New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-16

If he had ever heard ruckmen complain aD % y t"e
condition and lack of street signs. - c,p ,m
sonny he REPLIED hsy a5e all IN retn l their bear
ings on account OF thesa signs ~ cot 70 be
or they couldn't hold their places but ts xed 'u I'M
sometimes they forget and they get a.. 10 If they
find out what they wanted. We %oi can
bet dollar seldom go astray. You 90" ouickiv
a rap about being able 10 una stie hui when
you are hunting for street with the truck piSSHea
and time to waste you feel IKE doins ~ nm in
this city finding streets before he was many 80
the wagon; and at night he'd lusi go , az" much
trouble finding places in the broad daylight ph.
when it's dark the old street Signs ar u ,bev are
generally some distance from the electric lights and
can't be seen from a seat on truck
GOOD REASON FOR ANGER.
1T makes me mad to have to he jumping down
every few minutes to find out where am -,
signs ought to be painted and placed so you co'''
see them day and night. few days ago to
word TO go TO Union Court Now, had never he"iu
of that place so after being told that 1t was IN
University Place, between Eleventh and Tweii'h
sts I started out to find it, had picnic i i, -
70 several lines 'f b" didn't ind non Court
At At last spd G9fTm1n NIXON rrt at it, said
the the s copper val and sure enough HeeyS
would sui he looking for Union Court II !, n, 'he
been Tor tnat pOIceman. Union tou''
middle of the block between Eleventh and IMe ,s
SITS University Place but there snr, any n Of me
court is painted board fastened to buli,''R'
but couldn't the sign from the WAGON So -,
town Why. above fremont in roads where there
are few houses. street signs are prac'lca"' "''
known" ,., ar,
Another truckman. who was asked If he had any ny
trouble in making his rounds on ace9 %n Oh don't
need street signs. l know my business You can
tell much about this city. I've been irmc,Kng
on the North Side there are many streets with
only few street signs, and these are w.dtly S'Pn-
rated. This is particularly true at Fordhs m oe
tween Third-aye and the Harlem Harlem RIVER anu "'''
At the corner where Irving Place loses itself IN
Gramercy Park. who ever runs or walk, or rno
East Twente,h-st. To the casual passeT tm mn,
may seem to be no legend bnt ihe sober rn'n 6e
TO find number IN Gramcrcy PARK inc sls"p"Sh, r :,
base deceiver Easi rwsntieln-sS j. n5r t,st
Twcntetst is up IN the air in the bowels OF me
earth or almost anywhere. hut It is not there. al II
Any NG i GH' thinks that 1t Is '"''' let MIN ' " w
LONG. Long Ago"
Some time in the past just when Is not material
a street OF series IF streets. or parts OF streets
called Creamery Park blew around the litue park
in a most bowiIdornc AMI fantastic way. and when
the park had finally settled down. il found that
IL took UP the ST. both ends of the park ana
a part OF Els, Twentieth-st, but in It's w.i con's
1t hal entirely neglected 10 appropiia ie any OF ,'
territory already occupied by East Twenty-I- ST
ing began, and thea whoever d. that JoD e't11'nH
had an eve for the artistic. Where shouu No.
bc placed? Perhaps there was a reason i"f Put-
ting it at tn, corner OF Twenty -trst-st. and thr
wgs, g@a of the p park DT NJ 50 m W san r
now however. is an nd!sputaole fact.
From 80. | to No. 5, inclusive IN" "TTahs'n'"t
is in acc ord with the methods usually adopted by
wise people but now to ind No. Inc mrs. ',d
is that there is no such number. The words on th'
sicnpost say that the street before No. ~ Last
Twcnileth-st After a careful survey, Al police man
is impressed into the service ana win I'pk o.
supreme dsdan for the ignorant one. he turns west
on what ought to hc East Tweniieth,st ana pony.
Ing to house the south side OF The street says;
'I)ere IL Is" There Is the number staring stoiii-
ly at the street from the glass % tnr Closed u.or.
The number on the next house Is loi the proper
number In East Twentieth-s'.
Walking east on what he now finds is Gramcrcy
Park he finds that the numbers are IN good Crier-
TO- H. L.. etc. As he passes IN" corner OF IRVING
Place and glanccs at the signpost with us garus
f,isehood there are "A few inutiered words ON he
GOES until suddenly he comes upon rhurch win
no numbers upon It's front door. Passing on ne
house that has upon It's front door TWO numbers.
az though IL were trying TO make UP Tor ta' snort
comlngs Of It's neignbors. The number arr w. an
g. and although apparently IN onlY one stt'.i. ~
would seem that IL was In two. ami thar M van
dcrcr has once more come upon East Tw'ni'ih-si-
in all it, pristine glory.
But whore is Gramercy Park Inc poor TWISTED
thing has taken another whirl. as though u htl
started for the East River ana, suddenly hndng
itself unequal the occasion. had gone iorNi4y
back 10 It's old quarters on the fguafc Running
other enemy in the shape Of East Twenty. hfsis,.
and too worn out already. IL WAS evidently ready
IN leave that thoroughfare N III" regular order 81
table old street. The individual VINO wanted
wandcrngs and II was AL the fauli ~ the Nlns Ola
acnpost al the corner OF Irving Place