The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1922, Page 7

“A FORD A DAY.” OUT OF TOWN. U A MAN AT LAST. 1 was busy to-day about the front of the house when I saw a small boy going from house to house in the neighborhood, At ome doors he was greeted most formally, almost solemnly,, while at others his visit seemed to create amusement. I was very much pugzled by the performance, first because the child was not selling anything, so far as T could see, and secondly because, as he came nearer, I recognized the very small son of one of our neighbors. Finally my own bell began ringing and I went to the door. There he was, standing as straight as @ soldier and as proud as a peacock. “How do you lke my shirt?” he asked, and I learned that he was wearing his first blouse!—Mrs, George W. Cox, Dumont, N. J. TOM THOUGHT THEY WERE TEASING. Gir Thomas Lipton, after visiting his tea plant several mornings ago, was ‘walking from a Lackawanna ferry boat from Hoboken to his waiting limousine on this side of the river. Meanwhile, a Lipton truck had been held up in the traMc at the ferry entrance and the driver had gone in the ferry house to get a paper. Trafflc was resumed tn hia absence, and drivers of other trucks, wishing to proceed und noting the name on the truck, began bawling, ‘Hey, Lip. ton, Lipton!” Sir Thomas halted, looked pussled for a moment, then took in thi situation, a ton-welght smile appea on his lip, and he stepped into his and drove off.—Thomas McCooey, No. 1081 Willow Avenue, Hoboken, N. J. [is “cuckoo,” for it calls an extra houi When it struck 13 yesterday at noon, MOST HERE. From my home in @ Uftle valley of the Catskills I eee the eurrownd- {ng mountains dressed in autumn splendo: The trees are wearing garments of varied colors. Bome are dressed in red, others in orange, yellow, tan or brown, and a fow in purple. These are scattered about on the hills in vivid patches of color, intermingling pleasingly with the dark rich colorings of the “murmur- ing pines and the hemlooka.”— Leona B. Snyder, Arkvitle, N. ¥. cuckoo: TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF A POOR EEL. A large flock of sea gulls attracted My attention to-day as I stood on the Yonkers pier. One of the birds had suc ceeded in capturing a small eel, and every other gull in the flock was trying to get it to eat. Back and forth, up and down, dodged the pusued bird, al- ways close pressed, until finally it dropped the ecl. But scarcely had it touched the water when it was grabbed by another gull, and immediately that one became the centre of the flock’s at- tention. It was like a game of cros tag. When the second gull, in turn, dropped the prize, the ee! made good i “escape and the gulls settled upon the » Hudson's surface.—Mrs. E. Newberry, No. 122 Elm Street, Yonkers, N. Y. thinking along daylight saving time William J. N. J. NEW OVERALLS. To-day at the gravel works where engineer another ing that he wanted to cut the legs o an old pair of ove ght. snip away with the shears, e a loud yell. He the new overalls, ‘or lending him the H. Dougherty, Caldwell, N. J. “HIM AND HIS OLD BUS: While walking along Hudson Boulevard, near Van Reipen Avenue, on my way to business to-day, I noticed a girl of about twelve coming down the avenue on roller skates at great speed. She neglected to slow down as she approached the boulevard and had the misfortune to bump into a boulevard bus, the impact throwing her to.the ground and scattering luncheon, books and pencils in eleven directions, Cry? Not that you could notice it. She picked up luncheon, books and ‘pencils, carefully brushed her dress and proceeded on her way to school. By this time the driver had succeeded in turning his car about and was toilowing after her. lle called to her several times, most likely wanting to inquire how badly she was hurt. Every time he called, the girl turned her head, and every time sbe looked around the bus driver beckoned to her. And every time he beckoned she stuck out her tongue at him and increased her pace.—Christine EB. S ader, No. 1 Underwood } Jersey City, N. J. “THEM CITY FEL NOTHIN’ OVER ™ T saw an old farm Ss powT rer NEIGHBOR, driving his horse THE OLD MRETH jOUSE. On Seventh Street, Carlstadt, half @ mile north of the Paterson Plank and bugsy age traific on Hoyt] Road, i# a fine, low, brownstone Street, Brooklyn. nating to a building which in old days was uged Way Street” sign a cop hailed as a church. Abandoned later by with, “Hey, you, what docs that sign] the congregation, a carver of yrave- read?” The farmer glanced at th ign, stones occupied it, and when he then drawied, “Keep to the right." The cop grinned and said "G jumb- hell!” and the farmer tipped me!a wir and proceeded.—John H. Thode jr., No. 252 Morris Avenue, Rockville Centre, Long Island. moved to be nearer a cemetery, it was taken over by “Bergen County's Leading Junkman,” for storage pur- poses. Now even the junkman has deserted it, It 4s alone, and only in cobwebby mamory cam it see sur- rounding apple orchards, green, fruitful fields and people riding to head THE TREES HAVE GONE MAD. My husband returned home this ev irs fin’ and tying their horses to ning from his work on the Holy Cross me hing rae fore entering its aatate at Woat Park, doors to worship.—Arthur Opening his lunch box he took from it and gave to me tw« lovely sprays of apple blossoms were as sweet and fragrant as if It wer apring time.—Mrs. Charles A. Murtin, Esopus, N. Y. 7 Willow Avenue, Wood Hivs a CUE ONE, THAT FI The great rapidity with which a painter was working on a house in INT act. one of our strects yesterday caused I was visiting the Kensico Kese:voir| ™e 10 pause in passing to inquire inna as S saw tour] thy he was in auch a rush, “Well,” he answered, “I’in trying to get through before the paint gives out,” Mrs. Anna Muhlenhaupt, North- port, L. 1. swomen alight from another machine and begin tearing branches from burberry bushes. They were laughing and hav- ing a grand time, apparently unmindful that they were breaking the law, and we thought they were going to get with it. But just then a car came tear- ing down the road and a State trooper spra_a out, made # memorandum of the «]} license number of the women's car and spoke to the women. Apparently he thad told them to appear in court. ‘They were much chagrined. — Mrs. Regina Olszewski, No. 12 North 10th Avenue, Mount Vernon, ¥. THE READER, A strong od powered me to-day on the subway. I glanced at him. and was absorbedly reading from ponderous volume. It was Wells’ ‘Ou line of History." No, 123 Linden Street, Yonkers, N. Y. He was a labor A QUESTION OF COLOR, hippy" Griffing and her Uttle bré Buddy," neither of whom n bigge DEER COME TO COYTESVILLE. F We live opposite the Coytesville Park, atop the Palisades, in a well settled sec- tion, About 6.30 o'clock this morning my husband awakened me and bade m« look at some deer. 1 jumped out of bod and ran to the door to see If !t could be true, for deer have never been known to visit this section cince !t has become] them, offering tw thickly settled, But there they stood, a| “Chippy litely rge deer and tWo fawns, silhouetted] Went out. Presently ‘against the glow of the curly morning|Played 4 penny sun. They were alarmed by the noise] ‘But why didn't you take the can ther, mu ing t the candy display, Neith refused, and they returned, di Special Additional Dally Prize for Contributions to Thie Page for Four Weeks. OPEN TO ALL READERS Name of Winner in Te-Night’s Pictorial Edition. THE MELANCHOLY DAYS AR® AL- A cuckoo clock my mother recently bought keeps fine time, but the cuckoo dinner guest remarked laughingly that the jeweller had set the clock for East- ern standard time, but had left the bird Bader, Box 23, Matawan, employee ked me for a pair of shears, explain- Is to use later as for the new ones he had just He had both pairs with him, were talking as he commenced to Then he had cut a leg and he blamed shears,—James : of garlic nearly over- emanated from my right hand neighbor. orge F. 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TEN PRIZES of $2 each for next best stories If you witness « serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be e BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR ef The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. MANHATTAN. BRONX. WITHOUT PAYING HIS FARE. I was operating a police patrol wagon in the 15th Precinct and as I neared the Bowery, going east on Spring Street, saw a man stand- ing at the curb waving his hand at me. I stopped the wagon, he stepped in with his two bags and I drove north on the Bowery to Fifth Street and turned east again to the station house. Up to this time not a word had passed between us, but now, for the sake of ON TO BRIDGEPORT! A SONG AT NOONDAY,. I saw a moving van passing across the Wiills Avenue bridge to-day. On the rear of {t was tied a divan on which sat four men. They were smok- ing and chatting as comfortably as they would have tn a Pullman. The van was on Its way to Bridgeport, and these travelers not only saved railroad lyn, T explained, “is a patrol wagon and you are directly in front of the station house.” I don't know which way he went, he got away so r | quick.John M. Hanlon, No. 119 Ninth Avenue. a “WE GInIs.” K. 0. | A Mitte old lady, wrinkled and not My five-year-old nephew, who over-stylishly dressed, stepped up to] Mkes to be thought much older, ts the tollet goods counter beside which] very fond of cream puffs, g weak- Twas standing in Macy’s and timidly| "es# of which wo frequently make asked for some powder. The clerk | use when in the desperate need of questioned her to find out what kind of| “peace at any price.” Yesterday, powder she wanted, but the little Indy] af Fisth Avenue and 4¢d Street, to didn't know. “I want the kind they] stop a flood of unreasonable weep- f{}are using so much nowadays," she| éng, I remarked: “Let's aca whore sald, “the kind that gives a pretty pink] we can find some cream puffs.” He flush to the cheeks.” She was given! scorned the suggestion with, “You seg coke. Mrs. T. A. Calhoun, No.| can buy the oream puffs, but this Street. time I’m going to cry just the Jie they were observed the walter came same.” A strangor, sensing the difl- | anq filed thelr glasses again with water. guity, ratsed his hat and inquired, | wet, their expressions were comical as T saw a young woman ‘How old ia the Uttic girl, madam?” | they saw before them the task of drink- through the gates and start and my nephew stopped crying. He | ing another glass of water before they| the tricks. ‘The Albany twas too humillated even to ask for | coud have any whiskey.—Helenaf que, 1 heard the whistle sounde the cream puff.—Mrs, Idella Betts, Ff etaisr veh chit aicce Beaten No. 876 Southern Boulevard, ovr. A regular Babe Ruth wallop was given the pill this afternoon by a youthful batsman just as I paused to watch a game of ball between two nines com posed of boys. The boy went Ickety split around the bases for a home run while the ball landed in the upper branches of a tree and lodged there. On: of the fielders shinned up the tree picked the ball from the eroteh and, in stead of throwing ft to the home plate held it above his head and claimed he had caught the batter out, as the pall had not touched the ground. The youth CASH WITH THE ORDER, In a clump of trees near Petham Parkway on Sunday I saw a de- creplt old automobile, evidently junk, on which was a sion reading: “For sale, $35—no countorfelt money or check accepted.”"—Harry Wiesen- bera, No. 908 Intervale Avenue, Brona. to work.—Charies M. Rush, £915 Heath Avenue, Bronz, n TIMES. mont Avenue Monday night “FILE (EM UP AGAIN In a restaurant tn 95th Street to-day aw. a ffarty of four celebrating a birthday at a table next,to ours, One of tho men had a bottle of whiskey, which | M. 'T. Dunham, he kept on his lap. ‘They all emptied | Avenue, Bronx. their glasses of water, drinking it down rapldly as the walter stepped away, #0 th they might pour some Hquor into them, When they looked nround to see postt money. 0} waiting to withdraw 1 money, No, 1827 Tam a passencer train engl tho New York Central. ready to pull OVERTIME, While walking on Bleecker Street at noon to-day I saw a large reddlsh- brown butterfly whose wings must have measured three inches across. He was fying about in an undecided manner as if wondering why the Weather Man had issued a ukase for a second summer.— William H. Tower, No. 416 West 13th Street. feet, 1 blew to warn the young woman, in the centre of the tracks. A DRINK OF WATER, eral bootblacks desert thelr teps of the Public Library Avenue and 424 Street to-day for the large marble basin of he fountain, But they did not ston e for the drink they were after y climbed to the second basin and hen to the third. Here they walked through the pool, bent over and drank e.the clear water pourtn#’ ‘through the spout.—Helen A, Deffas, No. 1882 Grand Concourse, Bronx. T had stopped my tratn. TRILBY'S UNCLE JACK, Boarding a Sixth Avenue “L' train at Bist Street I found many passengers Interested in a barefooted man. He was xplaining that he was a sailor from a ship Just In ani, being accustomed to go barefoot on the vessel, he saw no reason why he should buy shoes and stockings just to wear while seeing the city’s sights.—Harold J, White, No. 507 Bast 87th Street, it Fifth ind racy hat and disarranged she was su her to safety. ife, and I shall never forget the pression a) ful umpire gave a Solomon-lke decision, RICHMOND. COMEDY AND TRAGEDY. declaring the batter out.—James Lynch, The Ughts suddenly went out while I] No. 250 East $24 SORK, was attending a vaudeville performance in a Pottsville, Pa, theatre, An auto- 9. mobile headlight was hurriedly secured trolley car when a man came along in an automobile. Three six-year-old girls were skip- Beeing thet and one of tHe Bothy fave an extem-|ping rope at 1sth Street and Jerome} the motorist was alone and that there was plenty of room in the car Poraneous monologue that caused much] Avenue, two turning while one jumped. one of the officers held caller “Ww merriment as he stood in {ts glare.| One was called by her mother to go on held up @ hand and called to him. “What do you Finally the lights were flicked on again.}an errand. 1 supposed that would end] 8@¥ to a@ lift, Buddy?” he asked. * * * The man glowed down, It was only as I was having the the- but one of the girls called, the gars came to a stop, in fact, but made no motion to open the door. ‘My atre that I learned of a tragedy that| “Here, Bess," und a collie dog ran to] gy ihe nald: SP raRtent e had snuffed out the lights and the life] her, received an end of the ton inher| fflend,” ho said, “I respect and I honor the police of this great clty. of an employee of the electric company.| teeth and held it while it was turned As a department, they are all to the good. But to-day I am in no —Starke Patteson, } 820 Riverside] Henry 1 Kelly, No. 488 West 124th mood to have a copper for company. But not to-day. NOT to-day! coat pocket and held It up to them. the street,” he explained, “just handed me this ticket.” her the gas and was off. * * * “I don't blame second officer. Drive. Some other day? SWIMMING CAT OF JAMAICA Yesterday I rowed across Jamaica Bay opposite Rockaway Beach to get a “GET A BASKET. While [ was in line to pay my check at the Court him,” buffet restaurant on 1 heard an excollent orchestra made up of workmen playing to-day inside the yards of the Robina Dry Dock Company at Erie Basin, Brook- It was a little after noon and I thought an orchestra had been MMred for the men, but (t was that of vings Bank on Tre- between 6.10 and 6.20 o'clock I saw 52 persons In Une waiting for thelr turns to de six persons wer but there were elght waiting to start accounts.— Washington ON THE BRINK OF ETERNITY. er on Just as T was out of the Tarrytown ion and had gone about a hundred Regular CAFITAL PRIZEQ for the DAILY Prize Winners Other Than Those te Whom the Ford Care are Awarded: ECOND, $50; THIRD, $25; FOURTH, $10. ‘ “ vel having something to say, I asked the man where he was bound for. Mond tee 8 waIane Nes ‘Tas Kelly the employees, twenty-four in mum- “Where ARE we?” says he. “What IS this thing, anyhow?"’ “This,” |Street, Bronx. ber, mechanics, painters and rivet- They played for nearly three- quarters of an hour to the apparent enjoyment of their fellow workmen, and then at 18.65 o'clock went back 0. press On Richmond Terrace to-day I saw two policemen waiting for a Well, maybe. He pulled something out of his inside “One of your buddies down Then he gave Was . . said the E. E, Ferris, No, 23 Winter Avenue, New Brighton, S. I. to cross Xpress Was for the crossing, at which {t does not stop two short blasts In an ottempt She was She halted for an instant and then started to cross. She had just passed over the tracks on which the express was flying when {t came along fhe suction of the train pulled off her r clothing. sot down from my engine and, seeing ering from shock, carried My warning saved her ex: on her face.—John A, Hoyt, No. 1120 Woodycrest Avenue, Bronx. mess of clams in tho sea grass mud | Ot : bars which are exposed ouly at low| Street, Bro L heard an argument OM tide. To my surprise when 1 got there] between one of the customers and the het Ge wesencens bea STILL ALARM, I saw a cat feeding on kiilies which} eashior, ‘1 . teaical alte ee ee ritig morning at 7.30 o'clock hud become stranded In email mud [cashler. ‘The customer had a dime! wields and I found them as funny to | Princess Bay Hond, Siaten Islan Olek CAR KB fg surrounded by | Pressed tightly under his thumb as he] me as they were years ago, 1 [an auto hose truck belonging small drains fully eight fect wide and given his right chan laughed myself almost sick. A wo- | Huguenot Department, painted re two feet deep even at low tid and said, when the enashier man sitting beside me was looking id carrying all the equiy ent that y |} knowing a cat's utter dislike for water,| pointed to the dime, t th ain't all daggers at me, She turned to a eoes to mi em first elass fire fightlioe I was curious to learn how she got on] I've got coming to me." “He much woman next to her and I heard her onparatus, But across the side boards the bar. Having eaten all wanted, | was your check?’ demanded the say: “To think tho war is so soon the truck were laid boards to make she tried to leap across the nearest|ier. |‘ cents,” replied the ¢ forgotten that they allow two Dutch | seats and on rty the a score drain, She fell short about three fect.| tomer. “How much did vou give me greenhorns to camo over hers to | of workmen emploved at the S. S. Whit swam out, shook herself as a dog does|"A half dollar?” ‘Well,"" exploded the] amuse the American public! I think | Dental Works on their way to the plant and then disappeared in the direction “how much change do you want| ét’s a shame!” Then [laughed some |No borough has wnything on Sta of a boat house about a mile and a million dollars?""—Charles A. S| more.—Mrs. Watkins, No. 19 Clear- | Island when it comes to service.—Clar- idney C. Bell, No. 10 Elghteenth Boulevard, Rockaway Beach, 4 $745 95th Street, W ndhaven, water Beach, New Dorp, 8. /. T. Busteed, Ce tingy BURIAL OF THE BIRDS. the other black~ t trace. they vee pton, L. 1 THERE MAY WAVE BEEN GOOD Dr ReHE Ot 8 Renin REASO: birds. — Several It On Webster Avenue, Leng Island rds had been shot and were lying on City, last night I saw a Police Depart- ® ground. Soon 1 noticed that eriment automobile without any hea vere sinking into the ground and dis- aliights. Around the corner I snw a ppearing, leaving hardly any el tateowcte ten @itheut Ane tall Waet We dug them up and found the be Then a few blocks ok and on his machine, low, about further down on Jackson Avenue I saw er tremendons task was digging a policeman hand a man a summons reneath the birds and throwir up the becruse his car did not have the proper dirt 0 sover the bird. Later, we found O-Tlights.—Louis P. Levesque, No. 118 another _w ad removed’ al) the ts nird's feathers, One beetle was found Polk Avenue, Woodside, L. I, . . burying two birds.—Mary A VISITOR AT NIGHT, Yesterday’s Special Prizes wind, Ne. 58 Mees Pines, Last night I awakened with a chill of fear at hearing 4 crash at the screen in my window T managed to calm myself when I discovered it was only a bird I shooed it away, but it got to the edge of the porch roof and refused to go further. No sooner had I got back into bed than my blood was chilled again by er Ford Car MISS DRUE GOLDEN, No. 480 Seventh Avenue, Brook (Winners of Ford prize please report immediately to Clty Editor, Evening World, for identification.) \ ~ First Cash Prize, $25 MRS. SARAH BROWN, Northport, L. L SHE SAV! This morning on THE CHILD, lyn, Hendricks 4 baby beside the ? street 2 woman Kot out an inch long, at Bayne Bug- New Avenue. New Brighton, 1 saw a large limousine, driven by a middle-aged woman with a 1p in the middle of tle, and ye ” : started to enter a house, when she no- made by the vpening of ‘the door sand 1 of red our 7 anked, and she re: the “whoo-00-0oh" of an owl. Tt was Second Cash Prize, $10 tied the canohine Gein to coll batkWandl Glsappeared into the underbrush.—Mrs, | plied, ou buyed | uld | eerie. I pulled the covers over my hend CHARLOTTE BIRGER, No tan Wat Iki direet Gan the till eit che bbs. Inmante Philip J. Lahm, No. 2379 Hudson Ave-|det a red one."—R. W. Jones, Quogue, }as the terrible feeling came to me with Thad It nthe, BL ate, the. be nny nue, Coytesvilie, N. Long Island. an old superatition that the hooting of ird Cash Prize, $i Ree ee enti bene on {AN OW! signified death or sickness was WINDSOR a Fa ron, N.Y. ott Gio) moving Ont sravbed 1h6 Pele Rear Then. maddened by the ‘sound fon Prizes of $2 Each hine rolled down tho hill and crashed PAY NO MONEY! SEND NO MONEY! of the bind I got a elags Of water and LAWRENCE WOLLMAN, No. 1616 Bronx Avenue, the Bronx through a fence Into a diteh.—Augustus dasieaiton bine 218 Rew. only t0@ [see MKS. FRED ERCOLANO, No. 110 West 109th Street J. Klee, No. 89 Laurel Avenue, Stapl ‘There 1s no charge of any kind for taking part in The Evening [yaad ineoneaniy. a x wo! E. 8. THOMPSON, No. 815 West 80th Street, ton, 8. 1 World's “What Did You See To-day?" competition. Send no money hope It won't return tocnight.—Mre. 3H WALTEL, J. BARBER, No. 858 West 116th Street. acne wanes: with your letters. 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I ton, of an old 1 am taking care, in New Brigh- gentleman who has ‘ PE RITA WALSH JONE} 48 Dye Street, Garn ¥ been very ill, Yesterday, although POSTPONED ON ACCOUNT OF PEA~ CHARLO’ UNG 975 Barber Street, Br hia watch waa on tha table and my biel oe SAMUEL HACKER, No, 67 Manhattan Avenue, I watch and alarin clock were on the One day last week T bought tn a toy ALICE M. GILMOR, No. 8746 Lefferts Avenue, Kchinond bureau and mantel, he had me star shop in Flushing a deck of cards. I did MG Sete : ’ Gn bighichay clock whiph te also on not open them until last night, when dhe Ghawist Wusve fan iloulee Ae we decided to play. Then I discovered — ; Weoida cakciae tke teks erid thee aa T had bought a box of peanuts. ‘The Read to-day's stories, Pick the ones you think best Gecusad aha ‘eoame coumpanan th King of Spades was the only card in Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pic posh enjoying himself im the deck, it was pasted on the box torial (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions on monwely. Moo Denuse, N 195 —Mra. F. Grieve, No. 18 Madison Aye- Monday Wood b AD Toupkineville nue, Flushing, L. 1 WEEKLY PRIZES. at Stories of the Week to “AIN'T WE GOT FUN" Four of us, employees of the Water Department, were dixging through the granite and concrete pavement on Allen Stroet near Grand to repair a water main when George, ohe of the quartette, becoming overheated . from the hand work, sat down on a stoop. His elbows rested on his knees and his cap hung from his hands, He had a very de Jected appearance and a man dropped a nickel In the cap in passing. Seeing the act, another of the workmen asked George what the man had dropped, and George handed him the nickel. | The man walked to the corner, returned with five peanut bars and passed them around, dividing the extra one between himself and Geo “What the hell do you call this?” demanded George “That was my nickel.” To which the other replied, grinning, “Ye: 4 —John Hopkins, No, 242 High Street, Brooklyn, TWO HEADS ARP BETTER, 1 saw a little boy pounce on a cad- dage that fell from @ truck loaded with thom as it passed along Hop- kinson Avenue this morning. 4 pe- destrian called the driver's attention to the loss and the man stopped the truck, pursued the boy and recov- ered the cabbage, which he throw into the truck. Scarcely had he started to drive off, however, when two heads of cabbaye rolled off the load, and the same little boy grabbed them doth and ran, while the driver went placidly on his way, serenoly unconscious of the loss. Mrs, HB. Freedman, No. 2185 Pactflo Btreet, Brooklyn. as fast as a horse can trot. moment to go aboard. talk.” And that ia what they did. “WATCH THE DOO This morning EI travelled to New York on one of the automatically-controlled Brighton Beach expresses on which the suard was unable to close all the doors and had to ask the assistance of the sengers, When the train reached the th Street Station most of the passen- era had left one car and the guard stepped out on the platform to close a loor, This automatically closed all the doors, leaving him on the station plat- form. Just then the train started. He ran alongside and shouted until some one pulled the emergency cord, The train stopped, ‘the passengers pushed. buttons and the guard carne in.—Adolph Aronstein, No, 1924 Homecrest Avenue, Brooklyn, HIS ROLL, 1 had my salary tucked carefully tn my pocket yesterday as I was returning home from Worcester, Mass., where I had been acting, and it was not until the subway train reached the Brooklyn Bridge Station that the crowd thinned out a bit and I secured a seat. As I rose to collect my baggage while the train approached Neving Street, 1 felt something beneath my feet and dts- covered a roll of money. With it waa a check made out to im Hurrledly arching my poeket I found tt empty It was my own money, but how tt got on the floor ts too much for me, Any- way, it was some luck to get it ba W. T. Clark, No, 224 Madison Street, Brooklyn. A Postal Clerk's Pocket, Tho gas burned dimly in my sister's home as T sat there with wome friends last evening, and I advised her to com- plain to the gas company. “I wrote ‘hem four days ago and Kaye you the tter to mall," said my sister, and then she pounced upon her letter, guiltily drawn from my pocket by my fumbling hand. I was given the merry ha, ha! by the assembled guests for being one of Unele Sam's efficient postal clerks and carrying @ letter about {u my pocket for four days. During that time I had handled thousands of other people's let- ters without a thought of that one.— Louls Bartels, No. 1582 Bushwick Ave- nue, Brooklyn. ACKNOWL MENT. “You are very. hind, indeed,” I satd to three young men who had risen cour- teously to give thelr seats to my daugh- ter and two other ladles in my party on a Yonkers-bound trolley from 242d s , after I had taken the only seat vacant upon entering the car. One of the young men responded, ‘We don't mind giving up our seats to Indles whe appreciate {t and say » 1 wonder whether {f such & courtesy were acknowledged by women as a favor, and not as a right, the courtesy would not beoome more common in public con- veyances.—Mrs, William Downing, No. 1559 New York Avenue, Brooklyn. BROOKLYN. Be Distributed Among FIRST, COMMUNITY BREAKFAST. 1 was breakfasting this morning @ @ restaurant at No, 701 Broadway then I saw seven amail boys look- ing longingly at the pastry display in the window, Instead of chasing them away, the manager took a large bag of cakes out to them and said: “There you are, fellows, now be on your way.” They left, but shortly afterward one of the boys returned bearing a tin can and ught 15 cents’ worth of coffes. I left the piace I saw the boys, their number now enhanced to @ zon, seated on the ourd and enjoy- ing @ pionio of coffee and cakes— Miss Lilian Nathan, No. 1148 Boat 18th Street, Brooklyn. rat my polling place, w! , man who rather sheepishly obeyed the sharp command of the policeman on post there to “Stop, smoking.” When the smoker responded. to the poll clerk's question occupation, he answered, ° iceman.” Ellsworth K. O'Brien, No, 1061 Jeffer- son Avenue, Brooktyn. CIVIC VIRTUE. While motoring yesterday through Leonia, N. J., I was surprised at seeing police captain with hose « to bis” d broom * cleaning the walk in frent of the station. house, Evidently the public rvant * wanted to make himself useful as well - as ornamental.—Henry If, Botts, Ne . 1602 60th Street, Brooklyn. A GOOD TALK. While waiting for the last, boat in the ferry house of the Oyster Bay Ferry at Greenwich I saw two young ladies who were gabbing After the lapse of a few minutes the boat docked and the young women and I arose at about the same They had almost reached the gangplank when one of them said, “Oh, let's not hurry; it will be all of thirty minutes before it pulls out; let's sit down for a few minutes and have a good see I was seated on the upper deck when the boat left shore, heard screams and with many others saw two young women waving arms and parasols on the dock. They were the pair who had decided to “wait a few minutes.” - they did, for the next boat was scheduled for 9.15 on the following morning,—Cyrus Tilly, Essex Street, Brooklyn. T think SNOW, ALKEADY! been: cleaning their cold stor: Passing through the market district on Fourteenth Street near Tenth Aver _ nue on one of the recent piping hot; days, I saw big heaps of snow in the, gutters. Snow, mind you, while I was- mopping my persptring brow! I learned that the poultry and meat houses had je roome ~ and the snow waa the thick coatings of'» frost that had been scraped from the pipes ‘Robert Cohen, Road, Brooklyn, SELF HELP, 45th Street, No, 450 Argyle. I noticed one of five young men who boarded a B. R. T. subway train at Brooklyn, frequently con sulting 4 pocket dictionary’ as he en- countered words whose meaning he did not know, while reading a newspaper. He evidently made a habit of spending his traveling time in tmproving his vo- cabulary, thus giving himself “ up" on the ladder of success.—Mrs, Darragh, No. 193 Sumpter Street, Brooklyn. A PATHER A’ FORLOR:! to-goodness 5-cent Sut baby as if tt were made of chin The child tipped the man's hat off an he didn’t dare stoop to pick it up lest. In doing so he drop the baby. He Just after I had consumed an honest ice cream soda on. . er Avenue, I saw a man carrying lee stood helplessly looking at the hat while men passed him. without offering to help hat for him. How those passing hat up ff it had dropped it!—Mi Street Brooklyn. been a woman who M. T., No. 297 Wyona HE NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT. Some of us were watching from our office window on Lower Broadway the work of a wrecking crew, tearing down an old structure to make way for the new Standard Oil Building. One of tha men was standing on a wall with a drop of thirty feet to the floor below In front of him and a drop of twelve floors back of him, His legs were read wide and he was swinging 9 sixteen-pound sledge and doing his best to knock the wall away from beneath his feet. Fortunately for him the gang boss chanced to notice whet he was doing and he promptly put an end te what would have resulted in the need for « dustpan to sweep up the pleces. William T. Beyer, No. 35 Eighth Street, Brooklyn. THE KING'S COUSIN. The hallway was crowded when I alighted from the’elevator in our butld~ ng, and I was informed that the man { saw in the centre of the crowd and whose picture some newspaper photog- “aphers were trying to snap, was Lord Mountbatten.—Miss 8. Schmidt, No. 119 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. Finally a young girl picked up. n would have scrambled to pick thes AND THEY WERE MARRIED. A girl friend of mine, eighteen and very pretty, who lives crly a few doors from here, had made every arrangement for a wedding to- day at home. His parents were there. Things began to look blue. the door, the missing bridegroom, was “sailing for Europe.” The guests were on hand, there were sheafs of tele- grams and letters, but at the appointed hour no bridegroom. was worried, The company grew anxious, All were puzzled. office brought the report that he was “away.” The girl, embarrassed, apparently heart- broken, was at a loss to explain the situation. A messenger boy handed her a telegram, He had changed his mind, he He hoped she would “forgive and forget.” The girl His friends were there, A telephone call te his He was not at home, There was a ring at It was from wrote, and The guests were preparing to leave when she asked them to stay, “I'm going to marry Walter,” she said, “just for spite!” the husband-to-be’s only rival, was quite willing. Every one offered congratulations and best wishes, lately are doubtful, feeling that Marie Girard, No. 16 Walter, In our hearts, however, we she does not love the young man.—Jean st Seventh Street, Brooklyn,