Show Lights of New v e YorI by L. L L L. L STEVENSON J New York In York In Greenwich village J I saw a n battered old truck that seemed to be conveying a colored picnic some somewhere where A colored man was at nt the wheel with a n colored woman evidently e his wife at nt his side while the body of or orthe the truck seemed to fairly swarm with children of ot assorted ages and sizes sixes but nil all of the same shade Ton Tony the garageman explained that It was not nota a It picnic Ton Tony was born and raised 11 In Greenwich village He lie has never nc lived an anywhere where else So he lie knows the llIn village e and Its people The truck trude he lie said Is a n business enterprise Its passengers passengers pas pas- ms- ms constitute one family The family carries on the business So the number of children Instead of being being be be- ing a n detriment In the struggle le for existence ex cx Is really nn an assistance In fact the more children the greater the gross income e The battered old truck Is the official waste remover of the village A nu num number n. n her ber of apartment house owners are arc also willing to make maliC small ions With Pith a wife and a flock of children chil dren the truck owner doesn't need any assistants Thus ho he has no pa pay roll The trash Is taken to the family home which is a Morton forton street cellar There it Is sorted Practically all alJ of Jf it t Is salable In one form farm or another Much furniture In various states of or repair Is collected That which Is salable Is trucked up to Harlem and I sold there either to Individuals or to dealers The papers are haled baled and sold Rold the market for old paper being decidedly bullish at present The stuff that cant can't be sold either is trucked ell I to dumps or Is used to supply heat And after ron Tony had told me that I agreed that It wasn't nn any picnic I |