The Washington herald., 1914-12-22
THE GREAT WHITE WAY
By o. o. M'NTYRE.

New York. Dec. 21.-Zip. a neat and
classy Himalayan sloth beer. who
dresses in brown with a white dickey
! below his chin. is the newest arrival
at the Central Park Zoo. He arrived
| in the front seat OF an automobile with
! his master, Charles B. Knox, the Celia
! tine King. of Johnstown, Pa.
All was well until Mr.. Knox decided
! to go. then Zip set up a long drawn
! Himalayan keening song which lasted
! through the night and put the Siberian
| tigers teeth on edge. Zip howled Un-
til the whole neighborhood was aroused
and several calls were sent in to the
| police that some one was committing
a murder in the park.
The next day Zip was put in the
cage with Tom and Mary. the Ameri-
! can brown bears. ana they showed no
| inclination to enforce Oriental eXclu-
sion laws against their Himalayan
brother. But Zip kept on bowling and
a telegram was sent to Mr.. Knox to
come get his pet.
Louis ]. Selznick is the guiding
genius of the World Film Corporation
and is incidentally one of the men
who have emerged from the moving
picture game struggle with high
honors. He has taken several COM
panies dying of dry rot and filled them
with his style of pep" until the direc-
tors began driving limousines and then
he went on to the next one.
AS a result of his accumulated
strokes in flm land he is now the
recognized leader in his field. Not long
ago he decided he needed more room
for his general Offices so he moved into
big office building in West Sixty
fourth street. He wasn't there long
until a few other smaller concerns
crept in under the friendly shelter and
then the big ones came and now the
building is almost completely occu-
pied by film folk.
Just a year ago there was not a film
concern in the building.
At last the subway strap-hangers are
getting relief. 1t is impossible to believe
without seeing 1.-THE way New Workers
are pushed, showed and jammed into the
subway trains. The subway itself is ex-
ceIlent as a passenger, can go from one
end of Manhattan Island to the other in |
half an hour.
During the rush hours of mornings and
evenings, big, husky guards stand on the
platforms to handle, the crowds. When
the doors of the Trains automatically |
open the guards get in behind the crowds |
and there is a concerted rush to pack |
all on the train that it will hold. Women
faint daily and men fight and curse like |
savages but they will ride in the SUBJ |
way. 1t is the quickest way home.
The public service commission has de-
cided that the packing Of people in cars
must stop, and they will fine the officials |
until they put on more trains which |
could be done easily.
Harvey o'Higgins recently wrote play |
called "Polygamy." A young woman
writer in a Brooklyn newspaper wrote, as !
an item of proof that the Mormons are |
misrepresented in the play, the fact that
'Vtah blossoms like a rose" O'Higgins |
replies thusly: Perhaps you can tell me: |
Is a rose, in its blossoming, essentially
Homogeneous
Irwin Cobb and Wilbert Robinson, the Il
baseball manager, tried to pull of al
baseball play in the lobby of the Wal
dorf the other day. They attempted a |
lateral pass, but one Of them had 70 back |
up until he came to a double doorway |
The copy readers along Park Row de-
clare that Przasnysz can never quite re-
place PrzemysI in their affections. How
they love that word!