The Washington herald., 1914-10-16
THE GREAT WHITE WAY
By o. O. M'INTYRE.

New York. Oct l5-YounE John d.
Rockefeller aside from his Sunday school
interests is quite fond Of gol-luf just as
is his ilustriuus dad. Reing a Bible class
teacher a friend of Young Mr.. ROcefeller's :
was rather hestant about telling him
golf story. but after they had CirClcd the
links he took the chance. 1t seems that
a man-passionately fond of EOlf-slip-
ped from the mundane sphere and landed
in Hades. He was given n pleasant
greeting and after being made ComfOr-
table on a clubhouse porch his Satanic
majesty came up. slapped him on the
back and asked him to take a stroll
around the Hades links. The erstwhile
mortal gladly accepted. It was the most
marvellous links that could be imagined.
He had seen all the famous links on
earth. but nothing he had seen compared
with this. Finally he was shown some
golf clubs-cluhs that were marvels of
skilled workmanship. At length he in
quired OF the Devil: Where are the golf
balls?' The Devil smiled and said:
There are no halls" The victim mopped
his brow a few times and exclaimed:
We'll, this is certainly He'll 1t is said
that young Mr.. Rockefeller enjoyed the
story very much.
Continuing the subject Of golf. IT Is
reliably reported that a crowd of 100 men
in the millionaire class are arranging
for the finest links in the world some
place in New Jersey. They will build
small clubhouse, and the rest Of the
money will he used in preparing the
links. The initiation fee alone is $3.50
and the yearly dues each 81, 900 No enter
tainments will be given and it will be
strictly for the use of the members. Not
even their sons will be allowed on the
links. No women either will ever be
allowed there It is to be the last word
in a rich mans golf club-where the rich
man can do nothing but play golf.
The smallest gardens in New York are
located in the busiest part Of Fifth ave-
nue. at Thirty-ninth street. They are the
gardens Of the Union League Club, and
four of them are five feet long and fif-
teen inches wide. The fifth is only two
and One-half feet in length and the same
width as the others. Every spring they
are set out with laurel. daisies, aucuhs
and euonymus A Madison avenue florist
visits them twice a month and gives them
expert care. In the fall these plants are
replaced with several varieties Of thuga
and pines in order to keep the gardens
in bloom until the snow flies. The hardy
plants were set out last week so We
millionaires Of the Union League Club
known that autumn is here, despite thes
thermometer. i
Hon Sveinn Bjornsson, a member OF
the Iceland Parliament, is in New York.
So likewise is Olafur johnson, merchant
prince of Reykjavik, the capital Of Ice
land. The gentlemen arrived on the
Danish steamship Hermod loaded with
thirty-one carloads of Iceland herring
well iced They also brought over a
hundred bales Of Iceland wool. While
here they will buy flour, rolled oats, rice
and other sundries at the behest of the
Iceland government. Both speak Eng
lish as well as Morse and Danish.
Bjornsson said: Our city is not like
New York. We have six months day and
six months night and dancing the tango
through the Icelandic evening would be
rather fatiguing. We restrain out gaye-
ties to evenings at home with friends and
neighbors. We have no rich and no poor.
Our greatest dissipation Is home card
parties: we play bridge a great deal
during the long winter evenings. The
young men play bridge great deal, too,