The evening world., 1913-07-05

over SPELL" said my friend
Carney. driver of express
wagon No. s.eoe. - good
many opportunities was had
Of observing human nature
through pee,taboo waists.
'TAs Park Commissioner and the
Eommissioner of Polls and the Forestry
Ncmmission gets together and agrees
to let the people sleep in the parks un-
III tie Weather Bureau gets the ther-
mometer down again to living basis.
Do they draws up open-air resolutions
and has them o. KID by the Secretary
Of Agriculture, Mr. Comstook and the
Village Improvement Mosquito Exter-
minating Society OF South Orange. n. ].
When the proclamation was made
opening up to the people by special
grant the public parks that belong to
'em. there was a general exodus into
Central Park by the communities exist
Ing along It's borders. In ten minutes
after sundown you'd have thought that
there was an undress rehearsal Of a
potato famine In Ireland and n Kishi-
mem massacre. They come by families.
gangs. clambake societies. clans, clubs
ana tribes from all side3 to enjoy a cool
sleep on the grass. Them that didn't
have oil stoves brought along plenty
NJ blankets. so as not to be upset with
the cold and discomsorts OF sleeping
outdoors. BY building fires OF the shade
trees and budding together In the bride
paths. and burrowins under the grass
whore the ground was soft enough. the
ikee Of 5000 head Of people succe sstully
battled against the night dir In Central
Park alone.
"Ye know I live In the elerant fur
\ nished apartment house called the
Beersheba Flats. over against the ele.
Sated portion Of the New York Gen.
4 eai Railroad.
when the order come to the hats
that all hands must turn out anI sles p
In the park. according TO the ins,ruc-
tions OF TIE consulting committee OF
the City Club aal the Murphy Dray-
ing. Re;urfns and Sod6ing Company.
there was n look of n couple OF firss
and an eviction all over the place.
Tho tenants began to pack up
'cather beds. rubber boots. strings
Of garlic. hot-water bags. portable
fanoes and scu;tlcs OF coal to take
along for the sake OF comfort. The
sidewalk looked like a Russian camp In
Oy1ma's line OF march There was
wailing and lamentlng up and down
stairs from Danny Geoghegan's Nat on
the top floor 70 the apartments o!
Missis Goldsteinupski on the first
For why says Danny. comm 4
down and raging In his blue yarn socks
to the janltor, should I be turned out
Of me comforta Die apartments to lay
N the dirty grass like a RABBIT? TT:
like Jerome to stir up trouble Wild snnl
matters like this instead Of
Whist! says officer Reagan on tht
: sidewalk. rapping with his club. ''Ti'
7 not Jerome. 'ris by order OF the Poll.
), Commissioner. Turn out every one o.
Yves and hike yerselves to the park.
AyAy'Now. twas n peaceful and happ
shNme that all OF us had In them sam
Beersheba Flats. The O'Dowds and IN
Jteinowitzes and the Galatians and tn
COhens and the Spizzineliis and the Nc
Manuses and the Splegelnayers and tn
Joneses-all nations OF us. we lived iik
one big family together And when tn
hot nights come alorg We kept lin
Of childher reaching from the front doc
TO Kelly's on 'he corner passing alon
the cans OF beer from one to anothe
without the trouble OF running after I
"And with no more clothing on tina
10 provided Tor In the statutes, sit;in
IN all the windies. with q cool growle
In every one. and your feet out In tn
air. the Rosenstein girls singing on III
IRE escape OF the sixth floor, IN
Patsy Rourke's flute going In the eight
and the ladies' calling each other syr
onyms out the windies. and now an
then q breeze sailing In over Mistt
Depew's Central-I tell you the Beel
sheba Flats was a summer resort this
made the Catskills look like n hole
the ground With his person full {
beer and his feet out the windy and h
old woman frying pork chops over
charcoal furnace and the childht