The Washington herald., 1914-07-27
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY.
Ry o. o. MCINTYRE.


Especial Correspondent Of The Herald)
New York. July N.-Business Of hand
ing II TO a co-worker! Alfred ". Nc
Cam Is a reporter on the New York
Globe. Newspaper men like McCann In
cline us to believe that Edmund Burke
was right when he said that there were
three estates in Parliament, but in the
Reporters Gallery yonder there sat q
Fourth Estate more important far
than they all. McCann has done more
| to give New York pure food than possibly
any other single agency. He has fought
the food poisoners with a persistency
that commands deep respect He will
turn right around and praise the pure
foodists, givinE them advertising on the
first page that they could not possibly
buy and making them in q, day. So you
see McCann Is not q common scold. His
latest feat was to rout the notorious
Purdy Farm scavengers at Ossining. The
details Of this farm are too shocking for
a perfectly good family Newspaper like
this. but sufice II to say that the hogs
were fed on diseased meat. The owners
of the farm got out Of the county over
night after the hrst gun was fired by
McCann.
II we are to believe Herbert Corey, who
is lust now summing himself on the Pans
boulevards Mime. CaillauX will not be
convicted Of the murder of the editor OF
lie Figaro. On the contrary, Corey de-
clares she will shortly be conducted into
the presence ot the court. NJ. 10 Judge
and NJ. le Procurateur and Messrs. the
Jurors. who will turn sympathetic eyes
and pade-shaped whiskers upon the Paris
heroine. Presently the Judge will give
himself up to grief. NJ. le Procurateur
dodgfng the spray from the judges emo
ton, will hx his eye on the prisoner and
then begin to swell-and swell-untll
gale of sentiment will carry him TO sea.
Then the honest Jurors will rise as one
man and stretch out quiverins arms TO-
ward Nine Caillaux. GO madam. they
will sob, and as she passes out each Will
kiss her hand. Any lady can shoot
man in Paris.
II YOU can sneeze thirty times straight
hand running. It would be well for you
TO buy a couple of gross of big. soft
bandannas and start for Bethlehem, n.
H The members Of the kerchewful but
cheerful United States Hay Fever Asso-
citation will hold their forty-hrst conven-
ton there beginning September The
society was organized forty-one years
ago by Henry Ward Beecher and the
Rev. Guy Roberts is now the main
sneeze. The grand old man Of the hay
fever reunion is Col. Henry S. Muckle,
OF Philadelphia. The colonel is eighty
nine years old and has enjoyed hay fever
for seventy years. The members dis
cuss various cures-quack and otherwise
and spend the rest OF the time sneezing.
It's gay assemblage. Ker-cHo"!
Plain New Yorkers are emitting q
chortle or so over the dismal failure
OF William Waldorf Astor 20 be an
Englishman. He is not popular on Man
haitian Isle and the fact that he gave
up his American citizenship did not in
crease his popularity. Now that he has
offered his two London newspapers for
sale il 10 wondered II he is going TO
come back here. Old timers are recall
ing the start Of Astor's career He was
FIRST elected q member Of the New York
legislature. He contested his Congression-
al district with the late r p. Flower In
q campaign of unexampled corruption
Political preference prevailed against his
bottomless barrel and President Arthur
gave Astor a consolation prize in the
Roman Embassy. Social and political
motives drew him to England, but he
has found that becoming q titled Eng
lishman is not 50 easy. Mayfair laughed
when he published an article in his own
magazine showing his descent from a
scion OF the noble Spanish house OF As
torga and King Edward exploded with
royal wrath when Astor. prematurely
ducal in manner, affronted a friend Il
Is believed that Astor has given up the
fight. It's q rough life,