The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1922, Page 22

ict f & 3 MANHATTAN r THE LOST HAT. I was sitting in the switch-tower of the Second and Third Avenue “L” lines in Chatham Square, my position being behind the oblong- shaped automatic switch machine four feet from the floor, when 1 ‘Was dumbfounded to sce the head of a little girl pop up on the other side of the box and hear her ask, “Mister, will you please get my sister's hat? It blew off the train.” * * For a minute I could Bot speak. The tower is situated at a bend and because of the many tracks, the third rails and trains running in different directions is a jace of great danger for the uninitiated. I asked the child, who appeared to be about eight years old, how she got there and who gent her. “My mother told me to come,” she said, “and I waited for @ good chance and came over.” * * * JI took the girl to the station platform, where her mother and a small girl were waiting, and when I had explained to the mother the awful danger to which her daughter had been exposed I succeeded in recovering the lost hat—Henry Feiler, No. 1551 Avenue A. 4 CERTAIN TRUCK DRIVER—AND EXAMINE YOUR “TWENTIES. TWO CHILDREN. On West Street to-day I saw a truck driver who washes his horses’ fect and legs, to their evident com- fort © * © And om Bast 15th Street thie evening I saw two wee children step out on the porch in their nightolothes, atretoh their Kt- tle arms up toward the stare and M. P. A., New York City. hoping thereby to trace its history. Jennie A, Dawley, No. 940 Amsterdam FOOLISH MEN! Avenue. After long, arduous work upon a “prospect” who didn't like insurance agents, I finally persuaded him severa! SEEKING [8 NOT BELIEVING. Teview of his applicaion. He sald that} Jordan, No. 150 Nassau Street, @ death in his faiily had convinced chim that life insurance is a good thing FOR THE TIME BEING. that his statements respecting In an auditorium of 200 girls in deaths in his family from tuberculosis Curtis High School, none of the girls had been made merely! being over fourteen years old, 1 saw to-day only one hair ribbon. The new woman discards hair ribbons whon she is five years old.—Mar- garet V. Walthall, No, 125 Wash- ington Place, Avenue, near 25th Street ‘to-day weighing several tons was hoisted to the twelfth floor of a POOR POLL! ing. I saw a man walk by with-| In Mott Street to-day I was attracted to the wild screams of a parrot on a poor parrot's- eyes, No. 658 Broadway, haireut, 96 SENSE MA. eat price scale I have seen since the war ended.—Arom Rauch, No. 18 Third Avenue. shortly before noon, I saw a young man peated charg Moe ing tai of ee tomopile making his lunch of |} fois ‘other hand’ ho ‘meld. a sparrow [nd my penny until 1 come back” mother.” The little one gazed a that helping him eat the sandwich, | ‘Vo stayed and minded her penny, which kept us honor bound to Currier, West 23d Street ¥. M.} waited quite a while and then Ca STORY OF THE ECCENTRIC crrt A man rushed through the exit gate wrley AN IMMENSE UNDERTAKING, In Madison Square Park to-day I saw a huge man sit down on a bench and signal a bootblack, The man's shoes were in proportion to his height, and the boy, looking at the Immense quan- Uty of Teather he would have to polish, yelled to his chum: “Hey, Tony, come ce alot, over here and give me a hand; I've got apparatus « whirl, and ran back and/an army contra John KH. Cuomo, the train.—Arthur Remey, No.| No, 381 Fourth Avenue, 90th Street. “our.” low of a Fifth Avenue store CRUEL AND UNUSUAL, cake for you, she said, “until you've eaten this all up." And out o large Liedorkrang cheese, —Lols Mills, No. 936 West End Avenue. she held' i LONG DISTANCE. ni i ii . ALBEE MAY HAP- PEN ALONG. Every evening on my way home | get at 7th Street Station of the L and see the ticket g 5 J > 1 sty i vF Fulton Street. 1! West 96th Street. DON'T BE DISCOURAGED, If your contribution does not appear on the day following that om waich it was mailed, do not be discouraged. It may appear a two later, prize does not bar the receipt of others. Several contribu- tore have received three prizes for one story—the $1.00 paid for each story printed, the $25 prize for the day's best story and the $100 prize for the best story of the week. and location of incidents described in contribu- tions count in making awards. OPEN TO ALL READERS Name of Winner in To-Night’s Pictorial Edition. EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS » when I noticed the boy and girl who had their faces pressed against the window looking at the cakes and candies piled high on the other faces. Barely tasting the ice cream soda, I told the clerk I would be back directly and, stepping into the street, saw that my two friends were two doors away, “Little boy! little girl!” I called, “don't you want a soda?” and to my astonishment they ran as if frightened. In @ dairy restaurant on Amsterdam] Well, my conscience is clea: Avenue to-day 1 saw @ business man come in with a §20 bill which had been made of u §1 bill with the spread eagle imprint. It was such a good counterfeit that the bill was worn and partly torn by its passage through many hands be- fore {ts detection at the bank where this man does business. He had signed eal ma for it at the bank, and was taking it Leng sageed yeep hanged to the various places where he trades, girl at the head of a procession of about a dozen children. “Now, we'll have a soda, lady,” the boy sald. I was never so embarrassed While walking through City Hall Park months ago to make out an application | during the lunch hour several di ago, for a life policy. But when the com-|! saw three persons read the signs, his statement that his|Wet Paint,” hanging on a freshly painted Iron fence, then step up to the fence and touch thelr fingers to the rail to learn, to their dismay, that the signs really meant something.—L. C. On a Fifth Avenue car in Brooklyn I noticed that the conductor was polite, alert and efficient. | He was collecting the fare from an elderly man passenger when a loaded truck which was passing struck him on the head, He swayed: a man caught him, give him first aid. It was plain that he} Avenue, Brooklyn. was badly shaken up. At first it was in an attempt to discover what caused) tought he could not continue, but he fire escape. I watched for a little while the bird's distress, and then I saw two smal) boys with mirrors flashing re- flections from the sun's rays into the ‘Fred A. R. Snyder, A YOUNG WOMAN WITH A COMMON A friend and I were strolling through the Village this afternoon and at Wav- erley Place and llth Street we met a seantily clad little miss who gave us a serious inspection. ‘Hell said my friend to her. ‘Will you go with us for some ice cream? Run, and ask your u praisingly. “All righty,” she eald final- y, “if you mean It. You stay here and which 1 usually skipped.—A* H, Green,]0n Shore Road, Brooklyn, For a half No. 1289 Union Street, Brooklyn. mile buildings were unroofed. Other peared. But no longer was sho scantily and shabbily dressed, Instead she wore pink sturched ruffles and now patent ZEN, ther slippers. And we started for our party.—Ruth Hawtry, No, 224 Wav- crazy??? “J was just thinkin’,”” re- plied the child throuh her laughter, “what a lickin’ Johnnie’lt get when his daddy gets home!” And she kept on laughing.”"—Mra. C, Abbott, No, 82 Buell Place, Bast Elmhurst, In a grocery store to-day I saw a large woman gazing reprovingly at weeping boy, ‘No more candy and “What Does He Do With All Tha’ In the Fourth District Magistrate's Court, Town Hall, Jamaica, to-day 1 yaw @ woman have her husband ar- raigned on the charge of non-support. She claimed that out of his $35 weekly salary he allowed her only $34 a week with which to pay the expenses of run: ning thelr nome, She objected because Arriving at the top of five fights of stairs to call on a fellow artist im Washington Savare yesterday, 1 jones, Man- was about to knock at is joor soley iabeee when I was arrested by a loud voice within protesting a flaming love for Gn inamorata who, it seemed to me, must be atone deaf. “You are the breath of my soul!” he bellowed, “and you can te it to all the crowned heads of Burope «f you wish.” When the love avowal ceased ® violin. He stope| 7 knocked at the door, was admit- & ticket ana] ted, and found my friend had been making a Victrola record to send to hia Vest irl, who 43 abroad. In a week or so she will hear her maas- playing.—Miss Ciel R, Weiss, No.| ter’s voice.—Maud MeG@regor, No. piness. The man agreed to Increase her allowance by 60 cents a week, and she went out happy.—Ceorge Ki. Campbell, Town Hall, Jamatea, L. I. “saw a seven-year-old boy come tnto s. much a hatreut cost. cents," said the barber, barber agreed to do {t for that, When it was finished, the boy rushed out to the nickel for the movies!" And the them playing happily and laughing as they tried to shoot the ball out of each other's reach br and when I left them I, too, was happ: —Mr Yourmar No. 16 Alstyy Avenue, Corona, L. I. REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD 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. 700K PLACE. WRITE YOUR OWN NAME AND ADDREoS CAREFULLY 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 i BIG news story, telephone Beekman If you witness @ serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to bea BIG. fire, or know of any other 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news, BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS, BROOKLYN ‘ - OUT OF TOWN 5 bd INVITED GUESTS, “ADULTS ONLY.” FOOL'S LUCK. On a pleasant street in Richmond Hill to-day I saw a woman, evidently a pros- pective tenant, coming out of a house which bore a “floor to let” sign. The I was about to enter an ice cream shop in Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, details appeared to have been satis-| Street between Fifth and Madison Ave- side of the glass. I entered the store but when I was seated and |factorily settled when sae dence nues, whence all but he had fled before learned that the woman had two chil+ considering my order I found I could not forget those two wistful ayens Hoprieal EHS n't take chil-|#"orting, honking blares from. automo- ford me,the keenest pleasure to chloro-|the devil-ca e fe ner, she walked tn-|h @fagonally across 42d and I thought, and I returned to my soda. here offended her, she walke e cut diagonally * © I scarcely had tasted it when in walked that boy and that Valley Stream, Long Island. DADDY WAS NO SOLOMON. still fastened securely to him. in watching a man take chances at fusedly I explained the invitation and my plight and promptly he | various booths to provide his three little] “BILL” CODY'S NEPHEW PICKS , ordered the mob to depart. They were a disgusted and indignant lot, and when the last of them had passed out the captain turned and fired a parting shot at me. “Whaja ask us in fer if ya didn't mean it?” he demanded. * * © I remained in that store no longer than daughters with dolls. He won two RASPBERRIES. Daddy, I want one too.—Mrs. Dorothy L, Hopper, No. 71 Ashford Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, N. ¥. IT HAS BEEN A BLUE YEAR. 352 Blohm es leased her.—Edward Walker, Doremus Street, Paterson, N. “BUDDY.” CONDUCTOR NO, 3966, “DEARLY BELOVED, LET US + CLEANSE OURSELVES.” While passing Williamsburg Bridge I saw hundreds of men and women with theire prayer books open, murmuring prayers. They were celebrating the sec- ond day of the Hebrew New Year by xoing ‘to nearby water and sayin He did not lose con-/*Tashlich," figuratively to wash awie FROM THE OLD WORLD. got up, looking very white, and gave! On the Rector Street Station plat-| I saw had made a mistake in my selection of Fords. I felt ashamed, the signal to Ko ahead. +Then he went {form I saw two Oriental looking men] of course, but between you and me, more frightened than embarrassed. right back to the old man and gave him|meet. Each of them placed. his right a transfer, He was Conductor No. 3966, | hand upon his own forehead, then upon] 1 €XPlained to the lady how I came to be there and she commanded Mary McCann, No. 626 60th Street, |his lps and next upon his heart, afte: Brookiyn, Which they clasped hands In ‘hearty fashion. Later I learned that this i floor, although the elevator carries one |Avenue, Brooklyn, es 2 up several stories above the twelfth. 4 Vw, In many office buildings I have noticed Peace, ye further there are no offices numbered 1,| To-day “I. saw a scene of desolation \ Ld, —~e had their sides and fronts torn away UEE! S. Some are windowless, Great heaps of HE LIK®S His PIPE. FATHER TURNS RED. @ NS. broken lumber, stalroawen Plumbing At noon to-day, looking from my My dad was painting the chimney of ate: ster ron Ue about tn office window, | saw a man in over~ SILVER, UINENG. confusion. Men were searching the} ails lying on a ledge Between the |CUF house yesterday when suddenly we In one of the side streets of Co- | ruins as if looking for buried treasure | nineteenth and twentleth floora of [heard @ loud crash, followed by @ rona near Jackson Avonue to-day J | It looked as If cyclone had struck] the Liggett Building, Madison Ave- | bumpety-bump over the roof, We dashed heard a Uttle girl screaming and saw |the place. But none had. Wreckers] nue and 42d Street, He amoked con- her mother rush to her, “Johnnie | were at work on what was the Brook-| tentedly for ten minutes, after which Ait me on the ar with a stick of ,lyn Receiving Ship during the war. he knocked the ashes from his pipe toood,” she cried, Blood was on her | Here thousands of Uncle Sam's young] and curled up for @ nap. Three- |his appearance had changed! The pot cheek akd ohe cried brokenly. Her lors were trained for duty at sea.| quarters of an hour later, when I {or paint had toppled over, deluging @his mother was trying to soothe her, [and now this seems an Inglorious end| looked agatn, he was sitting up om |head and shoulders with red liquid. But, when suddenly the child began to [for # place that contributed to the! the ledge reading a paper.—Clara }despite our hearty laughter, he con- laugh, She jumped up and down | winning of the war—Thomas Fox, No.| M. Gallagher, Ride Street, Rve, | tinued, unperturbed, at his task until tt and laughed. “What on earth ia [30 Garnett Street, Brooklyn. N.Y. was completed.—Fred Messner, the matter with yout? asked the Grove Street, Ridgefield Park, N. J. now frightened parent, “Are you ONE ALOUD. qua to-day we heard a scream. Money"? Bedford Hills, N. Y. Yesterday’s Special Prizes Ford Car MRS. MARGARET KELLY LOORAM, No. 985 55th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, sve tVinners of ord Prize please report immediately to City Editor, Evening World, for dentilivation) , . e her only enough money to ‘© moving picture showa a week, three were sary for her hap- ficer, everythin; MRS. MAE MOORE, No, 260 Hast 194th Street, Bronx. ae Second Cash Prize, $10 » H. YONDOWITZ, No. 153 Heyward Street, Brooklyn, 4 Third Cash Prize, $5 WILLIAM RODGERS, No, 68 North Eighth street, Ashley Heights, Paterson, N. J. Ten Prizes of $2 Each ¥. HERBERT, No. 885 Mosholu Parkway N., Bronx. BEATING A BARBER, fy Como, N. J. rber shop to-day how James Bond, Lake Corn: thirty,” the boy replied, and I saw panion and shouted: "Now I got HARRIE coal is to be had for this town. Darter” sighed " pomathine, anont’ od HAZEL BALK, No, 1482 Gillespie Avenue, Bronx. A. Peters, No. 8 Addision Avenue, can't beat ‘amic brn Ho Hayes, No THOMAS BROW No, 49 Hamilton Street, Stapleton, 8. I. Rutherford, N. J. 4G Hyatt Avenue, Winfield, L. 1 JOHN A. BEHLER, No, 179 Catherine St., Port Richmond, 8, 1 ae — MISS HELEN M, BOWMAN, No. 600 West 178d Street, YHE MAN WHO SOILD BABY CAPS HANDBALL FOR HAPPINESS. H, A. NEWELL, No, 50 Broad Street. After having canvassed our village two graceful girls of sixteen WILLIAM IL. MILI No, 3 ntgomery Street, Jersey City, on Tuesday, selling baby cans that hundball against the wall of nurst fire house this afternoon. Gloomy, but the sight of MRS, HARRY H, THOMAS, No. 6 MARY STEINART, No. 49 1th Stre EMELINE HOPYMAN, No. . Marks Avenue, B'klyn, t, Elmhurst, L. 1. eet, Woodhaven, L. 1. ned the day for me, Read to-day’s stories, Pick the ones you think best. Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to-morrow, WEEKLY PRIZES. Regular CAPITAL PRIZES for the DAILY Prize Winners Other Than Those to Whom the Ford Cars are Awarded:’ FIRST, $100; SECOND, $50; THIRD, $25; FOURTH, $10. Do crossed fingers conatitute @ Dro- lective talisman? Hark, I saw a man, evidently an out-of-towner, cross 42d : : J °..Gh. tt would af-[blle horns, and not once did he look at Teer ae ie aguas pled But his right forefinger form them—anything to please you," |had crept lovingly around the second said’ the mother as, with chin in the|Gnger, and remained there till alr and nose puckered as if the at-|reached the curb. A little further along m dignantly away.—Mrs. James C. Foster,|derbilt’ Avenues, again with fingers crossed, and disappeared in Grand Cen. tral Station with all his legs and urms Never having any luck myself In win-4crossed fingers represent a paid-up life in my life, for my purse contained only a half dollar and a dime. The |ning prizes, | was interested last night |insurance policy?—L, C, Jordan, No. 62 clerk looked from me to the gang and back again. Hastily and con- |*! # carnival held in| Walgrove Park, |Siwanoy Avenue, New Rochelle, N. ¥. WHAT DID HE MBAN, “MISTAKAT” Dick had been chosen as the hand- somest boy in his class at the Curtis High School by a popular vote of the girls. In Tompkinsville Square yester-| front of a seated young man. He day I saw him with a girl on cach arm. Just then I heard a cry from a shop, dolls, which he gave to the two older]! My employer, George Cody Goodman, girls, and then his luck went on vaca-|@ nephew of Buffalo Bill, to-day brought ton. He couldn't win another doll, and|in @ pint of luscious red raspberries when he was leaving the carnival with} which he had picked at his» home, the three children, the youngest was] which is known as Locust Glen Farm. was absolutely necesary.—Laura Gilder Simon, No. 447 15th Street, [crying rivers of tears and walling: | Genevieve Courtlandt, Arlington, N. ¥. Brooklyn. by called back. The fellow who made it, a atmnger, came out and looked in theirlty ask him faces searchingly, whereupon he backed | woutd off, sayin ‘The girls laughed, but Dick blushed fur- fously,—David Rausen, N Reema as Street, New Brighton, 8. I. SOMETHING TO THINK OVER.” While watching a football game to- day at Olympic Park between a young men's and a young women's teani To-day I sat for the first time thi: | saw a young man knock a young wom- year in the Yale bowl and saw the 1922] an down while trying to recover the Yale eleven defeat Bates. All signs] ball. “I beg your pardon,” he sald es point to a Yale year, with a good|he picked her up, and then, as the chance of finally triumphing over Har-| crowd began to laugh, he realized he vard in the bowl.—Joseph T. Brady,| was playing football and quickly re- diately he handed me two patra of ‘J While walking down Broadway on an errand for my mother, I saw the Ford car of one of our friends parked in front of a grocery at 16th Street, and, being on terms of intimate friendship with the owner, I climbed in to wait for him. * * * I bad scarcely slammed the door back of me when I was seized, none too gently, by a bull- sciousness, but the car was stopped to] their sins.—David Yuni, No. 762 Georgia dog I had never seen before. The animal had been stretched out on the floor of the car, He sank his teeth into one of the sleeves of my coat and held me until his mistress stepped out of the store. Then either take the shoestrin, “Buddy” to let go of me. He'll never be any buddy of mine, for he gave my arm two or three shakes before he released me. * * * THE UNLUCKY NUMBER. 4 common form of greeting among] Hereafter, I shall try to be more certain of my Ford.—Arthur Trevena, New Yorkers must be terribly super-|'"4ny Peoples of the Near Bast and can No, 546 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J. stitious. In Loew's State Theatre to-|be traced back to the Syria of Biblical day I saw there was no such exit as No./days. It ts sald to signify: “With my 13, although there were exits numbered | ead I worship you, with my lps I 10, 11 and 14. In the Times Building|honor you and with my heart I low I noticed also there ts no thirteenth | You-'"’—Susan M, Hall, No, 170 Brookiyn His name is Mike, but we call him Bill Bailey because he mans the Balley Avenue shuttle car between the upper curve of the Harlem Hiver Webster Avenue. “Now don't get yourself all heated up running,”,he remonstrates I race pantingly to his platform, f I'll wait for yo out, filled with apprehension, only to find him atill perched on the roof. But how Bronx. OHANGE HERE TO DADDY WIL, PLEASE READ THIS Ae T was riding on a freight local between Pleasantville and Chappa- stopped the train and found a boy of twelve with his foot out off above the ankle, He had been trying to make a hitch, as the boys call dt, and fell under the train. We stopped an automobile and sent him to the Ossining Hospital.—J. B, Caden, IN THE NAMD.OF THE LAW, ‘I am a police officer and last night three small boys came to me and told me they saw burglars in a house {n St. Clair Avenue going through the rooms with a flashlight. I looked the house over, rang the doorbell, and after con- sideratffe waiting the owner of the house opened the door. I told him what had é 4 4 to me and he sald: Ro, tan ae ist heer, e ts O. K. That was my wife with a flashiight, looking for the baby, She found him in the attic.”— COAL, COAL, EVERYWHERE. Standing at the depot this morning, ‘a freight train pass on {ts way to New York. It was made up entirely of loaded coal cars, And not a car of he said his wife made, a man ran ‘out on the State Road to get the bus to Rockland Lake when he was struck by an automobile and Me skull was fractured. He was taken to the hospital, where he died the vt day without his identity being led, Mrs, F. Lynch, Conyers, it Stories of the Week to Be Distributed Among RICHMOND. “SANDY HOOK, AHOY!” I reached my bungalow home at Graham Beach, Staten Island, about 7 o'clock last night, kissed the members of my little family and seated myself for the evening meal. We are situated about one block from the beach and an equal distance from a creek, at the rear, After supper, a stroll along the beach was decided upon, but when I stepped out upon the porch f saw that the water was up as far as the second step. I heard the surf roaring and saw that the waves were splashing ten feet in the air. The sea broke across the sand and met the over~ flowing creek, The effect was as of one great body of water with all the houses roundabout looking like” houseboats, I went into the house, donned hip-high rubber bootesand when T came out’ again found that.the water was up to my knees. * * * IT heard voices in the distance but {t was piich dark and I could see no one. I walked in the direction from which the sounds seeméd to have come and found @ man and two women standing bigh and dry upon a mound. They were unprepared to take a single step and so I carried them on my back, one at a time, through the deep. They were a happy trio when once they stepped foot within their own door. * * * Several in this neighborhood have about decided to buy boat anchors and attach them to'the porches. It wouldn't be very pleasant to wake up sume morning and find that we are passing Sandy Hook.—Maurice Vogt, Iona Street, Grahain Beach, Staten Island. “GENTLEMEN, BH SEATED. me friend, the three of them I'm sorry, my mistake!" | watsh, No. 154 Catherine Street, Port . 128 Winter PLEASE EXCUSE; WRONG PARTY. A MATTPR OF BUSINESS. the dime ba Stapleton, Staten Island. HE LOOKED BRIGHT, In one of the department stores I saw a boy and his mother choos- ing a hat. The boy, a bright looking lad of about fifteen, finally de- cided on a blue cap and handed the salesman the straw he had been wearing. “Throw it in the rubbish basket,” he said. Then he ap- peared to have a second thought on the subject. “No,” he called, “give it to me, please.” We did not have to wait long to see what he wanted it for, for holding the straw hat in his left hand he kicked a hole through it with his right foot. Then, with a grin of satisfaction, he handed it back to the salesman. “Might as well have some fun out of ft,” he said.—Mrs. Margaret Keating, No. 1007 Clifton Avenue, Rosebank, Staten Island. BRONX BILL BAILEY. OLD GLORY. “AL's HERE.” I was tn a USPENDeERs.|furters. The grocer lifted one finger. In @ Leaington Avenue subway train last night I saw a man get on at 86th Street, look around in vain for a seat and, not seeing any, raise his hand to take hold of a strap. As he raised his arm his trousers slipped down, He hastily pulled them up, covered Als face with one hand and hurriedly went out into the vestibule of the car, making a complete exit at the newt atation.— fair sized package which he gave 1653 Beach Avenue, Bronx, CALLIGRAPHER, Concourse, ‘0 ‘oncourse, Brona, ten by the Agent.” Samples showin, , his skill In handwriting were on di SA’ ESMAN RECOMMENDS A HAT. | iay, It seems that ticket sales at this station are few and the agent makes is spare time by earning While I was buying @ hat Inst ulght a Tremont Avenue store 1 saw a man| good use of aming about who, a salesman in-|» little extra money.—A. H. Lang, No formed me, had triedion nearly every} 399 Wiilis Avenue, Bronx. tile in the place without being sulted, Just then one of the salesmen picked up a hat, handed it to the prospective cus- in Bre Parts = mall tomer and sald, “Let me help you oul,| are gre od oe ee oee ee a brother, Here's a hat, right up to style, that sults you exactly. What's «the matter with this one?” The man tried {t on, turned this way and that before & mirror, then remarked: “I guess I|a few seconds. won't need a new hat if my old one looks so well." Everybody within hear- ing roared—except the di CALLING OUT THE RESERVES, CLOSING TIME. About 6 o'clock Saturday I was in a department store in 149th Street, I saw a woman buying a hat. After she had tried on several hats a bell rang and the salesgirl sald, “There goes the eldsing bell!” Then the customer picked up the first hat within reach, said she would take “this one,” put it on, and waited for a bag in which to place the old one. * * * On the way out I observed that there was @ “special sale” on in alarm clocks. A clurk was winding one of them Up and letting the bell ring. This was the “closing bell” the sales- girl in the hat department heard. There was a sign at the door stat- {ng that the shop would be open until 9 o'clock.—Mrs, B, W. Budd, No. 642 Mead Street, Bronx, ORD A DAY,’? FOR FOUR WEEKS.---SPECIAL PRIZE-- NINETEEN MORE DAYS I saw an old Iady whose arms were filled with bundles get on a Staten Island car this afternoon and stand in asked her if he could relieve her of her bundles, which offer she declined with ‘Hey, good-lookin'!""' This is a popular} thanks, but made no offer to give her cry at Curtis, and thinking it was made] his seat. I then offered her mine, but as she turned to take it we saw an- other man had slipped into {t. I had to give it up before he relinquish {t.—Lawrence _ B Photographs of Rodolph Valentine were given as souvenirs at the Liberty As I waited for a car at Maple | Theatre here at a matinee at which Avenue last night I saw a one-leg- |was shown ‘his picture: ‘Blood and ged man soliciting, as I thought, | Sand." Two ladtes, admiring the sou- aimo. I gave him a dime, Imme- | venir as they walked along the street ater leaving the theatre just ahead of shoestrings. I refused them, and he | me, remarked just as a young man was said: “Well, young man, you must | passing them: “‘Isn't he a darling boy?” or take |The young man was flabbergasted, then ’ I took the shos- |he saw Valentino's photos in’ their atrings.—Nicholas G. De Joy, No, |hands. John Logie, No. 71 Beach Street, 6 Smith Street, Rosebank, 8. I. From our dining room window I can see the flagpole atop the Bronx County Court House at Third Avenues and 181ut © Street, This morning I saw the flag gracefully unfurl ts colors to the breeze. It hangs on the pole in all sorts of lied by the dread of a half hour’s| weather. It 1s never taken down at ait for his next trip, ‘You'll know|night as it should be, and although it * All the other pas-|is worn and perhaps « bit tattered, it sengers smile, for they know Bill| flutters joyfully in the bright sunlight, Bailey will make up the lost time.| Blanche B, Hamilton, No. 106 Parle People along his route set their clocks} Avenue, Bronx. by his comings and goings. Aud whet Bill Batley says to me he has been cay- ing to hie lucky patrons for years of yesterdays, May he be spared to say it during years of to-morrowsl—E. C. store tn 117th Street near Tremont Avenue to-day when a frankfurter man, leaving his Haring, No, 2489 Bedgwick Avenue, | iioncart at the curb, entered and asked the grocer if he wanted any frank- The frankurter man brought back @ the grocer in return for some bills. The grocer asked me if I knew what it was. Then he Informed me It was a pint of booze.—Helen Moore, No As I was buying Uokets at the 129th Street station of the Third Avenue “L,” i Cuhbas I saw a sign on the booth readings George #. Kuhbach, No, #866 Grand |‘ cates’ and Gentlemen's Carde Write ant grab hold of @ black beetle with ita pincers, The beetle ran around tn circles and although It was a hundred times a@ large as the ant, it soon became ex- hausted. ‘Then the ant disappeared for It returned in a moment with a whole troop of ants, which pro- ceeded to dissect the beetle and carry hii away to thelr nest as food for the man.—R. Himelsback, No, winter,-W, 3, Pirle, No. 586 Hast 14lat 186th Street, Bronx. Street,