The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-09-16
NewYorkI
Letter
by LcyJeau7eRH Price

Union Square, New York City is cut
ting its broom corn and vegetables OF |
common and esorteric varieties. Even |
our most permanent residents don't
regularly think of the city as being |
very strong on agricultural crops. But
down there where the Fourteenth !
street subway stations swallow up |
their thousands a day, is one OF the
most prolific gardens anywhere abouts
The small Incredibly generout little
patch of earth is used to show Mammal
tanites just what can be done in the
gardening line, and its example Is be-
lieved to be responsible for more win
dow box gardens than any other one
Influence in the land.
Ny
The oldest cemetery in the city Is
down In New Bowery, between james
and Oliver streets. 1t was the tirsI
Jewish cemetery in the United States
consecrated 265 years ago, in 1856 IL
was outside the city of New York at
that early time and durin gthe war OF
the Revolution was fortified as one OF
the defenses of the city.
Ny
JOSIE" the pet kitten OF drug
store on Fifty-second street, has the
honor of being the ward of Nine. jose
phine Jacoby, the contralto OF Metro
politan fame. The prima donna ana
the kitten may be seen almost any eve
ming in the pharmacy, where she goes
regularly to feet the motherless wall
"Its mother died five weeks ago, ex-
Maine dthe clerk, land Nine. jacob!
has been in every evening since then
to feed it with a medicine dropper' we
named the kitten Josie after her.
Swimming champions are scattered
as thick as leaver throughout the New
York brances of the Y. W. {. a lhey
almost seem to have corner on all
the remarkable women swimmers Ill
the country. There is 22-year-old Mile
Gade. for one scintillating star - the
Danish girl champion who swan all
the way down from Albany last week
and around Manhattan Island rev
weeks earlier, and who is in her quiet
er moments is swimming Instructor a'
one o fthe Y. w. pools in this CITY
Then no wcomes Leone Morgan BOIL
instructor at the Central Branch ana
makes herself woman champion OF the
large and we'll wattered state OF ONO
More than that, she has won that
honor Just one year after she took her
first swimming stroke, which in ltsel1
is considerable of record. MISS Boil
swan 8OS yards in Is minutes, in WIN
ming this victory, doing minute ana
a fraction better than necessary IN
order to establish new worlds record
for that distance. She insists there Is
nothing amazing about the height she
has reached in one short year. she
doesn't even tell you of mysterious Sc
crets of doing it. "Its all question
of breathing under water" she de-
clares. Keep youh hear down--not
sticking up into the air - breathe IN
through your mouth and out through
your nose-and you'll become cham
pion yourself some day" Doesn't 1t
sound nice and simple?
Wall Street missed its Bishop the
other day at the noon hour for the first
time in a long, long time. For 2o
wears Rev. William Wilkinson, has
held MONDAY meeting in front OF the
Bankers Trust Building dow nthere,
with the reading of the Apostles
Greed, and the Lords Prayer and a
brief sermon. He Is as much Of an In
stitution as the Stock Exchange. The
other day he slipped and fell, injuring
himself so that he has been unable to
hold his meetings for several days
now; and all of Wall Street misses
him.
Ny
The unusual device of three large
gold balls over the radiator cap OF a
motor truck attracted my attention
down on Broadway the ether day and
I edged closer to look at them. There
underneath the three shining globes
was the name Of an uptown pawnbro-
ker, and the following somewhat defi-
ant legend:
Ha. Ha, Ha. Laugh and show your
teeth.
But you patronize these balls
When you are hard W and need cash.
Ny
Policemen in New York's New Jer-
sey suburbs have had their feeligs hurt
At least the yfeel that their dignity
ha sheen encroached upon. The other
day at the annual convention Of the