The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-09

5000, "a good many opportunities
was had of observing human nature
thru peekaboo waists.
1.-THE Park Commissioner and Com
missioner of Polls and the Forestry
Commission gets together and agrees
to let the people sleep in the parks
until the Weather Bureau gets the
thermometer down again to a living
basis. So they draws up open-air
resolutions and has them o. KID by
the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr..
Comstock and the Village Improve
ment Mosquito DISCRIMINATING So
ciety of South Orange, N. j.
when the proclamation was
made opening up to the people by
special grant, the public parks that
belong to 'em, there was a general
exodus into Central Park by the COM
munities existing along its borders.
In ten minutes after shutdown you'd
have thought that there was an I'M
dress rehearsal Of potato famine
in Ireland and Kishinef massacre.
They come by families, gangs, clam
bake societies, clans, clubs, and tribes
from all sides to enjoy cool sleep
on the grass. Them that didn't have
oil stoves, brought along plenty of
blankets, so as not to be upset with
the cold and discomforts of sleeping
outdoors. By building fires of the
shade trees and budding together
in the bride paths, and burrowing
under the grass where the ground
was soft enough, the likes of 5000
head Of people successfully battled
against the night air in Central
Park alone.
"You know l live in the elegant
furnished apartment house called the
Beersheba Flats, over against the
elevated portion of the New York
Central Railroad.
"When the order come to the fats
that all hands must turn out and
sleep in the park, according to the
instructions of the consulting COM
mittee of the City Club and the
Murphy Draying, Returning and
Sodding Company, there was a look
of couple of fires and an eviction
all over the place.
'The tenants began to pack up
feather beds, rubber boots, strings of
garlic, hot-water bags, portable
canoes and scuttles of coal to take
along for the sake of comfort. The
sidewalk looked like a Russian camp
in Oyama's line Of march. There
was wailing and lamenting up and
down stairs from Danny Geoghegan's
fiat on the top floor to the apart
ments of Misses GoldsteinupsH on
the first.
"For Why says Danny, coming
down and raging in his blue yarn
socks to the janitor, Should be
turned out of me comfortable apart
minis to lay in the dirty grass like a
rabbit? IT'S like Jerome to stir up
trouble wild small matters like this
instead Of
"'Whistp says Officer Reagan on
the sidewalk, rapping with his club.
IT'S not Jerome. IT'S by order of
the Polls Commissioner. Turn out
every one of yez and hike yerselves
to the park
''Now, twas a peaceful and happy
home that all of US had in them
same Beersheba Flats. The O'Dowds
and SteiHowitzes and the aiahans
and the COhens and the Spizzinellis
and the McManuses and the Spiegel-
mayors and the Joneses-all the ma
ton of US, we lived like one big
family together. And when the hot
nights come along we kept line Of
childher reaching from the front door
to Kelly's on the corner, passing
along the cans Of beer from one to
another without the trouble of run
ming after it. And with no more
clothing on than is provided for in
the statutes, sitting in all the win
dies, with a cool growler in every
one, and your feet out in the air,
and the Rosenstein girls singing on
the fire escape Of the sixth floor, and
Patsy Rourke's flute going in the
eighth. and the ladies calling each
other synonyms out Of the windies,
and now and then a breeze sailing
in over Mister Depew's Central
tell you the Beersheba Flats was a
summer resort that made the Cat
skills look like hole in the ground.
With his person full Of beer and his
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