The Washington herald., 1907-02-10
WOMAN ABOUT TOWN
Stories of Washington Life.

twelve months the cab calls Of the club
foot up To more than $4,000 Walking in
New York is not 50 comfortable as il is
ia Washington. and doubtless cabs are
more necessary. but certainly even in
New York an average OF q $l,oo0 "A year
for cab hire is thing 90 De remarked
Doubtless the club members don't con-
fine their use Of cabs 10 the vehicles
they order NJ the club. one shrinks from
estimating how much more than $4,000
the total cab bin OF those young men is
And there are still some perfectly pre-
sentable persons IN these United States
who don't spend 1900 for cabs in the
whole course of their lives.
The recent death Of Elmer Duudy-
skip Dundy, We used 20 call him-rc-
minds me of a description Of him which
once appeared IN a Boston newspaper
Mr.. Dundy was born I'm Omaha and 60
ask in Omaha what Dundy was would
be Ike voicing the famous Philadelphia
question, What is q BiGdle?' The Dun
dys were hOspitable, and once upon a time
they extended their hospitality to a young
man who had Just arrived from Boston.
The young man was full of the Column
bus spirit. Omaha 10 him was the un-
known and the undiscovered West He
went 10 call at the Dundy house one hot
day Judge Dundy WAS taking his ease
in an arbOr in the garden, dressed as be
fitted the day. He sent word by a ser
want that the young man might come out
TO him. The young man came and saw.
He went away and wrote a letter about
Omaha. which he had just discovered 10
the Boston paper. He described the town
4 frarr
Martians. and quite as If Boston papers
could never reach Omaha. He mentioned
the Dundys by their several names,
spoke Of the judges neglige, and when
he came to Elmer he remarked, fatter-
ingly, The son Of the family is not
markedly unlike a Harvard man." 1t
was extraordinary praise. 1t was the
highest compliment he could pay. He
was from Boston and he never could
understand afterwaTd how Omaha peo-
pie ever found out he had been writing
about them, nor why they ceased to know
him from that time on.
Representative Ben T. Gable, Of
Illinois. I am told. has come upon some
thisg which viii keep him from caring
what a Congressman salary IS If he
comes TO Congress again-though for that
matter, having chosen his father and his
own disposition wisely, he has never
needed to think of sordid details like
that Mr.. Cable is interested in the only
really indestructible tire that the world
/ has ever known. I forget who invented
4 it, bat at the recent automobile show in
/ New York. a motor car with this sort OF
/ tire on each Of its wheels was driven al
/ the rate of twenty-five miles an hour
! over every puncturing thing imaginable
/ Rat-tail files were jabbed into the rub
/ Der and all sorts of damaging things
/ done TO il, yet a tire pUnctured in 60l
places remained perfectly inflated. per.
fectly resilient, and In every way pre-.
/ cisely as good as ever. Naturally, a mar
who has an interest IN a thing like thai
/ needn't worry over the way the Iaun.
dries ruin collars. lie can have diamond
/ collars If he pleases. and throw then
away the minute they are frayed at ths
/ edges. The secret of the wonderful tire
50 I am told. is nothing in the world bu,
| feathers. It has feathers somewhere in
side it. and they stop up every hole il
/ some mysterious way. Really it's tn,
/ irony of fate that the hen should b,
obliged TO sacrifice her attire 20 make SAT,
the Juggernaut TO which so many of he
kindred have been sacrifced-but fine,
maybe the feather served only as A pat
/ tern. Perhaps the tires are stuffed witt
/ near-feathers. but hen feathers / wa.
i told, and till somebody chops up one q
/ those tires and proves to me that I wa!
wrong, ! shall go on believing that In,
only uRpuncturable tire in the world il
d monument to the industry of the hen