Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-17
CROWNED,
PREPARES TO YIELD
SCEPTRE TO WINTER
Furs Out of Camphor Balls,
or Pawnshops, Sure Sign of
Changing -Squir-
rels Seek Winter Provender

Preparations for the winter are under
way. They can be seen n Chestnut and
Market streets and in the squares.
Some are wearing furs in the evening
and some men can be seen lodging in the
side doors of shops with three golden
balls displayed to retrieve overcoats put
away" in the spring.
These men will carefully explain, II
caught coming out, that they did not
pawn their coats for money that was
needed but that Jake" who runs the
shop. always keeps the coats in camphor
and mothproof bags. Jake" is a better
friend in some respects than a wife, who
might forget the moth balls.
AIists hang over the trees in the squares
these fall mornings and a pail of smoke
later In the day as tho square Caretakers
rake and burn the leaves that are drop
ping from the treees.
Women. it Is said by fashion experts
will look just as cold this winter as they
did last. Skirts will be cut "skimpy," so
modistes say.
F'urs will be the fashion as usual, and
promenaders Of Chestnut street will prob
ably wear them as they did last winter,
careessly but gracefully dTaped over one
shoulder or in some other manner where
the furs fail to do the work for which
most men think they We're intended.
Man sees little use in spending several
hundred dollars for a neckpieCe which is
wrapped over one shoulder, or a muff
which hangs strung over the other or
nesting in some place which cannot pro-
tect the hands,
Dutch John" who is sent from the
City Hall to the squares where special
f-A % hn ft rrftlI
mild winter. He ought TO know, for he
has made a study OF the squirrels of
Washington Square and Rittenhouse
Square, and of the gentlemen who sleep
in the open in Franklin Square.
John says squirrels don't seem to be
busy this fall laying In supplies for the
winter. They are going about the job
In a listess way, and instead OF attending
strictly to business scamper about in the
sunlight Just as If there was no winter
with its hardships to be encountered
John. also as proof of his contention,
says that he misses the faces of many
tramps from Franklin Square. The
tramps, good Judges of weather condi-
tlons, arc lingering in the country, prey
Ing upon the fields and chicken coops
The seasoned tramp gives the lodging
houses a wide berth until the SHOWS and
biting winds drive him off the road"
A man who knows states there are
frosts In the morning, and that Park
benches are damp and of a temperature
that numbs the bones.
He speaks the truth. as any one can
testify who sees the "calI for breakfast"
made every morning at o'clock in Inds-
pendence Square by three policemen, who
summon men out OF dreams to the realiza-
tion that 1t has been long time between
meals
The men swing their arms IL they
have the strength If they haven't, they
shuttle over to the waste boxes, where
newspapers are set on fire. The men hud-
die over the flames. and rub grimy hands
until shffened fnger-joints loosen.
One knows that winter Is at hand by
the crowds surgtng along Broad and
Chestnut streets when the theatres let
out. 1t is a brisk moving throng as it
huTries TO the cafes and restaurants The
street is not popular after sundown when
the cold mists come sweeping UP the Della
ware and cast an uncomfortable mantIs
over ths town,