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other, but don't bother 10 other peo
ple."
I'd the street, toward Tenth Ave
nue., large service flag hung acros
the street. Tapping in the breen
from the North River. God Proted
Them was printed on the flag, whik
a few gold stars glinted slightly
under the play Of the sun. The
street was fairly paved with kiddiea
whose frolicking was not different
from that of children on Riverside
Drive or Riyington Street. \ very
young policeman was letting baby
try to chew on his nightstick. -Four
young men in blue shirts were wait
ing for whistle to blow TO call them
back to work in the butcher shop.
The only disturbance on the block
was caused by pedler offering
watermelons with enthusiasm. Hs
woke up two babies and the police
man chased him away.
There were no glowering groups
Of youths with nothing to do but
fight, kill or rob. Not a bullet
whizzed by. No beaten wife
screamed. Not a single policeman
was firing shots in the air for help.
"Yipw said Danny sadly. tn
neighborhood has all gone { hell
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The weight of the world has pressed
somewhat heavily on him and kept
him compact and small. Ella. fos-
tered and nurtured along the lines
of a fiftcen-dollars- -a-dozen Ameri
can Beauty rose, has expanded ver-
tically. She has long legs, and these,
taken with the starched tops Of the
bonnets she wears, make her fully
as tall as Bumpty.
Bumpty's place Of business is in
front of saloon on the corner of
Frankfort Street and Park Row,
just where Nassau Street gives up
trying to go further up town.
Bumpty sells papers for capitalist
who gives him one dollar day. Six
dollars a week is enough for any
single man who doesn't pay rent for
the milk wagon he sleeps in.
Ella was trailing along in the
automatic grasp Of her mother when
she encountered Bumpty. 1t was
almost ten o'clock and Bumpty was
engaging in some shrill salesman
ship as he endeavored to dispose of
his six remaining evening papers
before the early edition of one of
the morning papers appeared on the
street.
Ella passed close to Bumpty and
liked him very much She wished
she could have a dirty face like his
and be able to be on the street with
out acting as tender TO a moving
locomotive OF a mother. Bumpty
had yelled in her ear and she had
turned to reprove him, but his eyes
were so big and he was Just her
size, so she loved him instead. AS
she was hauled along Park Row by
her fond parent she kept her pretty
baby eyes on Bumpty All women
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HESE are days of organiza-

THESE are days of organiza-
ton, when the united eat steak
and the divided insist that a
vegetable diet is the healthiest.
These are the days when knock
on the boss door gives him new
pains in the dividends. These are
also the days on which the Jewish
journeymen bakers get $5S weekly,
If they're new at it, and $4 worth
of warm bread. which is speaking
eloquently for unity.
As for the range of callings either
moulded or about to be into pro-
testing, demanding units there are
the physicians and the dirty-faced
boys who carry baggage from West
Street to the subway.
A young lady, not so young but
very pleasant, came to New York the
other day because she lives here. She
hadn't heard about the busy season
in the union business because there
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

" HIS is a story about a city
wooing, with no climax worth
mentioning. There isn't much
chance of climax being worked
out before fifteen years or so. This
is probably rough on the constant
readers, but it isn't the first time
that the truth has been a bit un-
pleasant. The names used in this
account are quite make-believe, but
the people and places are not to be
questioned.
Ella Wagner is nine years old and
has pair Of fond parents who live
in Harlem. Her mothers parents
live in Newark and are nice people.
They are so nice, in fact, that Ella
and her mamma and papa visit them
every week, on Saturday. Ella is
the only child, so she goes with her
folks everywhere, eating ,lollypops
most of the way.
The itinerary of the Wagners is
identical each time. They are bit
fashioned and prefer the Third
Avenue elevated to the new East
Side subway. They walk from the
City Hall station, the end Of the
line, along Park Row to Broadway,
continuing TO Fulton Street, and,
turning to the right, are soon at
the Hudson Terminal, where they
take the tube to Newark. They
always buy return-trip tickets.
Everybody who is going to Newark
for a visit should buy round-trip
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Danny. 1T looks like a buns al
ley. There amt nothin' doin' at
all, exceptin' maybe few kids get
fresh and throw rocks from the roof.
Patrolman Nolan was killed that
way on the block last year, but they
weren't amin for him. He just
happened to be in the way, and from
what | hear they were sorry they
did it. Wouldn't that kill yuh?
Sorry for murderin' a cop. | Won
der wot that old bunch would t'ink
about feelin' sorry for KILN po-
liceman. BAH
at was interestin' here before the
place was cleaned out" he said, ru-
minatively. Every night the bunch
would hang over on the corner,
waitin' for somethin' to turn up. If
nothin' turned up by itself they
would see that somethin' did. There
was always somethin cookin' in
Hell's Kitchen. | remember the time,
right in the middle of the street,
when One Lung Curran bet he could
take a cops coat home to his dame
an he did. She made some kind of
military coat for herself and soon all
the danes on Eleventh avenue were
wearin' 'em. They would send out
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tickets because they cost thirty
three cents, while the one-way fare
is twenty-sevcn cents. This is one
Of the inexplicable mysteries Of a
great city. Newark inmates have
charged that the trick fare schedule
is New York City propaganda; that
no one, especially woman, will buy
one thing for twenty-seven cents
when two are available for thirty
three. This, Newarkians point out,
brings people who might have taken
up Newark as a permanent thing
back to the larger city.
When the Wagners return from
Mrs. Wagner's parents Ella is usual
ly eating homemade candy, the prod
uct of her maternal grandmother.
The Wagners always come back the
way they went. They have been
married for eight years, so their
conversation is mild and meagre. Mr..
Wagner walks slightly ahead, like a
pathfinder, while Mrs. Wagner, hold
ing Ella by the hand, plods phleg-
matically in the rear. Only Elias
hand is up with her mother. The
rest of her is strung along behind.
because the things along Park
Row are interesting. Besides, her
mothers grip on her hand assures
her of her progress and she can take
an interest in anything else she
chooses.
Bumpty first became one Of these
interesting things about three weeks
ago. Bumpty is nine and has lived
a strenuous life reaching that age.
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ALady and the Union
subway, under the Manhattan end
Of Brooklyn Bridge.

subway, under the Manhattan end
Of Brooklyn Bridge.
The lady was smiling and benev-
olent. She would do something
handsome by this street urchin, this
poor, defenceless waif, buffeted and
tossed in the eddies and currents
of the city's surge. If the little boy
could have read her thought he
would have punched her in her well
shaped nose and told the cop that
maybe he Shouldn't have hit a lady,
but look how much bigger she was.
She felt around in her hand
knitted bag and drew out a new
shining quarter and presented it to
the little boy, who looked at it and
then threw busincsslike glance at
the lady.
"Cost you one dollah, lady," he
said, firmly, like a small person who
expects resistance from a much
larger one. The lady, of course,
said WHAT not as a question but
to denote a quite properly inspired
outraged feeling.
j "Cost you one dollah, lady" he
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HandbaU on q Roof

and the player exercises with all the
convenience Of day play and the
added comfort that during the sum-
mer months it is even cooler.
These handball votaries include
traffic policemen, tiremen, actors,
writer's, automobile and tire sales
men and others to be found in al
most every walk of life north of the
Tenderloin district. Not few Greek
walters are among the most enthusi-
astic followers Of the game, than
which few are more strenuous.
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was hardly any agitation in the
part of the Maine woods where she
had been on vacation. She came
home on the Eastern Steamship
Line, which deposited her at the
foot Of Barclay Street on West
Street. She was alone.
She waited until her two trunks
were safely aboard an express
wagon, but kept her suitcase. 1t
wasn't very heavy, at least not for
a large girl who had spent most Of
the summer in the Maine woods.
But the color! 1t was in poor taste
in this country, although the Scan
dinavian servant girl who had
bought it and loaned it loved it for
its inconspicuous beauty.
A small boy volunteered to carry
it to the subway.
Go ahead, little boy" she said,
kindly. The little boy didn't care
much for the appellation, but busi-
ness was business. He picked up
tae grip and found that the bottom
was an inch above the pavement
when he stood straight and carried
It by the handle, which was enough
clearance. Up Barclay Street went
lady, boy and suitcase.
Finally, City Hall Park was
reached and a short walk brought
the lady, her suitcase and the boy
with it to a vent in the East Side
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pedestrians on
/ Y Fifty-seven.h Street are
often puzzled by the brilliancy of
electric light atop the West Side
Y. NJ. c. A. buildings between Eighth
and Ninth avenues. The average
New Yorker suspects an advertising
scheme in any unusual electric dis
play, but investigation Of lis par
ticular roof reveals not sign
heralding breakfast food but hand
ball court upon which men cavort
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in abbreviated trousers and athletic

in abbreviated trousers and athletic
shirts.
For many New Workers the op-
portunity for exercise comes only
after sundown, and the West Side
branch of the Y. NJ. c. A., recognlz-
ing this, is fostering night play on
the part of those who otherwise
could get no exercise.
Twelve big electric lights with
reflectors focusing the rays upon
Nat part of the roof marked out
ito hsndball courts turn night into
Syso 8arss athletics arc concerned
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Fly Cops in the Air

concealed cameras and arms. etc.
and to ascertain from the pilot the
course he intends to follow while IN
the United States.
AS an efficiency feeder for the
city's air patrol the school in Green
wich Street, headed by Colonei
Dinshah =. Ghadiali, has students
divided into two sets-those from
Is to II and those 81 and over
and faculty divided into the fo''
lowing sections: Drill, engineering
communications, Photographic, nay'
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Differing from the tennis or golf
player, the handball adherent plays
the year round-at least on Fifty
seventh Street-for when snow flies
the roof is swept clean. and with
heavy sweater or woollen under
shirt the handball player braves the
clements.
These >handball courts have the
distinction of being the only roof
electric light display adjacent to
the Great White Way that do not
mark an advertising sign or rdVf
Garden. ''tt..
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Age.bafcred Sixth Arenue is the great 'cnlkiroy OF
the unemployed.
Soled, tentative plncards tackled on poster boards
the foot OF sfarnys leading to employment agencies
are the hand.,cren, dOllar.and.cens message from
the job to the jobless.
Here launderers ,canfed, bus boys, bakers,
cooks plumbers buffers, serrng girls, counter
men and countless other cogs in the scheme OF modern
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

NNE Of the many forward-look-
" ing steps peculiar to this the
greatest city in the world was
taken when it was decided to create
an aerial police force Of seven ma
chimes and some two hundred men.
The credit for the progressive idea
goes to Special Deputy Commits
soner Rodman Wanamaker, whose
contributions to the science of fly
ing have been physically manifested
in the expenditure of thousands of
dollars to develop both dirigible
New-York tribune., 1919-09-07

day life Here the job seeks the man. II catches at
his eye cifh the fentacles OF the printed rOrd.
So the jobless on Sixth Arenue s,cing forth and
back, from employment agency to employment agency
reading and doubling, recalling and beiering, suspi
ancient ox easily interested by the direr-
sions Of Sixth Arenue schoolb0y Nerer need
there be haste. Thai could spoil the holiday Of JOB
hunting and there ,ciH al,rays be-jobs!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

o. the country, explaining the
treaty and the league covenant.
Senators Borah, of Idaho, and
Johnson, of California, expect to
follow the President on his tour
and answer his arguments in favor
of the league. Senator Reed, of
Missouri, will join Senators Borah
and Johnson if possible.
General Peyton c. March told the
Senate Military Affairs Committee
that America would need an army
of 100000 men to do its part under
the league of nations. He in
sisted that the league of nations
would not end the necessity for
armies.
'The Department of Justice made it
known that Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer had asked the
House Appropriations Committee
for 100000 to combat nation
wide bomb plot Of the Reds, which
was fixed for a certain date known
to the Department of Justice and
was intended to give the new cam
paign of the Reds the aspect of
revolution.
Evidence was discovered by the
Lusk Legislative Committee, in
vestigating seditious activities in
this state, which was said to con-
meet l.. C. X. A. Martens, the Boil
shevist Ambassador" here, with
Red activities in this country. The
committee is working on the the
DRY that Martens, instead of being
merely commercial agent for
Soviet Russia, is in reality the
head of clearing house for Red
propaganda.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

The House Judiciary Committee de-
clined by vote of 10 to 3 to ex-
empt light wines and beer from
the provisions of the wartime
prohibition enforcement act. The
Senate voted DRY" IS to II.
Many New York clubs are offering
their liquor stocks for sale to
their numbers and also offering to
provide locker facilities after
July /.
An official holding an important po-
sition in naval aviation affairs
said the navy was planning a nom
stop transatlantic flight, after
which Zeppelin trip around the
world would be undertaken. The
voyage around the world should
be completed in week, he said.
The New York Legislature ratified
the suffrage amendment without
dissenting vote. New York was
the sixth state to ratify.
]. p. Morgan & Co. and the other
members Of the group that origi-
nally foated the Imperial Russian
government $50,0OO,o0o external
6a per cent threc-year loan, mott
fled holders of the bonds that the
issue would not be paid on ma
turity. Arrangements have been
made to form protective COM
mittee to watch the interests of
the bondholders.
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping
Board announced the sale of nine
teen of the boards new steel ships
for $27,S21,120. The vessels were
sold to seven American firms and
the prices ranged from $40 to
SEES lightweight ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
The w eek at Home

Formal debate was opened in the
Senate on the Knox resolution to
serve notice on the peace confer
ence that the Senate will take it's
time to consider the league of ma
tions and desires the league
covenant to be divorced from the
treaty with Germany. Debate on
the resolution will be continued
daily, with the probability that
the Senate will consider the APP
preparation measures in night ses-
sions. Senators who oppose the
league Of nations expect the Demo-
Gratis by parliamentary tactics to
prevent vote on the resolution
until after the treaty has been
signed.
Senator Knox in his speech denied
that the resolution was either for
or against the league of nations.
He said he asked "for time merely
to consider whether under the
covenant as drawn the power to
put us at war will be placed in
body outside our own government,
whether such lodging of this SOW
ercign power is desirable"
Washington announced that Presi-
dent Wilson hopes to leave Paris
for Washington on June "a or 25
and be in Washington about July
3. His first official act will be to
present the revised draft of the
treaty to the Senate and he will
then address a joint session of
the Senate and the House in sup
port of the treaty and the league
OF nations. After that he will
mako q three weeks speaking tour
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

drink be declared outside the Fed
eral amendment ban was passed by
a large majority. The resolution
also asserted every effort would be
made to halt the enforcement Of the
dry law due to begin on July /.
"a significant thing was that no.
body said a good word for whiskey,"
observes "The Indianapolis News"
which paper adds:
"Therc is an impression that Presi-
dent Wilson'S appeal to Congress to
exempt beer and light wines from the
wartime prohibition legislation was
influenced by Samuel Gompers, pres
ident of the American Federation
of Labor. Mr.. Gompers asserts that he
always has stood for temperance, but
he is opposed to prohibition. In his
speech at the federation convention he
reiterated what he has said before. He
~Se~Aoo eoHihk OSci away lIOM JuC
workman as an invasion Of the rights
of the individual, and he speaks plainly
in that respect. Having this leadership
and putting great confidence in the
opinions Of Mr.. Gompcrs, 1t is not
strange that the convention acted as it
did"
"The New York World" and "The
st. Louis Post-Dispatch," papers of
the same ownership and two Of the
leading journalistic opponents Of ma
tional prohibition, indorse the action
Of the A. r. of l.. in fighting the
dry legislation.
An editorial on the same subject
in "The Post Dispatch" concludes:
"The veteran labor leader, Gomperx,
lifelong optimist, confesses that, for
the first time in his battling career, he
10 apprehenBive Of his country's future.
There are many who share his fears"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
NHE UNITED STATES made
q twenty-four hour in

UNITED STATES made
n twenty-four hour inva-
sion of Mexico following
the killing of two American
frontier guards while the Villista
rebels were trying to take Juarez
from the Carranzistas. American
troops crossed the border and
drove the Villistas into the hills.
One American cavalryman was
shot through the lungs, while in
the neighborhood of 100 Mexicans
we're killed and seven were taken
prisoner.
General Candida Aguilar, President
Carranza's confidential ambassa-
dor to the United States, issued a
statement in Washington saying
that the Mexican people and gov
eminent considered the invasion
a violation of Mexican sovereignty
and expressing the hope that the
situation would be satisfactorily
adjusted between the two coun-
tries. General De Rosey C. Ca
bell, commander of the Southern
Department, stationed guards
along the border to prevent a
Villa raid. General Cabell said
the invasion was made because the
Villistas were firing into Ell Paso.
There was no idea of aiding the
Carranza soldiers in Juarez, he
added, and the incident was closed.
Representative N. ]. Gould, Rcpubli-
can, Now York, introduced in the
House a resolution providing for
an investigation by a Joint Con-
gressional committee of all rela-
tions between the United Ststss
and Mexico for ths last nine years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Labor and the Ban

TIME march on the Capitol last
week Of thousands Of organ
lied labor delegates and
members, led by their execu-
tive officers, as a protest against the
enforcement Of absolute prohibition
on July and as a demonstration Of
labor's sentiment on the question of
light wine and beer sales represents
the largest anti-prohibition move
ment of the present year.
The massing Of representative or
ganized labor in Washington and
the crowding Of the Capitol steps for
. session Of plain speechmaking, led
by Samuel Gompers, president of the
big American Federation Of Labor,
was to give Congress to understand
that "the workers Of the nation re-
cent the effort to enforce in times Of
peace a law passed under the guise
of war"
More than 500 of the demonstra-
tors came from the Atlantic City
convention. Two hundred soldiers
who saw service in France came in
with the delegation from Johnstown,
Penn, and a hundred women, repre-
senting the women's auxiliary of the
Personal liberty League, were num-
bered among the large group from
Baltimore.
At the Atlantic City convention q
resolution demanding the retention
pf 2.7b per cent beer and that the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

According to "The Washington
STAR
"the happening at Juarez may for the
present be reckoned as q bit of polio
ing. Should the Mexican government
take umbrage at the presence of our
troops south Of the border the Amer
lean answer is obvious. Mexico
should assuredly guarantee the United
States immunity from injury due to
insurrection, and failing ability to give
such guarantee must permit US to pro-
tect ourselves"
"The Baltimore Sun" saws:
"This latest Mexican incident is not
so important in itself as in the evil
dence it affords of the continuance of
Mexico's unsatisfactory status, unsatis
factory to US as we'll az to her. 1t NAV
be, it probably is true, that interested
propaganda from this side Of the line
is largely instrumental in fomentinr
these border disturbances. But they
could not be frequented in a country
which was wisely, fairly and firmly
governed and in which revolution was
not always in fashion,"
And "The New York Evening
Mail" declares:
"The upheaval in Mexico-which
after all is only fresh manifestation
Of continuous state of unrest--may
yet confront the American people with
the course which they are extremely
reluctant to adopt.
Mexico must set her own house in
order, or the neighbor whom she is per-
sistently disturbing by her blood let
tings will find himself compelled to set
1t in order for her"
!
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Monroe Doctrine in the league cove
nant and its bearing on the Mexi-
can situation. One reads:
eve will not allow any European
nation to intervene in Mexico and by
that attitude we make ourselves re-
sponsible to foreign nations for the
good behavior of Mexico. We should
compel it to keep quiet. Instead of
reducing our regular army from $780,
900 to 100000 we should keep it up to
the higher figure until Mexico is at
peace with herself and all the world"
A similar line of thought is taken
by "The Chicago Tribune":
"The American government and pub
lie have been patient beyond measure
with Mexican conditions. But our pa
thence, we hope, is limited by a proper
sense of our duty, Of our dignity and
of our legitimate interest. We do not
believe the American people, complais-
ant as they have been under the insults