The Washington herald., 1916-11-28
New York, Day by Day
BY o. q MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, Nov. N.-whether you have
lonesome nickel or a whole sheaf OF
yellow bills there Is one block in New
York where you can get almost anything
you desire at any price. II is the block
tween Thirty-nfth and Thirty-sixth
streets. There are twenty-five digestive
emporiums on the block.
II you are an athletic eater and prefer
to balance your own tray Of dishes to
a wide armed chair you can be salts
fed. Should you be Of a mechanical
turn of mind there Is an Automat II
you have only a few pennies there is
one place where you can get q sandwich
and q glass Of milk for three pennies
You may have gelfilterhsh and a colora-
ture sausages in shops with bi-lingual
signs on the windows or you can be
served on old Yorkshire china by Slav
walters in the garb OF British huntsmen.
In this one block the most cosmopolitan
stomach can be satisfied. II you like
Irish songs in Italian with California
red wine. do not despair. You need not
leave the block.
There is also a Hungarian gouIssh
place. The walters always look worried
In these places. Psychologists have fig-
ured out that the cause is because they
do not know what is in the goulash.
There are also on the gastronomic block
a physical culture restaurant and a vege-
tartan restaurant and a chilli con carne
place and an icelandic restaurant where
only cold and icy dishes are served.
There is a famous Broadwayite who
now and then falls from grace by look
ing too long upon the wine. He Is at all
times dignified even when in his cups.
The other evening he had wined and
diner abundantIy and he left his club
to start for home.
1t had been raining and the street
was slippery. A big motor truck was
stalled in the middle of the street. The
Broadwayite slipped and fell under it.
mere was loud chorus of outlaws from
the spectators.
to do. But the boulevardier did a Bit
OF quick thinking. He reached I'D and
began testing every bolt under the motor
Truck After he had finished he crawIed
out. brushed himself on as best he could
and walked unsteadily onward.
I'd. Howe, the beloved editor of Atchi-
son. Kan. was in New York the other
DAY. There is a character in Atchison
who tE one of the towns celebrities and
VINO sleeps In various places including the
N'SE 4iOHl OOOT steps and dry
goods boxes.
Inc other week he sent a news item to
Mr. howe about himself. The item read
Doc Marsh was badly injured last night.
Re stuck his foot out of bed during the
night and horse stepped on it"
That new stomach that Diamond linn"
Brady paid $4,000 for to Baltimore doc
tors has failed him in a crisis. Diamond
jim won bet Of a royal dinner where
the golden service Of a royal dinner where
tfe day after election. That day he
awakened i'll. He could not eat.
The importance Of Diamond Jim" NAV
not mean much to the rest OF the coun-
try, but II means much to New York. The
news that his stomach was not in con-
diti'n to digest was first PACED on all
the papers.
One paper importuned DR.. Woods
Hutchinson to write a special yarn about
it for the following Sunday and another
paper wired Dr.. F. NJ Planck, another
medical writer, for his views on the case.
fAnd in the meantime cafe owners up and
down Broadway wrung their hands in
despair. for Diamond Jim" is Just as
much OF an ostrich at eating as he is a
bear cat at fox trotting.