The Washington herald., 1917-08-04
New York, Day by Day
By o. o. MCINTYRE.

New York. Aug. s.-As Samuel Pepys
! would record in his diary: Up betimes
and to Carnegie Hall to see the men
in kits march and to hear them play
the bagpipe, very sweet, and more in
spring than the accordeen.
Much talk on the Rialto of the
draft and was filled with great Joy on
learning that one of the holders of
25S Is hat check man in a Broadway
inn. Verify, war has Its compensa-
| tions -
To lunch on the veranda of Mr.. Re-
gan's inn and saw there C. Harmon,
the flying machine man. and admired
| greatly a great blue stone he wore
in his cravat. Saw many ladies puff
fing at cheroots and a pompous man
with great paunch. was poring over
| a volume on how to lessen his avoir-
dupois.
Came b. Dudley. who told me OF the
little daughter he has at his home and
how he ried his mother in Kansas: "It
is a girl and looks like its mother.
thank God" And l also gave silent
, thanks for many have said that B.
looks not unlike me.
Atop a bus to a ladies' tailor with
my wife, poor wretch. and the clerk
wore pink spats and horrendous per-
| fumed oil on his hair and talked of
| the JOY of his art and 1 knew he
could register at the Martha Wash
| ington inn without a protest And
wondered If he had escaped the draft.
For a walk on Fifth avenue and
saw many pretty things In the shop
windows in especial a gay colored par
asol which / vowed to buy for my
wife until learned that the price was
f, four pounds. So instead l purchased
a bag of gum-drops. very sweet and
tasty. Saw G. Walters, the play
wright. in a striped benzine buggy
and thought of the times when We
used to labor on the same journal and
how fortune has favored him and
forced me to go afoot.
Home by tram and find a message
| from a. Roche. the scrivener. from
i Boston and hurried through the town
F.. went to a tavern and stayed late. dis
| cussing this and that. And so home
and to bed very weary.
| The dwindling value Of cavalry in
| modern warfare, the constantly dim.
! inishing number of horses in the city
| streets and the limitations of Meyer
! Ankovitz are three startling exemph-
fications of the horseless age.
In the Jefferson Court Giuseppe
Sesse was arraigned. charged with
| cruelty to animals. IT being contended
! that the tail swishing charger which
he was driving was four years over
! due at the soap works.
| The society had three witnesses to
! the condition of the alleged horse, one
! of whom was the ultra modern Meyer
Ankovitz, in front of whose stable the
| arrest was made.
Mr. Ankovits" asked the court
"are you familiar with horses? Could
you not tell that this horse was in no
/ condition to driver"
Il dunno" answered the witness,
! struggling his shoulders. Il drive a
ticksicib. 1 don't know nothin' from
! horse. l never operate one"
! Three huskily built men, with rosy
| cheeks. but doleful appearance ap-
peared before a New York Judge
the other day. They explained that
they were victims of the drug habit
and that they wished to be sent to an
| institution to be cured.
| Are you friends?" asked the Magi-
! strate. The three nodded affirmative
ly.
How long have you been addicted
| to the drug habit?''
-Four years they answered in
| chorus.
Have you ever applied for treat
| ment?" None of them had.
Let me see" said the judge "are
] any of you men included in the
| draft?" All of them were.
Get right out of my courtroom"
| said the judge. II wondered what 1t
| was all about