Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-09
The Moving Season for New
York Flatters.
OFF FOR THE SUBURBS
POLICE PARADES WILL BE OMIT
TED HEREAFTER.
Cranks Have Free Sway While the
Blue Coats Celebrate-The Shirt
Waist Again This Summer.
.iai Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


NEW YORK. May 8. 1908.
Moving day." which used to be regular
May the LIST anniversary institution In New
York. has come to be disregarded The
reason is simple. The fiatters are on the move
all the time in New York. They weary of
their fats wallpaper or bathtub or janitor
or the scolding of the woman on the floor
above or the plano pounding of the ragtime
maniac on the floor below-and then it's
All hands up anchor" and the hunt for
another fat Your New York fiatter thinks
nothing of changing fats four or Ave times
q year. The New York apartment house
that hasn't got furniture van or two
backed up in front Of 1t during all OF the
hours of daylight is either entirely unten-
anted or Isn't ready for occupancy. They
don't care over here whether blizzard is
raging and the snow two feet deep on the
pavement-when they've stumbled upon a
fiat that suits them better than the one
they're holding down they move. December
Is just as good as May for the moving pur-
poses of New York fiatters. So that the
one-time great May the 1st moving day."
when the street cars were blocked for miles
on account OF the jam of furniture vans
and when lost bird cages and rubber plants
and 99-cent clocks and weeping young ones
that had fallen rearward from the tailpiece
strewed the wake of the vans all over New
York, has become thing of the past
The Season for Favors.
Nevertheless this is the season when the
owners and agents of fiat houses begin to
assume their annual agreeable tone in deal
Ing with their tenants. Do the tenants
want the dining room repapered and the
parlor ceiling redecorated? Very well. says
the owner or agent, rubbing his hands, 1t
shall be done. New stationary wash tubs?
Assuredly-why was that matter not men,
toned before? Git had been, a dozen times
during the winter, without any heed being.
g1ven) The floors restained? Why, GER
talnly! Another style chandelier for the
sitting room? Nothing would give the
owner or agent of the fiat house greater de-
light. And so on.
The landlords adopt the suave and COM
pllant tone just about now. because it is
becoming more and more the custom for
the New York f1atters to give I'D their fats
altogether with the beginning of warm
weather, store their furniture and establish
themselves somewhere by the water or in
the country as boarders until the leaves be-
gin to fall. In most other American cities
houSekeeperS consider that if there is ever
any fun at all in keeping house, spring and
early summer are the time for it, when the
markets TEEN with fine. fresh vegetables,
and with the home bathtub handy, no ne
cessity for dressing" for meals and plenty
OF space to move around in.
At Summer Resorts.
But the New York flatters for some
reason which none appears able to salts
factority explain. take another view of
summer fiat-keeping. He prefers to coop
himself and his wife up in one or two
stuffy rooms in crowded and gossipy and
often poorly managed Long Island or West
chester or Jersey boarding house putting
his furniture away for the hot months in
an unalred storage warehouse, where furni-
"a fn1 To nf
volition within three months In addition
the summer life of the boarding out of town
Halter is one prolonged scramble for trains
and boats that will get him to and from
his business In New York and he and
his wife. are compelled to appear foolishly
and unnecessarily stiff and starched and
logged at their out-of-town boarding house
meals. The New Workers who abandon
for the summer their more or less cool
and comfortable fats for this sort of thing
really fancy that they vacationizing
and rusticating because the name of the
stEffy place where they put up during the
hot weather is Ardsley blythe Lea or
Deepdene- theCove, or Grasslands-sans-
Deepene- near-the-Cove, or Grasslands-sans-
steal.
This is the season when the fiat owners
and agents are putting on their once-a-year
expansive smiles, and it is the season when
the sensible fatters who elect to stick to
their own little nests during the heated
spell are able to get many improvements
vestibule train flats that they imagine
themselves to be dreaming when the i'm
proving work is actually under way.
No More Police Parades.
1t is said that there will probably be no
more Of the absurd police parades. Too
much trouble follows In their wake. In the
first place. the police parade Is an affair
looked forward to by crooks of
the more violent sort There were more
daylight hold-ups of citizens ON the streets
of New York while the police parade was
going on last week than on any day in the
previous history of the city. The daylight
travelled in parties of three
or four, and they were perfectly fearless in
the execution of their jobs, as well they
might be- since there wasn't one patrolling
cop during the parade to square mile
of city territory. The crooks held UP shop
keepers, especially the keep ers of small
out of the-way jewelry stores, at the point
of the gun and did their looting without
any fear whatever that they wouldn't get
away with the goods" and outrage was
rampant all over town.
In the second place. the police parade Is
likely to be misunderstanding to hint
given out by Commissioner Greene-be-
cause the cops themselves have come to re-
gard the day Of their parade as the natural
and chosen occasion for one huge, Gar
gantuan drunk on their part. AS soon as
the parade last week broke up the cops
began to suffuse their systems with hot
and rebellious liquors to such an extent
that they found themselves deprived of
their badges in sets of fOurs all over
Greater New York. There were fighting
cops on the streets of Manhattan all the
way from the Battery to High bridge-uni
formed peace preservers scrapping with
each other with clubs. fists, brogan toes.
not to speak of tongues. Scores of the
cops kept their police parade day drunk
going for couple of days afterward. and
there were more lurching and swaying
policemen pounding their beats as best they
might for q period Of forty eight hours fol- |
lowing the inane and grotesque parading
than were ever seen before |
on the streets of New York. The philo- |
sophical Chuck Corners expressed his view
of the police parade
Say" he remarked out of the left-hand |
corner of his countenance. Il wisht dem |
peelers 'ud strut long He'll row stead O.
Fift av'noo. De bunch could drop bricks |
on dere conks. Dere wouldn't be chimbIy |
left long de row after dem rough neel1s |
and harps got by"
Politeness Over the Telephone Wires. |
That school-of-manners scheme which |
Chicago has been taking up during the past /
year or SO has been adopted in New York, |
and it will probably be carried farther here |
than it has yet far progressed in the town |
lfad ha /