The Washington herald., 1917-07-28
New York, Day by Day
By o. o. MCINTYRE.

New York, July E.-As Samuel
Pepys would record in his diary:
Awakened early by the patter of rain
and fear that the good Bishop Swith-
en- has placed his blight on the town
for 40 days. Came for breakfast e.
Breitigan, the chronicler, from Staten
Island and tells me OF the strawberry
shortage and l replied. wittily me-
thought, that perchance the pickers
were hungrier than usual this year.
Much talk of this and that and
thanksgiving that Harold B. Wright
has not written a book on the war
and G. consents that the babies who
were named after Lord William Jen-
nings Bryan in 1896 have finished their
first year in college and notes that the
school Catalogs show their names with
initials only.
To a music hall and hear young
man converse in Esperanto which
seemed a waste of time. For a walk
in the rain and see A. Hopkins. the
play manager, and A. Belmont. the
banker, and a ragged street gamin
pCering into the high iron fence
around the home of {. Vanderbilt.
To a luncheon in what was once the
Astor stables and ate in a stall
occupied by a famous gelding and
pretty maid served biscuits with hon
ey, very tasty, but when l saw the
bill formed a dislike for the place
and shall not go there again albeit l
did not pay the charges but left it to
d. Clarke who was my host.
Home by stage and depressed by the
weather. With my wife. poor wretch.
to her cousins and played talking
machine and danced the quadrille.
very fetching. And so home and to
| bed.
The ultra-ultra club De Vingt-
where beer is a dollar a glass because
it encourages wine buying-is again
in the spotlight. Despite the fact that
ii is patronized by the upper crust it
! was recently raided by the excise Of
| ficers
This time the neighbors on fashion
able East Fifty-eighth street are COM
planning. They charge that the value
of their property is being destroyed
/ by the noises at night. The motor
vehicles waiting for the Club DE Ningt
patrons are said to extend two blocks
! on either side OF the club house. One
| of the particular nuisances also COM
! planned OF is a "Jass' band.
Policeman Delano stood on a corner
! in Hairless Black Belt the other
afternoon when he was approached by
a negro whose eve was fighting against
comparative odds to become black.
! Well. George" questioned the po-
| liceman, who gave you that nice lit
| tie hickey?'
II jes' come er purpose to tell you
about it," responded the negro dis
mally. "S6mepin' sho' oughter 10 be
! did to some NV d. niggers in dis ave-
moo. 1 was only e. walkin' erlong back
/ FOUNDER and 1 big. yaller man run
/ up to me and he SEE, Boy, 1 wants a
! quarter quick 1 tells him 1 amt
no quarter for him or nobody else
/ by myself and den he draws back an
bus me right in d. eye wifi alley
! apple"
"a WHAT" demanded the policeman.
What's an alley apple?'
why, a brick. boss, what you folks
call Irish confetti"
There is well-known and able
| young. actor who has a position in a
theater which permits him to choose
his parts. He chose failure always
because he would not go into a thing
unless It was rather fine.
The popularity of the thing didn't
matter. AS a result his funds have
vanished. The other day he was Of
fered a fine part in fine play, which
will probably never be a success. The
same evening he was offered "a weeks
in the movies at $1,000 a week.
| He has asked all of his friends what
| he should do His friends tell him
to take the money. Acting is a hard,
! hard life.