The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
THE GREAT WHITE WAY
By o. o. M'INTYRE.

SPECIAL 10 Inc washington Herald.
New York, Dec. 12-One of the mos
unique characters in New York passet
on with the death of John G. wende
N California. Next to TIE Astors, Wen
del was. the largest real estate holde,
in Gotham. He was a crusty old bach
clor of eighty years with peculiaritie.
that were the despair of his friends
He had a little Office at No. 10 Broad
way, and, although worth $4,000 900. III
would not have a telephone His motto
was: I'VE do not sell property He
was forced to turn over a piece OF land
for the Hudson Terminal building, and
he never cashed the $1,000 check that
he received
He once had a S1,OOoOOO piece Of prop.
erty on Fifth avenue which he refused
to sell because my little old ugly dog
likes to play on it, and if I Sell it there
will be no place for him TO exercise"
Francis Gallup, the recently imported
Chicago illustrator, is not obeying the
strict letter Of the neutrality injunction,
If his friends are to be believed. Gallup
is a friend of Alf. Ringing. the circus
man, and declares that Ringing has
sent the following telegram:
Kaiser Wilhelm, Berlin, Germany
Save us two Germans-Alf. Ringing,
BaraboO Wis
- There were also signs of a lack Of
neutrality on A sign board up in the
Bronx the other day. The sigma huge
affair-was advertising a brand of Eng
lish tea. 1t showed a typical English
drawing room scene. An artist of skill
bad painted in letters in neat style read
ing: You'll need something stronger
than tea when the Kaiser gets through
with YOU"
Despite the soothing words Of Broad
ways galaxy of press aEents-these are
DAYS of trouble for the theatrical man.
ager. The free vaudeville in cafes has
added its quota to increasing the num-
Der of empty seats nightly.
The Cabarets furnish entertainment
without cost, and naturally they hurt
the regular theaters. Also the sweet
young things who used to go to the
matinee now go to the dansants
Add to these conditions the fact that
there has been a tremendous increase
in the production of moving-picture films
and you have a few of the real reasons
Nor the big slump. Also the theatrical
manager has got to wake up to the
ticket-speculating evil.
The New York public must pay S for
two seats to the better class shows-it
is too much money and the public is
beginning to realize that with the movies
o4lQ NdASeS luey can get alOnB without
the theater anyway. So there you are!
Wearing false whiskers on Broadway
landed an amateur sleuth in a cell the
other day. The spectacle of a man with
a gray beard sprinting after a street
car excited Traffic Cop Landers, and he
grabbed him. The beard and hair were
false and the eyebrows penciled. Landers
took him to the Centre street police
court and arraigned him before the mag
istrste as a suspicious person
Take 'em on" commanded the magis-
trate. I'VE know you"
Thus admonished, the prisoner removed
the beard and hair. He said he was
Charles Gwin, aged twenty-five, and he
worked for rich woman, who sent him
TO spy on her husband. He followed said
husband to an office building and then
he awakened to the fact an hour later
that his quarry was boarding a street
car. He started of to catch the car and
the policeman grabbed him. The magis-
trate let Gwin go upon his promise to
lgtve up sleuthing and return to his regu-
lar trade-elevator ascending and descend
ing.