The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-28
SHONTS SIRES TWO
NEW CAR JOURNALS
"The Elevated Express and
the screen Car Traveller"
Cover His Outdoor Lines.
THRILL FOR HOUSEWIVES
New Sheets Posted on Passing
az" Trains TantaiiZe the
Ladies All Day.


Ladies All Day.
Subway Laureate Theodore P. Shonts.
the foremost underground prose poet
in the entire subway system. yesterday
Jumped into even greater journalistic
prominence by becoming the only two
story and basement editor in or out Of
captivity.
Not content with publishing merely
the Subtcay Sun-popularly known
among the thoughtful as "the SPRING
| field Republican of the UNDERWORLD
Editor Shonts. aided and abetted by
Managing Editor Henry Proctor Waugh
erupted to and above the surface with
two more journalistic publications. one
for the surface car trade and still an
other for the window trade on the ele-
waited lines.
An erroneous impression which i'm
mediately spread the length Of the en-
tire elevated system should promptly
be corrected. Before the day was min
utes old every housewife boasting Of
kitchen with elevated railway exposure
was forgetting her work to the extent
Of bracing herself on her elbows and
leaning far out the kitchen window
that she might get an eyeful of the
chatty. snappy stuff which Editor
shonts and Managing Editor Waugh
pronounced woof) had smeared all
over the FIRST page OF the elevated rail-
! way, or upstairs edition of the SubUdy
Sun.
Bigger Than tho Title.
Right away the erroneous impression
under consideration began to spread
With only a moment in which TO give
Editor Shontss new elevated paper the
east and west as the cars flashed by
the kitchen windows the housewives
got the notion that the name of the
papeN which henceforth win be seen
only on the windows OF the az" cars
was The Spanish influence.
This Is a mistake. The words Span
ish Influenza" II is true. appear across
the top OF the new 81" paper in big
block letters, really in type somewhat
clearer than the name of the new paper
But II the housewives had been able to
stop the trains opposite their windows
long enough to get a good look at the
the name Of the sheet Is The Elevated
Express. The more prominent words
Spanish Influenza" across the top un-
doubleday form the headline Of some re-
marks in the paper about the latest
disease.
This. at least. was the opinion Of ex-
perts such as President Rex Beach Of
the Authors League OF America and
other literary colleagues of Editor
Shonts last night when copies OF the
upstairs edition Of the Subtcdy Sun
were submitted to them for an opinion
on the knotty question. On the other
hand there were several journalistic au-
thoritles who insisted that Spanish In
fIuensd was the name OF Editor
Shonts's newest paper
As to the chief literary effort in that
new Il" paper there was also some
confusion in the minds OF those whose
only knowledge of the subject matter
OF the leading \srticle was gained by
fleeing glimpses OF the publication as
the car windows on which the paper
was pasted tipped by their kitchens.
ITO prevent the spread OF - 30 far
the literary inclined would read, but be-
fore they could get the rest of the
opening sentence the elevated car con-
ta'ning the pasted literature would be
away up, say, at the corner OF Third
avenue and Fiftieth street.
AS the day wore on readers got as
far as. TO prevent the spread of Span
ish influenza sneeze. cough or exujec-
torats or you must) an admonition
which many a thoughtless window gazer
believed was complete sentence.
Wherefore by noon admirers OF Editor
Shonts's journalistic abilities, ever ready
to accept his writings as gospel, began
TO sneeze and cough at every window
along the entire elevated system.
Use Up Their stock UseIe.sly.
Many citizens had only half a dozen
sneezes and two or three coughs left
before they learned that the sentence
had "A final phrase that ran. "sneeze.
cough or expectorate uf you musD, in
your handkerchief" In fact one old lady,
Mrs Gazelle Umpleby OF 1924 Kaiserhof
Boulevard The Bronx. ran out of all
sneezes and had but one cough left in
her little tenement when neighbors
found her.
"A Railway on Stills" Is another mag
NATIVE gem In the new elevated paper.
an EFFORT which glstens with the easy
flowing fancy free prose with which the
genius Of Henry Proctor Woof decorates
his original thought. "A Railway on
Stills" is substantial solidly con-
S'ructeu artlCIe, the type spreading out
fully half a foot at the lower part of
the page and thus keeping Mr.. Woors
ideas from being jolted over. even on
tho Third avenue elevated. Decorating
the title strip OF the paper is pen
sketch showing happy passengers look
ing from train that is gliding over the
top sector OF rounded dump in the
roadbed.
In order to avoid jealousy among the
millions of Editor Shonts's admirer, who
use the surface cars in preference even
TO the joys OF subway or elevated tracks
the noted editor also came I'D for air
yesterday with the Green Cor Traveller
for the literary trolley trade. THE
Right OF Way" is the leading article in
the new surface car paper. Space llmi-
tations forbid the reprinting here of the
entire article, which has to do altogether
with thoughtful discussion of the ever
present question SO often discussed less
gracefully between motormen on the one
hand and truck drivers on the other as
to who has the right of way. The snap-
per on the end OF the article is 10 the
general effect that the truck driver al
ways is wrong.
subway sun" Rises Anew.
At the same moment the two new
papers were breaking into the upper air
yesterday the presses OF the older Sub
'ody Sun began first TO grumble as II
troubled and then brought forth a brand
new infant issue OF the classic under
world sheet. Probably Editors Shonts