The Washington herald., 1914-12-16
THE GREAT WHITE WAY
By O. o. M'NTYRE.

| New York. Dec. 15.-Arthur Barney met
Bide Dudley on Broadway the other day
and beaminsly drew him aside.
I've got a new one he said.
Thinking he meant his hair restorer
was beginning to work, Dudley said:
Fine! You'll soon have enough to
comb"
Not hair Barney almost shouted; "a
new dance step, It's the alligator dip"
'HOw's II done?''
We'll, first you step to the right. then
glide TO the rear. doing a sort Of a right
angle triangle and waving the elbows.
After that. come ahead and bend the
knee. Next you come up and then do
1t all over again
why? Didn't you do it right the first
timer" asked Dudley innocently.
Just then Lew Dockstader came along.
He was asked IL he knew how to dance
the alligator dip.
Well" he said. after a moments re-
! Election, II should imagine every couple
that dances it is an alligator pair" At
this point Big Babe Mcdonald. the traf-
ic cop, ordered the trio to move on.
Commodore Robert II. Peary, six feet
and over tall, square shouldered. bronzed,
was walking without an overcoat and
with a youthful, springy step up Broad
way tue ONneT dl II was al
the time when the sidewalks ard streets
were filled with the lower New York
MONDAY crowds.
A newspaper man saw him stop and
stare at the new woolworth building
soaring in the sky. He stopped so sud
denly that four people bumped into him.
One gave vent to an oath for his SEEM
ing carelessness and the other passed on
without an excuse me-"
Not a person in the crowd seemed TO
recognize the man who claims TO have
later DIR. Cook, who also claims 10
have discovered the pole. nearly blocked
Forty-second street by the crowds follow
ing him. Such is fame.
War is wrong and war is stupid-'tis
Franklin P. Adams philosophizing-bu
when a lot OF Zeppeiins are zepping above
your city you can't shout up to them and
say: Hey, there. Go away. War Is
wrong and stupid
Bishop Greer says that there is a moral
force in the world which is stronger than
many people suppose, and that II We
trust II we shall find It a very effective
force. It wasn't strong enough to keep
Henry Siegel from filching thousands from
his helpless employees and II wasn't
strong enough to give him what he might
have got II he had been a terrible men
ace like Bouck White. the preacher. who
asked a single question in the Rockefel-
Ter Church and went to jail for six
months.
Nor is the mental force in the world
strong enough to keep girls wages above
$3.50 a week, nor to prevent men from
exploiting the labor OF children. Briefly.
as Col. Adams sees 1t. the cosmic moral
force isn't batting over .01I and il isn't
In a slump either.
David Lamar, the Wolf Of Wall Street. !
just sentenced to pfison, might have
stepped from the pages of E. Phillips Op- !
penheim's novels. The magazine writers |
are frequently astounding the reader !
with the she-devils, he-saints beacon /
strictors OF Wall Street, vipers of the I
store and occasionally the !
picture Elns true to type.
Lamar was a daring hangeron OF the |
mighty, q master of impudence, never |
risking money where cheek would do. He |
served not only himself, but greater and !
wiser men. There are hundreds of La
mars on Broadway and in Wall Street
sleek. prosperous and sly. They wait |
for their victims in the lobster palaces,
the grilles and the big hotel lobbies
The trick for which Lamar was SEN
fenced, the impersonation OF a Congress-
man over a phone, is typical of the
breed.