The Washington herald., 1916-12-16
New York, Day by Day
Bx o. ID. MeINTYRE.

Special Corrssopdent Of Ths wssbinstou HeTsEg
New York. Dec Ia jolly pair Of
eiopers arrived In New York this week
in Sam H. Clark, editor Of Jim Jam Jems,
and his bride. They Intended to wait
until June, but Clark received word that
he could take a trip through the central
nations Of Europe and so he wired the
young woman in Grand Fork, N. Oak
The telegram read: Am going to Ger
many. Better get married now and come
along with me-" And, as the novelist
says. so they were married.
An, interesting fellow is Clark. A few
years ago he was struggling along with
a country newspaper in North Dakota.
A nervous sheriff was always on his
trail to foreclose the mortgage-Just like
they do in the melodrama.
Finally Clark got out the last edition
and paid his respects to certain gentle
men in the community and departed. In
Bismarck he ran across c. H. Crockard.
who had also given up the ghost with a
country weekly that day.
They pooled their assets. which amount
started Jim Jam Jems in Bismarck II
was to be a local publication. but It be-
gan to grow and now II Is sold in every
city and hamlet in the United States
Clark and Crockard are now rolling I'm
wealth and spend most OF their time
hunting in the Rockies and in Canada
and travelling all over the world. Clark
and his bride will remain in Europe for
a year. saw Clark at the Majestic and
My schief occupation" he replied. will
be to keep out Of the way OF any unat-
tached pieces OF shrapnel."
The Barefoot Age is looming up in
Gotham. A Fifth avenue dealer declares
that II is going to be only a very short
while until a pair of kicks cost $50 a
pair 1t seems that very shortly every
citizen except a few millionaires. food
jobbers. bankers, hat boys and other
members OF the ultra wealthy class will
be running around in bare feet
1t Is even Said that many dealers are
considering starting a craze for sandals,
All that is needed is for a couple Of well
dressed men and a few women TO walk
down Fifth avenue wearing them. Then
everybody will be doing 1t.
The war spenders and the Wall Street
spenders are now being gupplanted in
New York by the cotton spenders. They
spending money lavishly in New York
Cotton Is king again and now hutters
around the 25-cent mark.
The big hotels are crowded with South
erners who are here to do bit of shop
ping. attend the opera and sec the the
aters. They are plentifully supplied with
money and they know how to spend II.
The shop keepers have the so-called
professional Southerners" who
have been as far South as Railway, n. J.
out soliciting business of the new
comers-
New York is a city full of mysteries.
Percy Cushing has always wondered
what soldiers read The other day he
found out. He was near an armory
downtown and saw a big husky, SUM-
Drowned artilleryman leaning up against
a building and reading a magazine. He
Unanswered close to see what il was and
saw that 1t was st. Nicholas" maga-
zinc.
Walking clubs are being formed all
over New York for those crisp days. They
walk in groups and many prominent busi-
ness men are going in for the new craze
One club walked from the Battery To
Times Square the other day in one hour
and a half. The only people who seeEl
to object to the new sport are the taxi
cab drivers and they simply hoot the
| idea. They say it is silly.