The sun., 1916-01-29

The commot.on around seventh ave-
nue. and Flfty-fourth street. which now
has become known to the stage folk
who live in apartment houses in that
neighborhood as the Battle of Dilpicklc,
has finally begun 20 settle down to the
snonotony Of trench warfare. Both
Freddy Degner. who is IN supreme COM
mand OF the delcatessen store on the
ground floor OF the oregon apartment
house on one side Of Seventh avenue and
Edgar Allen, vaudeville hooking agent
by day and at night in command OF the
rival delcatessen In the Ad,on apart
ment house across from the oregon.
promise "A big drive any day now, but
the drive probably will not take place
until spring.
When war correspondent flashed
proper credentials yesterday afternoon
and was permitted to walk along TIE
danger zone stretching between the bot
Ting delietessen shops there was. for
tunatey, next to no lighting going on.
Miss Blanche Ring was playing sotr"
place out In the tall timber and nobody
ese IN the neighborhood had so fas got
UP for breakfast.
But the dour expression on the face
OF Looeegee Pazzaza. who was COM
manding a pick and shovel brigade along
the curb in front OF the oregon, showed
that bitterness still was rampant
Brig. Gen. Pazzaza tthe name sometimes
Is spelled P0zzazzah. but the General per-
sonally prefers the Arg..ciZrd spelling
Pazxaza, or three rs onlp must have
been called up on the carpet BY the
censor shortly before the war corre-
! vsn he.
sisted when interviewed that thu eNcava-
ton being excavated under his di-ec-
tions had to do with the fur,hepnce Of
the new subway extension and was not
Il first line trench to protect freddy's
delicatessen from Ed Aliens dclicatesseiL
Vow, Really. who Did IL:
The gross r.sul, yesterday Of efforts
TO tnd out which side had begun the
war was the information from Freddy
that I'd started IL and from Ed that
Freddy started H. Freddy Is getting
out, he said, AN elsborat" edition of
Burnt Orange Book with afidavits
from the Misses Belle storey and
Blanche Ring. Sine Silver,nan, owner Of
Variety: Harry Won Tilzer. the great
composer Willie Hoppe. the htiiardist ,
/ Novelist Walter Kingsley, Frank Pan
| els the male Mary Iickford ~ the
| films. and other residents Of tn" Oregon
to prove that I'D started the de,.ci-
! lessen war without the lghtrSt provo
| cation.
/! Ed. on the other hand already has In
press Heliotrope Book filled with state
papers exchanged by Tempest and sun
shine. Joe WEIGH. the noted manager vito
made George Cohdn what he 's to-day
Joe Schenck. the Courtney sisters and
Ed himself. TO list but a few Of tho
inmates Of the Adlon. which proves con
c.usivcly that Freddy started the war
An impartial inquiry into the situation
however brought forth tn" following
facts Abcu, year before th. h.ginninr
Of the other Great War, Freddy l'egn"l
grasp-d the financial po>s s.hiltics 81 op. n
INK "A delca.essen shop at a spot en-
tirely surrounded by IN" Oregon. the
Adlon. the Idaho. tho Wyoming ant
other apartment houses cloggcd with mer
and women player FOLK. Wherefore
Freddy, being no ptk"r. rented q store
in the oregon and opened tn" ldrg"s'
ld.licatesssn Manhattan and the cntir'
world ever had seen
Freddy's delcs'"ssen promptly AS
sum.d that position IN tn" thci'rtca
section of Manhattan enjoyed by Sylv"s
ter'S general store tt EuN'i~, Ne. W.
Ke,ly's grocery between Wikcsharr" an,
Ashley. Pa. Loui" Nirh,is tr SuuN
Bend, Ind and I'd Painters dry good
and grocery emporium at ii"llaugonc
Mon
Not only Rlancho and Bo'lc and Wal
ter and Slime and everybody else Twins
on the upper decks ~ tn" oregon as
semh..d IN Freddys ~ a night To- buy
their din pickles and other fruit 70
tine next evenings breakfast, but Jari
and Joe and r,urcst and SuuShu" A.,
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