The Washington herald., 1917-08-12
New York, Day by Day
BY o. o. MCINTYRE,

Special Correspondence of The Washington Herald
New York, Aug. u.-New York is en-
tertaining Louis Raemaekers, the
noted Dutch cartoonist-so hated by
Germany that big price is on his
head. He Is her to draw cartoons for
a number of American newspapers on
war topics.
He has been visiting the Park Row
newspaper shops and meeting Briggs,
Fontaine Fox. Webster, Kirby, Darling
(Ding) and the rest of the noted
picture makers of Gotham.
1 talked with him the other day in
his apartment in the Vanderbilt Hotel,
I asked him about the Kaiser and he
declared that in mis- opinion Wilhelm
is the dupe of those about him.
Said Raemaekers: You know what
his father said of him to Bismarck.
Look out for Wilhelm he said, 'Hc
is as stupid as he is square headed.
He Is a religious bigot and a hopeless
egotist."
The cartoonist's apartment looked
much like the art room of a news
paper office. The carpet of the bed
room was covered with bread crumbs
A hunk of stale bread, seemingly
much henpecked stood on a table
Bread crumbs, IL you must know, are
the best of erasers
In the attics of Washington Square,
they say, artists use the stale bread
for erasing and afterward for porridge
Raemaekers Is blond and strong look
ing. Like most cartoonists he is fond
of cigarettes which he smokes inces-
sently.
He is very much interested in the
electric signs on Broadway. The
cat tangling up the spool of thread
in electric lights appealed to him
immensely and he stood for a halt
hour watching the young lady In the
rain with her umbrella high up on a
Forty-second street building.
A novel angle on the war was
obtained with practically no difficulty
from Tony Gesippi, who shines shoes
for living in Herald Square and de-
clares that said living seems to be
eluding him something scandalous.
''Thees war;" said Mr.. Gesippi,
speaking through the middle isle OF his
splendid mustache, lees make me seek
like anything. Forst thees regular
army she goes away-75,O00 men got
two shoes make 10000 shines gone
out o. town.
Alright. Then thees militia, he go.
Lota more shoes goes away. Now
some OF my bes' customers they goin'
from the draft. Pretty soon they be
nobody in thees town but oil mems and
cripples. Ol mans no want no shine.
cripples he's got only one foots Thees
war make me seek like anything"
The last trip of the last horse car
driven by the last horse car driver and
conducted by the last horse car con-
ductor has been made in New York.
The trip was made on the Bleecker
street line. which with the passing of
the last car also passed out Of COM
mission.
The line has done practically no bus
mess for more than two years and
was run at cost of about 1900 a
year while the receipts from fares for
the last year were sl6.
Motion picture men were on hand
and took photographs OF the passing
of old New York as the car started
on its never-to-be-repeated journey.
The two horses-Pete and Bill-will be
turned out to pasture for the rest of
their lives.
John the Baptist, No. 2" hailing
from Chicago, is on his way to New
York. But this ]. the B. travels in
high-powered automobile and prob
ably would turn up his nose at such
frugal fare as locusts and wild honey.
His mission is to make Broadway
pure and as "Stuffy'' Davis, the far
famed Rialto press agent, says 1t is
some mission. Many have tried 1t
but the simple truth is that Broadway.
as wicked as it is, wants to remain
Just as it is.