The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-05

, old one jauntily pushed over his eyes, scrambled across the gang plank still | talking excitedly about the incoming of the captive giant of the sea.
 It was really rather wonderful as a wartime incidens and I consider that the 9 cents l spent on that round trip" gave me the best patriotic thrill 1 have had since I landed.
 DISCOVERING NEW YORK In fact now that am actually setting the machinery in order that will even tually put me on my journey across the ocean, am beginning to discover" New York and I am making all sorts of weird journeyings around and about the city.
 The other day, for instance, I felt that had not yet become acquainted with the wonder of the elevated railway sys- tenn of Manhattan island, so I took a trip at the expenditure of the usual nickel and enjoyed the privilege of looking into , other peoples windows as we clauked and clattered along Sixth avenue and Columbus avenue and the various other streets and avenues that cover the route. must say that the Il" does not show the Empire City at it's best
 In fact, I thought the experience of passing through the dingy streets on level with the third-floor windows of more or less respectable citizens rather a depressing one, so to vary the monot- ony of my "adventure"s I continued my trip back to Bleecker street, where looked at Dago New York summing itself
 in the rather watery beams ox an April afternoon. Then, suddenly I found myself in Greenwich Village, and I walked, wondering, along the rather slatternIy pavement of the famous "MacDougali alley" which may be artistic" but " hich certainly is not clean.
 Exactly why New York's Bohemia pre- fers to live in basements I cannot quite fathom. I find that around Washing ton square as we'll as in the tenderoin district the restaurants and tea pla ces that are most frequented are sunk just a little below the level of the pavement. The heat and atmosphere in these places seem to me terrible, but obviously this is no bar to their popularity and for tunes must. be made by the proprietors of these kitchen-level resorts.
 The place that most satisfies my ideas of dignity and beauty in New York is Washington square and the lower part of Fifth avenue. There, indeed, is to be found the true expression of elegance. and comfort in the solidity of the beauti- full old houses and the spacious calm of it's atmosphere. This quarter reminds me of an old fashioned English square. with suggestion of Paris in the middle part of the last century. If I had to make New York my home, Washington square would be my ambition place of resi- dence. a33
 U. S. SOLDIERS IN ENGLAND
 letter from London tells me of the fine impression made throughout the kingdom by American soldiers. Every one is very bucked by the sporting way in which the Yankees have allowed themselves to be bngaded with the French and our own troops" writes my correspondent, and great things are hoped for now that the united control of military affairs is really decided upon. Theatres are nourishing here in~ Lon don in spite of the restricted hours T went to see Hall Gaines latest the other night-'The Prime Minister. am afraid I am not deeply impressed. It seemed to me rather futile melo- drama
 "The Irish players from Dublin are also with us. Personally, ] am in no mood to find even Irish actions humorous at the moment, and when the orchestra struck up The MiGstrei Boy to the War Has Gone my stock of patience gave out Everybody here in the theatre seemed to think the iacidsnt funny