB. DE VALL, I 1 punt Tre r, Ulster County, N.Y. teu land thal woona, the lack of 100 prize for the best sto . . mobiles and telexraph poles s sah eae best story of the week mate ee Read to-day's stories. Pick the ones you think best. AOE PR ER MEN e Minne wa efinite time and location of incidents descrived in contribu- Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial had si 1 back red era in tions count {n making awards. (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to-morrow. yur tion + Wal ur 1 TWEN --SPECIAL PRIZE--- ' WEEKLY PRIZES. bad a handful of gum.—Maclyn Brooklyn. A HUSBAND TO BE DEPENDED UPON, The stores were crowded to-night and I had been shopping for two hours be- fore I got everything I wanted. My husband was waiting to carry the pack- ‘agcs home, but when he saw them all he complained. However, there was no delivery boy about, so he toaded them into his arms and started off. Outside the store we saw a delivery bicycle. Without saying a word my hutband piled the packages Into the basket In front of it, got astride and started off. The front wheel wobbled because it was out of gear and because he has not been on a bicycle in twenty years, but he made fair progress. Now I'm waiting in the the corner drug store for his re- turn. He ts here and tells me the de- livertes are all made and the bike re- turned.—Mra. 8. Morrison, No. 1148 East 18th Street, Brooklyn. “MAKE ME A CHILD AGAIN, JUST FOR TO-NIGHT, I was attracted to the window to-day by screams of laughter. I saw grown- up boys and girls hopping across the street on one foot, the boys trying to catch the girls. It was the old kid game of fox and geese. They were people I had seen on the subway plat- form in the morning golng to work aulet, sedate persons, ant here they were children again.—Beatrice — R. Magid, No. 1682 80th Street, Brooklyn, 418 O'BRIEN GOOD FOR A DRINK This afternoon I gave a seven-year-old Negro boy a dime and told him to go to a nearby newstand to buy for me a copy of The Evening World. He was ‘one quite a while, and when he re- turned he was blowing a whistle and carrying a paper bag with the news- paper, Taking the paper, I maid: “You nay keep the change, James."" He took the whistle from his teeth and holding it and the paper bag up for me to see, he wald with an expression of innocence In his face: “I has."'—Kate Tobin, No. 369 St. John's Place, Brooklyn. “REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY. Tam a cashler at Ellis Island. Last Saturday an old gentleman, the father of a large family, presented himaelf at the office to receive the money to defray their expenses to Callfornia, The rules require a signed receipt when payment Is made, I explained this to the old man, but he refused to sign, saying ff tt meant all the wealth in the world he would not write on nis Sabbath. His refusal caused their betng detained until Monday, but his adherence to his re- ligious scruples commanded my respect. ~-G, H. McDowell, 98 Fountain Avenue, Brooklyn, A BOY AT BUDD LAKE. While canoeing last evening in Budd Lake, J., 1 saw a barefoot boy of twelve rowing about, while from one of his toes depended a line. Suddenly he dropped his oars and began pulling in the line, At {ts end was a large bass full of fight. The boy probably had it for breakfast this morning.—A. H. L ban jr., No. 1207 Avenue N, Brookly! SOMEBODY STOLE A HEART AW There was a burglar scare on my street the other night, and shortly after when some one telephoned for the police a flivver came tearing along, bringing two policemen and two detectives. ‘The fivver started to turn and its headlights revealed the “burglars’—a young man and « girl seated in one Morris chair on a porch, and #0 absorbingly telling one another the old, old story, that they were oblivious of their surroundings. Mrs, F. A. Brule, No. 1938 Fast 15th Street, Brooklyn. SMART AL On a Staten Islan day I saw the sign: “All passengera must leave boat at termmal.”’ Juat under that some one had soritten: “Who wants your old boat?’ Vincent Stickey, No. 417 Nelaon Street, Brooklyn, ANDER, forry yester- take the place of an agent. 129th Street, Richmond Hill, L. 1 BUSINESS, of mercy take dence over even the speeding of firemen to thelr important work, I saw th and south traffic held up at Fifth jue and 32d Street to permit a ber of fre engines to cross the ave nue, They were hurrying to @ fre Rut just as they were approacains, the clanging bell of an ambulance, north bound, demanded the right of way. U) went the traifle cop's hand and apparatus was halted until t Jancé had passed.—Leon Fireli> Ary 84 Sprink t, 58 Long n Regular CAPITAL PRIZES for the Best Stories of the Week to Be Distributed Among DAILY Prize Winners Other Than Those to Whom the Ford Care are Awarded: $100; SECOND, $50; THIRD, $25; FOURTH, $10. FIRST, BROOKLYN GUM GAME, While waiting for a train this afternoon at the Flushing Avente Station I saw three or four persons drop coins in a gum machine without getting any results. One or two of.them talked about it, one man in forceful language. When the excitement died down I saw two small boys approach the machine. One of them pulled some little wads of paper out of it, This appeared to rélease the gum that the grown- ups had pald for. When the “divvy” was completed each of the boys Sternberg, } 172 Varet Street, BY THREE LENGTHS. T saw a horse and a wagon stalled on the Long Island Railroad tracke at the Bast Nvw York Station. The horse had fallen directly in the path of an onrushing express train, and the driver and others were trying frantically to raise the animal, A flagman waving a red flag ran toe ward the approaching train, whtoR came to a halt within a few feet of the crossing, —Rmil K. Eilts, Ne, 149 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklym CHORE! THAD A cow SUCH MILK, One of three men who walked past me on Fifth Avenue, Bay Ridge, sald to the others: “We'll go to that place on the corner; they have goo® atuff im there.’ That sounded te teresting, 20 I followed them in @ few minutes later and found them drinking miltk.—A, Binninger, Se 650 52d Street, Brooklyn, THAT A CH PRAYER, Visiting a friend whose wife ha@ @e- serted him and their six-yes eet daughter, and whom he will not have mentioned In his presence, T saw him putting the child to bed. She had finished the customary “Now I lay me’ prayer and was nding: “God bless papa and"-—= when he hastily gathered her In his arms and tucked her tn bed. Then he and I teft the room, but. al- moat fmmediately I, returning for my bag and gloves, saw the child on her pes again, finishing her prayer with: ‘and God bless my pretty mamma and please send her back to me."—Miss Smith, No, 377 48th Street, Brool~ THE UNCORKED BOTTLE, The air about my seat on a Bear Mountain steamer seemed to be full of whiskey fumes and I thought some one was transporting a young still. But the wind blew aside the coatta'ls of an el- derly man near me and I saw that the cork of his hip flask had been dislodged and that the whiskey had leaked out, soaking his clothing. That was one trip which T certainly enjoyed.—-L. Rothen- berg, No. 2517 Woodbine Street, Brook~ lyn A WRONG START IN LIF®. In a cafeteria to-day I saw a boy of fourteen take two checks from the desk when the cashier wasn't looking. In- terested, [ wetched him eat a square ment on one check at one end of the counter and a plece of ple and a lass of milk on the other check at the other end of the counter. Returning to the cashier's desk, he pald for the smaller check.—David Cohn, No. 89 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn. A SPIDER'S BITE. Having heard it is unlucky to wf spiders, 1 sald good night to a large spider that [ noticed on the cefling of ny room as T was retiring In a bunga- low at Breezy Point several nights ago. In the morning a nasty bite convinced me {t is unlucky not to kill them— H. §. Bradley, No, 348 Clifton Place, Brooklyn. WAS DEAD. Disappointed at finding no cabs when T reached the station at Belmar, N. Ju to walk lonely started and » of the f {n a rainstorm, I through unlighted streets to the hon to visit, A gust of wind off and 1 pursued {t throurh inky dark- ness, fumbling for It In the wet heard from above me the words. you she's dead.” And when the words were repeated, believe me, 1 WAG nearly dead—with fright But the voice came not from a murderer, for tt was a telephone lineman talkiny about a wire.—Mra. B, Ginsburg, No. 606 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, QUEEN ONE FARE PAYS FOR SIX. On the western end of the Metropolitan Avenue station of the Lex- ington Avenue elevated line, B. R. T., a coin receiver and turnstile I have seen two go through this turnstile on one nickel, but last night I witnessed the breaking of all records when six persons passed through for a single fare seven, took her place inside the arm of the turnstile, her mother, with a baby in her arms, stepped right back of her, a boy of five and another of tw« Thus deployed, the whole family m A little girl, about and the father, bearing ind the mother, Sendel, No, 8731 squeezed in be rehed in.—W. L. one I was at th ting up the TEACHER, Kboard (o-day pute the class when @ child snickers the whole class ed, ‘There are nfty-e pupils in this grade and in a t they had become almost hilarious. T ealled one sixgling girl to my desk and sternly mmanded her to tell what the trouble was Teach: sho said, wrong and your hack." Thad to em- t orld of my “hip with the ndner, No. 4418 ymond Hill, Ne Yq ON Avenue, I TY-ONE M ORE DAYS