The Washington herald., 1914-07-23
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY
BY o. O. MCINTYRE.

New York, July 22-New York has at
last become greatly agitated about the
Army of White Wings II has been dis
covered that the men sometimes work
eighteen hours a day without extra pay
and only receive S13 a week. Most Of
them, 1t has been found. are men with
large families and supporting large
family in New York on S13-or even a4-
a week is no trifing task. More than
50 per cent OF the men are ruptured and
need treatment. The nature Of their
work makes the afflicted suffer more thar
they would in almost any other line OF
work. The new commission has appoint
ed several experts TO map out q cam
paign which will result In less work and
more pay for the street workers.
Editor William Randolph Hearst has
lost his fight to prevent the New York
Central from disturbing his sleep. Hearst
has an apartment in a palatial Riverside
Drive apartment house, which he owns.
at Eighty-sixth street Some months ago
he secured an Injunction restraining the
railroad from using the traclO from
Seventy-second street to Ninety-sixth
street along the Hudson River for the
operation and storage OF its freight cars.
Hearst complained OF the smoke and
odors and said the noise not only kept
him awake but every one in his apart
ment house. He also claimed that prop
erty along Riverside Drive has been dam
aged The appellate division Of the Su-
preme Court has now refused to continue
the injunction and Hearst must either
put up with the nuisance or move
Al Demaree, classed by Bozeman Bull
ger as the best cartoonist VINO ever
pitched for the Giants. has been dis
covered in a new and interesting diamond
stunt Many big league pitchers use
rosin to help them get a firmer grip on
the ball but they do II in a devious
behind the back fashion. Vean Gregg.
for instance, keeps the rosin in his hip
pocket and reaches IN now and again
with an abstracted sort Of manner as
II he were looking for his handkerchief
or eating tobacco. But Demaree knows
that rosin is an amorphous substance
produced by the oxidation Of volatile oils
secreted in plants and that II is nothing
to be ashamed of, and 80 he wears his
supply openly and proudly on the left leg
Of his trousers. He has little bag OF
the rosin pinned on to the trouser leg
and when he feels the need Of 1t reaches
down, spills a little on his hands and
grips the ball.
Rupert Hughes, the novelist, has been
very, very busy recently denying few
underhand slaps by a newspaper cores
pondent who signs himself Bee Ell" II
seems that recently some one in reviewing
Hughes latest book What VIII People
SayT remarked that Hughes had intend
ed to have the book dramatized later on.
Bee EFT" Immediately in a series of
letters takes Hughes to task and shows
that What VIII People Say?" is a novel
iZation Of a play The Triangle" which
Hughes wrote several years ago. The
play had a sad, short life after being
slammed on the stage without a single
out Of town performance. Writes Hughes:
should / have set a preface In front
Of the novel, like a measles placard. or
should have added a postscript? Whom
did I harm by permitting him to read
the novel, in ignorance of the fact that
certain portions OF It were once played
for three weeks at q theater since de-
molished?"
Detectives Connolly and Kolsin were
sauntering down East Broadway when
and dropped at their feet. They stopped
a minute and then heard sounds like the
blending of a Mexican battle with a
Kansas cyclone, seasoned with a dash OF
DonnybrOok sauce. They rushed up to
the fifth floor of the building and found
400 men fighting like cats and dogs. The
detectives took one look and called the
reserves While waiting they tapped
nearest then over the heads fo- the
sake OF ouIetness- II was = meeting o.
q bakers union and some one had yelled
Spies are in the house" The Sght was
on.