The evening world. Newspaper, October 5, 1922, Page 27

“A FORD A DAY : : MANHATTAN é LIKE WATER, ' 4 T had just finished my dinner this evening and was leaving John Fay’s restaurant on West 125th Street, The proprietor, a baehel rated up that way at at Jeast a quarter of a million, sat just outside the door with a friendly greeting for all who passed, | remained for ® minute or two, not having decided on how j should pass the evening, and saw @ motor-car pull up. A dapper young gentleman hopped out and assisted a young woman to the sidewalk.. They walked towards the restaurant, As he was about to enter, the flashy young gentle- man looked about, saw Brother Fay sitting there taking it easy, tossed him @ half dollar and said; ‘Say, Old Timer, just keep your eye on my boat for a while, will you?”—George N. Dorney, No. 277 Broadway. — “HERE WH ARE, SIRI” ‘A taxi stopped in front of the Olinton Street Police Station Satur- day night as I was passing, The @river opened the taxt door and in- vited his fare to alight! “Lemme "lone, I’m comf’bia here,” the man returned in alcoholic accents. Hn- Mating the aid of frat one, then an- ether policeman, the driver fnally transferred his fare from the soft ouch on the taxi seat to the hard Boards of q cell.Joseph Scovner, Wo, 29 Attorney Stree | MAN OVERBOARD, Yesterday afternogn as the General Melgs, a sigbtgeeing boat, put in at Pler A for passengers, an old man with 4 cane caught the Ine thrown ashore by 4 deckhand and twisted it around a cleat on the dock. ‘The line parted when the vessel put a strain on It, so the deckhand threw, out another one. Just a8 the old man Was about to turn It around the cleat, the deckhand fell into the water. Instantly the old man threw the line to him, The deckhand caugnt it and was hauled ashore. It logke: seridus for a moment, hecauge the boat was sweeping toward him, but the deck- hand smiled as though his mishap was an everyday occurrence,—Patrick Healy, No. 34 Morton Street, DANCING DOWN FROM YONKERS, Five girls and as many young men, evidently homeward bound from a dance, entered a subway car whose sole passenger I chanced to be late one night last week when I was returning from Yonkers. Presently a musician, yiolin case under his arm, also entered and immediately was importuned for a tune. He smilingly complied, and again the dance was on. Up and down the aisle they spun, turning into a temporary Palace of pleasure a car which a few|tter their journeys to the furthermost hours later would be jammed by a horde] ends of the world, the of uncomfortable passengers.—C, D,|few feet of each other. Wood, No. 102 West 75th Street. Pattersun, Hbto} Endicott. — \ NORTH POLE AND SOUTH, This morning I was in the American Museum of Natural History, and in the ation devoted to Polar Exploration 1 saw two dog sleds, One of them reached the North Pole with Peary April 6, 1909, The other reached the South Pale with Amundsen Dec. 14, 1911, Now, ¥OU NEVER KNOW YOUR LOK, I saw a young woman this morning at Sixth Avenue near 98th Street who wished to enter a store but who wuld not pass beneath a lasider tilted against the entrance. On the ladder was a n.an engaged in washing the glass of th transom. He smilingly offered to move the ladder so the girl's superstition would not be bruised, but as he started to descend hig pall struck sqmething, was overturned and its sotled water cus- ended down upon the young woman's new fall hat and guit.—Adelaide M. Ohren, No. 157 West, 8st Street, OVERCOA® ON A TOOTHPIC 1 stood on the pier at Bear Mountain walting for the boat to New York. A heavy wire mesh running lengthwise on the pler separates incoming from out- going passengers. A man witha heavy overcoat on his arm evidently found & heavy burtlen, so, taking a toottipl from his pocket, he pushed it under the strap of the collar and inserted It} th ts, which ho threw Into a’ local through the wire mesh. There hls coat] trains, Very-likely the dads of the hat- hung as slick as if it were on a hook|less ones may not-see the fine at home.—Jessica Lawton, No. 145 he Joke as the boys did,—Haral 96th Street. No, § Bast 127th Street, RICHMOND LOOKING FOR “BABY.” While I was taking photographs in front of the 118th Stveet-Police Station at Richmond Hiij (the pictures to be used on automobile trafjc cards), I saw a bigSt, Bernard standing loaking into the sta- on-house through the glass doors. He was no longer a young dow but he had an air of wisdom. 1 saw several officers try to shoo him away. If they became insistent, the old fellow flattened out and whined, Presentiy 1 was approached by an old lady who acted as if she were deaf and dumb. She kept pointing to the dog, and then she would hold her hand about two or three fget from the ground. Finally, I stepped into the station and asked the matron if she knew anything about a lost baby. The matron did. The old lady was at my heels and the old dog at hers. In a minute, a boy about two years ald was In his nurse’s arms, The kid insisted on walking and I saw them all going down the street together, the dog with one corner of the boy's dress in his mowth.—Allen Gilmor, No. 8746 119th Street, Richmond Hill, L. §. The psyal crowd. got aboard the up- town subway train at the Pennsylvania Statién at noon Saturday. The doprs @ hardly clesed when a man shouted t me gui! Let me out! It's top crowded here!” The gard opened the doors ahd he got out, A moment later. Just as the train was’ starting, « man shouted “Let me outl Let mi That. guy got my wallet! Kelley, No. 248 W. ther ‘out! Chester A 105th Street, Rowdies, A crowd of young: foetball players were skyia:king im@ sabway train Sat- urday, throwing’ hits and helmets at one another and heving a hitarious me. One_of ahem wished to alight at 96th Street, bub his friends would not permit, ji ‘They held him’ unui the train reached: the next express .stafion, then Jaughe d at him 'Urough windows. 3 b But the trgin atafied he reached through a window nud grabbed: three of HE TRER. Near my hone this evening 1 raw the * trunk of a huge watnut’tiee on a motor} in truck, The informed me it} weighed several tons, that it was worth about $500 ynd thar it chased from a farmer SHY WHO MUST BE OBEYED, While waiting to be served yesterd hat store at Broadway sud t, I saw an important looking mid- dit-aged man select 4 4 many on, He then asl aside until to driver had been pur for delivery to a furniture house in Manhattan, ft Place, Silver’ Lak was said to’ be the largest trea of its | jana, ‘ kind on’ Staten Agnes V a x Spruck, No. 391 more Avenud, ON THURSDAY Weaterloigh,’ Staten ‘Teland, When 1 reached home ‘Thursday af- four nInRD oF i nsw on man diggin On Richmond Avenue to-dny Teaw al house. He wus dresged $n ardin young man riding on a bieycle whith an] sirect clot Inquiry proved to the back was equipped with 4 bourd for Rob Inaape, Mvib poy g package: stea He is voting to build a saris pee aa Bat. tnatend Of pear ipo, ha woe, betnos neste tn peekass ne e - pigeon. get anyon’ to-start the work before Seemingly it was enjoying the ride,— y art the work | Mriday, and unwilling to haye made on that day, he simped made the beginning himself.— Pasca, 246 Maryland Avenue, Rose Staten Island. Mrs, N. Prall, No, 241 Charles Avenue, Port Richmond, Staten Island. HIS MASTER'S VOICB. My employer braught an alarm, clock to the office this morning and pliodd it on his desk. It made a noise fit to awaken the dead at 4.45, and I waa told that it represented Kis wife's, voice, telling him not to miss ‘the commuters’ train.—tI. MoGutre, No, 1 Van Buren Stregt, Wow Brighton, Staten Islands ‘HANDY, ' Avenue, near 17th Street, | saw a ma pick up a sharpening stone, the .gtore.—-Mrs, H, Holzka, Island. “A FORD A DAY” GIVEN AWAY FREE FOR FOUR WEEKS--SPECIAL PRIZE 5 In a 5 and 10 gent. store on Sixth put an edge on his knife with it and then ra- turn the stone to the counter and leave No. 195 Dongan Street, West Brighton, Staten rit Se ld Gpecial Additional Dally Prize for Contributions to This Page for Four Weeks. OPEN TO ALL READERS Name of Winner in To-Night’s Pictorial Edition. TELL YOUR STORY, i TOOK PLACE. WR For the best stories eack day: SPECIAL PRIZ $25; SECOND CASH PRIZE, $10; THI uu witness a serious aocident, the ths ie the CITY EDITOR ot The Evening World. Liberal awarde for first big news. MANHATTAN, IN THE DOORWAY OF NO. 10, If y 4000 and ‘THE EVEN One Dollar is paid for orld, Post Office Box 185, item printed; the ity Hall Station. a Regular GAPITAL PRIZES for the DAILY Prige Winners Other Than Those to Whom the Ford Care are Awarded: FIRST, $100; SECOND, $50; THIRD, $25; FOURTH, $10, z ING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1922, ditor, ITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBO! IP POSSIBLE, IN NOT MORE THAN 12 TE YOUR OWN NAME AND ADDRE RD itbreak of what threatens to be Anyone passing through this block to-day might have written to you about the woman they saw looking out of a window in 19th Street *“ with a gray-and-white cat perched on her shoulder, and they might have added that if the woman was a little older she would have looked like the wax “Grandmother” that tells fortunes in front of the 14th Street shooting galleries. * What the eat and I were looking #for was something to send to the “What Did You See” page. Well, one of ¢! doorway of No, 10, sewing a rip in hjs coat. to be @ hard job, An automobile with a Massachusetts number-plate stopped, The two young fellows who got out of it offered the tramp some money. He was reluctant to take it (probably not a real tramp, but an out-of-work) but he did, finally, and when-he had completed his mending he tossed his bundle over his shoulder and was off.—Ger- trude Harfst, No. 14 West 13th Street, “A GREAT TEACHER SHB My neighbor's Kittle boy has, just started in school and his frat in- struction in spelling consisted in readitto simple words like *b-o-y" ” gut of his primer, day when he returned from school “What you s’pose that ol’ teacher wants us to da now? Hhe wants 4s to spell the words without looking at the book !”—Ade- laide M. Ohron, No, 151 Weat sist and he demanded: Street. ‘The other night I saw a erowd of people gathered outgide a butcher shop at 102d Street and Madison The shop. too, waa crows @ man standing there what the trquble was and he answered that the people were waiting to huy chickens for their Yom Kippur dinner, would break their fast, he a hard joh to 6 that mob had finishes 0. ROASTING TH th Street to-day I saw five Iittle They al! icks roast- 1 hadn't seen thie In 5 boys standing around a fir had potatoes on the ends of ing them in the fire. in years and my heart hungered a: ratched them eat their potatoes with Harriet Clarkin, No. An here to gl 0 door, hoo!” whoxe make rope man was lying di at of the buggy. At Reach A tori workily ps other burcde rings get them."—Harry East 105th Th ai amiling face: West 54th Street. was , Bronx, tu Deighan, roux. Th family, Food runs ing and which could get were stripped by nthe plan of pickin arly in the mori nin a shanty, from we eareied @ —William Sel~ sketfy del, to-day snickerbocke Ni At 205th Str big tree. a ps | “WO0-HOOW old-fashigned, community neivhborhoad apparent! to notice my predsnes well about flue weeks ago, ond | missed sorely the smiles and yreetings of my former yeighba Never once did [ got so much as a the adults sqmetin ed-in porch next But yesterday, as 1 sat read- ing, I heard a woigs calling “Wao; Standing that porch was a tiny, blue-eyed tat, sweet suiles as he tried to acquaintance filled heart with warmth and joy.—Amelia Kirshbaun, e from pying @ pls several muy in in the but y toc to their home 203 Must 1o4th Street, Bronx, Avenue. 1 asked with which the: { said it would y chickens when but he answered buying * put I like old chiekens and No. 62 POTATOES. conservative old-fashioned has failed ince I came 206th 1Gith Street and trailing be ed to the hearse-by an old-fashloned bugey, d to the world across was sound B stopping to 1 coupe When Ls he Evening World that the dog given the interesting things we saw was a tramp sitting in the Poor fellow! It seemed ALMOST A cURTIO, West 162d Street, Grimm, make Stréct. J € the st BOILER ON THE ROOF, In Park Place thewther day 1 noticed a large steam. boiler. b the roof of a whether some one was afraid {t would be stolen from the cellar or had decided merely to put it high, so it would be in keeping with No. 858 W, it Ri edie the pi IT COULD NOT HELP BEING NICE. At the entrance to Prospect Park at Empire: soulevard and Flatbush Avenue to-day I saw an elderly lady of the old-fashioned type pose in front af thi camera of a street photographer. was ttking great peargnce, reddy sh suid to the operator: it’ for Francis G. Long, No. 641 Washington and when nice, ON SUNDA Sunday afternoon trom Park at 180th Street I saw Y Stadium a bi Played by soldiers 4 re t Ward, building. e 119th Stree pains with she was almo. An old-fushioned sea-going hansom, driver sat aloft nest of a vessel, daughter and me as we were riding yesterday on a Fifth Avenue bus and my daughter thought Noah's Ark had slyen up one of ita freaks. surprised when I told her they used to be common.—Mrs, E as if in the Passed my She was No, °526 ing hoisted to I wondered of coal.—K. she her ap- “Please my boy. Mornin in t played py boys of the neighhe in an adjacent lat a football game wae in full Mast, tilled, « the crowds, rn A Madeline T Nicholas Avenu Hudson River, ore B This ming I saw 4 number of wanted to learn and that they th during the of this ro Bradhurst The Stadium Two bands were on the fences and on stoneé watching other was we ing, and good No. sized 574 St 10N. young women with noteho: sroup then’ about a stous whieh rises from the grassy slope of Colonial Park at 158d Street. 7 were teachers and studonts of geology, They told me they how the rack believed it had BIG fire, know of ay oth Lid) ouT OF TOWN EXTRA BOY. _ EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS : news more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded D, © OS atic pepo f ais 8 Sadie bens them to “What Did You See and Weekly. Evening. HOOD. 5 WORDS. STATE WHERE THE THING WRITTEN ABOUT, 3s CAREEULLY AND IN FULL, CHECKS MAILED DAILY, A FORD CAR A DAY FOR FOUR WEEKS; FIRST CASH PRIZE, CASH PRIZE, $5. TEN PRIZES of §2 each for next best stories or BIG news atory, telephone Beskman OF YOUR FACTS. — Riding on a Pacific Avenue car in Jersey City | enjoyed the play and chatter of four bright little children, from two to six years old, My destination was Oakland Avenue, and when the young mother called to the children at the same point I took charge of the two boy! and four years old, The mother got off the car first. mine!” woman was rushing towards us, my nose. man} 6 9 (* three I was heid up by the jam about the door, I finally placed the two boys safely on the walk, said “What a lovely family you have!" and was about to move along about my business when the young woman pointed to one ef the boys and said, “Why he isn't mine; he was only playing with Then I saw that the car had stopped again. An excited young She shook her fist almost under “T've a mind to call a police- “You kidnapper,” she said, And if ever again I volunteer as a mother's helper T'll be sure of my facts.—Miss Gwen Davis, No. 62 Lafayette Strect, Jersey City, JOHNNY SPINK, I saw comething to-day I should like to tell the other readers of the page about, but I suppose a great many of them will first want to know wher this community. for boys only. There were twenty entrants, Virtheliffe is. being situated in Orange County, a few miles south of Newburgh, we have just been haying our annual Field Day, the The feature, I think, was the Pie Hating Contest, It was one of the liveliest competitions I ever saw. ‘The kind of pies they were to tackle but in one was kept a mystery until they got tho signal to minute the mystery was out. of the ple-eaters proved it, stepped forward far the crown, 30, Well, we are not so very far from the city, And day of days in They were huckleberry, and the faces Johnny Spink had disposed of the last vostige of one pie in exactly 60 seconds, He wore a broad grin as he He was asked the old, old question, “How'd it taste, Johnny?” and he gave the old, ol& answer, “Like CHAZLY digging a grave. ns who ing." 1 to! is better toa be MAN, As I was passing Riverside Cemetery ‘in Chazy, 'N. ¥., jrawn to @ man singing cheerily while Lf asked him who had “The ve here are still liv- him I did not understand ten he told me that he was digging reves for his wife and himself, t * he sald, my attention passed on and he replied ready to go an'to go and not be res ady. per: There graves were being dug six feet deep, eight feet long and seven fet wide They will have a concrete wall three feet high, The tops to be ee ed with a conerete slab with vandies, All this he told me, and then eft him. And he was still singin » Chazy, N. ¥. iron 152d Street, our neig a number af garde vt and Webster A 1 saw a middle-aged woma ‘limbs from Mrs. Grerich, No. 3166 Web- y Avonue, Broux OVER AND OVER AGAIN I had just Anished sorting 1, in numerical order in our offic and handed them to the boss. to put a band around Suddenly the stack buckled in the mid- die and I saw ali my work fly Into 1,500 pieces.—R. J re ne large to-day He tried them, in a lot adjoining my home. His wile # taken quantities of eubbage, veape and chard from the garden for her Jan erday the vines Yesterday ne all ripe or WOROTHY YOUNG, No. N HATTIB L, COLIN, No. N. Y. (Winners of Ford Prize plepse report immediately to City Editor, Evening World, for identifteation,) Ford Car First Cash Prize, $25 WAROLD SE'TON, Hote} Gotham, Second Cash Prize, $10 RK, THOMAS, No, 4 Geneva Strect, Bath, N. Y. Third Gash Prize, $5 WILLIAM L, MARCY, No. 652 Riverside Drive Ten Prizes of §2 Each LILLIAN, West 98th Street, LOUISE WAL MRS. J. J, KA1 R BENJAMIN WILLIAM ME FREDERICK EBRIBD M. LINDNER, No, FRED ELDT, No. 1049 Castleton Avenue, West New Brighton, s.L . %, No, 174 East 63d Street. No, 661 East 170th Street, the Bronx. J. M'NAMARA, No, 870 Ford Street, the Bronx. LL L. 1 Read to-day's stories. SHAPIRG 4418 97th Avenue, Yesterday’s Special Prizes 12 North High Street, Mount Vernon 2856 Grand Concourse, the Bronx. No, 828, Williams Avenue, Brooklyn. » No..29T St. Nicholas Avenue, Brooklyn. , CRABB, No, 9526 116th Strect, Richmond IM, Richmond Hill, Pick. the ones you think are best, Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pictorial (Green Sheet) edition and in ofher editions To-Morrow. 4 was} While horn henk: me, honk} « 'T gave snd the drt 1y science make te vers of appr down my back, eded too much was T about to know jh peering dering T glanc » and a tivver Nor Two were car more toned . the gas, my ran -Mrs. Lucinda Downsbrough, Box 62, FirtheeMffe, N. Y. THE STILL SMALL VOIOR, speeding over rnpike this morning I heard an auto behind plenty of room for the machine to pass, speeded up Just a bit, “Honk! sounded the horn, still behind T gaye my car mare gas, sounded the horn, ‘There Newark “Honk! still behind “Honk! pursuer up and Had 1 “lawful? experienc between tron bars? shud 1 out of the corner of m: up alongside yelled; “Hey, Ia this the Thus doth - little girls fondling the RUT OP COURSE SHE nin THEM, with dolls PURNED thelr mother which were being sold at two for a quarter at the walked ither the moth The a which she carried to her etting four dolls for mbert, ton, N. J. ‘Tre ps ve 8 smiling, returned a litte Is from her in the must have a little gil of your own," f “No,” he answered, got one ture 186 No, was taking y hanc 1 haven make all the 6 their mas, too, Poplar Place, New lochelle, > ip more hand the tickets to the came befoi the tic 9 1h of my thing consoling ductor passe @ carnival here in her oked at the o PEDDLE T have been taking th and to-day when J knocked at a house to the aime mamma ain't he answered a and she, hearing and explained that so many came to the door trying to she had e hoy to tell all comers she had no money, ao n't be disturbed at her house- work nn, Chester L. 1 her the to ¢ wal manner Amy I Fladd t school census New Canaan, door, The children with them feed by r or the booth keeper, id the In for twi d them in a packa two children, juarter.-—Ruth 48 West State Street, MR. CONDUCTOR small daughter to id in o to make her 1 agreed to let her conductor, But he L expected hin and he took ta from my hand before I could m to Peggy in the seat In front dover to Whisper some- The con- child and, ts. He et them | i "You "i's be- that T want to A und re- “But | must see was WEEKLY PRIZES. Stories of the. Week to je Distributed Among Yesterday afternoon while driving over te Manhattan Bridge going to Brooklyn, I saw'a doli “standing” in front of one of the * TraMc Squad booths with a big “Lost” sign pinned to its dress. The” dolly had tumbled from some passing motor-car and some kind-hearted policemak had rescued her. I presume he expects Little Mother will be passing again, one of these days, when his will be the joy of wit” nessing a happy reunion. I should like to be there.—M. Baldwin, Na 122 Sterling Place, Brooklyn. FOR YOUNG MRS. NEWLYWED TO READ, In a butcher shop to-day I saw a sign reading: ‘Roasting Lamb, 100 Lb,” I found the buteher serving a lady who asked for lamb, While I walted my turn I saw him place on the scale a nice shoulder weighing seven pounds. “Seventy cents,’ he said, But the wom- an complained that was too muyoh meat for her family of five. She wanted only elght chops. “Shoulder ehops, 96 cents; rib, 42 cents; join, 60 cents,” he sala The woman chose shoulder chopé, which the butcher eut from the same shoulder he had welghed on the scale and eollected 72 cents for two pounds of the seven pounds the wo) might have bought for 70 cents. P bought a shoulder for 68 cents and got 8 nice chops and had the rest of it cut up Into CHILDREN. * T wag on 9 Reid Avenue car with my three kiddies and next me sat a worm whose face, clothing and every appear ance Indicated that the fates had beéitt extraordinarily kind to her. She played with my baby and told me she wis “erasy' about children,” but had n¢ of her own and that their lack left great void in her lifd and made her unhappy. And so fF I thet fi clothe: id a smiling fi may gover an aching heart, and I gaye thanks for: my own happiness,—Mra, Sadie Gold- man, No. 1677 President Street, Brooke lyn. 1 PERFORATING 4 THEORY. On Sunday at Fourth Avenue and 9th Street I saw woman prése through @ crowd gathered about two boys of eight and nine years who were cubes for stew. We had chops for din-} fighting and, after upbraiding the’ ner, To-morrow night we'll have ‘stew | crowd, separate the combatants. "You and our dog Buster will have Igmb for | ought ta be ashamed to fight, and eapes several days.—Mrs, A. W. Abernethy, | ojally on Sunday,” she said to the boys, No. &1 Him Ml Street, Brooklyn, "It you went te Sunday school you. would learn not to fight” One of the AN Ga sTORY, boys retorted: My brother-in-law, while I wae yisit-] Sunday school." ‘Aw, we Just came ~~ '—Frank tay, ing him recently, took home a dozen| 367 46th Street, Brooklyn. Boeey eggs from a grocery store on West 10th Street, hut found, when tl A SELLING TALK. were broken open for frying, that “they already had been cooked. | Returning| ach tyenman at seat ane Central Sie to the store we asked an explanation | 004 OM evening lant wows oot a were told the clerk had taken them | #n4 me, ane even i pacers Nagy e from a window and that the heat from] heurtive talle on autamobile beady. electric lights therein was respdnsible | f the car he sold, pointing out ite constyuction and superierity, by eam parison, aver all other makes, When, exchange of business cards was the ‘salesman was dumfounded to on my cousin's card the words: "Costly and Auto Body Desianey and Builder.’ —Leo G. Theinem No. 20 Russell Place, Brooklyn, ’ for thelr cooked state, He gave us fresh eggs in their stead.Willlam A, Bragler, No. 538 72d Street, Brooklyn, THE WEAKER SEX. + A boy of seven, afflicted with @ bad toothache, entered my office this morn- Ing, accompaniod by his mother, He was coaxed, with considerable difficult: to sit in the chair, but when he saw ¢ forceps he yelled and Aicked and leaped to the floor, nor could wa prevall wpan him to again occupy the chair, Hig mother was pleading with him when a little girl entered to have a tooth ex- tracted, Seeing it would be an easy operation, I asked the boy to wateh her have It out, The little girl made not a sound when the tooth was pulled, and a fow moments later left with a amile on her face. With a half-ashamed look, the lad smiled at me, climbed into the chair and made go further fuas.—M. M. Garr, $89 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, GLASS BOTTOMED BOATS. . T saw a indy, as she wag about -to step into a boat her escort had just rented at the Ronthoure on Prospect Park Lake, protest that there was water in the boat. "I don't want to get my feet wot," she sald, The boatman tn- formed her that the boat had a giags bottom to enable patrons to look gt the water beneath them, and the eouple row Ys eased.—William Dy Cowle, No, 1628 Bast 46th Street, Brogi=. Iya, a — FACE IN THE POTATO, T out @ sweet potato in half to- at dinner and was astoniahed at see ing «fore sniion up at me, 4 So I sow a young woman get Into a] my Rus ie gciaies | Weent crowded B. R. T. train at Pacific Street} 4 gs ge HY gga AM: to-day carrying a rubber plant, A man} father, Dut he aud nelghbare te. od her his seat, She accepted it,| Whom swe showa ae ne, FIRST MUNTION OF THE RUBBER ANT, but Instead of sitting In It heracit she] Uncle Joe Gaunaw’e face the ar placed her rubber plant there. ‘Thea | 305 Street, drookiya another ered a keat and she ac- 3 4 that for herself—Joseph 1. ene INGURANCE AGENT, BVERY- No, 6914 16th Avenue, Brooklyn. aonus Warmeres A poor woman, accompanied by a ten year-old daughter, came to the Metrow politan Life Insurance district offtee where I am employed, and asked for cash on @ paid-up polloy, She did not: know that time ts required for essén-- tial preliminaries before a cheek ident CANDY. During an intermiaston at @ reeent performance in the Orphoum Theatre, | sew a young man slip quietly in a seat next a young lady across the alsle from me and, looking straight ahead, aitly place @ hox of eandy ip her lap. Before she could open the box some- thing caused him to look at her for the time, He siralghtened up as if jad had on elgetric shock, snatched box from the young lady, Jumped up, looked wildly around for a moment, hen dart kent threa rows al ad handed candy to another girl is he sank down Meside her.—Mrs. “A. sent for such policies, and evid was in dire need of spot cash, distress brought tears to the eyes'ot of us in the office, and the woman's nt, ring the elroumstances, ad- vanced §25 from his awn modest funds I'm sure this world ts Milled witi; kind actions, prompted by sympathetic hearts, which seldom become known outside of H. Burke, No. 498 Hancpek Streets] nose immediately _ concerned.— aa = Leslie L. Godsee, No. 385 Seventh Aver AGGHESSIVE. nue, Brooklyn. In the Ith Street subway station to- day, while I waited for a train, I felt © thg at my coat. Looking around, 1 saw & boy of about six holding a pack- oge of gum In his hand inviting me to AOT 1, SCENE 1. awe I saw a crowd gathered in front of furniture store window at Broadway, and Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, last t, LT went over to see what it was buy. I asked him what he meant by | nish pullitg my cout. “Ce, boss.” he an-|all about and sew & SARCEAD SHOW swered, “you gotta have nolye to sel}}a couple furniture, trying qut each chair shown them by sitting in it—Katherine Graham, No. 857 St. John's Place, Brooklyn. QUEENS 1D bough! anything in ! No. 14% Parkalde Avy Leoft Bernstein, nue, Brooklyn. RAFFLE FOR CANARIES, T saw many persons carrying heme from a fair at Freeman and Second Avenues, Long Island City, little woods en cages in which Were canaries, The had been won as prizes—a unique fering—at one of the booth: peared to be much to the Ii lucky owners.--William Horchler, 309 Prospect Street, Long Island AND FATHER SAYS HE Is ORE : TO DBAT In the row ahead of me at a showing of “Orphans of the Storm” in the As- torla Theatre this afternoon were @ mother and three ehildren: Johnny, six; Mary, a babe of three montha, 1 think the mother's eyes never left the screen once, although maby cried, Johnny whimpered for can- three, and THE FRENCH HEEL. ’ T saw a girl making frantec efforts te and Mury cried to wo home, With) pocoed on her way acroas 43d St eyes wluud to t + the WOMAN! this afternoon, while a crosstown car managed to administer @ slap each Ol ran toward her, its bell clanging. Pinal- the twa older ehildren and thrust @liy she wrenched her foot free and oitle at the mouth of the baty—wholtimped to the sidewalk, leaving her idn't want it, ‘The hottie rolled to the] French heel stuck fast in the slot dee oor and = was BIshi Huth E.ltween the rails.—Frank May, No, 108% colt, No, 395 Broadway, Astoria, Van Alot Avenue, Astoria PAY NO MONEY! SEND NO MONEY! There is no caarge of any kind for taking part in The Evening World's “What Did You See ‘To-day?’ competition. Send no money with your letters, Pay no money to &ny one under any circum- stances, PERSONAL calls are made on Ford winners ONLY. If your contribution is adjudged worthy of the automobile the re- porter who calls upon you will carry Evening World credentials, Ask to see them. In case of doubt, telephone to the City Editor of The Evening World, Every effort 1s made to print the more meritorious contribu. tions, Write on matters likely to be of general interest, “Locate” the Incident. 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