The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
GLAD DAYS ON SAN JUAN HILL
THE BRICK THROWING INDUSTRY
HAS 4 BOON.

There's Much 10 BE Said for and Against
the New Police Caps. but There's No
poub, That Landlords should Increase
the supply OF Handy Ammunition.
In the brick throwing belt OF Manhattan
known "a San Juan Hill the police view
with alarm the new order sent out from
800 Mulberry street which compels them
to wear caps. The police OF the West
Sixty lei ghth street station especially point
with pride to the lately discarded historical
helmet which. they say. IL the only head
harness a gentleman should affect when
trying 10 quell the matinee INC evening
riots in the block bounded by West End
and Amsterdam avenues and Vest Sixty
first and Sixty-second streets.
Any disturbance i'm this black belt means
an average brick fall Of % feet n minute.
Now when o cop is towing a biHck crook
Gown the street among "A swarm Of the
prisoners neighbors who consider 1t I'M
n~eichborly 10 ps rrnit a policeman to make
an arrest ard get away with II the cop must
give his entire time 20 these anxious neigh
borH and trus, 80 luck to b. able to walk
bctwoeh tho brick drop.
But again and again the cop and n brick
Try 10 OCCUPY the same spot on tho
pavement AT too -rTre time and il is thnn
that the helmet acts a. a cushion 10 prevent
the hrick from 10 ing blOkeu. Each Of these
bricks has been pulled from a chimney
hurrbp1ky ny a eAy line Ariloryman who
knowsfall Ven that he will ave to reclaim
the brick from the street Gfter the dust has
sett Ell " no wants to rebuild his chimney
before the next Ight. His chagrin can be
imagined when "a brick landing o N ono Of
the new Gays j, shattered beyond repair
on the skull OF Gn nnrccling poiicemdn
Furthermore, the caps sie Unfair 10 thc
say linz D,ti.leJyn'eu in tAEt the are
difficult t. Distinguish st night, whereas the
Esht gray helmr; with a bi, OF metal on the
top thst rhntNl In tho %clcrisi c light ray
guided a m~arssur1n while thr wing
Whcn III" citizens OF the Hill hsyc come
to tho Wort Si>tv-ci9hth street station to
com plaiu Of those things the police have
drawn tbe = attention to the fact that all
th,<h charges OF unrairness are more than
balanced by tho greater opportunities tie
caps oser tho bedslat brigade down on The
street. In tho helmet days only an adept
bedslst iugs rt~y rAGn could troll up be-
hind a cop, IIt his helmet lay the back rim,
tap the oiioia l Skull with q bedslat, replace
llc Htitl2Ni pNFt iNf bLihH uIfu W uilN
of drnanily To the barber shop to glance
ever the IobcC Gd,cnc.
Since cape have been worn. however,
the verie~t amateur can gladly swat cap
and al and onLsin ~ many points in the
game without al the old red tape.
Any way you take IL the e,I7J blacks now
residing temporarily OF the I'LL lind more
ways of enjoying themselves than the n
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these people there il one bathtub for the
entire G.I73, but as that tub is in a tonsorial
parior. where the barber in chief has the nerve
10 ask people to pay actual money to take
a bath. the people feel that their lack of
finances justiiee them in refusing TO use
the bathtub.
Browning has bsst expressed the sheer
Joy OF living, the mere living that perme-