The sun., 1919-10-10
COP BULLSEYE FOR
FAIR STRIKERS EGG
Yetta Didn't Aim at O'Brien's
Eye and SO of Course
She Scored.
MOTORS GOT THEIRS, TOO
Fifth Ave. an Omelette From
Ammunition Purchased
for "Breakers."

Yetta Decker Of 10 West 1l3th
n little English and who does speak
about all the Yiddish there Is. She is
also a milliner, and likewise she Is one
of the milliners who are on strike be-
cause the bosses will not send for them
in a limousine and deed over the busi-
ness to them, or whatever 1t Is that the
milliners are striking for this time. More
than that, Yetta is-or was-a militant
milliner, and her happiest moments are
when she succeeds in bouncing some
thing hard and unyielding Off the dome,
or head. of a strike breaking milliner.
But one wearies Of throwing rocks and
stones and bricks, because one is SO
likely to miss the strike breaker and
hit a fellow militant milliner. and then
there is always the devil to pay. So
when Yetta came down town yesterday
to go on picket duty and make life
as miserable as possible for the strike
breakers she spent a few nickels and
came around with basket of eggs-one
dozen of them-and all of them OF low.
deceitful character. They were not at
all what they seemed to be. inasmuch as
they were so near the ultimate end of
uneaten eggs as to be distinctly audible.
Yetta carefully conserved her eggs dur
ing the afternoon and when the hour
came for the strike breakers to emerge
from the factories and plod their weary
way homeward she was ready for them
with ten eggs.
Practises on Motor Car.
At 40 O'Clock Yetta stood on the
corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty sew
enth street with her basket of eggs
on her arm, waiting patiently for the
strikebreakers' to come forth. But she
became weary of waiting and to re-
lieve the monotony of existence SHE'D an
egg at a passing automobile. It was
merely practice throw, the sort OF
thing a pitcher takes before the batter
gets up, but the things she did to a
perfectly nice windshield were so sat
fsfying that she felt constrained to throw
another egg, and yet another, and still
another. and then several in swift sue
cession, all at automobiles. She be-
came 50 expert after a while that she
was able to hit the same automobile
with two eggs before the driver expired
or took his machine out of the way. and
she got some beautiful patterns Fifth
avenue at that point ran yellow with
egg. and residents of Riverside Drive
who happened to be around felt very
much at home.
Yetta had got down to next to the last
egg when Patrolman OBrien of the
West Thirtieth street station saw her
Patrolman O'Brien was on the other side
of the street watching the crowd with
a keen and sleuthful eye to see II he
couldn't pick himself up a burglar OF
something, and by following his nose
he was able to see Yetta hurl a despair.
Ing and hopeless egg squarely into the
middle of big lmousne's windshield
Patrolman O'Brien roared out the anger
of the law and bounded across the ave
nue. to put stop to such palpable eff
forts TO increase the high cost of living
knowing perfectly well that II any egG
dealer ever saw Yetta throwing ava,
eggs like that he would Immediately
raise the price, on the ground that 6
shortage was imminent.
Last Egg for the Cop.
Patrolman O'Brien had got within
twenty feet of Yetta when the militan
milliner hurled her last egg. But, alas
she missed the automobile she shot a
and hit Patrolman O'Brien in the eye
which eye doesn't matter. Probably
both. And this was no ordinary eg,
either Immediately after 1t strucl
this egg which hit one or two o
O'Brien's eyes was the famous egg lai,
by the Great Golden Chicken of Pexii
TO celebrate the laying of the first ston
OF the Great Wall of China For all O
these centuries 1t had been handed dow
from generation to generation and from
dealer to dealer. waiting for a chanc
TO hit an Irish policeman in the eye.
But an egg is an egg and an O'Br!e,
an O'Brien, and the egg has not yet die,
mat can make cop named O'Briel
take the count The patrolman gaspe,
and staggered, but recovered He dashe,
after Yetta and Yetta dashed for home
But O'Brien was the more dashing an,
he caught the Austrian girl at the corne
OF Thirty-eighth street, where he pinne,
her arms to her side and thus prevente,
her from answering him back when n
spoke to her gently in Gaelic and Man
hattanese.
Ietta did. however, protest physicalI-
and made strenuous efforts to kick III
policeman in the shins. bur TO no avail
With her hands imprisoned and he
tongue tied, so to speak, she was n
match for the cop. She was therefor
taken to the West Thirtieth street polio
station, where she was charged with dis
orderly conduct and given a plaoe 4
sleep until court convenes this morninp
Patrolman O'Brlen got the rest OF III
day off.