The Washington herald., 1916-05-05
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY o. o. MCINTYRE

~Gs-al Correspondent OF The Washington Herald.
New Pork, May Art in a garret,
except at meal times, is not such a hard
ship, but art on the roof of the FlatirOn
Building is something else. Those who
we're In that altitudinous part of Man
haitian last week saw Miss Ruth Young
Iose for the uplift Of art.
The wind whipped its cruel lash across
the lower tip OF the isle but Miss Young
was not a piker. She appeared on the
roof OF the Flatron in costume that
would have made the average window
drap peries look like the side Of the Rock
Of Gibraltar. 1t was just filmy lace and
that was all
The occasion for all these untoward in
Cidents was the first open air sketching
lesson OF the season given to the pupils
OF the Associated Art Studios. Also 1t
is breezed about that Miss Young is seek
Ing a stage engagement.
About twenty pupils climbed the first
escape 20 their loft sketChing location
and the motion picture men were on
hand also while the young girl assumed
all sorts Of poses. She has been a model
in the studios Of such artists as Coles
Phillip, Henry HUT and Charles Dana
Gibson.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Evening
the popular song Are You Half the Man
Your Mother Thought You'd Be-" John
r NfCCOugh says that II anyone should
happen to run across F. ". ". to tell
nor that his answer Is: Yes. more than
hall" When he was A kid. his mother
thought he would be a big man about
'wo hundred pounds and six feet tall
md he now weights lR pounds and rises
smlnently to an altitude Of > feet, 3-4
inches.
Broadway is the place to four-flush-
jr YOU care for this form Of outdoor sport.
\OnE the Times Square district the other
afternoon. the ChroniCler Of these at
tempted pleasantries saw a man wear
ing a somhrero hat, a Norfolk coat, a pair
NJ riding breeChes. white puttees-and a
mOnocle
When he saw the writer he flicked off
his monOCle and showed curious interest
in nothing a. all in the clouds. He knew
that he was recognized. He came from
cincinnati and was cabaret comedian
until he married a widow who has bales
Of money and is fat and fifty.
Jim" COrbett used to say that you
could wear anything on Broadway and
nobody thought anything Of IT, A friend
of his walked down the street in a bar
roll and only one person stopped him
What you advertising" he inquired
journalistic mysteries continue to
battle the New York readers. For
instance: II IS easy to understand that
Eddie Collins has been appointed captain
Of the White soX ball team, but hard to
determine why the Evening Mail. as F
P. A discovered, should headline the
news White Sox Captain Married"
This prytng into private affairs by
tapping private telephone wires IN New
York is going TO get some Of our low
hrowed detectives into a mess Of trouble
The district attorney has taken Up the
matter and is determined that such prac-
tees shall stop.
Twice within the past week. detecta-
phones have been placed IN offices OF
respectable lawyers and their telephones
tapped. Private detectives In New York
are saturated with the idea that they
control the universe and consequently
make their own laws without thought OF
trespassinE the rights Of others
Many New York judges have publicly
scored them from the bench and their
testimony has not been taken very
seriously by juries during the past few
years
A prominent New York newspaper in
Inmates that very shortly some Of the big
detective agencies are going TO be jolted
by an expose.