STRAWBERRIES ARE RIPE HERE NOW.
At Least They Are in the Progressive
Thirteenth Ward.
Lister avenue, the thoroughfare that helped much to make the Thirteenth ward famous, has taken unto itself new laurels, or to be precise, new strawberries, for a second crop of that fruit has sprung up in the garden of Louis D. Tolle, a lawyer who lives at No. 1615. His doubting friends are restored to faith by a vine bearing several ripe strawberries which Mr. Tolle is now exhibiting in a glass of water at his office in the New York Life building.
It was in Lister avenue a year or two ago that indignant citizens chopped down overnight telephone poles which they didn't want in front of their residences, and now a very lively local option fight is on in the ward.
"You needn't be surprised at anything that happens in the Thirteenth," Mr. Tolle said last night with a pride that even the humming of the telephone wire couldn't drown. None of P. Connor's frost has yet bitten his strawberry vines and they have no protection, he added.
Of course, the second growth is not prolific, but the little 2-year-old daughter of the Tolle household isn't sorry that she took up her residence in Lister avenue, for she gets the benefit of all the ripe ones.
