The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY D. o. MCINTYRE

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| Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York. Aug. 0.-The curb market in
New York seems to have come into its
own and is being regarded as the second
primary securities market. 1t has been
some time since I have seen the curb in
operation. I was amazed at the activity
there during stroll last week.
1t looked like a different lot Of curb
brokers. They were so fearfully in earn
est in comparison to my last visit, when
they hurtled jokes back and forth across
the street, just like vaudeville show.
I saw a face in Wall street I knew but
could not place. I inquired Of a broker.
| That fellow" he said, is George
Graham Rice" And then I recalled the
story OF this unusual young mamie is
just about s..
He Is bundle Of nervous energy and
in sporting circles would no doubt be
called live wire" His rise and fall and
rise again snacks Of the meteoric. When
the Galveston hurricane occurred in 1900
he was a SIS a week reporter in New
Orleans. Scenting the news value, he was
the first to reach Galveston, and there as
a representative OF big New York news
paper-the Herald. I beHeve-he scooped
the country. and received a reward of
SIS, ,0O0
The next heard Of him he was in Gold
field, New. He devoted his energies to
putting the mining town on the map 1t
is said he amassed a fortune of 5000 600
in that camp and then lost 1t again. Then
he appeared in Wall street and ran a
shoestring into several millions and lost
1t. After that he became the financial ed
Itor OF New York paper.
He is now editor of the New York In
dustrial and Mining Age. His offices were
pointed out to me. They were luxurious
and they were crowded. Surely his life is
a teeming romance of Wall street that
outictions the widest fiction. I was told
that he works sixteen hours a dav and
has no recreation hobbies. To do that in
Wall street requires Jess Willard con-
stitution.
The paragrapher on the Evening Tele-
gram has an unusual knack of picking
out amusing items in upstate papers.
Here are three that he selected at ran
dom from the exchanges of a day:
No. 1-"Ralph E. Lewis is having his
block painted. 1t will be a great i'm
provement."
No. He was gored by an infatuated
bull"
No. 1"several horses belonging to a
Gerard liveryman were stricken the other
day with a strange melody"
Frank Harris in one of his short stories
referred to the high prices that prevail
on Fifth avenue as "the theory of un-
known values" A man who knows New
York has discovered that at a little an
tique shop on a side street he could Sc
cure an article for $50 and a dealer on
Fifth avenue, where rents are high.
charged $500 for the same article. In
other words, 1t would seem that when
you buy an article on Fifth avenue you
help to pay the rent
Charles I. Scott, the Beau Brunmel of
Automobile Row, was dining at the Ritz
the other evening with an inquisitiye
friend who seems to have a passion for
prying into things.
At the next table there was a we'll
dressed man who had lost an arm above
the elbow. The inquisitive one watched
for awhile, and then ventured, ct see
you have lost an arm"
The one-armed man picked up his
empty sleeve and peered into it. Great
Scott, 1 believe haver' he replied.
The shark scare seems to have ended
at the beaches. One funny angle of the
fright was the sales of bathing suits in
the big stores. Suits that sold for $40
were offered for 81. but there were no
buyera