Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14
NEW YORK NEWS ITEMS
Doings Gathered In and About
Busy Gotham and It's Vicinity.

HH0uWlCn ana u cup VI hEAhhNeN''N -
one of the exclusive restaurants, after
he has paid for his little dark back
room, is more familiar with the doings
of the four hundred than are the ma
ioritv of the members themselves. This
old town is sprinkled With ambitiuos
Young men whose sole assets consist
of swallow-tailed coat. one stiff
bosomtd white shirt, a shining SILK
hat and-oh, yesl a walking stick
besides, perhaps, the suit he wears at
"the store during the day, who strug-
gle to keep up with the edicts of fash
ionable society. This class of men en-
braces poorly paid clerks and young ar
lists who represent every nook ana
Granny of the two hemispheres, who
paint pictures but rarely sell them, and
many other young fellows who have
the brains but not the gold. With these
chappies /. 20 make flash it is case
of eating beef stews or pork and"
during the week in order to have the
price of a haircut and light lunch
at Sherry's, "DeIs' or some OF the
other fashionable cafes on Saturday
night, or, possibly to make themselves
conspicuous at one of the playhouses.
Perchance Mr.. Hardup is a personal
friend of the waiter, and sometimes 1t
is a 10 to 1 shot that the waiter who
brings the food occupies the same back
room with him. If such is the case
Hardup is assigned to good place
in the dining room, where he is afford
ed an opportunity to study society.
The waiter will tell him, There is Mrs.
De Vorce, who is about to marry the
fourth vice president of the prune
trust" or "That woman beside her, who
is Juggling a pea on her fork, is the
richest heiress on Fifth avenue" Then
in the theater you will find Hardup
strutting through the foyer like lord.
He knows the ushers, and possibly MS
landlady is a second cousin to the prop
erty man, and maybe that is now IL
was made possible to occupy seat:
In other words, he often is admltted
to the theater on paper" Immediate
ly after the show let's out Hardup and
his silk hat are conspicuous in the
main foyer Here he has chance to
get a. glimpse of the fashionable
women and their collateral branches
from Staten island to the Bronx. After
the theater Hardup takes stroll
through the corridors of the principal
uptown hotels, where things are at the
liveliest pitch. Occasionally his stare
is returned by some pretty woman.
Then he is happy. He goes back to the
little dark room, carefully folds up his
trousers and boxes his hat, takes the
collar buttons out of his white shirt, re-
places them in his colored working
shirt then goes to bed wondering why
some men were born poor instead OF
good looking.
Architectural Fad of the Day
"To look at the new office buildings
going up in this town." remarked a
student of architecture, "one would
think we had been going through a
religious reVival-that is, If the style
of the architecture of period is any
evidence of the spirit of the times.
can't put my finger on the cause OF this
rage for the collegiate Gothic that Is
now so much in evidence since the
Trinity skyscraper was put up; but
that order of architecture certainly is
very much in evidence just now. To
mention only two striking instances
which / remarked on, looking out of
Bowling Green building today there is
the new annex to the Trinity building
and the recently finished structure of
the Jersey Central on Liberty street.
If 1t were not for the new apartment
hotels uptown one might well imagine
that none of our young architects had
ever heard of the BeauX Arts arch1-
tectural school, with it's influence on
them in the way of making them turn
out such French Renaissance atrocities
as disfgure our uptown streets"
Car ToWs Fire Engine
Few persons fail to be patient with
the ways of the fire engines. The
crustiest of motormen and truck driv-
ers grin at the helmeted crew clinging
to steamer step or tender rail when
they would only growl at hurrying
ambulance. Up one of the slippery
Amsterdam avenue hills the other day,
when il was as much as series OF
spurts upon well sanded tracks could
do to make the wheels move, south
bound car towed fire horses and en-
gines for four blocks without mur-
mur-the engine was on its way home
after a trifing blaze. And when the
pole rope was cast off at the summit
both motorman and conductor leaned
over the side to yell farewell to their
chance acquaintances. It's simply
little way of the town.
Illuminated Gotham
Il CAD nelp duHllIlI5 luS IduldhI
way in which New Workers have pro-
tected themselves against being left in
the dark" said the visiting girl, as she
entered the brilliant cafe. "Those big
balls OF fire, like two moons, just out
side the door; all around the ceiling
here these little, soft balls of cleo
tries; above them the incandescents;
above the incandescents the gas Jets
in case the electrics should go out,
and, standing pompously about, tall,
handsome red lamps filled with kero-
sene and ready to be lighted the mo-
ment the gas should happen to flicker"
Pity the Millionaire
Pity the poor millionaire philan-
thropist Few have better cause to
realize the virtue and the value that
lie in the injunction to d. good by
stealth, for few derive so much annoy
ance directly on account of the good
they seek TO do. The echoes of praise
and gratitude that greet their gifts to
charity are drowned in the clamor of
the beggars that besiege them as soon
as 1t is known their purse strings are
unloosed. Things have reached such