The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-01
CURFEW WON'T
 60 IN. NEW
 Y0RK--N0T YET

New York, July Tt may be all right in Oskaloosa and Three Forks, where the natives Init the hay'' at about the time when we city folks are beginning to enjoy the evening, but the curfew won't go in this town. Anderson and other joy chasers not withstanding. And if Sheriff Dave Knott doesn't cut out this business of shooting off his flock to the pillows just the sun is streakfng it into the bushes of the Palisades, the eleven men in his Ludloy street lookup are going to ''get hunk on him by paying their alimony arrears. Then where will his "Alimony Club" be at-eh
 Besides what chance has a Sheriff got for publicity, anyway, if the Ali mony Club isn't at its old stand? So it's easy to appreciate that they've got the drop on Dave this time, and that he had better let them stay up at least until a reasonable city bed time.
 w. H. Ostrander, who used to prac- tise law between vacations at the Ludlow street summer and winter re- sort, has whispered an earful to Dave to the effect that his clients won't stand any monkey business, and that they'll pay their wives and leave his boarding house unless he turns the clock back a couple of hours when it reaches ten, the time at which his bugi5r sounds taps.
 With the summer sun hanging around as 1t does these days, it's only begun to be evening at 10 at night. As a compromise, prisoners will stand for taps at Il o'clck, but they would like to be permitted to keep their shoes and collars on until midnight.
  night, a bunch of these dollar-a- throw "rubberneck wagons" rumble along, and they hear a megaphone i man bawl; "At your right is the his- | toric Alimony Club, where the mem- | bers hold nightly revel, drink wine and play cards all night. They prefer | to lodge there than live with their wives"
 Subscribing to the last sentiment | of that Reclamation, the members of | the club" nevertheless, think it's pretty mean of those sightseeing men | to rub it in by handing out all that junk about all night revels, when | Sheriff Dave Knott makes them go to bed just a bit after twilight. They want shorter hours of sleep and an absence of subbeSneck wagons. And if | they don't get their demands, Os- | trander has informed Dave, the whole gang is going to pay its wives what's | coming to them and get out of the | place.
 | When Dave was asked about 1t by l q reporter, he said:
 I'm willing, but, geei It's the coun- | ty, and not I, that makes it wretched | for those dear boys. Now, just to l show them that I'm a good scout at heart, I went and bought them a lot l of new forks and spoons and things the other day, so they'd think they were at a fine hotel.
 Gosh; I'd get them manicures- blonde, brunette or red headed-if ] l thought the county would foot the bills. And I'd install a cakSret and jazz band and the Alimony Club Fol l lies and a dog fight and any old thing 1 that they'd want, because I want my | boarders to be well pleased. You see | the only way to run a bording house | successfully is to make it so pleas ant for guests that they'll return again and will tell their friends abou
 the fine treatment they got"
 That's the way it stands to date
 Dave hinted confidential1y, however that maybe, if he can stall off the
 bunch a few months, it'll be winter
 before he is compelled to make {
 decision, and in winter the nigh
 comes so early that they won't 1ninc
 going to bed at l o'clock, and the,
 he won't have to make any decisio,
 after all.