The evening world. Newspaper, November 7, 1922, Page 12

this payment. Open to all readers. MANHATTAN. “80 MUCH FOR BUCKINGHAM! OR SEVERAL WEEKS PAST, as I have walked almost daily down Fifth Avenue, I have watched with interest the workmen who are tearing down the walls of the old Hotel Buckingham to make room for an enormous department store. * * * I have been particularly interested to observe that, during all the work of demo- Iition, the statue of the old Duke has been left standing peacefully in its niche at the end of the second story, on 49th Street. * * * As I passed to-day, the workmen were tearing down the walls directly above the recess in which the statue stands. Bricks and stones simply poured down around poor Buckingham’s head, and I remembered that his execution took place on Nov. 3, 1483! * * * If “our” Duke is not removed to a place of safety by to-morrow, I expect to see another case of “off with his head! So much for Buckingham!"—Jane M. H. Haven, care of Deerson, No, 802 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan. “DANCING UNDER NEW YORK TOWN. BIRDS. On the Southern Pacific steamship DOLLARS will be paid for each item printed on this page. Checks daily. The weekly special awards, announced on Saturdays, are in ad- A merry party of ten young people got on the same car with me on the shuttle et Grand Central. One young man car- ried @ guitar under his arm and one of those tin contraptions in his mouth through which you can hum with a mu- sical effect. Another carried a mando- lin, Onoe inside the car they began to play, while one of the youngsters took his lady through the steps of a fox tr Soon another couple wi Two nev comers joined the dance without even looking for seats. Bright, catchy music it was, and I thiak the motorman delayed his train to hear more of it. Arrived at Times Square, 1 and many others followed the young- asters to a Broadway uptown train. Every one tried to get in the same car with tho musicians and I was among the successful. But the car was too crowded. Several couples tried to dance but had not proper room. ‘‘All off at 50th Street and wait for a train not so crowded,” the leader called, and the youngsters piled out. They were danc- ing on the platform as our train pulled ‘on uptown.—Dan R. Maue, No. 606 West 116th Street, Manhattan. } | . Standing in the aisle. of course she is! did not care. the waitresses’ THE DANDY FIFTH, Creole, following a severe storm as we left the gulf com! m New Orleans, I saw many on board ship, hiding im cranny holes. Orioles and small, white-breasted birds with black wings were ‘numbered among the more familiar gulls, They wore tired from battling against the heavy wind to reach the ship, no doubt. Ono little bird with brilliant yellow-tipped wings went hopping about the lower deck in search of food, which soon was forthcoming. As we passed the Jersey coast this morniny our feathered friends left ue, Firat the scaguils flew from the rigging and mounted high in the air, with cries of joy. Then the amalt black and white birds aped away, foliowed by the brown thrush and the orioles, and last of all a Deautiful red brown butterfly, swith black veinings, wheeled Hghtly in the air and sailed away for the shore and the southiand agatn.— Ethel Ludiow, No. 700 West End Avenue, Manhattan, “THE CUSTOMER I8 ALWAYS RIGHT.” HAD LUNCHEON in the —— shop on Fifth Avenue near 42d Street, @t about 12.30 o'clock this afternoon, and as the waitress camo ‘with my order she called: “One side please!” to two girls who were One of the girls moved one way and the other girl moved the other way, so bewildering the waitress that her arm trembled and some of my chicken salad smeared the coat of one of the two girls and the rest of it dropped to the floor. Py When the woman in charge attempted to adjust the matter, and asked whether the waitress was at fault, ewes the girl replied: “Why, of course She. was told that if it was necessary to send the coat to a cleaner the waitress would have to pay for it. She “I can't help that,” she said, “it has to be cleaned.” * © * And those at the table, who had clearly seen that it was NOT fault, could say nothing. nice fat tips waiting for the poor girl when she cleared off our table — Miss Hortense Mendel, No. 1015 Southern Boulevard, I know there were some SET BROADWAY.” I take a group from a fashionable boys’ school near Central Park East ever to Queensborough every afternoon fo a playground owned there by the achool. To-day the boys told me they were going to play war, so I said it Was all right, and started to read. The boys ran off into some adjoining fields ond I tured my attention to « book Nuddenly I realized that the boys had been gone longer than usual. 1 hurried 4o the fields toward which they had dis appeared—and I found them playing war with @ vengeance. They were engaged in & most beautiful scrap with a lot of “peighborhood boys who were far from ‘gentle in appearance or performance. Moreover, the latest generation of New York's 400 was winning the battle, 1 lated to stop the fight, but I was fear- ful of losing my job-—and business be- fore pleasure.—Howard Dockerill, No. You would think you were watch- ing an Kaster parade on Fifth Ave- nue to see’ the style of the people going up and down First Avenue every Sunday. They are our aris- tocratic neighbors of Sutton Place, between Firat Avenue and the rive Judging by the way they are pob- bling up property around 1 won't be a bit aurprised to ace Firat Avenue turned into an exclusive scc- tion for the 400. Ar one time Firat Avenue was known as “Irish Broad- way,” but those days are gone for- ever.—-Mra. Gibson, No, 949 Firat Avenue, New York Oity, here BLIND MAN'S BELLS On Eighth Avenue, near 69th [ saw a blind man with @ cane, o end of which was a wheel and 9 et small smoothly and ringing the bell at inter: vals, taking the place ap-tap.’ plan to adopt the improvement Reaver, No. 402 West Sist Street hattan, Sitting in front of my house at No. “I Pay 548 West 129th Street, I saw an Cash” man run into an adja way, his arms filled with clo several hats on his head. A few » ends later a policeman came running around the corner. Not seeing the cul- grit, he took a post at the corner. 1 saw the peddler peep out of his hiding place in impatience as the cop continued to stand there. Some minutes later 1 “paw the peddler walk out and pass the Mrs. Man: “MEETING” FATHER With a grinding of brakes the Vi Cortlandt express train on which T wai riding last night came to a sudden sto Just north of 228th St the waiting boy. 351 West 259th Str ld clothes.—Willlam A. Kavanaugh, 643 West 129th Street, Manhattan, THE BEES. O-DAY as I was riding alone on a front seat of a No. 5 bus going downtown, a mass of bees, coming from somewhere off Columbus Circle, flew directly at me, lighted on my hands, my __ lap, my hat and my pocketbook. I gave little screams of fright and tried '» to shake them off; but they wouldn't be shaken! The conductor came up to take my fare. He saw the bees swarming over me and noticed my fright. “Sure, and are you afraid of them little harmless bugs?” che said, “Why,” he continued, “you're 50 sweet the bees are chasin’ ye!” They crawled over me to their hearts’ content, while | sat there wondering just how sgon I was going to be stung; and then, suddenly, when they learned | was not the kind of honey they sought, they flew t. the Sanhattan, bell. The cane was curved on the end 3099 Broadway, nis wo that he could guide himself along MAN WITH A THOUSAND HATS. | the curb, the wheel going along of the familiar My husband being blind, we From below Jon N, Outwater, No. ER 7, 1922. ‘THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, NOVEMB are T A PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED FOR READERS OF THE EVENING WORLD BY READERS OF THE EVENING WORLD New Program of Awards and Special Prizes DURANT TOURING CAR FOR THE BEST STORY OF THE WEEK. $100 in Cash for the Second in Merit. $50 for the Third. $25 for the Fourth. 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Choose, preferably, things that happen in your own neigh- borhood. Tell your story, if possible, in not more than 125 words. State WHERE the incident took place. Write your name in full. Write Address your letter to ‘What Did You See To-Day?”’ Evening World, P. 0. Box No. 185, City Hall Station, New York. your address carefully. RICHMOND. JACK SHOWS HIS MOTHER SOMETHING. HEN I KNOCKED to-day at the kitchen door of a friend on Richmond Turnpike, I heard the “come in!” I counted upon OUT OF TOWN. THE LIFE OF A FRESHMAN. HEN I walked into our rooms at noon to-day to leave my books, on my way to luncheon, I saw a fellow with a wrench in his hand crouched low beside our precious radiator Ww Ww mate, a mournful look on his face, was watching him. “This fellow,” he explained, “roomed here last year and installed the radiator at his own expense. Unless we can pay him three dollars, he says he'll have to take it out with him—and all I have is seventy-three cents!” * * * Can you beat it? * * I almost burst the buckle on my belt laughing at him. I've kept mum about it, for a pal's sake, but it has sot out, just the same, and to-night he has been offered a chance to buy the campus, tickets for morning chapel at bargain prices, and but I must confess that it sounded apprehensive or uncertain. But Jack breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the caller was I. He was mixing a cake at the kitchen table, while his mother stood by with a watch in her hand and counted the time: “One minute! Two minutes! Three minutes « * She had bet Jack that he could not mix the cake for ten minutes. Wise mother! “It will be done in ten minutes,” she confided to me. “What's the bet? 1 asked Jack, “any money involved?” “No,” he sald, “I just wanted to show mother that she !s not right ALWAYS.” * * * 1 didn’t say My room- anything. He does not realize yet that he was “taken.”—D, Rausen, other opportunitie: Adrian J. Berkowitz, 229 Yale Station, Yale No. 120 Winter Avenue, New Brighton, S. 1 University, New Haven, Conn BURGLATN ALARM, MA GOES TO “THE PLOTUIE Last night I went to call on a friend “Buen, give me those beans,” I near my home. The house was dark,| sheard a woman say to her little girl but 1 heard music issuing from the} as they sat in front of mo at a living room, so 1 rang the bell. The} screen showing of “The Storm” tna music ceased, but there was no answer} motion picture house here Friday to my ring. Pr ly the music afternoon. 1 supposed the bag con started again and I concluded my] tained jeliy beans, but they were friend, a music lover, desired to spend! real old-fashioned string beans, and the evenins alone listening to phono-| throughout the performance the good graph records: in the dark. This] jousewife’s fingcrs were busy string- morning, however, he explained when ing and breaking up the beans for hubby's dinner glued to the I met him that he had connected up his wireless set and forgot to switch it off when he went out for the evening. THR BONUS, A small boy about six was crying at while her eyes were soreen, — Josephine {ER jay I saw a man in clerical Yester i“ Warren, No. 5 20th Street, West Worth and Centre Streets to-day and I] garb signat the one-man troticy on | It Radel icra ristenrt to which I had} New york, N. J. ake * z fi ‘i mon BY wlraars listened. Wouldn't that be a corking @ him what was the matter. That] tAtoh’ I teas" riding toward st. untleburwlar /oonthivande?aLa Dy (Baie boy across the street beat me and took] George to stop. He wanted to get IMPUDENT MRS. HEN. rows, No. 14 Overlook Avenue, Great * my nickel,” he sobbed, I looked, T! on. The rear doors of such cars are | Neck, L. 1. I was sanding by ee eee seer of , 4 i my store when I saw a duck, owned boys were of a size. I took a $1 bill] locked, entrance and exit being had SP elen bar ; ‘Adie ka tM Wr ‘pockot and tore it in two,| <@t 088 Srant, Out evidently the cler IP WOULD SURPRISE You wo] My nefghbor's Httle boy, waddle across giting One half to the crying boy guman didn't know that, for he tried KNOW WHO HE 1s, CUR Varn Ce ers Cemaieon Tents to/ay a0 Go bi ; : egg. She found the nest pre-empted by over and lick that boy and take your fl st eee pe er Piet he other, T saw « poor foreign woman who car- a hen and qua d loudly to Mr. Drake, Hickey away from him and Til give you| ‘Alle the car swatted. | Finally ithe ried a baby on one arm a He 8 cheap who: (dolned = ti They conferred in gps nie M | good - ¢ jotorman calied, |heavy suitcase in the other hand alight ‘ s ne! proache the other half of this dollar bill." 1 told | [Come around tothe hitehen weet: : res [spel casaitsh deredg aeaitet aioorp ana Py him, from a the He looked at th ; Long Island train at the Penn me, shoved brother.” He did.—Mrs. Fay Muckey, nest, grabbed the hen with thelr bills, Station bill in his pocket and ran across the r , 10 o'clock this morning. AJone by the head, the other by the tall, RirouEeT daw tiiicdane: into) the: OtNier Beater, ryeetpect Place, New Dorp, |gentieman who carried a cane stepped | dragged her about ten feet and left her. boy with a determination that was not besiseiad up to her, raised his hat politely, smiled | The “squatter” having been evicted, the to be denied. I saw him knock the ONE PUBLIC SERV AS, at the baby, took the ase from the | duck calmly settled herself in the nest nickel aw mother's hand © the a valke side f ti y her eg B. bully down and take th Ou HINER Boedn vane Coltex nd walked beside her. | and proceeded to lay her esg.—John ; io wenn Ay » carried the suite the sta : . aged oot Rs ee. ee oie nue, to-day I saw a D. S.C. truck Riccatariene tout to sith Bivest, paeas dade collected the other hw e ; . : 4 bill.—George H. Storer, No. 4 nar-[ driven toward New Dorp. Astride tho] Then he helped the woman aboard acar,| AND THE BAND PLAYED Ov. hood sat sott Road, Charleston, Staten Island. man in overalls diligently | paid her fare, raised his hat, jumped off SiN My daughter alarmed me recently by etait! Windshield with a cloth. ~} the ear, lit a cigarette and went about inquiring if there had ever been any “A TINY LITTLE FEATHER FROM A] PUUED B. Wabsen No. 151 Colfax Ave- [his business.—Lenry Robinson, Linden- | Insanity in the family, saying she feared maaraaeip Gilt nt City, hurst, 1. 1 the severe headaches from which she " suffered might result in her going out T saw a family board a subway trair BRONX. of her mind, 1 was further alarmed at Woodhaven, a father, mott : ee rriye arday RHA Lion: an anart: tne won: a girl and a baby carried by the fathe BROLUBIVE, MISS FINNEGAN, dered whether she really was wander- In her hand the woman carried a green{ 1 gaw 4 woman looking into the win-| On an open trolley of the Webster] ing mentally, when, aa we were taking catrich feather and 1 looked at the} dow of a baby shop on Fordiam Road.|Avenue line tc 1 short cut to the village, #he looked feather and then at the woman's hat, ee Pa rdham Road. | Avenue line I saw a girl in front of toward heaven and asked if I heard the beautiful music. I didn't, When we reached the station T was much re- leved by seeing a man playing on a pipe organ in an automobile, the music from which I had not heard before owing to my partial deafness. The man A baby carriage stood beside her, A ; ar little boy came out of the shop and began to pat the baby in the carriage, oh! ever so softly, The woman saw him and swung on her heel. “Don't you dare slap that baby," she cried to the at the same time leaving the print trying to connect the two, but as she One wore a little brown turban effect thin I decided the feather didn’t belong there. Then the baby started to cry and I found out the why" of the feather. As the infant Kicked and hollered the me knitting. of her needles flew out of her hand and the car, landing by chance in a passing auto, The driver of the auto signalled the astontshed girl and she got off at the next corner mother rubbed his nose with the green to get her needle, ‘Then she bos was trying to attract a crowd for a feather, Alinost Instantly the baby | Qorane fingers ‘on He fabs Pink SHOGKO NS cuto. which fee Ae ee political meeting. The strains from that ceased {ts crying and seemed to be in] Before any one could rec from as p ‘ v he car and) organ surely were et music to me! the seventh heaven of bliss as he burted asinise nt ay even remonstr with the 1 the next corner again boarded the Mrs, Elizabeth Coleman Columbus his face In the soft feather.—Mre. nk | Unreasoning Ronit she disappeared if} car,—Michae! T. Galpin, No. 5 Wughes| Drive, Tenafly. J Abrams, Parside Court, No. 21 Alsop| te crowd with her baby, and I felt even | avenue, Bronx, sorrier for th boy.—Mrs, Strect, Bronx, t baby than I did for the aica, Donyan, No, 2 West 169th Street, STANDING UP FOR THE RIGHT. 1 saw a boy of sixteen Jump up and give his seat to a lady on a southbound DEEDS. ented a deed for record in Yo FIRE Yesterday FOR FIREMEN? 1 saw five firemen of A man pi THE GOLDE -WINGED Woop. the County Clerk's office of Ricl ise subway train this morning and heard] #"gine Company No. #89, West Gounty, ce of property - Hees seed his companion say scoldingly, “I think] ®ingsland Avenue, Corona, collect- k aske na southbound Jerome Avenue sub-| you're very foolish to give up your seat in, earby t, as th 2 the mar way train I saw a partriige woodpecker, | to some one you don't know." The boy | ("7 100d i a nearby lot, ey indignant. I won't be robbed a large brown bird sometimes called a| blushed but said nothing. Presently the| "@¥e me coal or wood im the fire cried. “UM go te New can get it done o him come back, $1.50 and conf on a fool's errand. Island cannot be ersey, where T Later I saw y, to pay his day golden flicker, or highhole, flying about the car. It flew out one of the windows and down the dark trainw Stillwell Nevius, No, Jast 1 , Bronx seat again became vacant and he sat down. As luck would have it, a moth- erly looking woman entered the car and stood in front of the now thoroughly confused lad. He hesitated only a mo- ment, however, With a look of deflance house. J told my husband of the (ncident and he donated some wood. Is our city so poor that individuals must contribute to keep the brave firemen from freesin, Mrs. George QuITTER, Walter Hurs Fishing at City Isla I saw a girl] at his companion he again relinquished! Nets, No. $9 Hunt Street, Corona, . | Street, Stapleton, & lon a rubber hat, ape snd gloves to| the seat.—-Willam Abbe, No. 1509 Char-{ 4+ J: . = protect her clothes and hands as she lotte Street, Bronx : ~ é ee A CREDIT TO" fished, She had a bite and in the ex — EENIE, ME INLE, MOR! This afternoon on pf landing her fish, lost both BY THE WAY I saw a gentle appearing little woman hoat I saw @ policeman on whose cout fish. She then doffed her rub-| It was a cold Monday night and af enter the Seventh Avenue subway car n were ten stripes, signifying fifty] ber hat, apron and glo spent the|bootblack left his stand on Tiffany]!2 which T was riding yesterday. The styears in the servic 1 asked him how | day watch: less fastidious, sre suc-| St r 1 Street to get warm in| men plunked down in the empty seats, ple kept so healthy and he sm ssful fishermen and fishermaids.—Mrs.{ the barber shop in front of which ix} #nd the little woman stood in front of T. F, Dermody, No. 18: told me that the first fifty years are th A orris Avenue, | his chair. an and Woman stopped| them, apparently deliberating what she who failed to recognize him. The]I heard a sbrill vo! Ipe up, “Hey. | hardest, His name is Wells and he is| Vest Bronx at tl @ man, taking @ brush shoula do. Then, polnting frat at one weddler evidently had hidden his old] pop, throw me your Mom went tol stil] doing daily duty.—Ella A. Conley, hh esarna ther n, cleaned his shoes then pol-| then another, she eaunte SOUR Oe dothes after donning the best suit and| the movies and forgot to leave her's} No, 158 Beach Street, New Dorp, Staten : Ves. ished them with « cloth. ‘The woman two, three, four, five, alx, sown, elght, ‘Fat in the bunch, and in this regalia] under the mat.” "Pop," who was the island Walking by the fish marker under-| inspected the free shine, nodded ap-| nine ment" Turning around, she count- unchallenged, Later, after the} motorman of the train, leaned out of . * neath tho Williamsburg Bridge, t is| proval and they linked arms and walked|ed five on the 8 opposite side. Did ee had gone, I saw him return and the cab window and tossed his key toloy THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY. What I saw: ‘Two women peddiers in af OM---Clara B, Enteles, No. Tiffany |ehe get a sea The culprits looked heated argume! talking 3 t, westiculating Street, Bronx loud vote sheepish and two arose.—Mrs. Edwin I, Cone, No. 8 Ash Street, Flushing, L. I. late boat from Staten Island I was moving from the On a Sunday night, wildly uddenly and in 4 NEVER TROUBLE TROUBLE, one picked up a e tal é upper cabin to flee —_ he mele OC ae Per eS an Re me Ht me Saturday night at hth Avenue [JUST THE PREC A owner Mee ine ved ona Weal ine |ciinehed, Mair was pulled, plows struck, fand 44th Street 1 saw fve men banging DID You skEt" beara iy hy some one who knew how | lothes torn ere the Pulled apart. }one another around, It looked interest-| ‘ro.day 1 saw several of my father's to play. Then another and another rou ‘ cop hurrled up. Both women glired | ing, #0 I stopped to see the rattle. | fancy game chickens flopping about on mmusielan joined in with the tune being [SUCKED other, then walked back to heir] Someone bounced a blackjack of my|tho grass, ‘They did not appear sick, mangled by the orchestra, until five ex-]CaPgciye stands. - Wis Arnholdt, head, When T came to, an ambulance | put were unable to wali when I picked tra inatrumen!: in all were mitigating » 265 Kast 21st Street, Bronx surgeon was sewing up my head. ‘This them up and set them on their te the shock i the original rendition, 1 morning { went to Bellevue to have| They would fall over at pnee. A veter- fee ave sailors, in high epirits and| YOU CAN BUY THE Wonty xyuay titeh noved, Leaving the hos-} inary was called. He found the chickens’ evidently returning from ® party EVENING FOR 3 CENTS L had progressed as far as Second | fre entangled in long strands of yellow professional minstrels didn't seem tol 1 wa Aven nd 26th Street when T to perfectly matching the caer like the volunteers’ butting in, but th o settle a ir feat ax to be almoat indis couldn't drown them : rhe golden wig of m: D passengers were pl e's doll had blown the yave strated when they respor 4 ‘ a the fowl NM " 1 erously than usual whe As nose my ind, wo’ dol was paased.-H. H. Gr um the p i " x nalipox John KB. Stan No. when asked the damage.~ College Avenue, Staten Island, 9 Philips Avenue, Krona Kast 146th Surcet, Bronx No. 16 Corona Avenue, Blmburst, ¢ HE EVENING WORLD pays liberally in cash for FIRST news of really impor+ tant happenings—FIRST news of BIG news. the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Every reader a reporter. QUEENS. erted Call Beekman 4000. Ask for BROOKLYN. A DAY TO REMEMBER. WAS SITTING at one of our front-room windows, watching some i boys playing football in Green Street. They were having great fun! I Jove to watch them. The air was filled with their shrill erie: I noticed near our stoop a lad of five or six whose légs have been made powerless by infantile paralysis. He watched the play wistfully. 1 saw one of the older players come over to him, a boy of fourteen or fifteen. I heard him ask, “Don't YOU want to play?” What the little fellow said I did not hear, but the big lad overruled him. “Oh, don't you just never mind about that,” he safd, “I'll carry you.” He lifted the boy to his shoulders, and the game was on again. He kicked and ran and kicked again, while the little boy laughed and shouted in glee The other boys entered into the spirit of the occasion and, as Bide Dudley says, “a good time was had by all.” * * * Only a little thing, perhaps, but one unfortunate little boy was given a happy day to remember always.—Stella Rothstein, No. 98 Green Street, Brooklyn. THR DIME ON THE SUBWAY FLOOR Late Saturday night I boarded a Seventh Avenue subway train at Uticu Avenue, bound for Manhattan, Soon I noticed the eyes of many A TRIBUTE TO “THE WIER.” My wife, ali dressed up in her holiday clothes and her face wreathed in smiles, greeted me at the door when I reached last home night. ‘The table was set ‘passengers looking at a dime lying | with her best linen, the best aet of on the floor, but mo one picked it up, {dishes and the silver she uses only oa fearful, perhaps, of what others | special occasions. As J knew it was would think. Soon a little newsboy | not an anniveranry day, the best bet came through the car selling Sun- day papers. A girl beckoned to him and he hurried to hand her @ paper. She shook her head and pointed at the dime. He picked it up and ten- dered it to her, but she told him to Keep tt. Then his cap came off, and teith a joyful “Thank you,” he left the car, Ms face wreathed in smiles. Sylvia Berger, jo1o 12th Av nue, Brooklyn, was that we were to entertain a distin guished gu There was none, but in the centre of the table was a big sign reading, My First Attempt.” And on the plate werd five honest-to-goodness muffins, .They didn’t run true to form for a first attempt, either, for they wera so good they fairly melted in ove nouths.— Max Ornstein, No. 441 Puts nam Avenue, Brooklyn. TWO Boys, At Fifth Avenue and 28th Street I f® most interesting and amusing It was funny, although quite pathetic in its innocence. A richly clad child of about eight was sitting on the running board of his big Mmousine, with a liv- chauffeur standing by, while a small bootblack of about the same age was polishing his shoes, What really caught my eye was that every time the boys’ eyes met, each would smile at the other, evidently thinking It a huge joke, for, after all, childhood knows no class distinctions and I'm quite certain that one lad was as happy as the other.— JULIUS GOLDNE 0. 2230 78th Street, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn HER BIRTHDAY. On the bench at Coney Island Satur- day morning I saw an aged man throwing roses, one ata time, from an armful ho carried. Fearing he was demented, T asked why he threw ther In the water wien such beautiful roses could do much good elsewhere, ‘fore good elsewhere?” he said. “This is my wife's birthday, ‘Thirty years ago L came to America from Russta, and a little less than two years later T gent for my wife and little son, The ship Tam visiting her grave.” He pointed at the ocean. “For twenty-seven ye her birthday, I have gone the they sailed on was lost at sea. - = *# my tribute to her memory THE CANDY. ton Peabody, No. 959 Dahill Roady 1am a Girl Scout and for a week we] Brookly have been selling 5 and 10-cent candy ~ bars to help the Scouts, Last evening “GIRLS JOB. { took my tray of assorted bars and| ‘To-day at Grand Central Station f started out to sell to people in Tl} saw two boys make a dash for a suit- bullding. I rang the bell at Mrs. 1's] case carried by a stout woman as, wilh and was invited in. They bought 30] 4 steeping baby on one arm, she tolled cents worth and 1 was about to leay, She handed the suitcase when the bell rang and Mr. AG UAL ORG then, turning to the otherg up the ramp. to one boy, Ix. told in to put the tray on a table and walt. A Mr. Kk. passed the tray to the lady and | '® my arms.” § ish), ‘old her elect ae! coos te take | Pued, carrying the child as if he feared told her to select several pleces to take | itl aT vine ne we husband and please." 5 the ignominy he Like good sport he laughed and at carrying a baby, and with a it.—Sara F: t, No. 402 Parkside take the kid’ he chucked St at nue, Brooklyn. moth and faded m sight, too 4 i a nbarrassed to wait for pay ror hia INDEPENDENCE AND FAIR CLAY. jef martyrdo: i. FP. Brown, No. 179 Washington Street, Brooklyn. In the revision of twork prepara- tory to a cut in personnel in the stenographic department of a well known institution on Madison Ave- nue near $£d Street, it became nec- essary to dispense with the services THE MASQUERADE, All the costumes at a Hallowe'en party I attended Tuesday ev s were excep: tionally good, but the hit of the evening was a guest whom my friend introduce t of one of two girls doing special abt ; oh ane: OF (Weg teperte in thetr [as his. “grandfather.” Every one was ne, but one was not dependent [amazed at the excellont imitation of na upon her salary, whtle the other |old man. Ho had all the enrmarks—the muat support a brother besides her- |bushy white beard, the old fashioned aelf. It came under my observation |Clothes, the heavy eyeglasses, even the that without informing the super- | Voice of age. ae ho is he? ayary gee visor of the determining circum. | Was asking. No one Ic was tempo- stances, the independent gtrl re | ity forgotten, but at the unmasking stoned go that the other might hold Jie ag eagerly looked for. ‘The host imme ane sials Fu OHS asked to be excused for retiring to beds tun. The man was not masked,—Charles 8, Sco! No. 501 12th Street, Brooklyn. HOW MUCH? AFTER INKING IT OVER, I am a country boy and I-have heard| | A laborer, absorbed in his paper, wad much about the wise guy in the big clty| trolley car when I entered it, Presently “taking"’ the poor hick when he comes|a middle-aged woman came in and town. Since I have been in New] seated herself, but evidently thinking Lead ee pee te . acon the| 8h would rather have his seals 908 as nae arose, approached the man and curtly original hick haven of the country.] ordered him to get up and give her his seat. He seemed dazed, but complied, “hen, when other passengers began kid» ding him for permitting himself to be come the butt of such nerve, he came to, Stand in front of any newsstand and you will see, as I see them every day during the racing season, a variety of prettil: and printed] and unloosened na tirade of abuse on rom an ex-Jockey,"' | acainst the woman, who retorted in kind, “Harry's Spectal,” “One-Horse Special’ | ""\tixs Natalie Kaufmann, No. 1953 Mast and many others of similar names.) pighth street, Brooklyn They range in price from 25 cen to $1, and you should see the hicks buy A OHIO them. Broadway cake-eaters a antag At the udcriiah. At ataalarn ariel door Johnnies, once stung, come back ed ford en esterda meekly for more, The farmer hick will] (Md Headford: Avenue Fania t eere buy them once, Just as I did, but not dered + 0 Re y ol twice. Take a titp to the country, Big] yen! me SRORTAR a ‘Town Hicks, and learn how to become] .).)".:; y subway, Leaving wiseguys.—It, Saunders, No. 46 Herri- |} it several passing automo man Avenue, Jamatea, Queens, Lot. | iit a a clinthin aicarte Ranccl irae i ee s asking for a lift, as I was in @ hurry COAT GOES INTO THE SEW to get home. The third car tappee Yesterday at Public School No. 58{and, as I Jumped in beside the driver th Street and Chichester Avenue, Althe’ man, who was not too bewildered large coal truck backed into the schooll to see the advantages of a swe: free yard. The driver lifted an fron cover ride, leaped in also and plunked down from one of the manholes in the vard.|{n the rear seat, The car took him to tilted the truck and shot the coal intol nis destination and the driver didn’ the hole Just as the last of it was dis-| oven Know he was sboard.—Sam Drat- appenring the janitor ran up, register-| man, No. 180 Grafton Street, Brooklyn. Five tons of coal into the sewer No. 4087 107th Ave- ing great excitement. had been dumped Sherwood Sintthers nue, Woodhaven. sO EARLY Most of the boys I saw fling out of o classroom yesterday had gloom written all over their facvs, while a few faces radiated happiness. Later I discovered IN THE GREAT OPEN SPACES. T was looking through a directory of tho principal offices of the Fostel Te that the difference in expression wa graph Company’, When T encountered t cuused by the trieweekly report card: owing names of towns in Alaska: | the teacher had just handed out. Tho: ch n, Coldfoot, Dead Horse Hill,|eands must be signed by parents of Jump Off, Old Woman, Perseverance, | suardians, and probably some of t driver, Resurrection, Woodchopper,| Puptis had plenty of antictpated cause Safety, Sour Dough.—-Leonard Norton, | for their gloom.—Michael Stiberfein, Ne, No, 9244 218 Place, Queens Village, 624 Deamont Avenue, Brooklyn,