The Washington herald., 1914-08-01
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY.
ny o. o. M'INTYRE.

tspeciL Correspondent cf The Washington Hsraldl
New York, Aug. -l.-Now that the
weather Is warming up hereabouts. the
street-car rowdies are getting on the Job.
II is almost impossible to believe that
such Tuffians can be found in q civilized
community. They travel on the late cars
from resorts in groups. They smash
straw hats, pull hats on Of women, spit
tobacco juice on their dresses, throw con-
ductors OF Of cars, and break windows
with care-free abandon. In many in
stances the police are wary Of arresting
them unless they have suficient num-
bers. On Saturday nights 1t is estimated
that more than Loo of these street-car
rowdies are out annoying passengers. The
magistrates fine them heavily and always
send them TO prison. but when they are
released they return to their old tricks
In most cases they are young men, rang
ing in age from eighteen 20 twenty-five.
An old man OF about seventy years was
pushed of q car recently when he OBJ
jected to the rowdies annoying his aged
wife. and in the fall he was fatally
injured.
Phil Simms, an American newspaper
correspondent, who has been in Paris for
a number OF years. returned recently.
daughter, who was born in France and
knows little and apparently cares less
about American ways. While Mr.. Simms
tarried In New York to renew old ac-
quaintances In Park Row. Mrs. Simms
took his daughter on to her home in Gin
ctnnati. In about q week Mr. Simms
arrived. After an affectionate greeting.
he inquired:
Well. daughter. how do you like Gin
cinnati?"
81 do not like it." replied the child in
French Tt looks like 1t was going to
rain all the time and it never does. There
is no sun here either
1t may be a libel on Cincinnati. but
nevertheless 1t at least runs second to
Pittsburgh in smoke.
Corporations may not have souls. but
there is one over here In New York that
has something that might on a cloudy
day be passed for one. We refer-now
don't laugh-to the Knickerbocker Ice
Company the much and often abused
of ice in our little city. II
has always seemed to us that when a
corporation performs a good act II Is
entitled to a few words OF praise and
when it deserves it We are equally fond
Of seeing II panned. The Rnickerbocker
ANS 6ANSA " AlG VI LOT as
tribution among the poor 5000 booklets,
each good for a months supply of ice.
1t is estimated that thousands Of chiI.
dren will be saved in the tenements
through this gift. The eynic will say
that the company wouldn't give the ice
away II II did not have on hand more
than it could sell, but the fact remains
that the company is doing a real bit Of
Tom Shea, the old-time tragedian, IN
his early days played a part which In the
first act called for a dark stage. In this
darkness he fought with an old earl
threw him heavily, and when he did not
rise after the loud thud Of the fall, Shea
would cry out. Great heavensI What
have I done?" One night he played the
part in a small town in Ohio. A stage
hand was much impressed with the pIay,
and to him the scenes became real When
Shea reached the climax after upsetting
the earl he spoke the line, Great heav-
ems! What have I done?"
He was startled to hear the stage hand
say in loud voice:
Strike q match and we'll have a lookr"
Glenn curtiss was up in town the other
day from Hammondsport, and down atI
the Martinique he was entertained by a
party Of close friends. who always de-
light in hearing him tell Of the thrills Of
aviation. Walter Chandler, jr. the man.
ager Of the Martinique, also Is interested
N aviation, and delights in having the
oirdmen assemble there. When curtiss
came in to register Chandler said:
How have you been, anyway"
Curtiss then told of going to a doctor
recently, and was instructed to keep out |
in the open The M d didn't know bfr,