Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-17
THE ENCHANTED VILLAGE

TT WAS warm morning. Everybody knew
L it was going to be hot later on and was
busting to get work well under way before
tn, blaze of noon. The broad vista of
Market street was dimmed by the summer
haze that il part atmospheric and part gaso-
line vapor. And as I strolled UP Sixth street
l kept to the eastern side, which was still
in pleasant shadow.
CIXTH street has a charming versatility.
~ Its main concern in the blocks north Of
Market street seems to be machinery and
hardware - cutlery and die stamping and
tools But it amuses itself with other mat
ters-printing and bookbinding, oysters and
an occasional smack of beer Like most OF
our downtown streets 1t is well irrigated,
1t Is jolly street for a hot day. calling out
many an ejaculation of the eye. For instance,
! cannot resist the office window OF German
newspaper. The samples of job printing dis
played ARE 50 delightful medley of the
relaXations which make the world safe Tor
democracy. Dance Program of the Beer
Drivers Union Annual Ball OF the BeiiboysSot
Philadelphia Russian Tea Party. First An
nual Picnic Of the Young Peoples Socialist
League Banquet of the Journeymen BARRIERS
Union--wno would not Eave found honest
mirth land plenty OF malt and hot dogs) at
these Entertainments! Just SO we can
imagine Messrs.. Lenine and Trotsky girding
their seidels for long midsummer DAYS
junket with the Moscow Soviet. There also
are the faded announcement cards for some
address by Mime. Roska Schwimmer tof
Budapest) secretary OF the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance. Dear me, what
has happened to the indefatigable Rosika
since she and Henry Ford and others went
bounding and pickering on a famous voyage
to Stockholm? As some steamship company
used to advertise. In all the world, no trip
like ttis"
AT RACE street turned east to St. Johns
"A Lutheran Church. The church stands
between Fifth and Sixth. IN front of 1t, in
a little semipircle of sun-bleached grass,
stands the family vault of BOIL Bohlen. In
this vault lie Brigadier General W. Henry
c. Bohlen, killed in action at Freemans Ford
on the Rappahapnock River August %, 1862.
and his wife, Sophie. 1t Is interesting to
remember that they were the grandparents
of the present Herr krupp.
THE little burying ground behind st, Johns
is one of the most fascinating spots in
Philadelphia found George Hahn. the
good d-natured sexton cutting the grass, and
he took me round to look at many OF the old
tombstones. now mostly unreadable. Several
Revolutionary veterans came to their resting
in that little acre, among them Philip sum-
mer, who died in 1914 and who is memoir
able to because his wife was called
Solemn. Solemn SumIner-her name is carved
on the stone. If | were an artist ! should
love to picture the quaint huddle of tawny
| red brick overlooking St. Johns churchyard.
| the vistas OF narrow little streets, the cor
ners and angles of old houses. The sunny
! walls of the burying ground are favorite
basling place for cats of all hues--yellow
| black and gray. ! envy George Hahn his
| quiet hours of work in that silent inclosure
| but he assured me that the grass Is rank
and grows WITH dreadful speed. The some
| what desoate and forgotten air of the grave.
| yard, with its broken stones and splintered
| trees, adds greatly to the wistfulness Of its
| charm.
| DEHIND the churchyard is a kind Of
- enchanted village. Summer street bounds
the cemetery. and from this branch off pie
| turesque little lanes---Randolph street, for ip-
| stance, with its row of trim little red houses
tie white and green shutters the marrow
cobbled footway. II was ironing day and
taking furtive peep through basement doors
| ] could see the regular sweep Of busy sad
irons on white boards. Children abound. ant
felt greatly complimented when one infan
| called out Dada, as passed, Parallel with
Randolph street run Fa'rhill and Reese--tin.
little byways. but a kind of miniature pictur
of the older Philadelphia. Snowy clothe
were huttering from the lines and pump
gushsng a ailysg sgeEper2 1c(2 Ya9hfalll
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