The Washington herald., 1917-08-20
New York, Day by Day
BY o. o. MCINTYRE.

Special Corrsspoudent q the Washington Herald.
New York. Aug ls.-Hot nights are
best for adventure, especially down on
the East Side. Down there they seem
to sweat life out of the pavement to
drive human nature into the open.
One of the night frolics now is to
turn on the water hydrants when the
police are not looking and men, women
and children in old garments splash
and sprawl around to keep cool and
they seem TO have more fun than the
crowds at the beaches.
In the little park at Coenties slip,
nOtched in under the fantastic cliffs
and pinnackies OF skyscrapers, the
SCARED wrecks washed up from the
ocean OF life sit dropping asleep or
drunk or qucrulously awaiting the
awful breaking OF another empty day.
The other night John Reed, the mag
azine writer, dropped down in a lit
tie bench in the park hunting for ma
terial. One human wreck was address,
ing another. Huxley says" he qua
vered, that the end OF all human ex-
istence is not thought but action"
That never got me a drink. -
mumbled the other, gazing with bleary
eyes eastward.
In Baxter street-lined on either side
with secondhand clothing shops-the
children at night run about naked.
Mothers and fathers lay upon their
backs in the doorways of tenements,
snoring and stirring.
The most popular man in Baxter
street is the ice man. He chips of
bits of ice and the kiddies scramble
for them. They would much rather
have ice than candy or money. It
gives them temporary relief from the
heat.
The complete, final last edition de-
tails of why Elizabeth Koheller re-
CARDS her husband, Max, as less than
wonder. and more Of something else
were revealed in the Court of Domes-
tic Relations.
Mrs. koheller was anxious to
learn whether she would have her
husbands earnings in Jail il he
were sent there, and upon learning
that she could not. arranged to
have him remain aloof and send her
$40 very regularly.
rs it true" asked the Court,
that your husband has not worked
in four years. that he drinks
heavily. frequently strikes you,
throws furniture at the household
pets, has pawned your jewelry and
his own and has been arrested
twelve times since 1852"
Judge" said Mrs. Koheller. "you
don't know the half of it. If that
was all the trouble 1 had with him
we'd make up"
So that it would appear that Max
is, to say the least, mischievous.
Broadway's chic butterflies can
continue to wear their court plas-
ter beauty spots without fear of
suffering from tetanus innocula-
tions, as has happened in other
cities. The board of health has
completed examinations of court
plaster gathered in all sections of
the city. Beauty spots are a part
of the dress of all members OF the
chorus and when the news of the
German outrage was first received
there was a wild panic among
them. Now they may continue to
wear the beauty spots and a yard
of chiffon which makes up the
greater part of their stage attire.
The Lafayette Baths have been
closed. The notorious place down
on the fringe OF Park Row was
long the scene of many underworld
activities. 1t was the rendezvous
of those mixed up in the murder
of the gambler Herman Rosenthal.
Gunmen, pickpockets and all the
flotsam and jetsam of the under
world with the polished crooks met
there. it is said. 1t was long un-
der police espionage and after the
suicide of the manager the patron
age fell off. until there was only
one thing left to do, and that was
to lock the door.