The Washington herald., 1917-03-13
New York, Day by Day
By D. q MeINTYnE.

special correspondent of Tl,e Wazhinstou lI-y,h
New York. March 12.-Gotham has been
skloding along for years and years with
out an Echo Club. But now IL looks IKE
one win be formed. The only place where
one may ind an echo IN New York ts
In the rock tunnel west OF the Ramble IN
Central Park. =
MORGAN Kingston. the tenor. and Fay
Iempleton. the actress. found the spot
Wnere voice Will work IN two shifts
Mr. Kingston stood on the north side
OF the Ramble and sang Where 10 My
wandering Boy Tonight?'' and the
lyrical question came back.
Fay Templeton stood on a balcony on
the park side OF the Majestic and sang
a few high notes and got the same effect,
Then Mr.. Kingston poured forth a few
liquid notes from an aria toward the
Museum Of Natural History and got the
same enect-the notes came back tol
home plate.
They had previously tried to find suI
echo down In the csverns OF Wall StreetI
but yell as loud as they could there wasl
nothing doing.
Before the shrapneI began TO dis
turb the air waveE In Europe people
with money and the makings OF an echo
need TO go over TO the well-known Mat
terhorn and yodel to II by the hour. but
now. with a fairish reproducer right in
our municipal midst, any one who has
an echo on his chest may take IL out
in the park and exercise It with a re-
triever attachment
In the jefferson Market Court three
young men were araigned the other
morning charged with attracting a
throng at Ninth avenue and Eighteenth
street by talking loud and acting in a
boisterous manner.
Had you been drinking previous to
this disorder asked the Magistrate
The apparent leader OF the trio rose to
his full height, which was extremely
Your honor" he said. y hope We do
not look like drunkists"
In a few nerve-rac cking weeks Il is pos
sible-yes probsbIe-thst the visitor TO
New York will be paying for his con-
diments That is to say he will pay
for such things as chilli sauce. catsup,
meat sauces and even salt and pepper
In New York hotels.
Some time ago when the public blest
about the butter and bread outrage had
loosened fragile chunks of atmosphere
Il was thought that this charge OF 10
cents was the last word in extortion.
But some OF the descendants Of Jessie
James VINO conduct the big New York
holcls have decided that salt and pepper.
chilli sauce et al cost money and that
now that food is jumping q is tho aus
piCious time to make their Great Spring
GoUge.
Many hotels are now making q ''CoU-
vier'' charge OF % cents per person-that
Is Il costs each person 50 cents he
fore he bcgins 10 order
The Reptile Study Socie,y. which WAS
formed = year ago. now has = mCnl-
bership OF 90 il gave its first au-
nual dinner last week at the Sign of
the Dragon in Chinatown. attended
as the guest Of A. s Williams, who
knows every serpentine wriggle in the
book
Some pins were stuck In several bal
looms Of snake fiction. For instance there
is no such reptile as a snake which takes
its tail in its teeth and forms itself
into hoop 10 roll about the country.
Also a snake has never charmed a
bird and no one has charmed or trained
a snake. snake can be easily tanned
but never trained. The so-csIlcd milk
snake doesn't drink milk and n"V"r milk
ed COW. I also learned that a snake
hears with its forked tongue Il was
an interesting crowd or men present and
l was gra teful that not one brought any
Of their pets