The Washington herald., 1914-11-24
THE GREAT WHITE WAY
By o. o. M'INTYRE.

New York, Nov. 3.-PauI Thompson,
the photographer, had a birthday party
down at his home in Washington Square
the other day. and when the reporters
/ called up early the next morning he re-
piled over the phone that he was ninety
six years old. He just felt that way,
| however, for he is only thirty-fve.
Among the celebrities present were VIII
Irwin. Bayard WELLER and wife. Margaret
wycherly, Dudley Tucker and George
Sterling, the recently imported. Frisco
| poet, who bids fair to be one OF the artist
crowds best raconteura
He tells OF a laboring man going home
on Christmas Eve. In a window he saw
a big grandfather's clock His wife had
| long wanted one. He buys IL and stag
gers out the door toward home. On the
way he meets a jag who follows him sew
eral blocks and finally catching up with
his says:
"oId man, why don't you carry an
Ingersoll?"
The New York board of education has
found mother batting a rather trying
indoor sport Indeed the members seem
likely to crack under the strain Aside
from the panning they have received at
the hands of all the New York papers,
they are being panned by the press
abroad.
For New York school teacher to be-
come a mother means-according to ths
assinine attitude OF the board-a dis
grace, that is she is fired from the job.
Mrs. Lora n. Wagner. a recent mother.
is now fighting her case and just be-
cause Henrietta Rodman, another teacher.
wrote an amusing letter to Franklin P.
Adams Coming Tower she was sus-
pended by one of the old fogy members.
Adams in commenting upon the sus-
pension of Miss Rodman, says: "Contribs
sometimes obtain jobs through the Con-
ming Tower, they tell US, but this Is the
first time a successful contrib has lost
a job for landing"
The Ritz-CarIton, one of the ultra
fashionable hotels in New York. has re-
fused absolutely to submit to the report
in the London Times that II Is the head
quarters OF the Germans" etc.
With characteristic enterprise the man
agement Immediately made a public state
ment that the English newspaper was
badly informed and that II is engaged IN
looking after their patrons. supplying
them with clean beds and good food. II
Is not fact that any secret or open
partisanship is displayed by the Ritz" or
any other New York institution.
As Arthur Brisbane points out in the
Evening Journel regarding the Ritz:
The German Ambassador. as 1t happens,
has always stopped there when he comes
to New York. This means no German
conspiracy, but simply that the hotel is
obeying the law, which would make II
impossible to exclude the German Am
bassador, IL the hotel managers were
foolish enough to desire that
Eugene Brieux, who tried to shock
New York with his Damaged Goods"
and only made blase Broadway smile
knowingly, is here. Aside from being one
OF the most distinguished dramatists in
France. he is to say the least an extraor-
dinary person-in fact almost abnormal.
Instead Of handing the gangplank
hounds of the press a red-hot statement
concerning the war like the rest OF the
authors and dramatists do, he told them
that he would not discuss the war while
a guest Of neutral country.
I have too much respect for its free
dom and its independence of Judgement"
said Brieux, ito venture to say q word
about the war" 1t might be added that
the reporters have a lot Of respect for
Brieux.