The Washington herald., 1918-03-19

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, March 1S-Any hold
which the junk business may have
had on Julius BIumberg, OF Harlem,
has been lessened materially when he
was robbed this week for the fifth
time in two months Persons whom
he mistOok for customers dropped in
during the afternoon and, as usual
tapped him upon the head ana re-
moved all trinkets and currency from
his person. The loot this time was 80
and a gold pin. and. as Mr.. Blumberg
explained to the ever patient police,
1t is the last SO or gold pin with
which ne ever will be found The first
the police OF Harlem saw of Blumberg
was on January l, when he dropped
into a police station to say that he
had been in business just eight hours
and had been robbed only once.
He was congratulated and left a
package of language for the police to
think over at their leisure. Fully ten
days elapsed before he was back,
wearing the rim of a derby hat after
the manner of a necklace. He eX-
planned that persons unknown to him
had stepped in and bought two axles.
with which they petted him once upon
the forehead. removing all valuables
conveyed by him at that time.
Since then the police have Kept a
close watch upon the Blumberg junk
shop, with the result that he has only
been robbed three times in six weeks.
But even with the obvious improve
ment in the tempo OF the robberies MIR.
Blumberg expressed himself as dissat-
isfied in a voice which ratified windows
in Newark.
He explained that his business ad-
dress from this time on will be at al
most any point in America other than
Harlem. 1t got so that every time a
customer walked or staggered into his
shop he began looking for soft place
TO fall. He found it interfered with
his craftsmanship.
The kids are playing marbles i'm New
York and the rivers soft with haze
and in the cafe windows is dis
played the book beer sign, and the
season seems more pleasant than
spring in other days, for we've yet TO
hear a hurdy-gurdy wheeze die
Wacht Am Rhein." The grand organ
man with his monkey has gone to the
munition factory too.
AT the premier of lie Coo dor" at
the Metropolitan. The Bolsheviki was
represented. They came over from the
East Side. Most of them wore smocks.
Someting new for the Metropolitan.
A contrast from ropes of pearls and
low clut gowns. Oscar Hammerstein
was there too. He wore his high hat
1t was the first time he had been in
the metropolitan since his break with
the directors. Jack Pickford was there
too. Wore a new kind of dinner coat
trimmed in brown velvet Clara Tice
the artist was also there. She sketch
ed Caruso and he sketched her. A
man IN a box gave each 500 for the
drawings They gave the checks to a
war charity. New stuff. These quick
and short sentences. Dictated the
notes to stenographer. She wrote
1t out. How do you like it? Neither
do 1.
The dinner to Bill Synder, retiring
keeper of the Central Park Zoo, this
week will be one of the biggest affairs
ever given in New York. Bill has
been on the Job 80 years. He has
been clawed by wild owls, bitten by
Bengalese tigers, hurled high in the
air by elephants, sat upon by a polar
bear, his ear pierced by swapping
turtle and tramped upon by a bison.
Yet he lives. Children love him and
SO do grown-ups. The biggest men
in the city will sit at the banquet
board. Among them are Nathan
Straus, Henry L. Doherty, Arthur Will
liams, Paul Dana, Don Seitz, Mayor
Hylan, Gov. Whitman and many
others.
The dinner was the suggestion Of
the New York correspondent Of a
string Of papers No one else thought
OF 1t. The correspondent suggested It
to Synder. He agreed upon one con-
dition and that was that no ladies
were to pe present. Who was the
correspondent business Of blushing)