The Washington herald., 1917-10-20

Special correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York. Oct. 13.-The announce
ment by the College Of the City of
New York that It has opened a school
for apartment house tanitors. public
school janitors, library Janitors and
any other who may want TO special
ize in the art OF janiting hasn't caused
any enthusiastic handsprings Of joy
among the clfff-dwellers in this city
of four million.
The opening OF the school might
really be considered the most momen-
tous fact in the life of fiat dwellers
were il not for one little sentence
horrible to contemplate-in the an
nouncement. This incriminatory kick
er reads:
During the coming winter there
will be a cry louder than ever for the
conservation of COAL
Anybody who has ever raped on the
steam pipes of an apartment house or
listened to the janitcrs wife saying
the keeper of the furnace was around
at Jake's playing pinocle. or borrow
ed rugs from the neighbor or tore up
the parlor carpet to wrap many such
persons know that IL there has been
any crying at all it wasn't for the con-
servation of coal.
All such persons interviewed have
expressed themselves as certain that
there was plenty OF need for the
schooling of janitors But, they say,
the college Is schooling them the
wrong way. Teach 'em to be wasteful
of the coal-that was the unanimous
tenor, bass, soprano, and alto of all
remarks.
in hardly any other place will need
OF savings be so great as in coal
reads the announcement. When this
was read to Harlem commuters hur-
rying strapward to their homes they
all dared the reader to get or at the
next station and fight it out. Higher
education for the autocrats of the
basement is not going to be popular
with the masses.
A new reason for willingness TO dare
the clash of the Huns was placed on
record the other afternoon at a re-
cruiting station near the Public LII
brary. A man entered and said he
wished to be enrolled as a fighter for
democracy's safety.
Now a description of the man
wouldn't make democracy feel very
safe for her future-if looks had any,
thing TO do with fighting. He had a
face that even very few mothers would
love. Where nature had left of the
battle against comliness, scars had
taken up the cause and his features
had suffered a terrible reverse.
Just sign me up to go in and fight
them Prussians," he said to the re-
cruiting sergeant. II amt afeard OF
what they'll do to me. They amt
nothin' can happen to me what won't
improve my appearance"
Beefless day in the big notes.-the
Waldorf, Astor and Vanderbilt-was
the occasion for much comment in
New York newspapers. But the real
test will come when the cheap restaur-
ants and white-tiled cafeterias begin
beefless day. The patrons Of these
places want beef and want it red and
raw. One restaurant owner on the
Bowery said he expected a riot when
he refused a certain longshoreman
beef. That guy" he said, don't
read the papers and he's going to ask
me who this guy Hoover is, and I'm
going to have a merry time tellin'
him."
Seen around the town: An actor
driving a fiivver painted red. white
and blue. A little blind boy carrying
toy musket. A man with two girls
in a limousine weeping. George
Broadhurst telling David Belasco a
funny story. A hotel clerk in a black
overcoat trimmed with white fur. A
physical culture expert buying a bot
tie of patent medicine. An italian Ia
borer in a red shirt standing in line at
the Metropolitan. A girl in a stunning
roadster flirting with a traffic officer.
stray Harlem goat asleep in the
foyer of an apartment house.