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Brooklyn's Woman of the Week: Plans Day While Still in Bed; 17 BROOKLYN, N. SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1945 Section 2 Plays Cards Each Morning A Day's Work in a Brooklyn Court By VIOLET BKOWX I In the gentle but rigid New England family to which Ellen Eddy Shaw was born one April Fool's Day about 65 years ago there wasn't a playing card allowed. But Miss Shaw plays cards every working day of her life. She rises at 6 a.m., makes her breakfast, with emphasis on the coffee, in her kitchenette, takes it back to bed with her on a tray, eats at her leisure, "feeling like a million plays three games of solitaire, and plans her day. "Mostly my day is a whirlwind after that," she says with a hu never did get to be a doctor although she still carries the dream with her and taught in Massachusetts schools instead.

Then she got a job at the New York State Normal School and there the director of the New York Ethical Culture Institute saw her showing farm youngsters how to test milk and was so impressed that he promised her a greenhouse on his school's roof if she would come and teach there. In 1913, the late Dr. C. Stewart Gager, head of the Botanic Garden, asked her to come to Brooklyn to direct, on a larger She was nut finite 10, plain, mousey blonde, rod-eyed, with an illegitimate child at home and another, by a second man, on the way. Clearly she was at the end of her rope when she walked uncertainly into Hay Ridge Court and told the clerk: "I want to be put away." No one had made any complaint again si her no one wanted to.

What had done was her own unfortunate business. From a strictly legal point morous glint in the eyes that light the a If) Jilt tli i tk ll fr 4 -XI Jill I If is iiifiT ITI.T.--.II.II. ii mmXiSfVmi.t im I face under thet gray- 1 1 ing hair. "And it Lf scale, the kind of horticultural education she was giving at Ethical Culture. She did, and started the of view her problem did not into the ken of the court at all, but Magistrate Charles Solo mon, who happened to bo sitting at the time, took her to Proba tion Officer George Hoekstra and told him to do what he could for her.

Before she left she had been assured of immvdiate care by the Catholic Big Sisters and medical care at Kings County Hospital. She was advised to let the Department of Welfare in Eagle Staff photo LOOKING OVER A COMPLAINT Magistrate Charles Solomon, sitting in Bay Ridge Court, takes a complaint from Fred Irwin, standing, the "bridge man." At extreme left is Stephen J. Collins, the court fingerprint expert, and stitute paternity proceedings as soon as the child was born. No IPX 1 -J- i I. rrih i .1 never comes out as I plan.

But I enjoy it." That has been the pattern of Miss Shaw's life ever since she quit her pre-med-ical course at Tuft3 after her father's death unplanned, full, enjoyed. It has also enriched the lives of enough people to fill a good-Kized city and will continue to do so even after Miss Shaw regretfully retires this month as curator of elementary instruction at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. For the seeds Miss Shaw has planted are not annuals but perennials. As she likes to say, "You can't have a good garden by accident," and the array in the clerk's chair is Chief Clerk John J. Allen.

children's garden which has become world famous. Her work has become so broad and she has become so successful in it that she couldn't have switched back to medicine if she tried. She has taught children, teachers, professional men and simple garden enthusiasts. She has crusaded for the Victory Gardens of two wars. She has lectured and written extensively.

She has traveled to Europe both to teach and to see, as delegate from garden association and as private citizen. She is as familiar a figure in school auditoriums as in greenhouses, a little tired. She is longer was she at the end of her rope. The People's Court Her instinct about the court There was no answer. colored fluid which I took to the (At 10:25 a.m.

a baby's wail laboratory to have tested was heard through the courtroom and Magistrate Solomon (Evidence Won't Stand l'p had been completely sound, for all the courts in the land, the magistrate's court is most sure- Iv the people's court. Before its stopped the business at hand to "Objection!" interjected the announce: "I repeat: In this! lawyer again. "He took that court, we take care of women specimen from a tap in the bar, with children first." but how does he know that what There was a scuffle in the backlthe bartender served the woman and some one left. Mama pre-j was from that tap?" sumably was just a spectator. The case was dismissed for benches come every kind of crime from uncovered garbage cans to homicide, from hair-pull ing to burglary.

And of all the courts in the magistrate's court Motherhood given its due, he lack of evidence, The next complainant caused summons calendar was called. Sometimes only the defendant system (felony, traffic, woman's and municipal term courts are all special magistrate's courts), the district court has the spectators to sit up a little straighter and watch a little As a result she is ant who had come down in the more closely. She was a glamor heat of temper to say she was 'girl straight out of "Hiawatha," insulted had changed her mind. and her quarrel was with a worn- the widest scope, for it takes in all humanity, rich and poor, the terrified and the arrogant, the adolescent and the grandfather, uiujiLiuiium nBMiiua muni imu.j.iu 5 a I ifl Ks-'' vrrf fer'" i -i Sometimes no one answered who had called her a "make-husband and wife had kissed ibelieve Indian" although, on her peddler and professor or high- and made up and she forgave his honor, she was a Cherokee, staying out all night. Sometimes The accused older woman wavman.

Take, for example, a few ran both parties appeared and were credentials" to show dom hours in Bay Ridge Court persuaded bv the bench to forget, that SHE was a Creek Indian the whole thing. had no lawyer, but insisted on the day the frightened girl walked in off the streets: Then a honeymoon couple having her hearing anyhow. She turned up glowering at each served as her own lawyer, cross- Promptlv at 10 a.m., black other. She was plump and examining her accuser, and tes- of inscribed pictures of her "boys" in service (she has had 8,000 "boys" in the 32 years since she first came to Brooklyn) did not get to her office in the Garden by accident. Nor did the picture of the little girl one of her "boys" named after her.

The children who come to work in her children's garden year after and who when they have grown up send their children-know that they have learned more than applied polany from Miss Shaw. Fed by her spirit, they flourish like the plants they tend, for in Miss Shaw's garden are tolerance and patience and exactitude and beauty. In turn, Miss Shaw learned from her father. In his yard at Woburn, there were peanut trees which could be grown in the North, he had found, if they were treated properly. He had respect for his children and each morning before he left for his business he gravely placed little Ellen atop the big ice chest with the bottle of water she called her "medicine" and let her play "doctor" making calls in a surrey.

But she robes over his brown suit, Magistrate Solomon came to the bench. Clerk Fred Irwin, the "bridge wearing big black glasses, which itifying in her own behalf. The going to retire to the cottage on Buzzard's Bay, near New Bedford, which she and her sister share and try to catch up on all the things she hasn't had a chance to do read as much as she pleases, write children's stories, get down to New York, maybe, to go to the theater. Unfortunately, she Knows she is going to miss the Garden. She is going to miss the Saturday classes for which the children each time pay 2 cents so that they realize that what they are getting has value "you've never really taught until you've taught a 2-cent lesson," she says.

And she is going to miss the children themselves the children to whom she has given so deep a sense of their own worth that one little fellow recently replied on a questionnaire circulated to see if the public knew who supported the Garden: "I support it." He does, too. For he and others like him, regardless of race, creed, color or economic status, are the cornerstones of the enduring garden Ellen Eddy Shaw has built in Brooklyn. man," whispered: "The lady with she pulled off as soon as shelhearing turned into a battle of stood in front of the wits between her and the had to get married for this!" ney for the complainant the the baby." The magistrate nodded and "the lady with the accused trying to bring out breathlessly that her daughter baby" marched up with assur she exclaimed. Her eyes, to hear the summons writer describe it, had "bruises, contusions and ance and said: "I haven't been able to serve him that summons yet, judge." She was given another week. was in the service, that she had been in the neighborhood where her supposed name-calling took place in search of a steak after "giving blood for the fifth time" It Happened on the Fourth Day Both husband and wife had their day they told what had Mothers dot Break "Any more women with children?" the bench wanted to know.

happened the fourth day after their marriage. He said he was Eaglo Staff photo COURT 'CLIENT' A woman enters Bay Ridge Court, possibly to answer a summons, possibly to seek one, possibly to serve as a witness. sorry. She said she was ada and that she couldn't possibly repeat the names "that woman" had called her. Magistrate Solomon clearly was not anxious to decide between them.

Peace on Reservation He sent them out to talk to mant about signing a complaint BUTCHERS' VIEWS ON SHORTAGE and having him tried. The magistrate agreed. "My experience is if he's done it once, he'll do it again," he said. Thev made arrangements for ROSE GARDEN DAY SET FOR TUESDAY AT BOTANIC GARDEN With tea roses prematurely in bloom. Rose Garden Day will be held Tuesday for members and With many of Brooklyn's 2,000 to prices and give them the cattle If they have them.

the probation officer to see whether they couldn't settle the their profit. quarrel with neither being able i her to take her belongings out of the bridegroom's house. to gloat. They did, too. i guests of the Brooklyn Botanic here peace on the reser- The next case the People FRANK GENE VIE, Clerk Flatbush Arc.

What we need is more workers for the farms and better transportation of meat supplies. Garden. Thereafter the rose The slaughterers aren't doing any killing because they want more money for their meat. The way things stand Vatinn7" VlO DclaH -hnn tVtnir -n versus a bar accused of selling a woman already under the garden, under the direction of -tf' soldier who had been in the Aleutians for 15 months and who now was in trouble appeared he was turned over to army authorities. A woman came in to press a disorderly conduct charge she had gone to have her husband arrested at the furnished room where he lived with another woman and the other woman had spat upon her.

Polyglot Potpurri A soft-spoken lawyer complained that, his landlady, a distinguished little old woman with 1 we had more weather further intoxicants-was minus its chief witness, but the hearing went on, neverthe S. R. Tilley, will remain open each evening through June until 8 p.m. The tea roses, which now Then, late in the afternoon, a middle-aged Italian shoeshine man was brought in by a policeman, accused of violating Chapter 1, Section of the Administrative Code of the City of New York. He admitted it.

"If 1 fine him for this sidewalk obstructing," the magistrate said, "he'll have to work a week to pay for it." Instead, he sentenced him to one day in jail. It was then ,1:13 p.m. When court closed at 4 p.m., the "day" as up. The shoeshine man left the court grinning broadly. It was "his" court all right.

butcher shops closed and the meat situation throughout the city at its worst, Mayor LaGuar-dia and oher officials have proposed various methods of meeting the crisis. What is your solution for the meat situation? Answers of ten 1 butchers follow: KAMUEL BKOOKH, Owner 307 S. 2d St. 1 think the Government should i take control of the meat situation. I don't blame the slaugh Max Goodman less.

The detective who had made show masses of blossoms, are at tl-irtir. nft'jL' nf oveplllinf'P Ttlp turned some minutes later. "Yes," both women said, and then the glamor girl said, "But judge, won't you please tell her to and the "genuine" Creek said, "Now judge, be sure to make her and before they could start all over again, the lawyer for the complainant hustled both women out of the court room. The next case concerned hot water and the lack thereof. A people raising livestock there wouldn't be a shortage.

The trouble is right at the source. Raising ceil now they either have to be told to kill or else, or they have to be given a higher price. MEYER KURTZ, Owner ISIS Church Ave. im ti. i the arrest went on the stand armed with "People's Exhibit will bloom a little later, although a few of them are coming on ja face like a Greek coin, consistently called him "a dirty Jew." There were the usual unpleasant subway "washroom'' morals cases.

even now. The recent cool weather has There will be a scarcity of meat just so long as we have ceiling prices. The slaughter been ideal for roses, and as long as it continues the blooms will be at their best, Mr. Tilley said. Xo.

1 a small pop bottle filled with what was possibly the flattest beer in captivity. He began to tell his story. "So then I saw him sell her a beer and "Objection!" shouted the defense attorney. "Objection sustained," said the bench. "Well, he gave her this amber- iT terer or the wholesaler for the shortage.

They're in the same trouble that the small butcher is in. We need some uniform plan ing prices Frank Ctnuie won't help. You can't make more meat by changing the price of it. Ceiling prices are a good thing and are the only factor in assuring a fair distribution of meat. MIKE AMBROSIO, Clerk 121 Montague St.

They have a bunch of men on the OPA board who don't know the first thing about meat. The houses won't kill because they can't get a profit. As soon as the ceiling is taken off meat, there will be plenty It Is the Same Old Routine At Good, Old Coney Island BUY U. S. WAR BONDS AND SAVINGS STAMPS jf mi Samuel Brooks i Of a t.

NO Meor Kurti so that meat isn't diverted from New York to places where it can be sold at a higher price. By MILT SMITH Coney Island will be a more one is going to sell anything if Luna Park, gutted by a fire last August, is still a twisted, gaunt shambles. Its in- he can't make a profit. Also, people should be made to teed costs are rising and the farmers are for meat give up ration points in restaurants. STANLEY STAFFKY, Clerk -0 ,1 Vt Restrictions on civilian use of gunpowder will prevent many shooting galleries from opening, hut there will be archery and other games.

This year most of the prizes will he made of plaster of Paris and glass but there will he some cigarettes. not making making profit on their The only way we can beat this meat. So they i thine is to keen the stores open ,1 terior sections will not be open though there will not be a sing hp. hH aUho new mechanical contraption oss delighted vacationers into )(e the air, knock them down subject them to other pleasant- I here will be nothing new a' because vou can't build anv- An innovation may be plas-lthinR William Nicholson, ex HKN C1TROLO, Owner 7002 Fort Hamilton Parkway You have to take off the ceil ing prices. We didn't have ceil don raise lt.mnlv two or three days a week As soon as the and limit cus- jifrrTStoa.

Mik Amoroaio are tomers to two ings during the last war and no- raised there'll be more meat. ile naming suns. 11 is ten mat pounds of meat They ought to station men at erutive board member of the! Coney Island Chamber of Commerce, said. these may attract some attention. The leather-lunged barkers will slaughter houses and wholesale places, though, to see that there 1 at a time.

No one is to blame for the situation. Our cnlliorc nnH is a fair distribution of meat. body minded paying more for everything. The whole-Baler won't sell meat unless he can make money on it. SOL SCHISSEL, Owner 'naaAv There will be no fireworks again this year, Mr.

Klein said, and probably no Mardi Gras, but with diinout restrictions lifted the boardwalk will be brightly illuminated and just as wide and clean as ever. Mr. Klein said the "Island expects a wonderful year if the weather ever gets Summerlike." There is one final note of gloom: there won't be many hot dogs that is frankfurters on sale. Meat, shortage. add some dignity to their spiels, Same as Ever and the famous Coney Island red! Steeplechase Park will be the hots will be transformed into as ever, a spokesman for frankfurters, but they will be; Frank S.

Tilyou, an owner of just as good and just as cheap the park, said. 10 cents. A glass of beer will The parachute drop and also cost the tenth part of a steeplechase horses were used lar. ion clear weekends during May. The new dignity will parachute drop, which all over Europe are using a large Prices have to be raised.

Theil'art of our meat and there just slaughterers iust m-e not isn't enough. We Americans have to limit ourselves to meat the cattle because the don't Raise the Ben Cltrolo prices and we'll have all the meat we want. Everybody is making more money anyway. EDWARD GOLDBERG, Owner 4S09 13th Ave. a couple of times a week and eat substitutes the rest of the time.

achieved ny otner devices and takes three minutes, is not OTTO HILSENBECK, Owner not revealed in their methods entirety. make enough money on them. In the old days about 1,800 cattle were slaughtered each week in New York and now opened on days when the wind is high enough to make the tower rigging whistle. The side shows, with their; The big slaughterers are not 405 DcKalb Ave. We butchers should ration our meat.

We ought to keep open Season Opens Slowly killing enough cattle for us They're big concerns and it time and sell Sol Rrhlutl doesn't bother them not to do business for they're killing only a fraction of that number. There won't be awhile. They pan nffnrH IN THIS SECTION Feature Sports Movies Radio Classified Ads Art Drama Financial Schools Real Estate anv increase in the amount of only a short only certain amounts to people. I work here from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

from Tuesday through Saturday. That's the The opening of the world complement of freak-ous resort was a gradual process Jand dancing girls, will go on asj this year. Ordinarily, the park! usual. opens with a bang on Memorial! There has been a decided in! Day. A month of bad weather crease in the number of games preceding the holiday and an, of chance, I.

H. Klein, president1 'acute shortage of materials and i of the Island's Chamber of Com-; manpower have stalled refur-'merce, said. The games will be blshing work. Early visitors still strictly on the up ami up, with; find vast areas of unpainted fully percent, of the money r-! surfaces snd some old familiar turned to the players as prices, rides will be missing. ihe said.

PUV 1 They say thoy are not making Jri-' money. If they Edward Goldbfrt get a 1 i i- nate profit, according to them, they will start killing again. 1 say the1 only way to get meat is meat available until the slaughterers can make a decent profit. MAX GOODMAN, Owner 48th St. A law ought to he passed forcing slaughter houses to kill Otto HIlKnbeck INK OF THE FUTURE PRES- Brooklyn, of course? WELL, WHAT DO YOU TH I DENT of tha Borough of fairest way, I think.

I don't believe prices should be raised,.