The Washington herald., 1916-07-28
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY o. o. MCINTYRE


SPECIAL Correspondent ot rns wsasnr- H,-.Jd
New York, July z.-Thts nttl. letter
appeared among the letters 20 the editor
OF a great New York Newspaper:
We are two poor v1dovs vfllfnS TO
ork, but cannot get anything TO DO. as
We are advanced in years. We suggest
that we get a hand organ. and make a
living that way. VIII you kindly tell US
bow 10 90 about fl and where to apply
for same?''
a reporter scentinE a sob story started
In pursuit OF the two widows. He found
them. They were living IN one room
over Bowery store. One was IS ard
the other 70 years Of age.
Fifteen years ago they lived in tbs
fashionable section OF lower Fifth ave-
rue. They had their own carriages,
their own servants and were living a
g quiet and peaceful life OF plenty.
And then the war came along. Stocks
that represented their modest fortunes
were swept away. They were penniless
but they were proud and so they moved
over to the East Side where no ona
knew them and they tried 10 get some
thing TO debut they were too old for
any kind Of labor
Before the reporter left, he was askei
not TO mention their names. The &C.
porter told his city editor the story ard
he also agreed mercifully not to write a
| story about them. A subscriptlon was
taken up among their old friends very
secretly. As a result the two old ladies
will be sent to q home for old peorIs
where they will be taken care OF corr.
! fortably for the rest OF their lives
The dance craze seems 10 have died
down and then fIared up again.
watched some new dances in Old Can
/ 4 hFrr
the other evening. There is a new twist
to a one-step which seems 10 be quite
popular. 1t is a simple little thing and
consists in running TO one side for several
steps and then pivoting into a deep dip.
/ l thought l could DO It friend in
troduced me to a denure young thing
who was a professional After two turns
| around the pavilion she asked me II I
liked the floor.
1t Is excellent very smooth indeed"
replied
well" said she, why dour YOU
stay on it" have given up dancanE
for the season It is not worth the en-
barrassment in costs.
Some people simply cannot remain
neutral There. for instance, is the scion
Of an English family who caught q large
German carp near Princeton, N J. After
his catch he said hatefully: The Ger
man carp is a logy, loathsome smphfoisn.
No fish can live in the same water with
them. They are the fresh water hofs
After eating everything In a pond they'll
climb out wiggle over the fields and
milk the cows"
That is carrying the daily hate too far.
indeed.
When the body OF a suicide came hurl-
ing through the air from the tenth floor
OF the Bltmore the other day. an auto
mobile containing six people was grazed.
The driver stopped his car with the
emergency brake and looked back. What
he saw so unnerved him, that he was
unable 10 drive his passengers home.
| This same driver, a Frenchman, is home
| from the war zone on a furlough and
| confessed that he had slept with manned
| bodies all about him, but he expected
| il over there-and this in the heart OF a
peaceful city was quite different. This
! is the second suicide by leaping from
the Biltmore. The former manager Of
the hotel leaped from the roof to the
court yard about two years ago.