Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-11-17
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5 ing on the outside.
A little three-year-old lad was
taken to the police station out at
,:Coney Island. Said the desk serg-
cant, Whats the matter sonny?
Are you lost?"
mo, SIR" piped the lad, 'I'm
not lost. Grandma's lost"
The most rlaintive salespeople
we know are two little girls who
stand in the doorway of an office
building on Lexington Avenue be-
low And Street from five o'clock
on each night. Over the big
baskets covered with a clean cloth
come their thin, piping voices,
Buy some doughnuts my mother
makes?"
The head of the picture depart
ment at the New York Public
Library insists that all requests be
written. She explained recently
that New York dialects are too
frequently misunderstood, and H.
Illustrated with this experience:
Someone made a verbal request
for pictures of New York wharves
and docks. And when the pictures
arrived at he desk they proved to
be of wolves and ducks.
The activity of the railroads in
building new, faster, streamlined
trains has extended to one of New
York's subway systems which has
recently placed an order for an
aluminium streamlined train for ex-
perimental operation early next
year. The speed is planned for SO
in contrast with the present 40
mile an hour trains, will weigh half
as much and accommodate as
many passengers in five cars as
eight cars of present design.
Parked in a car near the firehouse
on the Battery down at the tip of
Manhattan. An alarm came in.
Less than thirty seconds after the
signal was completed every light on
the fire boat was ablaze, the big
diesel engines started, the whistle
blown and the lines cast off :. We
followed up-river by a zig-zag
course on land. all set to watch the
turret nozzles swing their streams
into action against the roaring fire
When we and the fire-boat
arrived, the taxicab's fire on the
dock was already out.
The strictest traffic enforcement
we know is in the Holland Tunnel
that speeds thousands of motorists
under the Hudson between Manhat-
tan and New Jersey every day.
Cross the white line in the center
of the tunnel-and you're as good
as pinched-whether you think
you're seen or not. Midst a roar
of rubber on asphalt you're greeted
by one sign after another: go IS
Miles,: BLOW No Horns; go
40 MiIes-Upgrade." But we
crossed that fatal white line one
day recently-by request. We
soon found out why. The Tunnel
Police tractor was dragging a buss-
full of placid people toward the
exit. The brakes were locked tight
as a grave-vault.
Up three flights of rickety stairs
in a building that gives you the
shivers when you think of fire, are
the quarters of the New Workers
School where Diego Rivera is work
ing on his water color murals
painted on wet plaster. The most
violent side of American history
IS depicted and the workers most
revered figures of New Russia are
portrayed in compelling size and
composition. 1t was Rivera's mu-
raj in M of the Rockefeller
Center buildings that was barred
because of the portrait of Lenin
included in the composition.
Ed Kressy, the artist, was with
me. He remarked, Sits strange
how many of these artists with
severe complaints to register all
work with the muddiest colors,
while the idealists work with bril-
liant colors-high blues and pinks.
1 doubt that either type could use
the others colors effectively"
Miss G. NJ, of Piqua, Ohio, tells