Show NewYork York Seeing Snakes No Snakes Snake Seeing New NewYork Y orI I Catch Real t Y Yv Live v Snakes na es v IZ on Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way and andR R Remove move Them to The Zoo d 1010 H mamma Look who's here c O 0 My child that is 18 Broadway You are now HOW seeing Now New York Broadway at this point Is known as S. the habitat of oC the unemployed actor Those Chose exaggerated butterflies you ou see seo flapping lapping along alone both sides of ot the street are chorus rIB Other chorus girls al' al are arc In taxicabs tho e ma magnified d black beetles which go CO darting this Wo way and that emitting as thc they Ko JO such unpleasant ant odors On the left left vT-i vT The They were cro two snakes m kes seeking New York x No o not New Kew York seeing for these were r real aJ no no oon- oon on the Demon Hum Rum variety variety- and the they were looking down Broadway from the roof rooe of ot a high building at Forty first street Real neat live snakes on Broadway How did they g get t there Where here did lId they thoy come conic from How lIow did they get to tho the top of oC that highs high building building- and what for for If not to see sec New York M safe t from tram the h heels eels 15 of the madding cro crowd croThe The Janitor who janitor who grubbed grabbed ruh ed t them from the stone stOlle parapet and Imprisoned them In Ina ina a milk bottle bottlo with breathing holes I punched in lt It its top asked top asked these questions questions ques ques- as iUS he exhibited hl his over the neighborhood A red nosed man waved him off ott waved Look ou out U ho lie said Hald p part rt of sir tho the family o of oC tho the bl big g poisonous reptile that escaped from the tho stage stag of ot the American theatre atre last spring But the tho imprisoned reptiles neither reptiles neither more than a n. foot Coot long long- looked most harmless an anil Innocent But they were snakes e Snakes Enles real rual u or are aro not trot popular on Dr Broadway s 1 ay Chorus girls having having- the their r abode In that sanso high h gh building shuddered Maybe Maybo the place was 0 o with h them horn Several Broadway ay swore wore oft off then thell panic Increased and ond there The Tise rattlers rattler exclaimed exclaimed some Young pythons said others ed edging the tho milk bottle ao away from So tho the dan dangerous erous specimens were taken up opt to o the Bronx p park parle rk zoo where I Curator l Ditmars ho who SIr ha has as a special Affection for snakes snakes received received with open at arms ms Perfectly harmless lie said J lea the the brown or ground round I snake named In to honor of tiny I Y New No York ork time old one or of the natural naturalists naturalists' fists thc they are Very yen clo In the iho suburbs l and antl a are are- e I yet et to to be L found loimil In n I General w I A I And then the II Curator Ditmars explained the mystery of ot these Innocent ground New Nov snakes cH seeing lorl lork from rom the top of a n skyscraper sky vied There is a rock ledge e g ge e that runs diagonally across tan right 1111 t th through rough lt G street ort a t across the thO site lite o of ot Gran Grand Grand' Central son where whereon much of or it has throe rl rt-cont rt tl r bt on en blasted out and on all' UP UI UP through through Central CJ park A alive JeT generation or r two a ago this l land ie wasA was alive C v rattlers ack CI ck snakes nal s sIt and many smaller many sm malIer reptiles believed t that a these thes little It Is brown snakes laro nr tho descendants 0 ot come of J r. r the tho old guard which to quit ground despite their their- Lv march hunting o of civilization They Thoy the and the tho probabilities re very cry c thep arc that that down under the building whore nr are arc discovered dl el co d there are alC a score they v were wore fIt of th their h brothers there awl and sisters er erow or morn nore In n a prehistoric snake noW ow nt house o in lq In the old yogic ledge edge 1 Is of ot tJ the e opinion that the Mr lr X t had crawled up till through h snakes CS a of the tho lii in tho wall building crevices roof root there to nonchalantly tako al to tho thu sun bath after a n. ir cu customary tol nr their or of earth orns In the tho snake pea 1 Earth harth worms lIer belo belon con con- 1 k sUtuto their sole dIet vt nightfall they would have glided gIlded At sleeping quarters their hack to persons It seem Seeni In- In To mar man may Wray fiat that thc these c little crawling creatures cro- cro without so su o much as as a single vJ toenail to o hang han on by could squirm their w WLl iy up P P the thc walls s to the lle top tog of ot ofa ota Curator Ditmars who 1 d a a Snows nukes snakes s thoroughly and and likes knows Incredible h hm nothing about find them e m performance that that- of at these tics The rho extreme a r ne e enabled tb lall them specimens p. p S. S r selves of tiny seams scams and w within with with- in th the somewhat old walls of this building The These e of or course made maele an 11 irregular zig-zag zig zaS' zaS path easy for tor the reptiles to nc negotiate Even Evon when the scams were vertical their the narrowness offered support for tor tho the snakes snakes' hacks backs e while caught on the rock and mortar mortal projections of oC the opposite opposite opposite op op- Billo aido of or the thc cI crevices As nourished welt snake snakes like these are arc accustomed ll to 10 meals a n. Ion long a way flay I apart there rc was wa no hurl hurry about their journey journo the journey tho tho lapse o of a week going up and another w week lc returning returning- to td their worm source of or supplies would not ll have subjected them to an nn Injurious Injurious ious lous fist fast It Ii would hardest kind seem seem to to tobe be the thc of luck when a u harmless little snake has arduously to cli climb six stories to get et his daB dally daily breath of oC fresh air nil Just because his adobe has been Invaded Invaded Invaded-by by y skyscrapers Ir If It ho lie dared to poke his nose on to Broadway his tho t bo ho worth a stick of crowing gum But Dut Buthe Duthe Buthe he may have ha the consolation of of or know knowing ow- ow lug ing that he may have havo a hapP homo home at Bronx park parl In his old agent ho he is lucky enough to tu got got ther r ray A f y ay 0 u J |