The Washington herald., 1916-07-31
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY O. o. MCINTYRE

SPECIAL Correspondent a Tss waseinrs. ner.n.
New York. July 8.-Rube Goldb<rr,
who sketches for living eking out ,loo.-
600 per snnum thereby, has solved the
mystery Who Is Irrns +" Not long ago
he drew a cartoon with the caption. sIt's
All Wrong. Irns! It's All Wrong" Tho
cartoon pictured q visit Of a young man
to his hancee. concluding with his de-
psrture at 5-so g. m.
Well, Goldberg Ia to lead Ir1na TO the
altar at sherry's in October. She Ia Miss
irrna seenan, the daughter Of a million
alre grocer. He will no doubt discontinue
his cartoon series entitled They All Look
GOOD When They're Far Away"
In the days when Goldberg used to nlch
my cigarettes from the copy desk, he
was drawing down the salary OF so a
week and he used TO tell me that be
oiushed every time he took the envelope
containing II.
lnasmuch as his hancee has seen the
picture OF Trina" that Goldberg drew
and is still engaged 70 marry him Il is
eafe bet that nothing will ever mar their
happiness
Goldberg Is not yet 90 He is rust ss
amusing in real life as lie is IN his car
toons. remember one night when things
were tense in a newspaper shop. It was
election night. There wac a great COM
motion In the managing editors once
Goldberg overturning tables and chairs
In the embrace OF printer. He had
been to wrestling match the night be-
tore and wanted TO show the printsr q
half-Nelson.
The managing editor had TO leave his
desk and take Goldberg out 70 q restsu-
rant for a bite 10 eat TO get nd OF him
Success has left him absolutely UnspoIled.
What was. up to a few uirhts arc, 1.
perfectly respectable and hsrd-workins
steam roller is now in the grip Of r. E
Morse, the eminent mornins,after special
list. Crszed by the heat, 1t disregsrded
the chidings OF its driver and smashed It's
way into lady's room on West Thirty
ninth street. II leaped up TO the sidewalk
through an iron lattice and down the
basement steps into the apartment OF a
young lady who was knitting. She not
only dropped a stitch, but dropped the
entire batch OF knitting and ran ten
blocks TO tell policeman a locomotive
in red pants was chasing her. The red
pants" were the red wheels on the steam
roller.
Hank Mann was on & Broadway sur
face car the other day when an east
side peddIer boarded II with a small boy
When the conductor came through the
man paid nickel as his own fare and
then looked out the window
Fare for the boy. please said the
conductor.
Hes only i've" replied the man
''oh, that boy is ten II he's day. Look
at his face"
"Ah, my friend" said the man, you
don't know how much suffering that boy
has gone through"
He Just came down from Vermont and
he was registered at the Waldorf
He retired at 8 o'clock and left a call
for s o'clock the next morning. About
noon he came down. chock full OF sleep,
and he was just bit peeved-
Il left call for o'clock - he grumblsd
"and they didn't call me"
The clerk stopped polishing his nails aud
turned to the telephone sirl- Why
didn't you call this gentleman"
Il did call him several times" she said
The clerk conveyed the news to the
Vermonter. We'll didn't hear anybody
knock on my door"
No one knocked-they rang your tele-
phone"
"oh was that what that was heard
that pesky telephone ringing but didn't
| think II was for me"