The Washington herald., 1918-11-19

Special Correspondent of The Washington Herald.
rsew York, Nov. is.-One of the chief
charns of Manhattan is the cosmop-
ollte that may be found in any part
OF the city. Night was coming on the
other day In the Syrian quarter. Dark
eyed men and women returned home.
10 the Orient from the Occident.
men IN the street. facing the set
ting sun, bowed very low as they said
thelr prayers to Allah. Pedestrians
old not give them a passing glance. In
New YORK no one pays any attention
10 what the other fellow does. He Is
TOO busy with his own affairs.
IN New York one may be all over
Europe in one evening. Five cents
esrfare lands one I'm the French dis
trict. Five more minutes lands one in
Hungary and from Hungary 1t is a
snort tramp of fifteen minutes to
Italy or Greece or Turkey. as the
spirit moves or indication directs.
IL is possible to eat breakfast in n
RUSSIAN restaurant on East tiftn
street; have caviar and Bolshevik
tax; go for lunch in China, on Mott
street, where they will serve you tea
grown on the highest mountain of
ASIA for dinner you can have your
choice between Persian. French. Hin
du or Greek menus. and still have the
cuisine of dozen other foreign ma
uonalities to choose from il you are
alive the next morning.
And down In the Syrian quarter
there Is excellent food and delight
full atmosphere. There is Malouf the
coffee maker. He is Mohammedsn
gentleman. born in Constantinople lie
hall L., 81. II l..
face Is as dry as smoked parchment
and he touches the ground with his
forehead twice a day. at sunrise and
sundown, as it is commanded in the
Koran. He holds forth on Washington
street, which is a stones throw from
the Statue of Liberty.
The Syrian quarter is one of the
most colorful Cigarette makers sit
tailor fashion i'm their windows rolling
monogrammed cigarettes and seem
ingly smoking more than they roll.
Jewellers also sit in their windows
and make rings and brooches. The
women in their gay colors move up
and down the streets with their
children. chatting, happy, and gay.
The slickest wrinkle yet i'm thieves
has been caught. He wore the con-
ventional high hat, spats and neat
cutaway that all .high-class crooks
wear. He visited apartments that were
to be sub-let. While he was in con-
versation with the owner a knock
would be heard at the door. While
the owner answered the knock the
thief took the jewels. 1t was discov-
cred upon his arrest that he was n
ventriloquist and could make his voice
initiate a distant knock.
She is hat check girl who re-mar-
ried her husband shortly before he
went across. The other day his name
showed up in the casualty list. Sne
was told she would get $4,000 insur-
ance. She quit her job and spent all
of her savings on a few things she
had always wanted. Then she found
it was another man by the same name
She is back at work again.
Two thousand women disappear in
New York every year, according to
the recent records of the police depart
ment This is n tabulation of miss
ing cases" reported to the law and re-
corded in the dossiers of that reliquary
of social dilemma, the Bureau of Miss
ing Persons. Most of these missing
cases are washed up by the waters
which wall about this greatest Of
mans settlements More than 80
bodies were recovered from streams
and tides about New York in one
month recently. Dorothy Arnold
has never been accounted for and
neither has Helene lone Bennett who
stepped out from the Old Astory Lii
brary eleven years ago and was never
seen again. Dorothy Arnold has been
reported in 514 different places at dif-
ferent times. but Miss Eennett. an OBJ
scure young woman, was never re-
ported as having been seen after her
disappearance