Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-12


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MUSTN'T forget that I've something
i real funny to tell, but before doing so
I'd better tell Of last Sundays stunt
and 1t was sure some stunt believe me
Frascati and eleven other Italians met
mo at .he Grand Central TO go to Lee
vile Park and see those house lots
Say when | saw--and heard--that
mob coming toward me I felt all in. |
tried to reckon up how much twice
twelve times sixty-hve cents was Uhe
fare each way). | got SO hustered |
couldn't do IL, but I saw that / was
sure In for II.
"say. bo." laughed zeiPler, pipe the
delegation from wopville-glad they
Amt coming with us"
''They are" from me they're coming
with me-"
y 'All of em?"
nodded
Good garden stalks Say. keep 'em
away from my gang. II ever my folks
sec them, it'll be SAY your prayers :;
good night, Willie" Say, Flinty. you're
the simple Percy to get let in for that
bunch. Them guys are just soaking You
for free JOY ride" Zeiger shrugged
his shoulders and left me just as Fras-
cati came up.
Well. didn't have to talk about Lee
Vile Park going down. Those fellows
just jabbered away in italian all the
way. In fact, so excited were they that
they forgot the station and two of em
nearly got left behind.
Lee told me TO steer them to the
low. marshy lots, but Frascati has al
ways treated me white and | wasn't
going to do him dirt for anybody. so
I led them to the land which is high.
dry and level. Lots of these were an
'all right buy" I had to grin to see
Zeigler steer a bunch of five folks away
from us. | just caught him saying,
These foreigners come out here for an
outing. It's bit Of a nuisance. but
when the streets are all cut and building
begun, we shall stop them. of course.
As 1t is, why we let the poor devils en-
JOY themselves so long as they don't
get rowdS."
And these fellows of mine could prob
ably buy up the whole thing
When they got into the middle of the
land. they stopped dead at the corner OF
Grand avenue and Central driveway
opposite where the public library Is to
be-some day.
Then all of them began talking to-
gether andexcIted? Say. really got
scared. The little fat Italian went snap
ping his fingers in the faces of the
others-one after the other-while q
short fellow with a hg chest got Sc
mad that he finally flung his cap OF
the ground, and began jumping on II
and at the same time banging himself
on the chest
.. Finally, Frascati, by yelling louder
than the rest, shouted them into silence
Then he turned to me and said, "Yoy
say those lots are thirty-fve feet by
125 feet?
''Yes, Mr.. Frascati."
He turned with look of triumph
to the others-and then--the boiler burs
again.
A long, thin man brought out of hi.
pocket sxty-foot tape measure anC
that gang measured four different lot,
before they were satisfied the size wa
all right
Then they wanted to know how man,
lots were In the blocks. ! showed by th
blue prints that the one they were look
ing at had forty-two and that the nex
one had forty-four--that' is, of course
the block was twenty-one lots long an,
two lots deep. Why they should be in
terested in that. l don't know, for they,
never buy a whole block.
Gee. wouldn't IL be great If they did
But IL is a whacking big little word.
Having satisfied themselves on tha
question, those twelve men began T.
play baseball. Lee was furious abou