Show iffie a av V ERNEST CAMP by OBSERVER new york lite life old new yorkers never got get tired ot of watching the unending and varies varied panorama of the life that flows through the big cites streets in one block the other day we passed 1 a 7 cripple apple with both lers legs antl entirely ly gone and a lew few teet feet fart farther h er on encountered P a man of stilts the latter stood ten tell feet tall and halted right in the stream or of traffic to read his paper just as casually as the man on a corr corner er in a village of course a big sign on his coat coattails tans told to d where to buy your clothes imitation fakir another funny slight sight often seen here Is the brother or of isadore isadora duncan the dancer who belongs to a 6 cult she to founded which advocated loose dressing arming ile he parades around here in what looks like a cotton bathrobe his bare legs and unkempt locks hardly win more than a casual extra glance from the shop girls the town Is nearly shockproof shock proof as tar far as eccentricities of dress are c concerned a ne arned A occupation window washing Is one of 0 the most dangerous of all the tb e lobs jobs of modem existence it Is superlatively healthy like a drink of 0 milk fresh from a cow but again like the milk good only to the last ast drop there Is a higher percentage of fatalities among window cleaners than in any other common calling and yet there are always plenty of applicants licanto tor for the lob job climbing around on n narrow err ow window stile salle a thousand teet feet above broadway does no not phase men who have built up to it by working on three and six elx story levels A slicker As aa the tha window cleaners work on percentage it Is to their advantage to work recently one a of the as fast as possible companies took on a new man who admitted he knew nothing about the work he was shown how to make one swipe with the chamois do in place of the scrubbing the average housewife gives the he glass and taught other tricks ot or the trade and then sen sentous tout out alone on the job ob right night away he began to turn in signed tickets showing lie he was wa working aking a third taster faster than their best man had done up to then an aix inspection ot of his completed clr work showed his windows were beautifully cleaned and everybody waa vm satisfied finally there came a kick please dont send bend that big man around here to clean a our windows the letter read he gives us all heart dlease climbing on the sills twel twenty ity stories up without using the safety bilt belt and it makes us too nervous to watch him and so the secret was learned he refused to wear the belt because it slowed him up come to find out he used to be a sailor on a deep S sea ea I 1 whaler and height and insecure booti tooting g meant nothing to him he was fired chamois rings kings ten tea thousand a year fear Is a comfort comfortable able income even in ne new york although one still its a lo 10 lot t that ca c nt t go very tar far on ot of money to make out of washing win aln bivs there are probably a dozen men here who make that much and more by supplying men to wield the chamois I 1 tor you the business I 1 Is on a substantial basis and its workers have their own union and everything |