Evening journal., 1919-09-09
MODERN ADAM LEFT
Ills FIGLEAF AT Home
Says Appearance, Nude, on
Riverside Drive Had
Poetic Inspiration
CITES GREEKS. COROl;
COPS NOT IMPRESSED

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-ln the pss0nO'
,sthic ward at Bellevue when they sp,
,roached padded cell KIT ana inlulrSS I,,IS
N Karl Kalwykiork whether ne "ou'1 I'm
mbmit 10 face wash then' OF ny u"s,, a.
ubseouently, he replied rlhsheis' :"
erse Czecho-Slovene' .,.t ,yaua
"Kak kak wakkaksonaNaDlah "oi.S
kak hush walla.n which, transialeu INV
,ur numbering tongue, sisnihes as loi-
ows: vi. ts neo.
,lod h,, . race OF clods, lacking even
,,d,mentsry acquaintance Win uie
,.s,o nrinciples Of beauty an4-art. IL
- ,he Greeks who taught truly ihal
he human body is natures closest ap-
,rosch to sheer beauty; and or tne
nodern nainters COrot, who first laia
Iovn the law that a given design OF
straight landscape Is c-nbellished py
one or group OF ssltatory figures.
1T was. in fact, from this discovery
forward that his pictures began TO sell
vor my own part ! concede the grew
ms error Of judgment in not haNlhs
riyen my demonstration In the enNorihs
~ Washington Square-where apprec-
station is duicF snd eager-rather tlSh
upon Riverside Drive. where the COM
munitv soul is bourgeois and insincere'
And now kindly inform the gentlemen
NJ the press that have sworn an oath
never 10 take Off my pants on River
side Drive again.
The Karl Kalwakiork speaking was
Identical with the one who yesterday
a. high noon selected a spot OF sward
in Riverside Park, at Eightieth street
rs a fitting theatre from which to eX-
nloit his young blonde beauty 10 the
public gaze OF New York.
Al the hospital last night he cried
out once in his sleep that the police
we're mistaken in ascribing fle selec-
ton Of place and time TO any touch oi
calculated cOmplacency on his part bu,
it is an incontrovertible metropolitan
fact that at noon the male denizens or
Riverside Drive are in the main drudg-
Ing at their downtown desks while
their women kind take the air by the
lordly Hudson. But what may have
lain in the mind Of Kalwykiord. though
a moot point, can only he Of evanescent
public interest. The facts pertaining TO
Kalwyklork are these:
He was first described standing on
the grass and beneath a broad elm un-
encumbered by any vestige OF human
raiment and holding an apple alofi I'm
both his hands. Stripped for bust
ness day Kolwykiork presents a figure
not strictly on all fours with the Greek
art canons which he admires so pro-
fOundly. His last known occupation
was that Of pickman in Pennsylvania
coal mine andit Is perhaps this episode
in his life which causes the mind Of the
beholder. coming upon him suddenly
20 leap 10 a phantasy Of a particularly
thick t1emed and formidable gorilla
rending the trunks and branches OF a
remote jungle and trumpeiing as he
rends.
Close up, the countenance Of Kali
wykiOrk has In it 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 reyerberated 10 his piercing
cry:
"Oh lob klak wax glaviakkakinsh
blob bObiiiikiwiak." which being
translated means Il am Adam. Behold
] am Adam !"
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 at all events or
everything not male and wholly fear
less. 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 or
TIE frightened who took refuge there
became at once profoundly interested
In kalwykiork and observed him and
Policeman Matthew Logan, who soon