Recollections of a Street Corner Pump and the Progress of Sixty Years.

THIESE recollections center about an old pump on a street corner and some of the boys who used it: particularly one of the boys, Simon Flexner by name. The pump was on the southeast corner of Chestnut and Sixth Streets; the time was about sixty years ago, when I was nine or ten years old, and Simon Flexner just ten years older. Any city of our Midwest or South would do as well; but in fact the place was Louisville, Kentucky. This pump was merely the trunk of a tree-virtually a piece of telegraph pole with its center bored-out-stood up in a well. A long curved metal arm with a knob on the end stuck out to