Show lights light S of new york TRUMBULL by KS WALTER A truck tilled with sugar crossing the fifty ninth street bridge somehow caught fire this naturally tied up traffic lc which normally to 18 heavy over that centrally located span finally they managed to put the fire out but meanwhile something else had happened the heat bad melted tile the sugar and it descended to the roadway of the bridge in tile the r shape of 0 and flowed heavy and thick in all directions this caused a traffic c to which the former one was nothing gaud band and small gravel had bad to be procured in large amounts and spread to give traction it was several hours before the tangle was straightened out aw I 1 w who h 0 had been signing other firso az 2 names to his checks got caught fi antt at it and found himself in the atlary every inmate has to wo sk c for his room and board up tb there ere they gave the forger a job he was signed to teach penmanship francis Albert antl tells me a st story ory of f owney madden generally besig bat fed ed as a racketeer and undesirable aitt 7 zen isen but of whom father cashin former chaplin at sing sing once sa said ld that he had find helped more ex cx convicts go 60 straight than all the reformers it seems beems that madden had an office in a building on broadway where there was a frail looking elevator man inan for several days this man was missing and madden asked where he was he learned that the elevator man was at home in bed and it looked as if be might stay there some time this was mis not so good as the man got one of those trick salaries the trick being to live on it madden went to see him film ile he made him roll oyer over with hla his face to the wall said he be wanted to see his bis back when the man was thus engaged madd madden n slipped two bills under his pillow then he left and says mr air Albert Alber antl tanti 1 I sure would like to have hare seen tile the expression on that mugs face when ho he slipped his thin hand under his tired old head and found that money I 1 always have liked the story 0 of f the benevolent gangster who was too kindhearted to see the poor of hells kitchen suffer from the winter weather during a coal strike solely from motives of charity he took A a gun held up three coal wagons and made the drivers dump the coal in the street it stay there any longer than it took to get baskets and boxes to gather it up three would be robbers tried to hold up a brooklyn hospital police captured them now they feel sicker than the patients chister 11 aldrich the noted arclie architect says saya he considers the morgan library the most beautifully designed building in the city because of its size and surroundings many pass it by without much notice tile the empire state tower still la Is doing a lively business with sightseers the usual thing Is for a building to support a tower but this tower supports the building john law former notre dame center and captain Is a renting agent at rockefeller city and coaching football on the sided side Q 1932 bell syndicate service |