The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-11-16
dim BROADWAY
FAILS TO BRING
OUT LANTERNS
Ray Protectors Necessary
for Eye to Locate Lights
That Failed.
/ CHOP SCEY AS A BEACON
Theatre Signs More Dazzling
Than Ever Till SkidmOrc
Tires Sparkle.
CHOP SCEY AS A BEACON

It was quite enjoyable an hour or
so after supposed darkness had set in
last night to stand on any stretch OF
Broadway sidewalk and read by the
rays OF far spread dazzling glows COM
ing from the electrical displays in front
Of theatres. hotels. Chink chop suey pal
aces and regular restaurant fronts that
all Broadway had been darkened by
order Of Fuel Administrator Garfield.
In fact the new rule that unnecessary
electrical display signs. beginning with
the darkness last night. should In a
general way be dispensed with except
between the hours OF AS and II o'clock
made Broadway Just about as dingy as
a fvc alarm fire in a glue factory a
second after the roof had exploded off.
1t Is true that miles to the southwark
somebody had remembered to refrain
from unfolding against the night sky
the towering panel OF old silver lace
which is the woolworth building on nor
NAL nights
kitten Takes q Nap.
And until just before Gus or Max
began to tune up his orchestra In
the theatre music pit one could sec
through the dazzle oil glowing bulbs
stretching along both sides Of the show
shop district of the Great White Ray
that the electrically lit kitten wasn't
spools OF silk. nor was the st. Louis
brand OF electric beerhawk tapping its
wings from the rooftop down in the
Greeley Square neighborhod.
Also the chewing gum soldiers finished
of with pinheads weren't doing their
wriggley drill above Longacre Square
and no electric siphon and bottle were
filling an incandescent glass a block or
two above. and the small boy who had
announced each night for months that II
Is Time TO Retire" the car hadn't 20,
up. and nobody was spraying electric
f.rs over corso; TO prove ,ha; a woman
could put on one OF the contraptionl
without getting all rusty.
=, Ne Ose CarpieA . Lasterm.
But what were a few missing light.
among so .nAny thousand glowing one,
In front OF the restaurants the electri,
signs churchilled and rec,ored ant
stanleyed and healeyed and rcisenweb
cred and lacked and chopsueyed. and M
, and down Broadway and across the sid.
streets In the Roaring F'orties every
theatre facade, shortly after the sun hat
dropped out OF sight in shame. pro
/ claimed that herein was the creates
show that Marc Shubert or Lee Err
langer ever had spen. 100000 on t,
raise the curtain.
Maybe there was some dimness som,
place along Broadway. owing to the fac
that At least the hig signs. designed I,
advertise sorle particular product, wer,
sleeping temporarily. But there was =,
much light coming from the hotel. thea
tire. restaurant and sho3front signs tha
II hurt ones eyes trying TO find the few
blank spots where lights had been turne,
out. There wasn't the slightest need o
carrying a lantern or an electric pocke
! fash TO see where one was going eve,
before : AS o'clock.
Then Broadway Woke IN.
That's the way an onlooker felt, a
least. during the earliest part of tn,
night Then-zowle, Correct time
came flashing from the north end o
Iongacre Square. with a great clock fac,
in electric lights marking 7:+5 o'clocl
in hands OF fire Just beneath il. An,
the six soldiers with the pin pointe,
heads began to wriggle through theI
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