The Washington herald., 1916-07-19
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY o. o. MCINTYRE

Special Correspondent Of The washington HeraId.
New York, July lS-Well, II had TO
happen sooner or later, so Il might as
well be over with Capt Paul Koenig
has been wired an offer OF $1,000 a week
by New York vaudeville magnate. n
Koenis had accepted. the magnste would
probably have paid IL, too. and been glad
Of the chance.
But Capt Koenig has an engagement
to take his boat back TO Germany. II he
ever came 70 town he would be royalty
welcomed. He has scads Of admirers
There. for instance, Is Kenneth Beaton
He was born in a little town in Canada
His grandfather never wore pants IN
Ill he was 20. He wore kills and talked
like Harry Lauder, al hsggiS. liked the
bagpipes, drank Scotch, smoked a pipe
and carried on 50 that he ruined his
health, and along toward the end he
died at the early age Of sS
Bear with US. Wen soon get TO the
meat OF the story. Well. Beaton grew
up without any grandfather and IN his
home they had horeshsir furniture and
II was slippery and he would slide Of.
and so he got mad and came away TO the
United States
When the war came along he said he
would be neutral like everybody else e1-
cept the pro-Germans and the pro-allies.
/
British consul or the German consul So
you can imagine how popular Koenig is
with New Workers. when Beston sent
him this telegram: You are all right,
and ] like you. II they ever get you,
they'll be getting somebody that is worth
while" Coming from born Canadian
II might be regarded as real admiration.
A young man sat in Central Park one
afternoon making eketches Of horses
along the bridal path. A pssserby re
membered having seen him clad in 4
jumper and hustling trunks at the Ma
5estic across the way. II is an occUps-
ton not closely associated with art
The young man was Henry Irert and
he drew the types on the bridal path-the
sport-shirted boys with the pulse pound
Ing syncronously with the muffled,
measured beats OF the horses hoofs.
Well. somebody saw Iffert and that
somebody told the editor of the Sunday
World Magazine about him. Inert was
asked TO submit his sketches and the
World Magazine published a full page
story about Inert and his struggles
against adversely. That somebody Incl
dentslly was the writer
But Iffert's struggles are over now for
rich New Yorker has become interested
and is going TO send him TO Paris just
a soon as the war is over 70 study.
Although Guido BrUno's garnet went Up
in smoke. his magazine stiu lives and
brea thes. yes. it fairly snorts. In one Of
its recent issues there is q poem by
Jeanne d'Orge, whoever she Is. II Isn't
poetry. II is-weu we pass the buck TO
the reader. Here It Is Try It on your
piano.
have a longing to strip raw i've nesh
From my bones
And squeeze it in the meat pres&
Blood will drip
Enough TO write few lyT1oS
Red and sacrementsl
The two Automat restaurants on Broad
way have proved so popular that two
more are going 10 be installed between
Times Square and Columbus Circle Peo-
pie who hesitate at the dairy lunches and
cafeterias 90 boldly into the AUtonat.
When they get in they try 70 act like
they had never been there before and
just wanted to see what Il was like One
Aashily dressed young man td this over
and over again each day until the reSU-
lars get tired Of It When he went out
one day. they pinned this sign 20 his
coat tail. I'm an AUtomat Hound
come here every day. but I'm ashamed
Of II -