The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-05-03
IT'S MOVlN' TINE
IN H MORNIN'
Oklahoma City win Not Fall Behind
Sister Cities In Observing May rs
,PrOyerblal Moving Month.

Folded his tent like the Arab aud
silently stole away
Written In the past tense Such
things do not happen now because
all the arab had to take into consld-
Grafton was the shady side Of a palm
tree and the depth Of the sand besides
tents are not as popular as they were
Now it must be-
WANTED Seven room residence,
modern, newly decorated close IN, Zine
lawn, near car line Phone Grand,
81. tt 30.
And there is whore the moving man
comes into this plot In fact he IL
leading heavy. The scene is along any
residence street and the time lis usu-
ally about the first week In May.
We just rentcu the LotSrock place
on Coin street, You know tney moved
away" was our first mtimatiOu that
May was at hand The woman as she
smiled through IA ~seven-foot wire
fence that had fuiled 10 keep her
neighbours chickens from the prize
rNdish beds continued, Yes we have
lived In this Old place I'm honestly l
am ashamed Of It we are going to
move III the morning
Early the next morning a three
horse van backed up TO the front
parking and the moving had begun,
not only IN this home but in scores Of
others throughout the city, every
street offering It's uuotu who were not
satisfied with the homes " the past
year or who were going 70 do light
housekeeping for the summer and
were storing their Goods
Aud the moving man he Is expect
ed to be II plumber AN electrician, Il
piano tuner, nm acrobat. Hercules and
! Jack " all trades.
He must "huudIc gently IA cook
stove az 1t IL lowered or he must be-
careful lest he mar the mahogany
finish on a 9Sc piano stool AS II dip.
lomat he must explain that the gas
meter IL not a par NJ the household
goods aud that 90 remove II would
mean sure death before he could re.
trent from the box bound cellar where
everything has been stored for some
score Of years.
The fact that a door is several inch.
es too narrow Tor the passage of
kitchen cabinet which was bought on
the knock down plan and erected IN
the west side Of the Kitchen must be-
overcome.
And after the forenoon has beer
spent In loading the van with padded
furniture until ever the top seems Il
be- crowded out ~ place he mus
make room for the incubator and hole
II level 20 II wont ruin the eggs" A
place ~ finally found for It In tn,
drivers seat while he stands on TN,
footboard
Then there is the new home. TIT
negro rug heater must be awaited be
fore the furniture can he unloaded o
II II N placed II must be moved {
dozen or more times until 1t blends
with the wall paper or the rug,
In the meantime the neighbors ar
Informed thar someone would like I
speak ~ Mrs Mover who has jus
rented the l0tsrock's home across tn
street and down u block, would so
call her IN the phone?"'
And while she talks the moyiu
man waits Fearing 10 go further NJ
M the dirertrrss Of operations r.
turns lest the piano, instead u goin
In the front room, will be taken I
the second floor for q change
II may take a day or even two IL
the regulation hurry.up family I
move but there are hundreds Of thel
and there Is moi n transfer Compan
In oklahoma tity that will not, ut m
end Of the mouth Of May, report a
increase tn business, and there Is NJ
n wagon man that will not say whe
+ the month Re gone. grant them Ii
: power to fold their tents and silent
steal away