Show i BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Izaak Walton of East Side Did Arresting Job By BILLY ROSE When I was a kid on the East Side a couple of hundred years ago a sidewalk was a lot more than a strip to walk on it was something something some some- thing to dream on tap tap dance dance on on pitch pennies on and scribble philosophical philosophical phi phi- sayings on ot of the sort not found in Bartletts Bartlett's Familiar Quotations However to Gimpy Myers the leader of our gang a sidewalk was none of ot these things things things-It it was primarily something to fish through To put a fine tine point on it ft It what Gimpy fished through was not the sidewalk side side- walk itself but the iron gratings over cellar windows window and ventilation shahs And what he ha fished for tor with the aid of ot a blob of at tar dangling at the end of ot a string was everything but fish fish coins coins picture buttons and other bits of treasure which had fallen through There were t two w o occupational hazards however which used to annoy this Izaak trash Walton of the asphalts asphalt cops cop and dogs dOIS Cops because a subway fisherman attracts crowds crowd and crowds as al a rule attract pickpockets 1 off eta ets dogs because u Gimpy's exposed s rear was waa an Invitation tion for a q qui quick u l C k kInack k s snack mack and on several soy sev eral oral occasions occasion neighborhood mongrels mon moo greta grels had given it UW Rose tUse the full and painful treatment As he be grew older and more ambitious am bilious Gimpy did leas less and less lest angling on the lower tower East Side where the and therefore the were slim Urn Instead he be invaded the lusher territories to the tho north porth and an finally settled on the gratings near the tho Union Square subway where U if the streets street were not no paved d with gold old at least lean the tho ventilation shafts yielded a reasonable reason reason- able abl amount of sliver silver TilE THE COI COP on nth street treet to In n those days was one Ike Fogarty a Cyril cal gent who always alwa's that while Gimpy was fishing In to the subway an accomplice was fishing In to the tha spectators spectators' pockets pocket But be he was never able to pin any thing on the kid and this irked him himo so o much that he finally threatened to pull him In to for tor obstructing traffie fie tic the next time he caught him bin Gim Gimpy l took 1004 it lb Ih bins hi sad end bj to IQ Strut Street Street-Ibs i is until unlit 0 oat oaf M. M morning u Ih tbt tun SW wt was doi Joins doing ii Ut its Huff siu sad nd nd go 0 dog ig 10 so reboot hool IV was oar ol o Ih lilt AI Aa U bi his notion our oar g S. g 1 hJ ob on Olf Ib tbt prowl oIVI for tor n beads sad nd nd ea Oil i H SI Wt we raw e u OM lt gS II out oca of 0 a taxi 1 dutch as 1 her b throat sad d h aba oo Hoop ore sad f pre a grating Ih curb Lost lady Gimpy GimPl asked herA her iA A locket said ald the woman U It Isn Isn't worth much but it has a pic- pic picture ture of bab baby There Ther were wert neither cops cop nor c ca nines in sight Ill git it fer ter ya said GImpy From a Prince Albert tin he be too took k o c chunk of at tar and held a mate match h under it until it was sticky Then he be lowered it on a string and began belan to maneuver it over the locket locketS S t e eAT AT THAI TIIA O ENT Officer Fogarty Fog Tog art arty the comer corner This time Im I'm ya Y in he said hookey and traffic at one and the same time Im ini only ta to git this lady the pitcher of her ber baby said aid Gimpy I In I exactly 0 out and 46 seconds our I lead leader delicately JUI fazed J tbt Ih locket loIe through Ib the tbt grating Ii pallid palled it is Ire I from Ih the lb tar far and Ind Id it 1 to 0 ii its OW owner 1 J h abe woman 1 tt Ib only 01 lII I 1 hey h b. b t o 01 baby Lets Let get goin said uld Fogarty Stalling for tor time Gimpy said aid to the woman min Ira j I i took a look Not at all ail aU she he said laid and napped snapped open the locket Inside was WM a 8 picture of a mean mean looking Pekinese pup That aint no baby narl snarled Gimpy its ns a lousy dawg Watch your language young man said laid the woman Babs won more blue ribbons ribbon than you have fingers and toes Gimpy slow slowly lowly I stuffed string and end tar Ur back into the empty tin and dropped it down th the grating crating Then Thea be he turned to Fogarty d duty kay copper be said laid D Do o ya |