The Washington herald., 1918-04-04
Dads old ones.

Hersldl
New York, April 3-New Workers
have had revealed TO them the real
truth of the profits in nat snatching
Susskind. young Bronx boys. who have
de a business Of selling back hats
TO residents Of our fair city. since
1910. have quareled and gone TO
court. Joe insists Harry is holding
out on him.
He says they have made $4,000 pro-
fit in checking hats in seven years.
The brothers made 50, 900 the first year
net, but that was not a fair esi-
mate for in a later year they cleaned
up $1ll,OO0. The two young men have
controlled the hat snatChing privileges
in twenty-five hotels and a great many
theaters in Manhattan for some
time.
The tremendous profits show that the
Mad Hatters OF Manhattan" had
price on nearly every male head in
! the city. The Susskind Painless Hat
| Removing Company was organized at
the time Joe was pinch hitting at the
Hotel Astor. He knew how TO snatch
lid, that lad.
He was stretching out his palm so
well he had no trouble getting his
! brother Harry on the same team as
regular player. Their team work soon
| became the talk of the CheCk-room
| league They made the most difficult
stops. Nothing got away from them
| silk hats, straw hats, fuzzy hats or
! caps. They finished the season with
| perfect fielding average and decided
to 90 in business for themselves.
| About this time the Choker collar
worn by nearly all check girls came
| into vogue. 1t prevents them from
| making way with tips by dropping
| coins down their neCks. At one Broad
way hotel 1t is said that hat snatch
ing magnates paid $lo,Gr0 for the con-
| cession.
The check-room graft has been de-
| veloped to such a high degree that
| the patron who comes in with hat
and a walking stick has two checks
| forced upon him and finds upon lcaN-
! ing that one attendant brlnES ms nat
and another his stick.
Year after year the Susskind BROTH
ers have seen their profits increase
| In addition to the money proht th'S
| accumulated quite an assortment OF
| hats as the result of the own"rs not
having enough left to pay the poll
tax after settling dinner checks. The
brothers have been able also TO buy
| two large summer hotels on Long
Island. That's about all they have 10
show for their hard labor. Nearly
every man in New York is their Gus
TONER
The hest story of the week Frank
w. Frueauff. oil and gas masnaie'
was telling of an AGED woman VINO
had lived a sort of sQuatter's exist
ence on a patch of shore at -\alantic
Highlands. She had no friends and
lived absolutely alone.
At night she rocked away in her
little hovel. Sometimes she read a
| little-but most of the time she sat
| in a state of retrospeCtion. She was
quite deaf. Over at Sandy Hook is
the proving grounds for the great
army guns.
| One evening forty-eight Of the big
| guns were being tested at the same
time. They were shot off almost ST.
multaneously. There was reverber-
ating boom. The old lady stopped
rocking, waited a few seconds ana
then yelled: Come in"
George Anderson former leading
man and husband of FRITZ Schef' has
quit the stage flat-just like that. lie
has gone into the tailoring business
on Fifth avenue. He says his decl-
sion was based on reciprocity. When
he learned that most of the outton-
hole makers and vest makers had
! gone on the stage or into moving
pictures, he thought it was only fair
for actors to replace them.
Up along the Hudson near the ap'
proach to Yonkers is highway
photographer who snapshots the auto
mobilists for so much a shot. He
works mostly at night and he has
made a fortune fiashlighting JOY rid
ers in convivial moods.