New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-07
ASTRAL STUDENTARRESTED
He MUST TAKE IN HIS GLASS TRANS
PARENCT OR GET A LICENSE.
cARTooNs AND sAYIyas rHAr MApg A 80

CARTOONS AND SAYINGS THAT MADE sENsA-
TON IN 4 USUALLY QUIET TART OF THE CITY.
f. T. Allen agent for n number Of stores and
dwellings near Nostrand-ave. and Fulton-st. adver-
tises himself as Student OF astral science" He
was arraigned before Magistrate Worth yesterday
In the Gates-ave. court charged with displaying
without n license a glass transparency in front OF
his fat at No. $50 sNostrand-Rve. Sentence was
suspended condition that he either got the nee
essary permit from the Board Of City Works or
take down the sign.
Mr.. Allen has himself 90 blame for his embarrass-
ment yesterday. Doubtless II he had contented
himself with being plain student Of astral SCI
ence' no one the block would have objected.
for the Girls High School with Gwenty-three hun
dred pupils. and the Boys High School with twelve
hundred more. are Almost within stones throw
OF Mr. Aliens fiat He wasn't satisfied. He began
10 advertise himself. In his transparency he
placed most erudte exposition Of astrology. writ
ten In John Hancock script. and alongside It he
placed a homemade cartoon. That's just where
Mr.. Allen EEL down" the Dutch grocers boy
around the expressed It. Theke all sorts
Of cartoons but homemade cartoon from Nos
trand-ave.. near Futon-st.. is fearful and won
derful thing to contemplate. Last week Mr. Allen
Attached TO the wagon were two horAes
But Mr.. Aliens evil genius impelled him to put a
end OF the wagon. The boy. with a hopeless, blank
To make things worse NJ Alien placed underneath
the picture the brain racking query, Which way
Is the Boy GOING? The grocers boy thought II
meant for him. and the milkmau thought IL
was roast" on him while many a young girl
at the big schoolhouse near by thought II was a
puzzle meant for her.
What Mr.. Allen intended to convey was that the
boy In the wagon didn't know which way ne was
bound but Mr.. Allen could come pretty near telung
with the aid of his chartbook 1t was an audaclous
thing TO do. everyone said. This week MI. Alien
hung up new pronunciamento and a new cartoon.
The Dutch grocers boy said the new ore 'Wuz
holy terror. h geei" -.
Ii represented "A Juvenile Of uncertain uCe, with
eyes like a hungry and thirsty olsce seeker. FROM
his hands shoulders. head. feet and Knees are
strings attached to stars, which seem to lie rlulns
along a sky which resembles the foam or peer.
Underneath Mr. Allen wrote the startling inquiry
Are you a jumping jack? II you're not come III
and me-" The Dutch grocers boy nearly had
a fit when be it, ,..
u dunno as wedder it's Aggynaldo lodging bullets
one dronpin furnace coal on Ml.T Se
Franklin Skndicate man" said the boy, ana the
Young ladies al the Girls High School ana the peo-
Some one complained that Mr.. Allen was for
tune teller and got many OF the % cent piec'is al
lowed the school girls for luncheon Ice cream ana
MET Alen was arrested, has been stated.
Il don't feel malice toward anyone, salG ne
last night a Tribune reporter. I'm sort Of
pioneer ! suppose. None OF the schoolgirls come
here TO have their fortunes told. | wouldn't take
their money. Some OF the teachers come though
No astral science is not an exact science, nor IS
IL fortuneteng or sprltualism. ] despise both OF
those practices ! give astrological character read
ings from a blackboard chart. that's all. IL -
largely based astronomical and mathematician
research.
Then MI Allen brought out a finely wrought
mathematical chart, in the centre OF which was
written: