The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-07
New York Daily News Tells Many Odd Things
One Reporters Tale Tells of Tenants II Copley Flats Not Paying Rent
for Seven Years. Because Owner Had Died Intestate-Seyeral Other
Accounts of Things That Sound Queer to Those on the Outside.
More odd things appear in the daily

More odd things appear in the daily
news in New York than in any other
town in the world. Here are a few
samples. The other day a friend ask.
ed ]. Sergeant Cram. the polite mem
Der of Tammany hall, what might be
the time.
Have a watch" said Mr.. Cram
suavely. Then YOU want have tC
bother me again."
He opened the drawer of his desk
and passed gu a perfectly new dollar
watch to the inquirer. There were a
peck of dollar watches in there.
II buy 'em by the gross" Mr.. Cram
explained. ''They cost less than tc
have my Swiss watch repaired. Any
way. they keep better time, and / car
oblige a friend now and then"
For seven years the tenants of the
Copley flats in Flushing paid no rent.
No n came to collect. Then some
nosey person began to look into things
and found that Frederick Copley, the
owner, who died intestate years ago,
left seven first cousins scattered
through Australia and Africa. There
were no other heirs. The title was
Strengthened out and a real estate
company bought the flats. Some of
tiIo tsSCdi ISlll-lIce lclldlllS lIlIcdl-
ened to sue for money they had eX-
pended in patching the roof.
your husband says that he will
permit us to take what skin we need
body said the hospital physicians to
Mrs. Fannie Gottlieb. The injured
Mrs. Gottlieb protested bitterly.
What do you think 1 want to be
a moving picture?" she asked. Just
look Gustav over"
Gustav had yielded to a passion for
art in his sailoring days. The only
portion of his cuticle not ornamented
by bleeding hearts and fullrigged
ships and naughty little Cupids was
his face-and he is a w%hiskered man.
I've forgotten the combination
said Mr.. Ryan, proprietor of a Column
bus avenu cafe. He had been on his
knees in front of his safe for an hour
twisting at the lock. IF 1 don't get
that safe opened before the close of
banking hours Ill lose a good bust
ness chance"
Want it opened?" asked a beer
drinker at the end of the bar.
Foolish question" said Mr.. Ryan.
bitterly. III give YOU fifty if you can
unlock that door in the next ten min
utes."
The mar put his ear to the door and
wet his fingertips. and in five minutes
had Ryan's $1,000 out of the box.
What safe company do you work
for?' asked Ryan. admiringly. "Gim-
me your address. 1 can get you a lot
of business"
Like thunder YOU cam" said the en-
pert. IN get my Own business" And
as he backed out he added: and 1
didn't say that l worked for any safe
company"
This politician isn't more than forty
months away from a bung-starter. But
he's young, clever and adaptable, and
lately he's been making money hand
over fist. So he received an invita-
ton to weekend at the country house
of a friend who figures in Wall street
as we'll as in society.
I'm the morning." said the poll
tician, after a night that had been
fairly convivial I was awakened by a
tall u in knee breeches. He had a
face k a pair of horses. In one
hand he held a silver bowl full Of
water.
This says I to myself, is where
I'm caught. Does this gink expect me
to drink that water or souse my head
in it"
80 I look at the valet, and the