The Washington herald., 1916-09-30
NEW YORK, DAY BY DAY
81 o. o. McINTYnE.

Special Correspondent q The Washington Herald
New York, Sept. 8.-Ldlian Russell,
with rose blown complexion unlmpaired,
despite \ years residence in smoky Pitts
burgh. has arrived In New York for the
winter. She has been bowling around on
Broadway and Fifth avenue in a tugger-
naut English car. which is pure white
trimmed In gold stripes.
| Her husband. A. P. Moore, who owns a
| Pittsburgh newspaper, Is with her Al
the Hotel Majestic, where they are stop
/ ping. Mr.. Moore was smoking an after
dinner cigar the other evening when a
bellboy tugged at his sleeve very gently
/ He turned
'Mr. Russell" said the lad, someone
wants to see you out front in an auto.
mobile"
My name" said Mr.. Moore. lis not
Russell" And he turned on his heel and
walked away. In the meantime the boy
was paging a Mr.. Russell all through
the hotel Finally It dawned on Mr..
Moore that his wife was waiting for him
in their car.
me to do" he said, land that is 70 regis
ter as Mr.. Lillian Russell when come
TO New York"
All Of which shows that editors have
a sense Of humor, something I have never
believed. In fact, tried to Joke with
one once when I was a cub reporter and
gave him a trick cigar. After ne had
decorated me with one Of his choicest
selections OF tinware-a regular wash
boiler. in fact-I went out Of that office
INTO the cruel world convinced that edl-
tors were the most Iugubrious people II,
the world.
Broadway has new drink. 1t goes bv
the name Of the ideal cocktail. and was
invented by a munition millionaire
When Roy K. Moulton. the humorist, was
IN town the other day he dropped into
the Rntckerbocker bar with a friend
Everybody in the place was tapping up
ideal cocktails, and watching the bar 20
around
So far as Moulton could learn, the
basis of the drink is gasoline, with a.
jigger of prusstc acid and a heavy da sb
Of dynamite. Those who had imbibed
Just one were only worth a million, but
those who had quaffed two were worth
two millions, and so on ad nauseum.
Over in the leather-lined cozy corner
there was one man who had been drink
ing them all afternoon. He was deeply
engrossed in revealing a scheme to two
oeggars who had only had two cocktails
and were worth collectively four millions
The plan he had was to personally-darn
1t, we have split another one Of those in
nnltives-We mean personally to pay the
entire Belgian indemnity.
A stranger in New York was watching
the police reserves disperse street-car
strikers on the upper East Side the other
day. He remarked on the hazardous ma
ture OF their calling, and how little the
public appreciates The Finest"
They are heroes now he said. land
perhaps tomorrow when & life is to be
saved, or a lawbreaker caught They
risk their lives and are expected to do It.
But there are the higher-ups who devote
most of their time to trying these same
men on all sorts Of Charges-fining them.
suspending them without pay, letting
them go on probation, o. perhaps dis
missing them"
And the stranger was right. No doubt
the police regulations are necessary. for
there have been some nasty police seen
dals in New York, but 1t does seen
strange that a man should be a hero
today and a culprit tomorrow, out that
is the common lot Of the average New
York policeman.
John V. Melton, aged 70, who saws he
is the Oldest actor on Broadway is seek
ing a new part for the coming season
He first appeared in New York in 1855
on Broome street, and he believes thai
the profession Of acting Is skiddins 50
he is going to jump in and show a 10.
Of the young fellows up-that is II he
can get an AnRa 1eroapf