The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-18

race. A. A. Warford, rs years old |
and a New York editor-decided the |
other day that 81 in the shade was
good Coney Island weather and got
out his bicycle for the ride there. 1g-
noring both the heat and the rs years,
he made his way at a merry clip and
was within two miles of being home
when trolley turned the corner and
they collided. Mr.. Warford catapulted
ten feet and landed havily. Patrolman
George Groom helped him to his feet
and an ambulance was being rushed to
the scene, when the cyclist waved
them all away and inspected his We
hicle. 1t was battered but still there.
"I'm all right" he said. at was my
fault, too. | think I'll be going" and
before the dazed motorman or police
man could recover, Mr.. Warford was
on his way. cts good for anyone to
ride this weather." he explained later
at his home. ut makes you perspire'
Ny
Archibal c. Weeks, Of Brooklyn,
swears that this is true. And one Is
supposed to give an extra margin OF
confidence to Brooklynites. Anyway
back in 1861, William J. Weeks, his
father marked three tortoises with
his name and the date, and five years
later. Archibald, himself, marked his
own name and the year 1866 on tins
same three shells. Finally the animals
wandered away. And 10! The other
day, all three of them came back to the
old Weeks homestead on Long Island
Mr.. Archibald Weeks met up with
them, names, dates, and all
Ny
The first real effort at honest-to-
goodness cooperative apartment
house ownership will go into erect
here in September, when an enthusi-
atsic and thrifty group will move INTO
what used to be four dwellings at S43-
a4e East 5Oth street. The other CO.
lucrative undertakings have been
largely in name only, with an enter
prising promoter controlling affairs
aid taking the responsibility for man
aging them" These people put up 81
900 cash and then pay $50 month for
four light rooms, and never pay any
thing more all the erst Of their lives
Financial control is to be held on an
absolutely equal basis, no owner be-
ing allowed more than one vote, and
with a board of directors elected by
the group taking entire management
Miss Grace P. Drake is President, and
Miss Vera Schafer, vice-president. the
entire project has been initiated by
the National Board Of the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association, impelled
by its interest in finding some solu'
ton Of the dire housing problem. II
believes It has found practical way
out" for those living on slender mar
gin - and still hankering to live COM
fortably. The amusing touch to the
situation is that, though this first at
tempt at such thing is being made BY
women, and was at first planned to b'
carried out exclusively by and fol
them, the pleadings of some dispairinf
men have reached the hearts of thu
organizers and they have let them in
Ny
To think that 1t should be to de
tective that such prescience as Thu
should come! Joseph Russo, attached
to District Attorney Swans office hal
a vision a few nights before the lat
Dempsey-Carpentier fight. He saw tn
arenta and the fight, saw Dempse.
knock out his opponent; and saw hin
do II in the fourth round, Just as pc
actual fact. This wasn't the memoir
afterwards Of what he had dreamed
He has the whole office force to bacI
him that he told them the next morn
ing when people - a few - were SUI
making bets. In fact, SO well has hi
story held up that agents Of the Psy
chial Research Society are said to b
interested in the case. But think OF
happening to a detective.
Ny
There is a definitely dramatic not
in the appeal Of Jimmy the Trusty
to the underworld, Of which he use
TO he a part, for the return Of the jew
els stolen from Mrs. W. H. Donaldso
the other night. Jimmy, who wa
1.-THE Hawk" before he was The Trui
IT," Is now James Curran, 276 Yves
I22nd street, and is living proof this
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