The Washington herald., 1914-08-31
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY.
BY o. O. Ar'INTYRE.

New York. Aug SO.-You who may
have felt the pangs OF the struggle
abroad consider in your darkened hour
the poor humble press agents Of Broad
way ana adjacent side streets. Their
lot 10 indeed a sad one. What chance
indeed for the first, second or even third
pages now? Indeed they are lucky II
they land at the bottom Of the column
Of the market page War news has
crowded out every Yestige Of local news
on the first, second. and third pages, and
the press agent wonders when the blue
envelope will be handed to him. i don't
believe you could break into the first
page these days" said "Stuffy" Davis
the other day IF Lillian Russell would
( do a high dive off of the Times Building.
II crawled into one city editor and after
Hicking the backing OF his shoes in
Quired If I might get a line on a big
story under the heading City Briefs
After shooing me out Of the once and
locking the. door he went over to his
desk and deliberately tossed into the
zinc FIVE great big local stories''
Col Samuel Pomeroy Colt. the rubber
king, gave a party at his town home
about six weeks ago and wound it up
with an invitation for the twenty-five
persons present to accompany him abroad
within the hour on the Lusitania- Six
Of them accepted and now they are all
marooned abroad, cabling wildly for the
justly famed metals known among the
proletariat as silver and gold. Col. Colt
is about as popular with his guests as a
snake would be in your breakfast food
for if it hadn't been for him-well they
wouldn't have gone on such a fool trip
anyway. And then what made him serve
that kind of wine at his party? Col.
Colt has finally reached Paris from AK
nd ig he hfrf
his guests believe that he should DO all
his refief work in his own little circle
Grantland Rice, the sporting writer.
evidently always leaned toward the bus
mess Of writing and was adept at it.
When a youngster down in Tennessee
he was kept after school one day for
sticking pins in a little girls leg. The
teacher inflicted the penalty by making
Rice stay after school and write a COM
position Of fifty words upon the cat This
is what he wrote: "Mande was very
fond Of kittens. In fact she loved cats.
Seeing one in the street one day she ran
after it loudly saying, Here pussy, pussy.
pussy pussy"
The Duke Of Manchester is proving to
a lot of criHcal Americans that an
honest 20 goodness duke can work just
like the ordinary person. His grace Is
the president of the international Edu-
cational League which is a factor in the
newest of all big business-that of the
moving picture. The object OF the new
company. which has ample financial
backing, is just what the name implies.
II will deal with educational films for
school and church and has at its back
SUCH men as Vincent Astor and others.
The league has a suite Of offices at IS
East Forty-frst street where the Duke
of Manchester is at his desk every day
delving into the intricate problems of
putting the company upon the high pin
nacles that is his desire. He has brought
about him a competent staff Of experts
and a great deal of interest is being
manifested in the result. The duke mar
ried the daughter of Eugene thinner
man, of Cincinnati.
Henry Wood. the newspaper correspon-
dent Of Rome, Italy, and who is now on
the firing line in Europe. lives in a
small town in Missouri. and when he
returns to America he generally runs out
there for a few days visit. The last
time he vas there an old friend met him
and said. Does it pay you, Henry, to
gather items over there?''