Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-17
KENSTNGTON AND
RICHMOND VIE WITH
CITY'S MANY LURES
Sections Have Life and In
terests of Their Own in
Mixing Les Miserables"
With Joy.

Philadelphia has its Chestnut street and
Market street and Kensington and Rich
mond have their Girard, Frankford and
Kensington avenues.
The streets mentioned are the show
streets Of their localities.
Kensingtonans and Richmondtes are
sufficient unto themselves. They are a
good deal like the Germantowners. who
say when they leave their ncighborhood
that they are going into Philadelphia
The people Of Richmond and Kensington
have their five and ten-Cent stores, their
own movies" and the theatres which
suit them best. Saturday night Is the
big night. II is pay day i'm the Ken
sington and Richmond mills, and the
girls who work in the mills dressed in
their best and on the arms of young
men most popular with them, parade the
thoroughfares.
A BOARDWALK CROWD.
1t is a Joyful, wcll-dressed crowd. 1t
reminds one Of the Boardwalk parade at
the shore. Just as the Boardwalk and
Chestnut street have their characters, so
has Girard. Frankford and Kensington
aN enues.
Atlantic City for years boasted Of
leu lidulltl Slill lF'l HtlOt WHO was lNIuNth
to have saved many lives in the surf.
In summer he paraded the beach as a
life saver. 1t is true he did not wear
a bathing suit for he accepted many in
vtatlons at the bars, and the bars in
question were not the ones which wreck
ships off the Atlantic City coast.
In winter he was always found
patroling Chestnut street or Market
street. In his blue flannel, life guard
short, and he always was near that spot
that would be lighted up when the cafe
doors swing. The old cap took no
chances of being overlooked. For A
drink the captain would tell tale OF
his rescues. He did this for years until
he finally was voted a nuisance.
He TO longer struts the Atlantic city
beach. He still haunts the cafes, where
for old times sake. and his MunchauSen
reputation an occasional nod is given
him and the captain takes the look OF
recognition as an invitation and loses
no time in raising his rheumatic left foot
to the brass rail and with his right hand
safely pilots the glass to his lips.
HEROES HERE, TOO
Kensngton and Richmond have their
heroes. They haven't got Market street
Old Captain Clark, but they have Jimmie
He is just one of those work-a-day fell
lows who lost hand in a hosiery mill
He claims nothing for himself. He will
explain that he was a little careless in
changing a gearing, or something, and
he was mighty husky he did not lose an
arm. He does not want charity or SYM
pathy, but is thankful If one makes a
purchase of buttons which save bachelors
worry by sewing themselves on TO a pair
OF trousers by steel teeth. For his women
patrons he carries line Of thread and
needles.
INTRODUCING TOM.
There is Tom Martin. Sometimes he
sells peanuts, sometimes flowers. He gem
orally can be found near Front and York |
streets. Tom is an affable old fellow and !
likes a wee nip at times. He got a bullet |
through the shoulder during the Civil |
War Surgery in those days was not al |
It's best. In consequence, the left arm of /
Tom is useless. Every three months Tom /
gets so from the Government as PEN |
sion, The pension is a mark Of apprecia- /
ton OF the United States to the man who
was willing to lose an arm in its service.
What makes Tom popular is the man
ncr in which he is willing to spend his
pension. When the pension is spent the
brings forth his peanut basket
and lives precariously. but happily, by
gorging men with peanuts they do not
want. He explains that five cents worth
1f peanuts will obliterate a breath trail
that some suspicious wives are looking
for when they throw their arms about
their husbands necks on a Saturday
STREET FAKERS GALORE.
Street fakers. who ply their profession in
he streets near the markets during the
week, so to hensington and Richmond
on Saturday nights. They glibly tell
Of being a boy of the old North
,ast. and the holiday thronE always stops
@ listen and generally TO buy,
KcnsinGton and Richmond are proud of
heir stores, proud OF their Institutions,
# their pretty girls and boys in the mills,
md are loyal to the street vendors who !
AVE been crippled at their work,
John I.AMOM 81 TODAY