The Washington herald., 1918-06-08

specinl correspondent Of The waAington Herald
New York, June 7-Walking. a
method of locomotion that went out
of style with the advent OF the flivyer,
Is due for a grand revival. A Brook
lyn court has decided that an auto
mobile owner is responsible fJr in
iuries suffered by friends who hap
pen TO be in his automobile just be-
fore Il hits a tree or tries to dispute
the right-of-way with a train.
Thousands upon thousands OF per-
sons who spend Sunday helping some
friendly car owner gasoline himself
into bankruptcy and the rest of the
week telling others what a rotten car
he has, will now have to stand around
and roast him as he starts OUT uls-
accompanied. all alone by himself.
With that decision staring him in
the face. even the owner who likes
TO take an audience along TO listen
to his garage patter will hesitate be-
fore loading his chariot with potential
law suits. In the Bronx and other
sections where it Is a common thing
TO see three or four adults and five
or six children stuffed into a half-por-
ton car, the decision will cause acute
distress.
The woman who sued was out riding
with a neighbor. The neighbor was
jolly well hitting it up along a smooth
road In the offing a big motor truck
was in charge of q fellow with moth
ing on his mind but his hat
There was n grinding Of brakes and
then the crash, and the woman who
sued found herself hanging by a per-
fectly good skirt TO the limb Of per-
fectly good tree. and to say that II
spoiled her outing is putting il mildly.
She was awarded 5000.
The owner of the car took her to a
hospital and paid for the arnica and
all that sort of thing. but the law held
that in this age of radical reform in
the relations OF mankind there was
nothing to do but assess damages.
There Is always an argument
over VINO is the best afte--dinner
speaker in New York. Irwin Cobb
has his following and so does JOB
Hodges But most banqueters
agree that Rennold Wolf. play
wright, newspaperman and wit.
has the edge on all of them. Wolf
was the speaker of the evening at
a dinner given to william Morris
by the Friars the other night. Here
is a sample of his wit: 'Mr. Morris
began life at the bottom of the lad
der. He was a painters assistant.
Now he's at the top, doing second
story work. Early in life he tried
a job, holding horses. He held them
for three nights and then opened
livery stable. After that he sank
to the lowest form of animal life,
becoming a vaudeville agent. For
the last ten years Harry Lauder
has been his meal ticket. Event
ually Lauder will get him out of
debt
In a Broadway window is dis
played a collection of colored col
lars for men. Some are green and
others are pink and others are all
colors. the name of the particular
brand of collars is "MiddleseN."
All the $4,000 or so-depending
upon the press agent-hotel chefs
in Gotham are competing for the
81, 900 prize offered by John McE.
Bowman, of the Biltmore, for a
perfect wheatless bread. The chef
who wins it will also win undying
fame for his hotel. The chefs are
not the only hotel persons showing
eagerness for the prize. Such
astute hotel geniuses as the Only
Oscar. Copeland Townsend. l. NJ.
Boomer and Walton Marshall have
shed their coats and are snooping
around in their bakeries trying to
find the ingredients that will elm
mate wheat and help America to
win the war. It is difficult to be-
lieye that blase. New York would
take an interest in bread making.
But it does. The papers are full Of
the progress that is being made
from day to day. Nearly every New
York paper has a food expert now
who gets q salary nearly equal that
of the managing editor.