The Washington herald., 1914-10-30
THE GREAT WHITE WAY
By o. o. M'NTYRE.

SPECIAL Correspondent Of he wAshinsto1 HGaIdl
New York. Oct. 3o.-They call her the
Angel Of Helfs Kitchen-those who know
her. But that means little or nothing TO
Miss Emelyne Catch, a Southern society
girl. noted for her beauty and her skill
as a horsewoman- What does count Is
the fact that she Is supremely happy.
Over on the West Side Of New York in
the very heart OF the section known as
HeIrs Kitchen. the home Of the Gopher
gang, worst Of all New York gangs, Miss
Catch opened a home that is free to
those who need its sheltering comfort
There she Is ministering to the wants OF
unfortunates who would otherwise be
forced to depend upon public charity.
She also. Of course, accepts other cases,
and many Of the most prominent doctors
in New York send their patients to her
sanatorum at S16 West Twenty-eighth
street
Angel Of the KitehenT' said Mss
Catch. ''Nonsensei II there's been any
angeling done, the Kitchen has done It
for me-"
Bang, The mine stockade faIIsI Who
has done this deed? Why, W. A--Brady.
VIOLA! VIOLA! VIOLA! VIOLA! eThese are
the very words)
Hark! What Is that?
A.
ing it He Is the best little mob leader IN
the gmae. And he has for several weeks
been leading the mob for the new pro-
duction, Life" The play has more
scenes than any play ever staged in New
York, and II also has six mob effects. Il
Is to be the biggest, mellowest melodrama
that has ever been attempted in America
and the critics have already praised It.
II has twenty-one scenes. as compared
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eighty-two speaking parts, with no less
than 400 people on the stage. One Of the
mob scenes represents the crowds on a
special train Of nat cars watching =
Yale-Harvard boat race Another mob
scene shows an attack on a mining camp
in Mexico. In this scene the mob blows
up the stockade. The destruction Is
something terrible.
Behold New York! This week she is 800
Years old. and is consequently celebrating
her tercentenary. She nurtures upon her
broad bosom some 5,646.9 .966 souls. Every
thirty days she adds 1900 to the number.
Every four minutes a new soul is born,
and every seven minutes some other soul
passes on. And for all these she rears a
new building every forty minutes. Her
Manhattan alone Is greater in numbers
than that young giant, Chicago. Her
brooklyn equals teeming Philadelphia
and her Bronx has outgrown Detroit Her
Queens Is another Minneapolis, and her
baby Richmond Is like to Albany. For
her schools alone she has invested S112.-
245, 900. Her city buildings are worth
81 900 600. and her libraries, museum, and
art galleries S26,OOOOO0. She Is some gal!
Herb Roth and Ray Rohn.. illustrators.
have opened up a loafing place for art
its at Il Gramercy Park. Gramercy
Park Is an ultra-exclusive section-so ex-
elusive that the park is locked up every
night at 1 o'clock, and only those who
live In the neighborhood OF the park are
furnished keys Some OF the friends Of
the two illustrators hinted that the place
is not so refined as it used to be, but
that is neither here nor there. It Is at
least a quiet neighborhoOd, so one may
imagine the shock that went zipplng
through the bleak old mansions last week
when sounds like murder at No. Il rent
the air The private policeman was
awakened right out Of deep sleep and
actually hurried to the scene. The best
reports are about as follows: Berton Bra
lev. the poet was hired by a news asso-
citation to write the world series games in
poetry He did. but he doesn't like to
speak of 1t. He dropped in at No. Il
after his return The crowd was In
waiting.
Horatio winslow, poet Socialist, and
editor Of The Masses, grabbed Braley,
sat on him and read the poetry. The
noise was Braley's means