The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-09-28
New York, Day by Day
BY o. o. MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent of the Washington Herald.
New York, Sept. T.-Pete. the Blue
face. has retired. All Broadway,
knows Pete. For ten years he has
been standing in Herald square with
his pencils and shoestrings, gathering
in the change from sympathetic pedes-
-trians.
Pete's face is blue. He got too near
! powder explosion when he was in
coal mine in West Virginia, and
much OF the powder lodged under
the skin giving him a CHASTITY ap-
pearance. He was nearly blind and
wore heavily smoked glasses. Pete
made enough in ten years public beg
[, ging to buy a nice chicken farm up
near Rye. n. Y. He is said to be
worth $4,000.
And speaking of beggars, loiterers
about the Jefferson Market Court wit
messed an amusing spectacle the other
afternoon. There is an aged woman
who has for years sold pencils at the
side of the courthouse. She wears one
of those funnel shaped hats which
seem so much in vogue among the
mendicants this year. Her plea now,
and always has been, PLEASE sir, buy
| a pencil. Give me penny for bread"
A heavily stimulated person rocked
out of the entrance to the courthouse
and passed the aged woman. She made
the usual request for bread money. and
the man stopped unsteadily and be-
Saarrhfp.y nnrkata He fnnL
out many pieces Of change and after
regarding them somewhat dizzily.
poured them into the cup before the
woman.
Lady" he said somewhat thickly.
for six years y been eating bread.
| Here's quarter. for the love O. Mike,
buy some meat
Among the things which belong in
or come from-Third avenue is an. &C.
casional innovation of such worth that
1t merits special recognition. All over
the city there are barber shops which
advertise the fact that the operators
cannot receive tips. 1t has remained
| for Third avenue to add the final lure
| for the bearded or raggedly named. At
| Fortieth street and Third avenue a
tonsorial parlor contributes the last
word.
"Shaves and hair cuts in silence"
Arthus Feust, consulting engineer
from Utah, breezed into New York this
week, and attended banquet at the
! Engineers Club. Several of the guests
were the Mclean Kilties, of Canada
A feature of the menu was SQUAD on
| toast, and one of the Scotch veterans,
after asking what 1t was, proceeded
to cover it well with tobasco sauce.
He ate a couple of bites of the burn
! ing liquid and then with a low cry put
/ down his knife and fork.
Lay thaur an bu-r-r-n domn We"
he said. Then turning to the waiter
called: AYE mon, I've had eneuch
o. this. Gie's a shellin's warth o
ham vie ye? An say, laddie, bring
| a bucket of ice water"
| A throng of boys became involved
| in an argument over the ownership OF
a baseball bat at Eighth avenue and
10th street. The method of arguing
in Eighth avenue involves throwing
something through something else, and
the bat went crashing through the
bakery window.
A policeman arrived in due time
or over time-for the boys had Ned.
| one of the mattresses explained all
about 1t. In such cases policeman
must obtain the name of the person
interviewed and later the desk lieute-
nant was amazed to learn who had
given the policeman his information
The report read: Charlotte Russe'
when seen, said:
The policeman, after the interview
had COPIED what he believed to be the
| owners name from a sign in the WIN