BALTIMORE CITY JAIL

I was standing on the corner doing no harm

Along came a cop and grabbed me by the arm

He took me to a little box and rang a little bell

Along came the wagon and took me to my cell

I woke up Sunday morning and looked around the wall

The chinches and the bedbugs were having a game of ball

The score was 6 to 0, the chinches were ahead

A bed bug hit a homerun and knocked me out of bed

I woke up Monday morning, the waiter came around

With a piece of bread and butter that weighed a half a pound

The coffee tastes like chewing tobacco

The bread was hard and stale

And that's the way they treat you in the Baltimore City jail

 WHITEY SCHWARTZ'S LIMERICK

(Real Author Unknown,Limerick Memorized by Whitey who will be 94 on 2/22/17 - Happy Birthday my Friend)

NEW NEWARK ADDITION - MATCHING (1890 - 1914) BADGE SET

WOW. THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL.

At least to me these badges, a matching hat and breast badge, mind you, are beauties. I have stood in line fifty years for something like this set.

They are a Fourth Generation "Newark" badge set. They are often called the "Newark Radiator" with the matching, and, maybe, better known  (more in circulation) "Newark Oval."

I now have eleven "Ovals," but only one officer's breast badge from this 4th edition. Those pictured are the set as identified by the number. As you can see the number "175" is stamped into the top of the radiator, while on the oval the same numbers are rather large and applied at center point.

These items will be placed with the jewels of my Newark Collection. I have a few that I give treasure status too. I  guarantee this they will be under lock and key. 

There is so much history with these two treasures. They are at least 100 years of age ending there service in 1914. Certainly I can't remember historical events that occurred while these badges stood watch over my hometown, but just looking at them I see a lot of history. They will be put under glass, and given a prominent position on my wall of treasures, safely locked away in my collection with other memories in my display cases.