New-York tribune., 1906-07-29
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
Womap Nails Up WindoScs Because
She Fears Burglars.

young who has been conspicuous in
the Memorial Baptist Church, of South Brooklyn,
As with her family in a country place down on
Long Island. The family rents the house. and is
responsible for its safety The responsibility
rests heavily on the shoulders of the young
IN question. She is naturally a leader anyway,
her friends say. and. of course. is not of the
sort TO shiTk responsibility. In other years-of
course. this does not that she is much more
than sxteen-she was a country girl. Whether
she has become citihed not may be judged from
the following description. written by her elder sis
ter. of her nightly conduct:
At about 7:3O p. n. picture yourself tall and
and nails IN hand irst at one window and then at
another: At each there is bling bang Of the ham
fening It to the framework and forbidding it to
q en he nas Ip e 81 aooP MS
SS Ssxs sne T 9Tags @ the ne dog5t is small and gentle
and tail so that he cannot run away.
There some funny things that crop UP now
and then IN the city departments. The latest funny
thing. IKE drunken man and other amusement
gfvers decreases in its mrthful character just in
DrOpOrtim 10 the one studies it. At the next
big Gre. curious Brookynites win probably be set
guessing why a number Of civilians hustling
inside the police lines with small square blue
tiles dangling by white cords from their persons II
thass are carefully watched, IT will be noted
that the blue tiles curl up whenever they get the
heat and when they get under the sparks actually
aDuEst forth into blue flames requiring stream OF
water % the clothes their unfortunate
oBners These blue tiles are the new fire badges
which Ere Commissioner O'Brien has invented to
3ift the load Of maintaining the frernen's pension
fund from the shoulders Of those whose relatives
g1l beneht under it. The badges will burn or
break with equal facility. Every Of them costs
81 the money going TO the pension fund. A badge
b only good year. when a must be OBJ
Gssne6 at the cost Of 81. Numerous newspaper men
and others compelled 20 carry the badges around
with them constantly. there likely to be a
large number OF badges broken. In order replace
dement's.
Another funny thing has notice. this time
an connection with the Police Department of Brook
Rn Il has been the custom Of the telephone opera
tors at headquarters TO whom reports of cases are
sent IN from all station houses, to post bulletins
sn q glass ease where the representatives of the
newspapers can see them The bulletins written
out with lead pencils slips of paper, and are
hung strings by means Of little hooks. Formerly
the bulletins were written slips of a uniform
color and shape. Recently, however, Controller
Metz discovered the lavish expenditure of money
that being made to make the available
20 the public. He sent word through the police
officials the reporters that no more slips would
be hung out unless they contributed the price Of
the hooks As the hooks only cost five cents
dozen, no suicides have resulted on the STATS of
the newspapers affected. But worse is 70 follow
il likely that the Controller will upon
the reporters furnish the pads paper which
the bulletins are written. all the old scraps OF
stationery collected in the waste barrels must be
about consumed now. Judging from the assorted
lot strung in the bulletin Of late. Next
the reporters win be asked pay for the lead
pencils with which the writing is DONE then the
the 1acks for supporting the string, and next the
night In this way il IS conceivable that Mr Metz
wiz be able save the city about $55 IN the
OF a child through an elementary school year.