Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-10
THE LETTERS OF
" LEMUEL BEAN
BY ROY X. MOCLTON


pleasure riding on sunday can do 10
provided he doesn't use gas. This
practically ends Sunday riding eX-
Cept for certain Ford owners who
are fitting their machines with baby
cab handles and will push their fam
Hes around the countryside in that
manner. other rivver owners are
contemplating hitChing horses to
their FOrds and using them as car
ridgcs. Dr. Garfield. It IL understood
has no objection to these eXpedients.
The elimination uf Sabbath pleas
ure riding Will save, In New York
city alone, 1000 gallons OF gaso-
line per week, or Is II 400, 900. 900
gallons | am a poor hand at fig
urcs, Anyhow It's a lot And for
the first time In many years 1t will
he possible To cross Fitth avenue in
safety without using an airplane. The
city took the new order philosophIc-
ally and everybody promised to obey
but instantly there rose several
thousand COmphSa
Several flivver owners rushed into
print the first day with an impor-
tdnt question. They said the new
order referred only to pleasure rid
Ing and that riding In their cars was
not pleasure riding The editors Of
the various newspapers questioned
spent much ume In trying TO solve
this problem out, 1t is understood.
the problem remains uRsolved. when
"A man is hurried 10 u dentist in "A
taAicab he cannot be said TO be pleas
ure riding and the same Is true OF a
man VINO Is going hastily toward "A
hospital in an ambulance to have his
appendix or his egOtism or some
thing else important removed.
Not the least conspicuous howl was
put up by the very important gen
tleman who delivers hot dogs to
COney Island with gasoline delivery
wagon. lie crowds to the front i'm
mediately and demanded attention.
He put up the very plausible story
that he was engaged in an ultra
important business. With no hot
dogs there could be no Coney Island
for COney depended for its fame all
most exclusively upon that one thing.
This man called upon the national
petroleum war service committee Of
the Standard oil building. very much
out OF breath, having apparently run
all the way from Coney Island.
81 am a maker Of Liberty saus-
age" he exclaimed. Am | exempt ?"
The hard hearted man in charge had
never heard OF Liberty sausage,
Hot dogs. hot dogs" explained the
Coney Island man. II must deliver
them every morning, including Sun
day or Coney Island will have to
close. Am exempt" 1t was a con-
undrum indeed TO be asked in a
flash whether or not it was essenA
tial to the government OF the United
States and the prosecution OF the
war that Coney schould be allowed
the Wand that had made 1t famous
The meat man pictured the hor-
rors of a dogless Coney on Sunday
the anguished thousands for whom
the beaches and Luna and Steeple-
chase park and the Siamese Twins
meant nothing without the rows OF
steaming doggeries. BY an oversight
the national fuel administration had
neglected TO make any provision for
the delivery OF hot dogs at Coney
on Sunday. IL was a serious over
sight but there was nothing for the
local committee to do but to tell Mr..
Smith. the hot dog manufacturer,
that he could not consider himself
exempt or even the holder OF "A de-
ferred classified tion. Mr.. Smith Is a
patriotic man and he saw to II that
he not only obeyed the order but
that Coney got its usual quota OF
frankfurters. II took him the greater
part OF that first Saturday night to
get the dogs there by horse power
but he managed to do 1t.
One young woman called on the
committee and said she had planned
a pleasure trip in her car as far as
MaSsa chusetts on Sunday and she
was somebody's relative or some
thing like that and couldn't she go?
1t was such dreadful dlsappoInt-
ment to the guests and everything
She was advised to take her party
on week day and she reluctantly
agreed to do so.
The gasoline order hit New York
hard, without a doubt, but so far as
had been observed, there has been
a general inclination to live up to
the letter OF the order. 1t has been
the custom for New York on Satur-
day night and Sunday morning to
move out bodily to the country dis
tricts. or course, this did not peeve
the roa1house managers bit and
they rather encouraged the idea.
Everything that would run on wheels
was usually requisitioned for this
weekly hegira. everything from
taxicabs to push carts from the low
er East Side.
In addition suburban trains were
crowded to suffocation. When the
order came into effect the tin lizzies
were left in the barn but the people
got out just the same. They packed
the suburban trains little more
than usual and those who couldn't
get inside got on the roof Men and
women attached themselves to the
sides Of trolley cars in any number
possible. There were those who
could not get into elevated cars to
get some fresh air, and went dismal
ly into the reliable subway, which
always runs although the scenery is
much the same on Sunday as il Is on
week days. II seems to be the aver
age New Workers. luck to find him
self in the subway even on gala
days The subway is the ultimate
destination Of every true New York
er When he can't think of any
thing else to do he climbs down into
the dinGy tunnel
on the first gasless Sunday the
Suhways were all crowded. II has
been said recently that II you have
no place in particular to go, try the
1t will take you there. I'm
der the new H" system OF operat-
ing trains the slogan is particularly
pat. There is a certain excitement
about subway travelling now. One
is liable to land anywhere. Mr.
S,hnptv tho bardpSt wnrkinp rail-