The Washington herald., 1918-07-15
By DMc

New York. July 15.-As Samuel
Pepys would record in his diary:
Up eariy-it being kept a great holy
day through the city and the skies
were filled with air machines and a
great parade filled the streets. With
my wife. poor wretch, by electric
tram to Port Washington on Long
Island.
Came Mistress Sheridan in a gaso-
line wagon and over the heath TO a
brave veranda where much company
and jolly bantering and donning my
noble fianels to the courts and played
badly. During the game my opponent
cried "Thirty-Love" and at that mo-
ment a squad OF soldiers passed and
We had the guiltiest OF feelings.
At high noon to the beach for a
plunge i'm the bay and came a LADY
with the most immodest bathing COS
tune ever l saw and 1 was late to
the luncheon gazing at her and the
meal the best ever i ate with garden
vegetables newly plucked.
Afterward We played a game called
Red Dog" with cards and lost >
shillings and the game interrupted by
the chore boy with news that my dog
had become victor in a melee with a
neighbor dog and / very proud al
though the beast limps badly.
In the late afternoon for a drive and
saw the home of George NJ. Cohan at
Great Neck-a fine estate, and also
the home of Wilson Mizner. who has
a ferocious wolf chained in the yard.
And also we saw the estates of
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kathleen
Norris and Fontaine Fox, very fine.
Around dinner time we climbed a
great hill to the home. of Mr.. Baxter
and he served a drink mixed with
apricot brandy and juice OF grapefruit
and. did magic with cards and coins,
all very merry. Then TO a country
club for a great dinner of clam
chowder, broiled Holsters and potato
salad and chicken.
Afterward dancing and skylarking
and a trip out to a lighthouse in a
canoe by moonlight Then home very
late. but with great content and so
to bed.
Jimmy .aCrdona. aged L years. is
dead, and Vic,' his scrubby little dos,
mourns beside his cofin. for Jimmy
died in what he believed was q des-
perate effort TO save the pups life.
He and Vic went down to the creek
for bath. near Flushing. The dog
Jimmy watched Vic breasting the
current, turned his head away for
a moment, and when he looked again
the dog was gone. .
The boy did not hesitate. He plung-
ed in. splashed out toward where
the puppy had disappeared and then
the current dragged him under They
! had dragged Jimmy's body to the
bank when Vic came bursting from
thicket and ran barking TO his lit
ttle master. ..
An unusual crook caree came to
an end near Atlantic City, one day
last week when the skull Of yScootch"
Thomas, OF Manhattan, was crushed
like an eggshell with baseball bat.
Thomas had been crook for twenty
one year but he had only been in pris-
on nine months during that time. He
had been arrested for everything from
burglary to murder in. ten different
| States, and at the time of his death
was wanted for assault, and battery
and burglary. He was killed .by a
pal with whom he was riding in .
stolen automobile. Thomas was the
victim, Of city environment, He came
to New York a rosy-cheeked boy
when he was II years of age.SHe was
regular Sunday school attendant
but in some manner fell in with the
Gas House Gang. He began petty
thieving and finally wound up b,
being involved in a series of MUIR
ders. The, career of Thomas fits in
with play that is TO be produced
in New York this fall called "City
Made 1t is the story of boy and
a girl who come to New York limo.
cent and fresh from the midwest
The play unfolds the influence of citS
environment-one winding up as I
dope fiend and the other as a woman
of the streets,