New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-20
The Coming 70wer
IN THE CITY WHERE NOBODY CARES"

o ,nj tbey are soft-heared these New Workers.
But how they hate to have people know 1t!
r. isn't really true Bruce, that nobody cares
In this old town. 800
ors- the friendly desert Palm Springs,
Where YOU wake up to the surprising sight
~ ced rosered mountains plotched with shadows of Yale
blue
"A Get m at four of February morn,
Irst 70 beat the old suns scorching rays
On YOUR bi-weekly excursion
To the nearest P. o.
AVID return to find a fair-szed rattlesnake
Comfortably curled up your erstwhile sleepingplac
Among the army blankets;
And because know so well
How really much people do seem to care
Out there
But any came along by Union Square last week. alone
N nv own little air-cooed car,
And heard a group of weary shopgirls sigh aloud
While waiting for a never-never Brooklyn car,
And one of them called family passed. "Take us along
Over to Brooklyn"
ca stoned the cart took about block
For wa were speeding some Benjie and l.
And waved to hem till they running surprised and
speechless
And all piled in
Five of them (Benjie's built for only FOUR
And told me where they lived;
Then we there Williamsburg Bridge IN all the rush
OF evening traffic
It wasn't my way home at ALL
1t wasn't raining either all of which to prove the good
old truth:
ASK and it shall be given you."
If I had seen you, Bruce,
That cloudburst day, and offered you III,
Would you have come?
Or been a little chary how you climbed
Into the car of an unknown chaueuse? I'd really like to know
But at any rate, thing is sure
Those ten umbrelaed men should all be jailed
III bet of them
Has ever been out West SYLVANIA
I read your plantive pome
About tn indifference
OF the City where Nobody Cares,
And your homesick longing
For the Mojave Desert.
And bethought Of the time
When ! was West
And gosh! how hated It!
And how glad
get the city where everybody isn't everlasngy
pokng his shiny into everybody's business
And wanting o know where you come from
And what you working at?
Most odious of questons.)
And what did you out West for?
And what did yer used ter do back East?
And everything.
And I remembered
How I'd encountered more kindness
In three months of New York City
Than in three years the Dragging fourushng boosting
shouting breezy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES it's empty
handed-West.
And, Bruce old top
decided
To make you a present
OF the Mojave Desert,
And everybody in il;
If you'll leave m my mnikin corner
OF the City Where Nobody Cares:
like it, LOUIS
Brce old Kid YOU said bookfu Saturday morning
Via The Tower
If had your knack of expression, maybe
could land and so talk to you
Ny dearly beloved stamping ground was
Next door yours
The West Side Oil Fields.
And, for an instance where
In that little 50x10 (mle) plot
Would vehicle driver not stop
To take aboard humble plodding dusty "Bundle Stiff,
The country where man is counted
Square, and questions asked,
From the start and remaining so
Need 20 hungry ragged
Though hard luck pursue him forever.
"A little homesick" you say.
Why, man.
Mines ncurabe aimentl VANcf
AZ what o. Henry called the Voice Of the City, New
rS the city nobody to have 1t thought that ne
res But It is the caringest town in the country
Dear dear New York the city where nobody cares to take
trouble 10 write in anything but so-caled Free Verse
How many there, especially in New England that
ght be tagged "The City Where Nobody Dares"?
On Mental Inertia
Sir appear hypercrtca but recently published
entitled "Dunsany the Dsmat Edward Hale Beadt three
e. refers Synge play "Thc Riders 10 the Sea-
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