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IP 1 14 THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922. \ ' r WHAT DIDYOU SEE TQM? WHAT DID YOU S A PAGE OF REAL NEWS EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS A p-.- . EC IP' 83 r i AM $8 ft MANHATTAN Jjff WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN AGAIN? No doubt many havo seen, but how few (or how many) have given thought to the fact that the standing of all cities having teams In both ' the National and tho American Leagues is the samo In botli leagues? In first placo in each league (I write on Friday, Aug. 11) we find tho St Louis Browns and the St. Louis Cardinals; second. New York ' Giants and New York Yankees; fourth. Chicago Cuba and Chicago j \Vtfitto Sox; seventh, Philadelphia Quakers and Philadelphia Athletics; eighth, Boston Braves and Boston Bed Sox. Hero Is a grpat oppor-- j tunity for tho mathematically Inclined. What arc tho chances of this fcort of llno-u-p occurring again? Paul G. L. HUkcn, No. 49 Wall Street. HOW HIGH IS A IIATf I taw a group of young men to-d- Jiavltti; a healed argument ok to the height of a erotcn of an ordinary silk hat. Wagers toero made and to the surprise of nearly all it was teamed that the croicn It but four inches tall. J. W. Jludaon, No. HO West IiCf, Street. MALE JURY FAVORS HANGING. Aa I stepped Into a Broadway sub- way train at Times Square I had a feel- ing as If I were- In Uie court room fac- ing \twelve good men and true.\ There they were, n dozen of them, filling all the apace from the end door to the side door. I Joined ten other women who were hanging to straps In front of this \Jury of their peers.\ Selma M. Ada-nl- a. No. 540 West 13Gth Street. OTIEHI: WASN'T AX A' OANAIIY. \ I taw a crowd in front of a Lex- - ington At'rntie Mrd shop. They were looking at a puppy in a ca- -' nary' gilded cage. The puppy teas barking. There wasn't any canary. Margaret Qrosskopf, No. 168 East ' tilth Street. THEY NEVER I.EARXEI) THIS IN THE l.IIIH.VHV. Within the very shadow of our Fifth 'A,venue storehouse of collected wisdom I saw two kids pull soma lass A \conn\ jituff. While one appeared to be doing his best to magnetize and recover the I saw two kids pull some class A \con\ the crating the other lad played the blubbering part and did a magnificent Job at It. They had collected five times the amount of the alleged loss when lollceman Charles Henry Wise told them to beat It. Thomas McCaffrey, No. 556 West 42d Street SEEN AND HEARD AT THE B. Z. G. I enjoyed an excursion to tho Bronx Zoological Gardens, Hero are some of tho things I saw and some of tho things I heard: At all ' entrances tho warning, \Do not carry peanuts Into tho park.\ At tho Boston Post Road and other entrances young men announced. \Baby carriages for hire,\ Scores of signs screaming, \Do not feed or annoy ! fhe animalr, a fine of $3 will ho Imposed.\ \Cameras not allowed in ,\ the park\ is another prohibition. In tio House of Reptiles, \Do not ! tap on the glass.\ \Rido tho elephant for 10 cents,\ cried an attendant \ at the elephant stockade. And, as far as tho eye could soe, \Koep off ' Mho grass\ signs. Mrs. Dorothy Durkln, No. 101 West 70th Street. 8ATI.INR DOWN THE IlimSOX. Sailing down the Hudson on tho Coney Island boat I saw at some dlstanco across the water what I took to bo a eculllng crew at rest. It was such an unusual sight to see a boat and crow motionless for ss long a time that my curiosity was arousd. Calling tho at- tention 6t my companions to the ob- ject wa watched and waited. Presently the \crew\ arose In tho air and flew over the river. My \scull\ proved to be a pleco of driftwood. It had been manned by gulls sitting an equal dis tance from one onbther. Itlchard Schayer. No. 854 181at Street, oxn who chied i'on ko low, I saw the funeral procession of. the recently murdered Chinese. You will tinvA henrrt nf It from tho rptrular re porters. I was Impressed by tfTe wculth of (lowers, by tho marching Chinese, by the thousands who fllled all tho windows in the district or looked down from the roofs and Are escapes. Thoro was a bus load of rhlncso musicians. One of the automobiles was filled with white women. In another one little Chinese woman sat forlornly In a corner, weep Ing her heart out. She wns the only person I saw weeping. J. V. Freeman, ;03-:0- 5 Madison Street. UnEAIIKWASS. I saw a man In a Turkish fez selling Russian 'breadkwass\ on Itlvlneton Street. He had a hugo urn on his back and carried sanitary cups In a rack fastened to his belt. He dispensed the liquid by bending his trunk forward almost at right angles, tilting the liquid Into the cup. He chanted In Yiddish, \A cooling drink for one penny!\ Sam Stein, No. 134 East Second Street. 3in. noonrni.i.ow. On St Nicholas Avenue, noar 123d Street. 1 saw a yellow dog run over by an automobile. One of Its legs was In- jured, but. Instead of leaving It lie In the street to bo shot by a policeman, a drivers gcneral'y do, this driver bundled the dog Into his machine and announced he was taking the animal to a veterinarian. He should bo elected a member of the Good Sports Club William l'rocht. No. 61 U. 113th Street, I'I'.SSY CAT. I'l'SSV CAT wmoiii: ARE VIII IHHNDf Cats certainly have a contempt for wet streets. After the water wagon passed our house y you could sen die usual number of dry spots which tho sprlnftlor failed to touch. Along came a tabby cat, which evidently wanted to cross the street. It shimmied from one dry space to another and finally completed the Journey. Then, characteristically, It wont In behind sohio garbage cans and disappeared Into a cellar. W. M. IS.. West 21st Street. RISKS niS I.II'K FOR SOMH IUJII-IlE- It II A I, I,1. On Wndsworth Avenue, at 1821 Street, stands Public School No. 132. Tho boys have access to the school yard for tho purposo of playing handball. While I watched tho other evening scv-er- nl balls were accidentally knocked Into a room on the first floor nbovo tho ground. One brnrc boy started to climb up and get them, but unfortunately be- came dlzzv when he looked back to the ground and suddenly lost his bal-on- and fell to tho pavement. I om told his skull was fractured and that he was Injured otherwise and Is not ex- pected to recover. Mr. A. K. Cook, No. 18S Wadsworth Avenue. HARD MONEY. When 33d Street was being repaved some of tho who mako their innrt at the Park Avonuo corner placed ovnrnl nickels In tho wet cement. At s nVlnclc when ofllco staffs and sales people wero rushing homeward, the chauffeurs had a hilarious tlmo watching peoplo reaching for the mcKeis ana nn,lliir them Imbedded and stuck fast. Tho fun lasted until A boy of twelvo appeared with a hammer ana a Knne Mary Acton, Park Avenue Hotel. nivKrts. In Flushing Hay I saw several boys diving from n. home-mad- o springboard of a long board placed across n log. Four or flvo boys sat on ono end of tho board to permit one lad to dlvo from tho other. They took turns. Miss Jo Hcgan, No. SIC West 66th Street. GOMIIK LOCKS OHOSSKS MADI- SON AV13MIE. flffindinp on tho street corner tcnlfitio for an opportunity to cross Madison Avenue was a golden haired little girl. As th street car sloieed down and came to a stop tho biy tuotormnn smiled nt her and molloited to her that all was well. He did more than that. He held tho car until Ooldie J.ocMk tens oi on the other side. When he started the car again I ob- served that he was smiling. He looked so happy, as only the true lover of children can look. I warmed toward the man. I wanted to shako hands with him and talk with Mm. The rule jinlntcil above his head for- bade it. Charles M. Stead, No. 1 East 3$lh Street. fiKKKN noons. On my way home from work I stooped down to pick up what looked like a dol lar bill and was on tho point of stuffing It Into my pocket and hurrying on when two little boys run out of u hallway nnd assailed me with, \Oh Mister please give It back to us; wo wanna fool some one else. It was n tobacco counon. I'll give unothcr ono nny time to see two kids us happy as It made this pair to have put ono over on yours truly. Martin K. O'Lcary, No. 430 Hast S6th street. MAIIYUI.I.OUS. At Starlight Park y I saw n young man of twenty-liv- e who was totally blind playing checkers with threu dlffeient 'Persons at one time. Ho took his affliction lightly, nnd as ho felt for the moves of his opponents he would ask himself, \What la this man trying to Uo7, whereupon ho would answer himself gayly, \Ah-h- a ' Now I s,.p Hcasle Ilothback, No. 1C3C Mailt fcon Avenue OFFICER 9569. I saw Policeman No. 9569, and perhaps you would like to know something about him. He is young and tall and hnudsomo and abso- lutely One of tho Finest, He came to my living quarters after mid- night ono morning In n pouring rain to ask mo to dress and hurry down to my store. It had been broken Into, and a man, apparently dead, was Ftretched out on tho floor. To make tho story short, let mo Bay that tho man, well dressed and (as it turned out) with a pleasing personality, was merely dead drunk. Nothing was missing, and I declined to appear against hlra. I Baw No. 9509 press something into ' the fellow's hand and heard him say something about \coffee and rt bito to eat\ and \bed.\ Slnco then I havo seen No. 9569 every day. Ho is attached to tho Fifth Street Station. To-da- y ho was limping. \I chased two men into a yard,\ he explained, \and foil Into a hasement. They shot a man and a little girl in Second Avenue. I could have got them if I wanted to use the gun on tho street, but it was noontlmo and there wcro crowds about, and Vd rather croak myself than bring death to some innocent bystandor.\ Everybody in my neighborhood is proud of this cop. Aron IUuch, No. 18 Third I Avenue. chauffeurs consisting 4 REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS HTO make this news feature even more entertaining and interesting Special Prizes are to be awarded Daily and Weekly. One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the prizes are in addition. Send them to \What Did You See?\ Editor, Evening World, Post Office Box 185, City Hall Station. WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. Tell your story, if possible, in not more than 125 words. State where the thing written about carefully SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT If you witness .1 accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal for first big news. BE SURE FACTS. , . . DAILY PRIZES: For tho best storjes each day: First Prize, $25; second prize, $10 ; third prize, $5. Ten prizes of S2 each for ten next bent stories. MANHATTAN THRIFT. For forty years I crossed tho Hudson at tho (new and tho old) 125th Street Ferry to Fort Leo and Edgewater. Naturally, in that time I made tho acquaintance of scores if not hundreds of persons in or attached to tho ferry service. Ono of my acquaintances was Joe, a combination bootblack and deckhand. Joo came from Italy. Ho was hard-workin- g, polite, modest To-da- y I wont to Edgewater looking for nn One, in a brick, proved most interesting. I naked to bco tho landlord, and Joe, who shincd my shoes for years, appeared in response to tho call. His price for ono of the apartments was $60 n month on n one year's lease. I came away with a varioty of thoughts about tho incident: I havo lost some money in business; my old bootblack owns nn apartment house. Ed Schu- mann, No. CC1 West 160th Street. THE HAT C.IMK HACK. She had Just emerged from a millinery store carrying her purchaso In a bag. She stopped In front of a push cart at Fifth Avenue and HCth Street, and while she was selecting her purchases she laid tho bag on tho cart. Suddenly a policeman came In sight and the push cort man hurriedly pushed his cart away. The woman, astonished, watched her hat depart with It, but before she could make up her mind to follow n gust of wind picked up the bag nnd de- posited It at her feet. I. II., No. 14 W 107t)Strcet. There Is a statue at Broadway and d Street which I havo never seen mentlonod In n nowopuper. I hove nevor met any one who could tell me hat or whom It commemorated. I ent y to look nt It and learned that It commemorates a man who has given much real plcasuro to all the orld through his music Verdi. The tatue stands on a pedestal surroundol by four figures of characters from hkj operas. Mary Wcare, No. 212 W. ,8th Street. win, luti.Nxu:! In Central .Pafa to-d- I saw a lady with two dogs. One of the dogs carried his mujilo in his mouth, but he droppca it. The lady walked on a few steps before, she noticed what had happened. Then she cried: \I'rincc you go right back and pick up your mule.'' J'Hnce did mil rnrrirrf it meekly. Delia ilcNally, No. U'est list Street. apartment saw tho the has In to crumbs of to on tho rool tho adjacent tho birds, after thirty Bellaire, No. C9th ' A SHRINK 11V PROXY. A group of little bootblacks, aged bo- - tween and fourteen, do business outside Ccntrnl Park at Avenue and 110th Street. This afternoon a voung miss, nine of .ne, a pair mer.'a shoes under her arm nd looking quite business like, came up to After looking over carefully she selected one, ged ten For a whllo he struggled manfully shoe, trying to hold with one little nnd to shine It with the other. The little girl hit upon a better plan. She slipped the big shoes over her own and found a seal on a. parn nencn. and acting ai proxy lor or brother, she BOlved tlio boo- tblack's and her own and the big shoes were shincd without S. Wolff. 84 East Street. EMPTY. On Fifth Avenue nt 34th 1 saw gentleman ijh.iv ui. uumc nilddlc of the street, continue on his way ml then placo the bottle on the I his Idea was. Kllza-bct- h Sweeney, No. 200 East 76th Street. NOTHING IT. I saw man last night on Fifth Ave- nue at 60th wearing evening clothes and smoking a corn cob pipy. G. F. O., New 10m. RICHMOND. not cold iilooh. T saw I think I described as n \wise-crackin- g guy.\ I had stopped to wutrh the efforts of two men whoso big touring cor was stalled in of the KVirth Shoro Ice plant. Them was one chap among tho bystumlirs who I nol.fi 1 as If ho had been then- from the begin- ning and didn't cure how long he so I asked him what tho trouble was, \I dunno,\ says he; \I suppii. the cnglno la froze.\ Then he lauglxd. la ever Justlilable? Arthur No. 3D lu Hols Awnuc, Staten Island. NOT (Jl'ITi: tlKK STORY rtOOKS. It wns midnight nnd I saw a woman through Gramcrcy toward Avenue. She was shabbily dressed. A man camo up bcsldo her nnd spoke grufflv. She paid no atten tion. Ho grabbed hold of her arm. Sh-- screamed. Two young fellows In eve ning appeared on the other side or tfio street. The electric light sh'me on their white shirt fronts, their Mlk hats, their patent leather shoes. One tapped the sidewalk with a yellow cane. Tho woman frantically. She sobbed. \For God's cake !\ she cried to the two young fellows, \Are yo men, or what are yo?\ Tho man with whom she had been struggling dragged bur down tho sidewalk. No policeman ap- peared and the two stood un- der the electric light, and he with tho yellow cane confined to tap It against the sidewalk. Loulso No. 15 Gramercy I'ark. , om nt.ociv. In tho block where I live I get a glimpse every day of neaily every na- tionality In Europe. Here Is a group of boys and girls sitting on tho porch of nn unoccupied house. One of thorn is a young Irish girl, playing a \uko.\ while comments nre being made by Russian, German, Kngllsh, Greek ami Spanish youngsters. Nearby is a house Inhabited by n Spanish priest. A little further along Uvea a Jewish rabbi. There's a notice In front of a newly erected house that every apartment in the building Is equipped with radio connec- tions. J. W. Hudson, No. S20 West 156th Street. \MY LOVE MAS COT A Hn, ilnn In a Broadway uptown car I saw a smartly dressed dapper who was in tently to tho conversation of two young girls in front or her. She had In her hand a powdr puff and a rouge puff., which she had Just taken from her bag, and, tlll listening rantly to tlio conversation, she began applying tne rouge pun nor nose. She m) at the next station, not realizing yet \u \au uul\ \unough the per- sons around her were smiling broadly. ...... ..u.uu, o ;j7 j;. Yesterday's First CATHERINE RENDER, No BREAD LINE. Whllo visiting a friend in a West 81st Street house 1 ingenious overhead tram one of neighbors arranged order send food tho pigeons and other birds which make their headquarters of church. Twlco every day tho brend box is illlod nnd lowored to to a rest a journoy of feet. Margie 231 West Street, eight Fifth years carrying of them. them with It hand father problem difficulty. 108th Street a im- - curb. wondered what I.IKII a Street in what front homicide Connelly. walk Park Third clothes struggled gentlemen Coleman, apart- ment listening io Heights. coming I. M. MORTON, No. took place. Write your own name and address and in full. Checks are mailed daily. serious awards OF YOUR apartment. three-famil- y WEEKLY PRIZES: Capital prizes for best stories of week distributed among daily prize winners as follows: First prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25; fourth prize, $10. OF A LOVELY LIGHT-BLU- E HAT. My husband, our guest and I wero motoring. \Women said Mr. Z., \don't know how to drive. It appears like they don't net the knack. They'ro all over tho road nt once.\ \Just what MY husband says,\ commented our guest. I didn't Uko it. Always tho champion of my sex, I proof, suggesting that he proceed to demonstrate by telling ub beforo wo passed a car going in tho snmn direction whether the driver was man or woman. I thought the next car wo camo to was holding to its own side of the road very well, but Mr. Zambonl disagreed. A lovely light-blu- e hat was discernible over the steering wheel. \When we passed tho car wo looked back. The light-blu- e hat was on the head of tho gentleman at tho steering wheel. His fair companion was wearing his hat. Mrs. Jack Zamboni, No. 13 Maple Avenue, Suffern, N. Y. MAGICIAN. After I 7iart ffiucn nn Ice cream cone to each of the children y I saw my youngest son take a spoon and march straight to the yard. I watched him dig a hole in the ground with the big spoon and stopped him just as he was about to bury the cone. \I'm gonna plant it,\ he said, \an' I'll have a big ice cream twee and we'll have a' cone cvvy day.\ Mrs, Margaret Kcttel Ilox 101, Parlin, .V. J. Tito Roya at the Rencli. At the beach to-d- I saw a boy dive and come up covered with mud. Then I saw another one e)lvo and come up a row seconds later with a borsc- - shoe crab In one hand and a golf ball in tho other. Henry Pattrack, No. 655 Atlantic Street, Stamford, Conn. Hail Dog. I saw a small bulldog hanging onto tho scat of a boy's new suit. Another boy had tho dog by the tall, pulling In the opposite direction and pleading with tho dog to let go. The dog didn't obey until he had taken a piece from the boy s trousers. I., liauer, no. ut Home Avenue, Rutherford, N. J. a mm: going begging. In front of the New Haven railroad station y I saw an automobile with a Massachusetts license 'plate carrying a. sign on which was roughly printed. \Wanted Two or three deslraoio peo- plo to ride to Springfield. Free! Free! Kree !\ Harold Moore, No. 36 Young Street, New Haven, Conn, R. F. D. In Connecticut y I saw a large wagon wheel mounted on n post with flvo mail boxes on the wheel. The wheel revolved, making It easy for the postman to drop letters Into tho boxes. Dorothy Skinner, Mt. Klsco, N. Y. TAKING NO cn.iNCKS. On the outskirts of Mount Klsco saio ttco boys dismount from their bicycles and push them a consider- able distance along the highway. The only explanation I could find \Blow Down to was a sign reading: Ticcnty Miles an Hour and Save a Fine.\ Roger Quick, No. C Jlank Street, White Plains. SISARCIIF.H NO. 2. T aw a letter from across the Atlin- - Me it was written by my mother. On tho front of tho envelope was my name, the namo of the street and tho name of the State. \Searcher No. 26\ sent It .lone to New Hochclle. I wonder how- - he camo to know. Mrs. A. Blnns, No. 16 Horton Avenue, New nocnciie. Special Prizes Prize, $25 824 Terrace Avenue, Jersey City Second Prize, JIO 603 Eaglo Avenue, Bronx. OUT 77iirf Prize, $5 MRS. DANIEL A. M ALONE, No. 311 Alexander Avenue, Bronx. Ten Prizes of $2 Each SIDNEY REESE, Ward I..-- 4, Bellcvve Hospital. DIANA GOODMAN, No. 149 First Avenue. WILLIAM I'llECHT. No. 81 East USth Street. ROBERT J. Sl'LI.IVAV, No. 71 Amsterdam Avenue. FRANK 1). RANT A, No. 161 Nelson Street. Brooklyn. JOSEPH Rainke. No. 74 8;dStrcet, Brooklyn. GERTRUDE HlNU, No. 2411 Vnn Cortloudt Avenue, Rldgc-woo- d, L. I, \I.. C ,\ fi.son Avenue, Tompklnsvtlle, Staten Island. MARIE l)i: MAI ItlK V O Box 428, Point Pleasant, N. J. CHARLES II. HASSI ORD, No. 117 Noith 15th Street, East Oram' , . J. Read to day's stories. Pick the ones you think are best. Winners will be announced in this evenina's Nirjht Pictorial (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to'morrow. TOWN demanded IN PltlYATi: LITE. I saw \Hurricane Hutch.\ of movie serial fame, cross Ausaulo Chasm by his teeth and subsequently drop from the roof of a building onto a moving freight car. I had luncheon nt one of the local hotels. \Hutch\ hud beaten It to the dining room. \Daredevil Is he?\ said the waitress. \Well maybe ho is, but ho Insists upon making his own tea.\ Elwood II. Noener, Cusack Hotel, Poughkeepsle, N. Y. ACCORDING TO TIIK LAW AND THF. tfTATUTKS. The man who Uvea In the nparlment over ours was getting apples from treo nt the buck of tho house. He shook one heavily laden branch for all ho was worth. This branch hangs over nto the yard of a nnd some of the biggest and best apples dropped into that yard. Hy using 11 polo he pulled 11 few of them back through tho new picket fence. She caught him in the net and, In a perfect torrent of non Engll.-h- . expressed her opinion of him. his parents, ids grandparents and his and all their rela tlons, north, oast, south and west. Tho poor man Hod. Then she gathered up all tho applies that wore left on her side of tho wiH nnd disappeared into her kitchen. Paluso, No. 411 est Fourth Street, Plalnfleld, N. J. \llVHN Till: WORTHY HOMKR SOMLTIMKS NODS.\ After reading In a metropolitan daily a most Interesting history of music in Sweden I was startled hy tho following closing paragraph: \Tho present King, Oscar II., Is a liberal patron of tho arts, Ho built 11 splendid new opera house In Stockholm to rtplaco the old om To make euro I was not read ing a Journal fifteen years old I looked nt the date \Thursilny. Aug. 10, vyvi. Oscar II. illod In December, 1907, nnd was succeeded by hix con, Oustav V. Eugene Sundmaii:, Palisades Park, N. J. IN TIIK RIGHT I'LACK. I saw the LIBERTY car on sale nt No. 1776 Broadway Johannes 13. Ho way. Box 124, Kutonah, N. Y. QUEENS. Til 13 FIRST YI3AR. f J saw a young icoman enfcr a restaurant on HOth Street ami scru- tinize the menu carefully. Then she began uildny on n sheet of paper as if she were copying from tho menu. I asked the manager if she, were an employee and he uplird' \Oh no! She's Just married and comes in here sometimes to get an idea of what to cook for her hus- band's dinner.\ Uoudman, Mo. IIS East JSSth Street. SI'ItV. In tho quiet vilia-j- of Miller Tlae. HI., wo met a man who told us he Is ninety-tw- o years old and tired of tlio monotony of the days. Therefore he In vited 110 to his house, where ono of ou party started playing an orgn.n. , To our surpriso tho old man began 11 Jig. Later ho told us nc luisn t neon in Now York since tho Civil War and has neve- seen a movie; but ho was keen In splto of his Isolation. Harriet A. Shuttlii worth, No. S43 87th Street, Woodhaven L. I, HATH. I was walking along Springfield Ave. nue after leaving the 10.59 train, when I noticed In the distance something moving along blowly in the middle of tho road, i thought it might bo n stray cat. but as I approached was sui prised to distinguish two rats, Onn of them was lying on us uaeK hold lng a big egg In its four .feet. The (second rat was pulling \ bioiik uy mi tall. Georgo F. Rownn. No, 11 Broad wuy. Springfield Gardens, L. I. A COLD Cr.STOMI3ll. lint lii August \ Who sild m? Till ..mrnliiL- - nt tlx o'clock I saw the tiu.h watchman of 11 new building 011 Grand avokmo wearing an overcoat. .Mis L. Kuhn No. W6 Grand Avenue, Astoria L. U . . . EE TO DAY? PAGE WORTH READING BROOKLYN .hjst a flurry. In 54th Street, between Sixth nmi Seventh Avenues, Brooklyn, 1 saw n cat sitting behind a window of n house. He seemed to bo asleep. Suddenly another cat of the neighborhood came Into sight and leaped toward tho cat behind the window. He smashed against the glass pnnr, cut urn not break It. Ho did awoke the rot Inside, however, and for severol minutes there wns a great to-d- o between them on tho window sill, wlth-o- ut the loss of n single hair. Then, Just os suddenly ns It all started, they each laid down on tho sill and went to slecn. jossio uranam, .No. 730 03d Street. Hrooklyn. XBW COATS FOIl OI,l). Through my rear window to-d- I saw a Janitor in St. John's Place In Ids backyard painting Ills old tan rnincoat. lie gava It one application of black point this morning and another this afternoon. Alfred H. Thorncr, No. 319 incoin nace, urooklyn. PRAC13 IN Till: FAMILY. A couple boarded the Interboro at 2d Street y with thlr two chil dren, one about three years old and the other about a year old. The mother landed a baby's filled bottle of milk to the Infant. The other child started cry- - ng mat she wanted It. Tho father gave to ner. Then the baby cried and bo gave the bottle back to It, and ho kept this up until the two children between them had finished tho bottle. William Harris, No. 1157 51st Street, Urooklyn. ON TIIIIIH GOOD I!i:it A YHMt. On Ocean Avenue Parkway we were going at n, rather lively clip until we came upon a long lino of cars moving forward sedately. Wo ulowed down for a while to learn tho reason for such be- coming conduct and saw that a police tllvver ahead was unconsciously acting pacemaker. A. K. Kessler. No. 211) Kensington Street, Manhattan Reach, Urooklyn. F SIII3 JUST HAD IIEll HANDS ON SOMKIIODY On the B. R. T. train crossing the Williamsburg Bridge I uaw a young woman who seemed very much upset about something. Sho was giving vent to her feelings by pricking with a pin the crown of a white hat embroidered with silk. Sho Jabbed often, and soon the hat begun to look frayed. Then she began pulling the threads of the frayed ends of silk as If sho would tear them front tbQlhfr1 vtVi,en \10 tra,n reached MarcAVnuo'.qe arose ana gave a Jerk at\ the lining- of tho hat, clenched her teeth nnd threw the lining down to the track. 'Flora Wagenhclm, No. 611 Bambridge Street, Brooklyn. SATlSFIKDf On the B. R. T. y I uaw the Uldgewood, Richmond Hill, Jamaica, Kultnn Ktroet. Flnthllsh. Fifth Avenue and Bay Ridge sectloni of Brooklyn for hingle faro of 5 cents. Edward O'Neill. No. 808 Monroe Street, Brook lyn CATCH T.M YOI'.NG. Last night as 1 passed through Ilushieick Avenue I saw a tconuin sitting ut a Kbiiioio reading a paper. Through another icinrfoio I could see 11 man washing dishes. On my way back I saw the tcoman still rinding and the same man in tho room xcith her rocking a baby to sleep. Where do they nd husbands so goodt Edna Srhramr, .Vo. 1189 (jrcinc Avenue, Jltooklyn. IN A LMAKI3 III31. 1I3V13 TOWN IIY A JIAKK J1KLII3VI3 SUA. saw two little tots seated at the foot of a tclrnrapn pole on Hast litst Street near Cypress Avenue, ll'ith sand and gravel brought from' a construction job in the neighbor- hood thiy had constructed a tatnlii-fur- e beach and with spades rind small buckets ucrc building castles as magnificent as any you can ste at the shore. So far as they were concerned at the moment these big houses of brick and stone and this roar and hum of traffic were J. S. Dodd, No. im Clin- ton Avenue, Itronx. SNOOZK AND HNI5HZK. Wo were cnjoyfng the pictures last night nt Loew's Open Air Burland The- atre. In the feature film tho hero, huv-In- g fallen slavo to tho charms of Eileen Percy, was trying to muster up courage enough to kiss tho supposed-to-bo-slecpln- g fair one who, In reality, had seen him coming nnd was merely feign- ing (dumber, lie gluncod all around as if to mako certain no ono was watching and was bonding over to gnili the ltlss when a stout man In tho audience lot out what I can describe only as the Sneeze of S11ee7.es. Eileen jiwoko on the instant, 13. K. Lincoln lost a kiss. nnd the audience roared with laughter. P. L. Richards, No. 1361 Southern Boulevard, Bronx. CAUGHT IN TIIK ACT. While waiting for a shuttle train nt Times Square nt 12.30 o'clock this morn ing 1 saw a plainly dressed man wuik up to two youths and take theiri both by tho collar at once. All he said was, \Well I gotcha this time!\ Although their Intended victim did not know It, they had been caught In tho act of re- lieving a man ot his wallet. They of- fered no reslstanco but stood stock still while the plain clothes man placed the handcuffs on them. Harry Thurnturg. No. 690 East 138th Street, Bronx. THERK'S NO PLACI3 LI1CI3 IT. Near tho Erie Basin y I saw a coal bargo being loaded from the Steamship Sunelseco at Pier 46, Brook- lyn. Aft on tho borgo wero the living quarters of the captain, his wife and their three children. Thu barefooted and ragged children wero playing ift tho dust and grime and through the ihn unnulnted. grimy cubln I could see the cuptain's wife cooking dinner for the family. They uli loouen happy and contented and I wondered hnw thev could be in such ;u rnviion- - ment when my oyo saw painted on he- wn of tlio cabin In crudo letters: \Home. Sweet Homo.\ John llurllfld. No. 610 E 182d Street, Bronx, cjio Oliver!. ' . . i A DI3.M7.n.V OF TIIK IIND K It WO R LTO My chum and I wero walking In Bat- tery Park at noon and wero lucky enough to find an unoccupied bench. It was directly over a munholo the cover of which was slightly tilted. Wo took It for grnnted that tho bench had been tumbling Into the hole. Wo had been seated about flvo minutes whon we heard a volco coming. like the ven- triloquist's, from \down cellar.\ \Hey there, Jack!\ called tho voice, \git oft the bench for a minute; I want a peek ot the sky!\ The speaker was a dark skinned workman who had been laboring In the cesspool.. William Marks, No. 219 14th Street, Brooklyn. A UROOKLYN CONDUCTOR. I snw a feeble old lady and a younsr girl waiyng to-d- for a cor at Fulton and Court Streets. The pavement Is ripped up at this point and I wondered how they would get aboard. Just then tho car stopped and the conductor. Jumping to the street, lifted tho ojd lady bodily, crying \Up she goes,\ and deposited her gently on the platform. Then he assisted tho young girl aboard. Tho npprovlng glances directed toward him wcro niuto evidence that the pas- sengers considered his actions note- worthy. John J. O'Mara, No. 319 Macon BRONX Street, Brooklyn. XMK YOm OWN TAXI FAR I?. After the show at tho Brighton Beach! movies my friend nnd I found n taxi at tho gate and directed the driver to take us to Avenue J nnd East 18th Street. Brooklyn. When we nrrlved, my friend and the chauffeur looked at tho meter. Then they gazed at cacn other. The, faro, as registered, was 20 cents! \Well Buddy,\ $ald the chauffeur, \tho meter Is busted; how much do you think tho ride was worth?\ My friend handed him a two-doll- bill. For tho first tlmo in my life I saw a taxl-drv- at the mercy of his passenger. Lillian Nathan, No. HIS East 18th Street, Brooklyn, RURi.nsov avi ll n'n glad to HI3AR THIS. A6ouf sir weeks ago ono of my friends boughtia new hat in a shop not far from hia'Jiomc. The old hat teas I7 at the store to be sent. I saw it ttrrivBftv-da- y by parcel post and special dtllbery.-l- M. V. 8., Lin- coln Place, llfbpktyn. IIKLP. AYANTKD. The shoo store opposite my ofllco had advertised for salesmen nnd long before tho store opened thero was in tho line almost every typo of man from the fop to tho unmlstakablo bum. Some otood 111 small groups, chatting nnd laughing. Others wero alone. Here was a serious-lookin- g chap, fumbllnj nervously at the crumpled newspaper In his hands. Thero on the doorstep cat a yawning dude, with n Panama pulled far down nver ids Now and then a new- comer would pnuso and, apparently dis- mayed by the magnltudo of the crowd, walk away In despair. Finally, when the merchant nrrl;ed there wns a maij scramble for admittance. S Freeman, No. S'Jl Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn. COLVMHIA. I saw n young girl y wearing a Gklrt with alternate broad stripes of red nnd while nnd a pale bluo silk waist. Tho outfit yit tlrst glance looked like an American Hag. Sno strolled along se-- :. ni l. cnrrylng herself with a legal nlr and blissfully unconscious of the stares of tlio onlookeru. W. D. 11., Brooklyn. PIIIM IT OF RKADING MVTTKIt I MII311 IHFFIGt LTV. On Rockaway Beach Boulevard at 91th Street, I saw two girls In bathing suits. Bathing suits are forbidden on the main thoroughfares and they wero apparently dodging. I followed and saw them buy a magazine and then pro- ceed to dodge back to tho beach. Sud- denly a policeman came Into viow and they slipped behind some bushes. This cop passed, but several more anneareil nnd they hid behind a house nearby. 10 meir amazement uiey discovered the house to bo the police statlonl However, they got away uncaught Jane Reuben, No. 876 'Southern Boule- vard, Bronx. HALM. Three little lads. In charge of their fourteen-year-ol- d sister, were crossing tho bay from St. George on the ferry- boat Richmond, and tho youngest of the threo embarrassed the \little mother\ by a Joyous Insistence on climbing every pole on dock In spite of her orders to sit quietly. She evidently felt his disregard a reflection on her discipline, but o kindly old man's wisdom eased her bur-di- n of responsibility nnd tho wound to her prido when ha remarked : \Let him do it. That's how ho will get muscle.\ And for the remainder of the trip the ferryboat was a gymnasium. Rcglna Keller, No. 1622 Bryant Avenue, Bronx. r.vrAL. On Seventh Avenue near tho Christopher Street Subway Station, n gaunt eat dashed madly by me, with a small boy In full pursuit. It was plainly an \alley\ cat nnd tho boy was a gaiiiin, returning evidently on an errand, for as he run past Ine I caught sight of him deftly balancing a small pall of milk. I found the two a minute or so' later on the curb together. The cat eagerly lapped the small quantities of milk tho boy poured on the pavement. After each donation the boy peered anxiously Into tho bucket as If he wished to keep the shortage ns near as possible to tho safety mark. \Your cat?\ I Inquired. \Naw lie answered, as ho looked up and discovered me. \Stray ho muttered, and aiming a bulf-klc- k at tho surprised cat ho sped away, whistling thrllly. Elizabeth A. Bonn, No. 1662 Grand Avenue, Bronx. A CITY ORDINANCE. On William Street I saw somo men throwing coins to boys scrambling In tho street. A policeman came up Just as ono man w.i. about to throw our a com and placed him undi r arrest. Ha also made several other arrests for Vtin Eamo \offensL.\ 1'vo been wondering- - what law these men broke. A. LL Lane, No. 32? JYUU AYoaue, Bronx F
