The Washington herald., 1918-07-13

New York, July 12.-Alderman
Tom Farley lives over on the East
Side where a guy can eat plate of
corned beef and cabbage without the
help of a jazz band. and toss of a
couple of schooners into himself
without doing a bunny hug to work
up a thirst.
He is used to eating without a
flock of chorus girls making so
much noise that not even the best
soup in the world has a chance to
make itself heard. Consequently
he was. to say the least, surprised
when he ordered four rounds of
drinks in wild rose aud gilt cafe
on Broadway and had a S13 chunk
bitten right out of his bank roll
not including the iron man for the
naughty gareon.
But he has had his revenge. AL
derman Foley has introduced a bill
that may recoil on all Broadway
Food d-Drink-and-Jazz Purveyors. He
wants them put under the same law
that applies to theaters. All the
cabaret men were present at the first
hearing and tearfully told their side
of the story.
They claim that New York would
not occupy the proud place it does
as the first city in the country un-
less the cabarets were kept open.
Many of the spectators suppressed
full-fiedged giggles.
Incidentally there was a new slant
on the family history of the word
cabaret. A lawyer for the cabaret
men said that the word "chanson"
was the original word and that IT
came in from France by way of San
Francisco. where it was called
cabaret"
A "chanson." it was explained, Is
a place where singing may be heard.
Why it came from France by way of
San Francisco. unless it wanted to
see the rest of the world before 1t
got here did not make itself clear.
The work or fight order is going
to leave Frank w. Frueauff, only
partner to Henry L. Doherty, entirely
unruffled. IL one is to believe the
1918 Directory of Directors. Life for
him is one directors meeting after
Ill public utility companies. But il
seems he is used to hustling. He used
to hustle extras on the well lighted
streets Of Denver. Mr.. Frueauff. how
ever, has found that work is not so
bad as some people paint It. He has
found 1t makes for perfect health.
1t is pretty tough to be a fish these
days. Masters of ships recently ar
irving at Atlantic ports report passing
numerous carcasses of porpoises,
sharks and whales-innocent by
ISLANDERS all, who were shot because
of their unfortunate resemblance to
submarines.
The bodies OF seven whales, all ap-
parently killed by gunshot wounds.
have been washed ashore between
Cape Henry and Henlopen.
"A fish doesn't stand a living show
off the coast now" the commander of
a coasting steamer said the other day.
III whale dares to come up TO
spout. it's q 8 to 1 chance that shells
will begin to drop around him in a
moment. If. he is killed, the gun
crew announce that 1t has sunk a SUBJ
marine. If he isn't, they announce it
anyway
A horse trader might well be proud
of the diversity Of the recompense
that Frederick Brown received in ex-
change for his apartment house on
upper Broadway. =. He built it out Of
his savings and he has just exchanged
it for country estate at Canterbury,
Conn.,. an oil property, at McAIester.
Okla, and an improved corner in
Kansas City, Missouri. And the other
day a man in the Bronx traded his
residence for cafeteria out in San
Francisco. While he was en- route
West the home. he traded burned TO
the ground, and the new owner had
no insurance. ....-