New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-10
ea,,t1wicll Men.
lighting H.C.I...
|Bowled Over
Washington Heights Butch
s. | .aunches Tank i'm Form
az Wheelbarrow Against
ARMY of DIR. Crilnshaw
Roards Become Pillory
Employees Of Fruiterer
Tip Up Mem Encased i'm
Wholesale Price Signs

n, Robert Grimshaw, who brought
asxa prices on Washington Heights
ss.ss weeks ago with sandwich men
40 paraded wholesale prices before
- doors of offending butchers and
.s.ears. returned to the attack yes
.sraay. and was met by ccunter-offen-
Sc. The issue is still in doubt. DR.
eyimshaw valiantly asserted that he
,sosld continue his tactics as long as
,s;sas be necessary, but it was o silen:
.,p,y of sandwich men who folded UP
As;Y boards and departed.
TThey were nursing scratches and
.b,asions, for the victory, whose ever
rr,arv it was, was not n bloodless one.
sSsrs were sore shins a-plenty, and new
srs and holes In garments which were
~ from sound when the campaign
sSs-ted. But for the protective sand
Mh;eh boards the casualties might have
s.an heavier. AS it was, many modest
gua,yicher longed for his hinged board
q wished that his coattails were longer
xfore he reached his far home on the
gewery. %
Prices Show Recovery
Within a week or ten days of the
aYat glorious victory Field Marsha
gnmsnaw noticed that the foe was re.
sorering rapidly from his defeat. The
merchants banners, in the shape OF
rsiee marks on tomatoes, lettuce, po-
mtues and the like. were Haunted
is,eher and higher. The victor, stroll
ne about the field of conflict, which
Rss along St. Nicholas Avenue ant
Broadway, between 177th and 181st
ssreets, noted these ominous signs with
! confident eye and again flung down
iAe gage of combat.
Barring the fiery cross of approach
me' conflict he hied him to the Bowery
ia the other native haunts of actual
sad potential sandwich men and as
nmblsd another army, even more
mubble- faced, shamble gated and
klsar-eyed than that which had
bought low the proud banners Of
srceerdom and butcherdom three
weeks ago.
Again, with plodding and determined
march, the sandwiched cohorts took
he field. Sad.faced and silent, like
sa army of doom, they approached g
kutehershop, the leaders .escutcheor
calamity though yoicelessly proclaim
ing that prime and cheap cuts were
to be had at prices much lower than
those quoted by the butchers of Wash
ington Heights.
Wheelbarrow a Juggernaut
Perhaps the stalwart sandwichers
we're over-contident; perhaps it wa:
simply because they had not beer
drilled in tank-repelling tactics and BY
nature were inclined to accept all tanks
~ friendly. Anyhow, when the butch
q. in person, launched his tanks
sheelbarrow but moment before
harmlessly tilted against q beef car
eass-the slaughter and disorder were
hideous to behold.
With q clatter like the staccato bari
Of machine gun the wheelbarrow tanl
moved down the ranks of the sand
wichers. To right and to left fringet
trousers legs were Tapping helplessly
while their owners, pilloried by thei1
arhnor, strove uselessly to squirm from
the path of the butchers juggernaut.
Even more pitiful was the sigh
when. after the tank had. again beer
parked beside the beef carcass and it:
bloodthirsty crew was lighting Gig
arctic, the struggling sandwiches
sought to regain their feet. Not until
then had Washington Heights realized
how helpless a sandwich army might
Be when once it was swept off its feet
LHsty Youths Charge Forth
In diminished but still valorous ar
gay. they descended upon a fruit store
rear Broadway and 18th Gtrect. II
vas but an ambuscade. From behind
two punches of bananas the shock
troops Of the fruiterer, lusty youths
accustomed to serving soda water and
isHoL pop and hauling on dumwaitel
ropes. charged forth with ferocious
shouts.
Once more the sandwiches were al
upset, Once more they clattered fiat
upen, che sidewalk, waving futile arms
ana legs like SO many capsized beetles
onee more, with many a grunt anc
gsoan, they recovered their feet anC
p!oddsd doggedly on the path Of glory
sore In body but with spirit exalted
~ the $3.50 that was to be theirs 70,
tarse hours work.
=, when they at last retired Fielt
sns,shai Grimshaw viewed the gory
nela and was satisfied. Only the bump.
1ous butcher and the ferocious fruit.
ssmu.