The Washington herald., 1917-10-03
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New York, Day by Day
BY o. o. MCINTYRE

New York, Oct. At was on the
Far Rockaway Express. The smoking
room was filled with commuters
weary from toll at their desks and the
business Of buying and selling. They
read their evening papers or lay back
eyes half-closed, their thoughts on
the dinners awaiting them.
Smoke filled the air. curling in
wreaths and streamers-the blue-grey
smoke of pipe and cigar and cigarette.
Outside the car. beating upon its
windows, a sunset famed.
1t was a sunset Of rose and yellow
and the faintest, softest green and
these magic tints were placed in a
sombre setting of blue-gray - the
cigarette smoke caught solid in heavy,
tumoling masses. The sunset glow
painted the fields and the water so
that they shone metallic, reflecting
the sunsets splender.
But not man within the car
noticed-not one turned to look at the
glorious color. That is, no one except
little plodding book-keeper. He
seemed hypnotized by the beauty of
it all.
And turning to a man with his face
buried in a newspaper filed with
tragedy, he remarked. Just bit shyly
Il wonder. sir, IL crime and poverty
and war and all those hideous things
which are afflicting the world-if all
these are not caused in some deeply
subtle way by mans own indifference
to light and color and beauty.
wonder
"say." was the curt reply, whats
eatin' you? You better quit jabbin'
yourself in the arm You're getting
dotty already"
An the shy little man turned away
and sighed.
Seen around the town: A cub lior
hauled through the streets in an ex.
press wagon. Toupee removed from
the head of a well-dressed man by 8
gust of wind. Mrs. Richard Harding
Davis in an automobile reading the
love letters In a magazine that she
wrote to her husband. An under,
take in a checkered suit and whit,
| spats. A near-sighted man asking 8
| clothes shop dummy for a street di
rection. Rube Goldberg crawlins
under his big automobile showing how
scientifically to chew gum. A dramati,
critic refusing TO shake hands Will
well-known producer. A profes
sional SoGtherner being escorted ou
of a big hotel lobby. A woman carry,
ing a little white puppy in a handbst
on her arm.
Men and women eager to learn t.
speak the language of the poilus anC
that of the Parisienne now have theil
chance in New York hotels. Tn
Vanderbilt. Majestic and woldor
have established classes for an hour!
instruction each day. Guests ar
given instruction free-and some wa!
on a newspaper has intimated that i
Is to help the guests order what the,
want from the New York hotel menu
There isn't a wiser cat anywhere
than Red Mike, pride sof the men o.
a fire engine company on Eas
Twenty-fifth street. The reporter
were called IN the other day to se'
Mike at his best. He slides dowr
the pole from the second story a:
well as any red-shirted fireman. HI
knows how to fetch boots, shoes ant
other articles belonging to firemeI
| and, he can actually distinguish thu
difference between, alarm bells. Wher
| the men start out to answer ar
alarm, Red Mike is always ready or
his seat beside the truck driver
As a result of his cieverness Red Mike
got his pictures In all the New York
newspapers.