The Washington herald., 1916-08-31
NEW YORK, DAY BY DAY
By o. Q. MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York. Aug. 5o.-A little man en-
tered restaurant In Broadway, near
Forty-frst street the other afternoon
and uppercut the cookies out Of a large
woman's hand and spoke hurrfedly TO
the proprietor. Those who saw the In
cident did not understand. The fact ls
that the woman should never eat cakes
that way and the indignation Of the lit
tie man was well based. One more pie
and she might have died right there.
The woman, well dressed and large
ordered ten cakes. Iorgeously frosted
four minutes after she had received the
oroer she ordered 9 lemon merinrue pie
and four cream pu1s. She had just
oroereo the waiter TO bring the French
pastry tray when the little man entered
ana punched the tray upward.
LOOK at my wifer' he shouted plao-
ing MS index finger between the womsn's
TEes, She lie fun OF pastry. What did
l zen your Good hesvensl Does evsry-
Oooy conspire 70 make It hard for q
woman In this city? Is there no helping
i'srIo mo eNerE Look at her; she ia packed"
6utr oearie' began the woman, 4"
Come home: you are full 10 the ears
with pie. You cream pun. sc.venr1ng
traitor-ess I'm going 70 break you Of
ms pastry habit or lick everybody on
Broadway"
When those seated about had removal
the pastry from their pompadours ana
I cfaNats they called the proprietor, and
he explained that the woman h6d been
ordered by her physician not 10 eat any
more pastry. The proprietor had also
been warned not TO sell her pastry. but
ing
A budding Young reporter has Just felt
the journalistic pulse on Park Row and
found II feeble. He was young and fresh
from colege-that being the condition IN
which they are usually delivered-snd
alter three weeks try-oUt was dropped
aoWn the back stairway OF a big New
lork paper and now he has barred HIS
soul TO the New Republic
he asks: Is Journalism degeneratinrf
he writes several chapters In the weekly
Journalistic Day OF Judgment OF hi, .I-
perience. It seems that the las, ,tr.w
was when his city editor sent him out
10 shadow negro who worked in the
garbage department Of the CITY.
i was told" he wrote, so prove that
carelessness on the part OF drivers OF
garbage wagons was responsible for the
infant paralysis Though the man
shadowed seemed to be an artist IN HE
line. my paper proved that he wasn't
Perhaps he lost his Job"
Martin Green, dean OF the New York
reporters. declares the boy is quite. quite
right For nothing" added Mr.. Greer.
'angers q Journalist so Ike falling down
on garbage assignment One OF the
best garbage reporters 7 know Quit news
paper work because, after trailing a gar
bage cart all over the city the driver
became angry and slapped him acros, the
face with dead cat lying atop the
refuse"
! dropped into the Pslsc. Thes,e- the
other afternoon TO see larry Conner. who
struggles under the burden OF being the
Beau Brummel OF Song He Is big
strapDirg fellow and there may he slath-
ers OF actors who are more finished bu.
Larry Conner appeals 10 me because of
his devotion 10 his mother She Is
spr,Chtly despite her wears and wherever
larry is HIS mother may be found IN
the audience and always he sings 20 her
After the thester they dine toCether
with perhaps a friend or two and when
he goes out over the circuit Mrs Conner
IS always with him. He sang z song
that went big. II was called What's
the Matter with the Irish?' II is strange
hut ! never knew a song with an OId
Erin appeal that did not get 4 rousinE
response from New York theatersoers
Even II the music is not tuneful. This
song. however, has a stirring melody.