The sun., 1919-09-03
IN ADAM, SANS
ZIG LEAF, EXPLAINS
Says His Appearance, Nude,
on Riverside Drive, Had
Poetic Inspiration.
CITES GREEKS AND GOROT
Cop Intimates That Feminine
Watchers Were More Inter-
estcd Than Scared.

In the psychopathc ward at Bellevue
last night when they approached padded
cen XIII and inquired of Karl Kalwy-
kiork whether he would submit to a
face wash then. or not until subsequently.
he replied ringingly in terse Czecho-
Slovene:
"Kak kak wakkaksonovab iak walla
kak bush walla," which, translated into
our numbering tongue. signifies as fol-
lows:
"The great city of New York is peo-
pied by n race of clods, lacking even a
rudimentary acquaintance with the
basic principles of beauty and art II
was the Greeks who taught truly that the
human body Is natures closest approach
TO sheer beauty and of the modern
painters Corot, who first laid down the
law that given design of straight land
scape, Is embellished by one or a group
OF saltatory figures
TT was in fact from this discovery
forward that his pictures began to SELL
For my own part concede the grievous
error of judgment in not having given
my demonstration in the environs of
Washington Square-where appreciation
If quick and ieager-rather than upon
Riverside Drive, where the community
soul Is bourgeois and insincere And
now kindly inform the gentlemen of the
press that I have sworn an oath never
to take of my pants on Riverside Drive
again"
The Karl Kalwykiork speaking was
identical with the one who yesterday
at high noon selected n spot of sward
in Riverside Park, at Eightieth street
as fitting theatre from which to ex-
plot his young blond beauty to the
public gaze of New York.
Denies Any EVIL Intent.
At the hospital last night he cried
out once in his sleep that the police were
mistaken In ascribing the selection of
place and time to any touch OF calcu-
lated complacency on his part; but it is
an incontrovertible metropolitan fact
that at noon the male denizens of River
side Drive are in the main drudging at
their downtown desks while their wom-
enhnd take the air by the lordly Hud-
son. But what may have lain in the
mind OF KalwylSiork. though a moot
point, can only be of evanescent public
interest The facts pertaining to Kalwy-
kiork are these:
He was first deserted standing on
the grass and beneath a broad elm I'M
encountered by any vestige of huma n
raiment and holding an apple aloft in
both his hands. Stripped for a business
day kolwykiork presents figure not
strictly on all tours with the Greek art
canons which he admires SO profoundly.
His last known occupation was that OF
pickrnan in a Pennsylvania coal mine,
and 1t is perhaps this episode in his life
which causes the mind OF the beholder.
coming upon him suddenly, to leap to a
phantasy of particularly thick themed
and formidable gorilla rending the
trunks and branches of remote Jungle
and trumpeting as he rends.
Close up, the countenance of Kali
wykiork has In IL that which indicates
the dream tormented soul of the mystic
within the bulking tenement of clay.
But at all events as he stood and gazed
at the apple which he held. the glades
of Riverside reverberated to his piercing
cry:
lob lob klak wax giaviakkakinski
blob bobiiiikiwiak," which being trans
lated means II am Adam. Behold, l
am Adami"
At his first cry and at the first glimpse
of the Arcadian simplicity of his person
and posture a space a block In extent
cleared instantly on every side of him.
Cleared al all events of everything not
male and wholly fearless. The hall and
elevator men, after the manner of their
kind, insist that, once safe behind the
iron barriers of the apartment house
doors, many of the frightened who took
refuge there became at once profoundly
interested in Kalwykiork and observed
him and Policeman Matthew Logan, who
soon began to run after him, with I'M
abated interest.
II Is insisted further that along the
towering apartment facades there was
no window wantinf spectators until
Kalwykiork was finally caught and clad
and that at these windows the social
lines were relaxed utterly, mistresses
est and emitting shrill cries of horror
or encouragement as the case CHANGED
Screams as He Runs.
II was the mingled Kalwykiorkian and
the feminine screams which in the first
instance attracted the attention of Of
ficer Logan. He started toward Kalwy-
kiork running. Kalwykiork, sensing
rathen than perceivlng him, began run
ming likewise and as he ram still
brandishing his apple. he beloved still
further cries of which the quick ear OF
Policeman Logan was able to catch only
'Og gog gwigkiiag cog oblobgiowiakiog,
or THE cops are in full cry" and ''Zwicl
Tx ikwidnickiak OBJ COB blob walla cziac.
zchik ciniwini Observation-Disclosures" or 81
wish had my pants"
At Eighty-third street a janitor, nour.
ishing a plan which he felt must in.
evitably halt Kalwykiork, planted him.
self In his path and attempted to enclose
him in his arms. But the cunning
Kalwykiork fetched him a running kicl
In the region of his kitchen. and he col
lapsed, Illuminating on his folly.
But at Seventy-ninth street profes
sional aid came finally to Logan There
Kalwykiork was surrounded and closed
in upon, end enveloped, after a struggle
in Logan's raincoat.
Ladies' cried Logan, the sweep o.
his arm taking in twenty apartment
houses at once, you may telephone your
husbands now the show is over for thu
day"
And such proved to be the disappoint
ing fact. Invested with the habilimenti
of convention, Kalwykiork became in
stantly commonplace and docile. In thu
patrol wogan he sank at once into al
oafish slumber, and II was only afte
hours of persuasion at ultimate Belle
vue that he issued the cold and forma
statement which has been quoted il
e1tenso hereinbefore.