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Show ZERO IN AMUSEMENT AROUSES THE POLICE Early Morning Porch Trotter Finds Ingress In-gress to Home Barred and Passerby Passer-by Sends in Hurry-up Call Xero In amusement was discovered early yeMei,Hv moinmg. In fact, it was so amusing that the police were called upon (o suppress It. A man who liws fa r up on Sixth avenue ave-nue works at a dsk all day. His associates asso-ciates object lo his love for fresh air to such an extent that this man had to device a ua to consume several gallons gal-lons of ozone befoie bavin- Ids home. Dressed in a. pan- of abbreviated bathing bath-ing trunks the kind not in oue at the old sw! in initig bole t i 1 us man steps from his bedroom window 10 a halconv o er his front pon;h before It is light and does himself a hit le .ia utit ba. I, and fort h. These Jaunts usually last about one minute. Yesienlav morning he had mruplfled his Marathon and turned to the window with a shiver. Tlie window had slipped shul and there was nothing lo open it with ex'-ept a she,-! of slip per v glass. He of tlie fresh-air pmp,-nsii ies sat down to think n over. The lamilv wouldn't be awake for ha I:' an hour and a fine crisp I'tt-c.e floated down trnm tl.p mountains. After a few minutes of tuqsing at the window be gave il up and started another an-other trip to keep uanu. He fanned himself like a leani diiver to restore his lacciiiir eiri-ulanon. He blew on his cliesl and went through the whole menu of i a I is t he 11 icy. Footsteps were he;ud far up Die street. The urn t let nan in t be a bh re via ted suit leaned far over t he hah uiiv a nd hailed the p.'isser-hv. His wh-e sounded like a call ft nm t lie poi t of missi nt; m"n. "1 sa-. , h-r-r-r-r. oVl ehap, would you mind letting me in. it's a bit cold 'ere"" "What In the dcuee are urn doing Iv-rc in the tirst pko'eV" dmanried the cautious cau-tious citizen on the sidewalk. "I do It for my 'e.-ilth, hut I eawn't explain ex-plain the whole theo.-c of pirsical culture cul-ture now ; I am a bour frozen. 1 t-a v, eawn't you kro--k at tbc front iloor anl arnu.ce the pop1'." "I'll call ilie poh' e." suir-estcd the man on tiie sidewalk. "All ruibt," agreed Ant bony 'omstO' k polio, "but won't -.on bud me x-om- over-mat over-mat while the Hobbies am cettinc i-?" Someone within the hoose beard the ronversatlon and the window was opened from within. "You'll 'ave to 'ave that window fixed, v' know. I eawn't be sliut out 'ere to freeze." , , "You'll have to take a rar of tronsrs or a bear-skm ni out with ynu or -! give up tins Sandow-Samson stunt. ame a voice from the now open window. reeentlv arisen voice .-time over the phone to the desk sergeant 's oft ice. P sa Id We-lust bad a 'nut' up here, but he's gone hark to bis room. Pietter cancel That call-to Sixth avenue. " |