Evening star., 1922-04-02
Heard and Seen

Employees or the washington navy
yard have not recovered from the re-
cent 1ay-offs of about 1900 men.
They may not say much on the sub
tect. bu: when they do speak it is
with feeling.
A street car was pulling up to the
navy yard one day last week. carry
ing q party Of sightseers men and
women and some children. Over in
one corner were g. couple Of men, en-
ployes Of the yard.
The conductor opened the door
|. over there" he declared. pointing
for the benefit OF the tourists, .1s the
main entrance to the navy yard"
Main entrance nothin'." shifted one
Of the employees. That's the exit"
Now he is wondering il they were
''shifters."
Anyway, they were good looking
girls.
They stopped him as he came along
in his car and asked if he would take
them uptown. While he doesn't 20 in
for that sort of thing. they were
such nice looking girls that he opened
the door.
You see" said the spokesman of
the group, after they were on upper
18th street. II made a bet with the
girls that / could get them all down
town and back for a week without
paying cent"
experiences" he said
All the girls laughed.
The closest call we had was yes
terday," laughed the leader. "A big
car came along just as we were
starting for downtown. 1t looked as
II 1t belonged to a millionaire
chauffeur and all that-with nobody
Take US downtown I said to the
chauffeur. He agreed. and we ali
stepped in. To be nioe about it. /
said I would sit with the driver. AS
we went along / realized that the
girls were laughing tremendously.
Finally l turned around and saw
they were pointing to something.
Well. they had the Joke on me. They
were pointing to a meter-we were
in a taxicab!
Il hurriedly explained to the taxi
man, and told him that il he would
ma make out ike we were getting the
money afterward. And would YOU
believe it-when we got downtown
no said he never meant to collect any
fare, anyway.
80 I had the laugh on the sirls
after al; Oh, thank you ever so
A. Coulter Wells. president OF the
Kalorama Citizens Association, is
one Of the few seriously injured in
the Knickerbocker Theater disaster
who escaped getting his name in the
papers. AS far as 1 know. no mention
has been made before of the fact.
Yet Wells was laid up in the hos
pttal for several weeks after going
through thrilling experience that
fateful night. He entered the theater
about ten minutes before the crash
came. When the roof fell he started
to arise, but was smashed down to
the floor.
Just as got up again." Wells told
me. something came swinging my
way. caught me up and threw me
clear across that tie to the wall
smashing me head down into the cor
I.
That was the last 1 knew"
When finally. tasen out through a
hole cut in the wsll. Wells was found
with q tremendously cut face and
crushed chest. His friends in the as
sociation have been glad to find. how
ever. that he Is fully recovered
scarcely a scratch showing on his
face.
How is this for being absent-mind-
ed,
A lady hurried up to the business
ONCE counter. 81 want to put an ed
in the lost column" she explained
Il have lost my watch"
She held up her left wrist, and, sure
enough, 1t was perfectly bare. She
paid for the "ad," and went away.
Soon she came back, an embarrassed
smile on her face.
II found it on my right wrist" she
explained.
CHARLES E. TRACEwELL.