The Washington herald., 1917-06-07
New York, Day by Day
By o. o. lfeINTYnE.


New York. June o.-It IL an old
baphn 10 chauffeur OF a cigar store on
broadway. The other evening a high
ly perfumed man With a waxed mus
tache dropped In for cigar. He
in the place and bought two for a
dollar and stai ted out nonchalantiy.
suddenly he tui ned about and put
DIS hand up 10 his right eye. he
swore, mutered, ground his teeth ana
He had lost bis eye, ne explained,
he had many enga gements. II would
take month to match the eye.
He finally gave Mr.. Laplln a card
upon which Was engraved Count An
wrote the name Of the Ritz. He would
be back at II and II Mr.. Laplin found
u 10 the meantime he was TO take IL
to the hotel.
The eye. q uninjured. would bring
reward Of $50. The count strollcd TO
Mr.. Lapl n searched the store from
the front door to the back but
couldn't find the optic.
within an hour a MESSENGER boy
dashed in-al messengers dash-and
bought a box Of cheap Cigarettes. As
he was leaving the door he stopped
over and picked up something. Mr..
L9p In ieaped over the counter and
threw his arms about the boy. The
boy was belligerent. He didn't care
spS Hnp owned owned me eye he would keep it
Mr. Laplin's go was fading. The
ooys sneered at an offer of g. And
ne kept on sneering until the rate
was raised TO IS. This he accepted.
MT. Laplin waited for the ciunt but he
dldnt return. The police were called
and told him he was the victim OF an
ancient swindIe. At the Ritz there
was no Count Andres de Bandlein
stopping there.
The Palsis Royal has opened oppo-
site Rector's. II is supposed TO be the
most expensiyely furnished dining
room In New York. It smacks Of the
old Cafe de la ofera where only eve
nlng dress was permltted-and which
tailed because Of It. The PaiaIs Royal,
however. has not made the evening
dress order. AS an attraction il has
Frttizi Schens revue. The interior Is
decorated in an Crbanexque fashion
with soft lights to bewilder and Jazz
bands, MiIimba bands and Hawiian
the oance music. The revue is fea-
turing the song III Had A Son for
Each Star in Old Glory" which gives
patriotic touch and never fails TO
bring cheers from the diners. There
is a grand staircase which looks like
1t might be dangerous to walk down
especially for those VINO have dined
well but not wisely.
This is the time Of year when own
ers OF New York ararlment houses sit
in front Of q big ornate fireplace, ask
the butler TO hand them the telephone
and then call up the janitors to tell
them to put out all the fires in the
furnaces-for it's spring and IL il isn't
warm it ought to be. As a result the
apartment house dwellers huddle
around the silent radiators and shiver
It Is q hard and fast rule that no
heat is to be furnished after MAY /.
And yet people will live in apartment
houses.
Frank Ward O'Malley, who knows
Broadway from Harlem to the Bat
terry, declares that IL was Mike Dom
lin and the late Mabel Hite who
brought the fox trot to New York
he also traces the humble beginning
Of the cabaret TO Billy McGlory'S
place. A policeman who aided in the
cleaning thereof was none other than
the handsome Capt Jim Churchill,
owner Of Churchill's restaurant.
where the cabaret now nourishes
Eilly McGlory was once known as the
"wickedest man in New York" An
outraged public OF the eighties closed
his place down on Hestor street.