New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-03
BOROUGH GOSSIP
Crowds Learn That StreetCar
Strike Is Still On.


there was a strike on the Coney Island
and Brooklyn Railroad lines. when some
of the strikers appeared in the populous
contres-such as downtown near the Bor-
orgh Hall and at Coney Island-early last
vel, with hand organs. The organs bore
placards, reading:
THE strike on the c. ]. and i. X. X Is
sn on. Please help the strikers to get
their rights
Wherever they went the strikers and
their instruments were surrounded py
crowds. Most of the people seemed In
spired more by curiosity than by sym
pathy.
They say It takes all sorts Of people TO
make a world. Barnard Kirk is simply one
sort. The other day he approached Patrol
man Delaney, of the Flushing avenue
station.
II want TO 90 back to Blackwens Is
land" said Barney.
WHY don't you get out and get joo!
demanded the policeman.
Men who work are fools" returned
Kirk, who is fifty years old.
''Why don't you join the naVyT' Delahe'
suggested.
'.They have TO work in the navy and
that's against my religion" said XIX
He was finally locked up as Vagrant'
The next day, when arraigned before
MAGISTRATE VOORHEES, in the Adams street
pollce court he requested sentence Oh
six months TO the Island. When the court
compiled, Kirk expressed his thanks he
explained that he had spent most OF the
last five years at the island and Iouno 1t
close TO his ideal of a place to hve-piehy
OF food and no work.
Red Hook Playground. which Is IN 'le
course Of development next to Red NUN
Park, otherwise known as Coffey PARK Is
10 have an ideal fagpOle-one that VIII We
the envy OF ell the other Fairgrounds %
the borough. 1t viii be the mast from or
Thomas Iipton's yacht Shamrock II. rms
is not inappropriate, for tho children %
the section are largely the children OF sea-
faring men and men who make their living
about the docks. Nor is II unapproprl~Ie
that the mast which once bore the coiors
of Great Britain should be used TO display
our flag. for the mast is, in sense &
trophy OF American seamanshlp
A decade ago. when the Shamrock II had
been beaten in her fight for the cup, she
was turned over TO the Erie Basin Drydoek
CoYnpany. Although she had cost more
than 10000, no attempt was afterWard
made 10 sell her. After half dozen years
she was broken up for the material that
was in her The great mast, more than
one hundred feet long, was deemed too me
TO break up and was saved. 4 short time
ago the president OF the drydock company
offered Il to Commissioner Kennedy OF the
Park Department for use at the playground.
Last week Commissioner Kennedy accepted
the offer.
A new playground was opened few days
ago at Joralemon and Furman streets for
the benefit Of the hundreds Of children who
1--we in the congested section and who have
heretofore been compelled 10 play in the
streets and on the piers. The little ones
were enthusiastic when the swings and
other paraphernalia were placed at their
disposal The ground IS IN charge Of Miss
Florence VIM, who has been engaged in
settlement work in this and other cities
for several years. She IS to have a. tent
erected. and under IL will instruct the girls
fn sewing and the boys in wood carving
and hammock making The ground for
the breathing space was furnished by the
New York Dock Company. The Mems So
cial Service League, of Holy Trinity Parish
interested the political organizations. and
about 500 was raised for fitting the place
up and providing workers. Afterward, the
park authorities agreed 10 pay half the
running expenses. The playground vii