Show h P S s Feet Bring Fortune to S Sid Sidewalk de walk Vendor Q t w i L t tI tI I o P I I I SELLS Pies ati i T J I I I I I I BROADWAY WAY ROSE i I 1 11 1 SELLS SELL NE NEWSPAPERS NEWSPAPER W PAPERS PAPERS' To THEATER 11 R. R CROWDS CROWD sAY t MN ye E. E STAKE Mt Me r. r I I Tt Tb THE THC FARE TO ro i Sidewalk merchant as seen by Artist E E. R. R HIggins j By ALEXANDER HERMAN N NEA EA Service Staff Writer I 1 NEW YORK March 1 PIgs PIgs' Pigs Pigs' feet have taken a a poor woman from the sidewalks of New York to a fashionable fash fash- resort In California And now the other vendors of the street are wondering if fate will be beas beas beas as kind to them Tw Twenty five five nty-five years jears ago Lillian Harris went into business She had 5 bo only and she invested It In Ina ina ina a tin boiler boller a charcoal stoVe e a second hand baby carriage an old table fifty ears of corn corn and and a dozen dozen dozen doz doz- en pigs' pigs feet Being a good cook cool she prepared the latter very appetizIngly went up to Columbus CIrcle and opened business on the sidewalk She didn't have to her wares after the first sales They sold themselves They were the finest pigs' pigs feet In Inthe Inthe inthe the city and people from all walks of life came to buy uy them Soon she had enough money to open a little shop then she had to tomo mo mOVe moe e to larger quarters More 1 business more mor pigs' pigs feet more pigs' pigs feet more business Now after twenty-five twenty years she is on her first vacation vacation spending spending some of the which the sale of ot her wares brought her Further down the street sits another an another another an- an other old lady She is known as the Broadway Rose for she sits as a Grand Dame of the past sellIng sellIng selling sell- sell Ing the daily dally newspapers to the theatre after-theatre crowd which she at attracts attracts attracts at- at tracts to her little stand by waving a faded rose I She dreams that some day she too will be able to take a vacation But so far pigs' pigs feet seem to bring In in more money than newspapers And there are others along the streets streets bUnd blind men and and crippled old folk and young young who who strive to eke their living from the sidewalks ks of New York 1 Some Somo do it on the sly sly sly-by by makIng making making mak mak- ing a touch for tor fare tare to Newark or Brooklyn others do It legit legitimately legIt 1 under license of at of atthe the city i 1 But all aU hope that some day they foo too will strike a fortune fortune of of the WO woman with h the pigs' pigs feet teet |