The Washington herald., 1917-02-05
New York, Day by Day
By o. o, MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, Feb. If the police and the
public generally will be patient for a few
nervous weeks Giuseppe Sessa will at
tempt TO learn how to use the subway
without interrupting. As he explained in
the West Side Court. II he had not asked
? civil question and obtained a rickety
ANSWER from an unspeakable Broohynite,
he never would have been arrested.
Until two weeks ago Mr.. Sessa was the
lessee director of one OF the most promi-
nent OF the shine parlors frequented by
the younger set in Utica n. Y. Since ar
riving in Brooklyn he has been looking
for opportunities in the great city, and so
he vontured into the noise and confusion
of Manhattan to see a man regarding a
lease.
He was bound for West Sixty Eighth
street and some unidentified scoundrel in
Brooklyn told him to get of the subway
at Seventy-second street and walk back
the four blocks. and Mr.. Sessa, very nat
uralIy, and with what might be called
easy nonchalance, strolled back on the
downtown local subway tracks.
a train caught up with him. and he
sprinted. The motorman stopped and the
police came into the case at SiXty-sixth
street Mr.. Sessa explained that Brook
lyn was to blame for his seeming mis-
conduct, and that he would never do prac-
tically anything again. He also intimated
that there was considerable less confusion
In Utica.
jeremiah Andrews. aged u, has re-
! nounced the grocery business once and
forever. a Third avenue grocer was the
complainant against the irritated Jere-
miah The grocer said he had sent the
boy out in the world with a basketful of
canned goods and dairy products, and
that was the last he had seen Of him un-
til he saw him in court and he never eX-
pectcd 10 see the basket again in this
life.
jeremiah explained that he had started
out to deliver the pesky order. when a
man ran up to him, handed him letter
and told him to dash at top speed TO the
Fourteenth Street Theater and to give
! it to stout man with a brown oNercoat
who would be either standing or lying
down In the lobby, depending upon how
he had been acting during the afternoon.
4 dollar accompanied the letter and to
say that jeremiah few is putting it con-
servatively. He found the man. deliver
ed the letter and then began a long
search for the man with whom he left
the basket on the street Dreading a
scene jeremiah simply didn't go back to
the grocery
Although he is as cosmopolitan and
polygiot as the rest of his kind. he is diff
ferent. He speaks French with the same
| ease that he does German and both ltal-
ian and English with scarcely trace
| of an accent. There always seemed an
incongruity in the name stout by
which he is known TO the wide circle OF
New Workers. who visit him in the grill
at the Majestic
Those who know that he WAS by birth
an Austrian, although his residence in
various parts of the world has removed
all traces of his native speech and man
nCr. were more than ever puzzled TO
know why this waiter should have the
English name of Stout.
when l first came to this country,
he said the other night, Il was fat
there is no trace of that now in his slim
figure-"and Stout was the name by which
1 was known. Everybody called me Stout
and the word practically took the place
of my own name.
ut served in good stead however
when came to be naturalized My own
name would have been unpronounceable
in English. BY an inspiration I gave the
name Of Stout when / was asked by the
judge what I wanted to be called"