The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-22
new York DAY BY DAY

West Fourth street crosses West
tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thir-
teenth streets. In Greenwich Village
there is a street-name now forgotten
which crosses itself. There is an
olher-eXact Identification not now at
hand-which carries one name for a
portion of it's distance. without warm
ing lapses into another, and eventual
~ mas a change of heart n returns
tc it's first. On this street the numbers
nave all gone perfectly mad. Charles
street is Charles street on one side
and Van Nest street on the other for
a distance. One enters Milligan place
through a gate in a wall. Inside one
finds A tagged space, with a tree and
a public we'll. it is a holdover from
a past generation.
IT is inevitable that the remembering
Will come some day. Then the Ganse-
Ncort streets and Burling squares and
Featherbed lanes and Abingdon love
lanes-those names which link the
present with a past that now seems
clothed with romance-will give way
To- u Smiths II Browns and Joneses
OF the present. How will u alder
men hand themselves down to inn
mortality?
Comradc Bill Thompson tells a story
of bad writing that ranks with the
Greeley classics. When he worked on
d fhlladelphia paper Julius Kaufman,
a Dane, wrote Very clever. forceful,
pungent editorials. Kaufman's Eng
was Impossible. 1t seemed to have
been dom with a bent pin and an
asphalt mixture. George Kennedy
was the only man on the copy desk
who could read it. One day Kennedy
came to Thompson. shaking his head.
Its all off," said he. I've lost my
punch. L read this thing of Kauf-
mans with perfect ease until ] got
half way through--and then l. stuck.
| don't know why. The second half
OF his stuff looks1 just like the first
half. But Ifcan't Tread it,.
Thompson took that manuscript
over to q corner. by and by Thomp-
son came back With lines of strain
around his mouth
Put it up to Kaufman" said he.
Either he's gone flooey or we have"
gave him his manuscript, and told
him to go away somewhere and find
out what it meant. BY and by he
came back. beaming.
1T wass easy" said he. THE Sec
ond part I hat yoost wrote in Danish"
Perhaps this is a boost for univer-
"a tIidSe-dlO peTnlpS III ism L.. Any,
how. there are restaurants uptown
from which men are not barred, but
which practically serve women only.
And there are restaurants downtown
of which the same may be said. The
uptown restaurants are for the shop.
pers-the leisure women who get their
money from their Neutrality-suspicious.
bly,. h downtown restaurants are
for the stenographers and clerks and
secretaries who get their money at
O'Clock Saturday afternoon in a small
yellow envelope.
The most successful restaurants
for women downtown are of the help
yourself sort" said a. restaurant man
ager. THE girls go to the counters,
cat what they want. and tell the cash
ier about it when they come out. They
never cheat. At least, the percentage
of cheating is no higher than it is in
similar restaurants which serve male
trade only"
How about the restaurants for the
uptown women?"
There" said the manager, "the
customer first buys a check for wha,
she thinks she wants. Then she goes
ard gets it. We don't take any chance
with her at all. 1 wouldn't say tina,
she's dishonest-but her memory's
loose"