The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-07-08
Liehts Of New York
byL.L. STEVENSON

Ramblings and Examinations: Gen.
trail park girl-like in new spring
dress that was delivered rather late
this year but which is mighty be-
coming Blooming trees sug-
gest bonnets that were displayed
on Fifth avenue Easter Sunday =.
But with none of their comical as
poets of course . A gray-mus-
tached, very erect and impeccably
attired gentleman expertly guiding
a spanking team of sorrels, attached
to q light trap, over the winding
roadway just as If there were no
such things as motor cars-or should
. I say "horseless carriages? -. A
park trash collector grinning as he
reads note he has speared on the
gravel walk and before deposit
ing it in the sack he carries, tearing
It into small bits Which leads
to the guess that 1t is one Of those
boy-to-girl or girl-to-boy missives
that brought back memories Of his
younger days.
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Times square a melange Of hur-
ried and harried workers and drift
ing and unhurried diversion seekers
=. Soldiers and sailors inspecting
signs on movie marquees-shopping
for their entertainment Auto
graph hounds swooping down on
their quarry in such flock that I
do not get even SO much as glimpse
of him or her <. Flower vendors
offering daffodils at 10 cents dozen
49,. and gardenias selling at a
dime each :. !. Pretty girls in red,
white and blue booths trying to in
terest passersby in war bonds and
their customers seemingly largely
young men in Uniform -. Ped
dlers Of sun glasses beginning to
make their appearance /. :. Wonder
If they were the roasted chestnut
merchants of the fall and winter?
4. The slender final of the Chrys-
Ter building seeming to actually
reach up to the blue sky Sellers
of sightseeing tours pressing cards
into the hands Of pedestrians.
Tenement youngsters swarming
the narrow streets of the lower East
Side -. Baseball games inter-
rupted by passing motor trucks -.
A prim little miss, perched on
garbage can, intently engaged in
dressmaking for her doll {. ., A
white-haired and white-bearded, frail
looking man, a shawl about his
shoulders, seated on a front step
porting over an English primer, his
lips moving as he slowly reads the
words :. e. Old age acquiring the
rudiments of new language =. :.
An accordionist, hidden by drawn
window blind, playing bits from
Carmen. A jaunty young po-
liceman, his brass buttons and shoes
cleaning and his uniform looking as
if it had just come from tailorshop,
smiling at comely lass leaning
out Of second story window and
receiving a friendly smile in return
=. Romance among the rookeries.
A ragged lad carrying a fish pole
evidently on his way to the East
river Wonder If the trout are
biting up at the Beaverkill "A
bit of sadness with that thought
since the good friend whose guest
used to be at the Beaverkin club,
was called home several years ago
. . A little woman, pretty even If
she uses no make up. busy with
scrub brush and pail in an endeavor
to remove some Of the CRIME from
the entrance to an old building
and smiling as If work was making
her happy Fire apparatus DASH
ing by with mighty roar and sound
ing of gongs and small boys
cantering behind just as we used to
do back in the old home town when q
fire was mighty big event
The first barefooted lad I've seen.
The Battery and ships going out
to sea The old Aquarium, now
a mere shell, which is to be RACED
because Park Commissioner Moses
has won his long fight for its de-
struction Passengers boarding
the Bedloe Island boat-sightseers,
and pilgrims on their way to the
Statue of Liberty.