The Washington herald., 1916-05-06
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY o. o. MCINTYRE

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SPECIAL Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, May 5-The coy gentleman
who discovered that he could make an
automobile run on a secret preparation
that costs one cent a gallon has started
a lot OF trouble around New York. Sew
eral cuckoos have modestly announced
that they have solved the gasoline prob
lem, and one ambitious inventor heralds
that tiger marrow fat boiled down is
much better than gasoline.
He doesn't explain where one may go
to pluck tiger Of its nest and boil it
down for the flivver pep. In the mean
time, the price of gasoline is trying to
split honors with the price Of radium.
One reporter went out to interview a
man who had hidden formula that ex-
celled gasoline and came back to his
city editor with the report that he had
seen better heads on tacks.
However, there are many chemists
working on the question Of getting
substitute for gasoline. There are op-
timists who believe that the problem
will be solved, but during the interim
the soaring price Of the gas is hurting
the sale Of the cheaper sort of-magazines.
New York newspapers are devoting col
unns of space to the subject and the
gasoline prices are mingling on the front
page alongside OF the carnage in Eu-
rope.
Saving tin foil is the newest fad among
society buds. The price Of tin foil is
around 40 cents a pound and one young
lady secured a lot of publicity recently
by announcing she had sent three East
Side kiddies to the country for the sum-
mer on the proceeds of the sale she made
Of her tin foil collections.
Every box of cigarettes is closely
the and
in the cafes by girls who are collecting
the tin foil. One young lady made
collection in the grill of the Hotel Ma
jestic after the theater the other night
and secured three pounds and every man
who smoked cigarettes took her address
and promised to send tin foil for the
next year.
There is a autter on the White Way
over a new publication just out. 1t is
called "NibbIes whatever that may
mean. Possibly it is trying to make the
subscriber nibble around and finally bite.
1t says that any vaudeville performer who
is a subscriber may review his or her
act The announcement reads:
Paid critics ~ will not review bills
or acts; instead We encourage artists
who are subscribers TO review their own
acts. for who can know more about
their own acts than they themselves"
On another page a doctor advertises
the names Of the patients he has treated
and the illness for which he administered.
And he mentions some things that were
no doubt told in confidence and are cal
Culated to raise a lot of smoke.
Caruso refused several Orrers to do pic
lures and one was as high as $4,000.
Then along came some man who asked
him as a matter of friendship to pose.
He was asked to pose in Central Park.
but at the last moment the singer got
frigid feet and consented only to pose in
private and away from the rabble.
After he did it he found out he was
stung by a wise producer, who, through
friendship" got about a dozen others to
pose In different parts of the film.
AS a result, the producer has an all
star cast for practically nothing, and it
is believed that he will make a big for
tune out of the deal 1t is a low esti-
mate that one is born every minute.