The Washington herald., 1916-09-11
NEW YORK, DAY BY DAY
by o. o. MCINTYRE.

SPECIAL cozsspoa8ent q The wsshinxsou H--.1.
New York. Sept 1o.-The other nfghf
II was cold and drizziing. The first touch
OF fail had arrived So IN keeping with
the melancholy spirit Of the city. I rode
down TO Hadley Hall. on the Bovery
with a man who drifted into this rescue
mission ten years ago. a moral and physi-
cal wreck.
He was reclairned-brought bach from
the gutter-and Is now a useful rperuber
Of society. He does not smoke or drink,
and half OF his salary goes TO those who
have slipped the oregs as he has done
Hadley Hall was in the haiycop davs
Of the Bowery known as McGurlrs sui-
eide Hall Young girls who found life
too fast and furious formed a habit Of
dropping into McGuirk's and mixing car
bolic acid with their drinks.
The pastor Of the flock at Hadley Han
is John Callahan, who has a prison rec
ord, and wac once an underworld pick
pocket He, too. was regenerated there,
and together with his rnildly-maupered
and white-hsired wife, ministers 70 blesr-
eyed men whose souls have been scared
by sin.
Hadley Hall is surrounded By pawn
shops, beer halls, Greek coffee pa-iors
and chop suey oens- An arc liEht sput-
ters out front TO guide the wandering
feet Inside the place is clean and plain.
One big sign stares those who enter with
/ the words: When Did You Write 70
Mother?''
The services had started and th. place
was hled- Some were kneelinE in tears
al the platform, and some, stupehsd By
drink or drugs, were snoring away. OBJ
/ ltvious OF the spiritual feast set before
them. Many Of them confess their sins
several times week TO get a bunk IN
the place and 60 out the next morning
TO continue their waywsrd careers. No
one Is turned away. One man there walk
] ed up TO the altar and confessed every
week for three years before, as Brother
Callahan said, 1T took But he finally
reformed and is one Of the usherE
Magazine editors are screaming for no-
ton-hction Of love and adventure, &c
ton that has a man neatly done TO death
under battling circumstances, fiction OF
sex stories clean or slightly soiled- The
fact is, the editors cn-s there is q dearth
Of fiction
This means much 20 the struggling New
York authors who are Just now rounding
home in their twelve-cylinder cars from
their electrically Lit summer camps in
the North. Those who are down 70 their
last ten thousand may now easily keep
the wolf away from the uniformed West
Indian halIboy.
II IS said that there are at least two
dozen magazines published in the East
that need virile fiction. People, it would
seem. are not writing fiction with such
eagerness as they were some months
back.
Arthur. the trained gold fish IN the
press department OF the Rialto, has been
provided with a new globe. much larger
and more handsomely appointed The
new globe was until recently under the
strain OF carrying Cuthbert the pet slli-
gator. But CUthbert was scorched BY the
heat from the typewriters and finally
sickened and died
Chicago playwright Is IN town and
he brought with him a crouch in full
bloom, and redolent Of hate He sneers
that the New York first night audiences
are composed Of Broadway smart AIecks
A New York pun maker replies with
snap and vigor that the Chicago first
nights are mostly attended BY Loop
hounds. Thus it is that most Of the hrst
performances Of the drama are presented
to the sane and respectable residents Of
Washington. D. c.
The man who sells white and fuzzy
poodles on Fifth avenue, near the Plaza
had fifteen on a leash the other dsy. ali
barking for new masters. A gentleman
who leaned slightly IN all directions as
he walked, stopped, petted one and asked:
How many dogs you got mister" he
replied that there were fifteen ''ThanlCE," ."
he said, I knew I was all righsh-''
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