Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-08
"Nickel" Dance Is Popular.

Don't think that the nickel dance hall is
a gloomy and irreligious sort of place,
subject to nightly raids by armed bands
of slavers 1t is the newest and niftiest
development of city life. The five-eent
dance hall nlay-within Iimits-expand as
the nickel movies have done.
II saw this dance craze coming" said
the il the field .'and as soon as
] was sure, 1 went to it like a horse. 1
IL, ....s p-~,u4e business get away
from me. but III never let another craze
run by the signal
He has a huge. clean. well lighted,
handsomely decorated hall uptown. He
pays 500 a night to his orchestra. Only
soft drinks are sold, all hats must be
checked, his attendants are all well uni
formed, ana a gigantic taxi starter in
sartorial delirium gives tone to the front
door. Not many taxis reach it yet, it is
true-but the starter is ready, and the
taxis will come in the end.
Il charge a nickel admission and
nickel a dance" said the proprietor.
''Five-cent hat checks and the soft drinks
We sell pay my running expenses. 1 run
six dances an hour, the hall is open from
i o'clock to / O'Clock, and l average 100
couples to the dance. Figure out for
yourself what my profits are.
The whole point is that he gives his
patrons attention and surroundings of
the exclusive sort, and they pay for it
on the installment plan.
mo Tightwad" on Land.
Extravaganza is relative term. of
course, but when it takes 500 worth of
readily salable land to provide room for
d fifteen-cent goldfish the buyer of the
land is at least not a tightwad.
Banker Frick is building house on
upper 9TH avenue that. from the cottage
point of view, looks like cross between
Carnegie library and a summer hotel
The land cost Prick pretty close to
S;..uo0,0Vo. Then he had to clear away the
old Lenox Library. which was a white
marble structure that looked fully as
comfortable for residential purposes as
the Frick house is shaping into before
ne could begin to build.
In the middle of the front yard pool
is to be created fifteen feet wide by
sixty feet long. The land occupied by
that pool cost Prick something like 800
marble is carved out with diamonc-point-
cd tools and polished with pearl dust it
Will cost Frick $1,000. Fish experts say
that no more than I.2:,t goldfish could
live and remain healthy in such a pool.
still. Prick isn't considering the feelings
of the fish.
The Prick Wickiup is to be the golding-
edest dwelling ever seen in New York
against Sj.5op.UOo for the Charley
Schwab pagoda Riverside drive, 50.
10000 for the Morgan home Madison
avenue. SiJ5o.t0U for Senator Clark s
bronze and marble city hall on 9Th ave-
nue.. Si.oo0,Ooo for the Vanderbilt place
at 18th street and S2.ODp.pD for Carne-
l,ie-s comparatively inconspicuous house
farther north on the avenue.
Worked Rainy Days and Sundays.
important national bank. He got there by
working rainy days and Sundays Not
long ago he thought of starting a bank
in the Argentine, in order to get some
share of the trade down there The Ar
gentine is today said to be the most
prosperous country in the world.
I'VE needed young bankers of char
acter and capacity" said he. I'VE could
get them. But we could not find men
who Were competent who would leave
home And we could not find men who
were familiar with the Spanish language
and with Latin American characteristics
and business habits"
And yet this town is full of colleges
night schools, special courses and free
lectures. One would think that any one
who really desired to learn something
about anything could get crammed sc
fuN OF knowledge here that he would
bubble as he walked.
To Repress Repartee.
Tommy Butts says he has determined
TO repress any leaning toward repartee
he may ever discover in himself.
"A witty answer says Mr.. Butts, lis
just like trying to bite bulldog
lie came to this conclusion the day he
attended the court in special sessions
presided over by Justice Malone. A
young man had just been convicted Of
grand larceny.
six months" said Malone The culprit
laughed.
II could do that said he ION one
foot
six more said the judge, 'for the
other foot
Expects Lindsay to Be Governor.
The interviewer who called on Judge
Zen Lindsay's blue-eyed bride has q