Show An Interesting Character The clothesline man of Harlem is a character charac-ter and holds a monopoly of the trade The back yard is bis stumping ground His name is not known but the people of the upper district dis-trict call him the Early Bird He is a young man and with his right arm rounded with a coil of rope and his left covered with pulleys he comes forth daily with the familiar cry of clotheslines penny a yard put it up for nothing and chifly haunts the big apartment apart-ment houses To obtain an entrance into the yards of these he is invariably obliged to run the gauntlet of hard hearted janitor or owners own-ers When ho effects an entrance it is an easy matter to dispose of hundreds of yards of lino and place it before the janitor discovers discov-ers and orders him off Speaking of his strange business one day the clothesline hanger said I have been engaged in tho scheme for several years Its my own idea and I have no opposition Yes often have trouble in climbing poles but my knowledge of sea life stands mo in good stead in slippery weather Some days I sell 1000 yards of lino and half a hundred pulleys Once I get into a yard I climb all the fences along the block and go from yard to yard Business has been very I good lately New York Mail and Express a 1 |