The Washington herald., 1918-06-18
Special Correspondent of The Washington Herald.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, June I7.-smartly clad
young japanese gentlemen escorting
pretty young American girls around
the pleasure haunts OF New York
used to be looked upon with a lifting
OF eyebrows-but not any more In
any smart gathering American girls
with japanese companions may be
found.
In the select dining-rooms where
the lights are low and pink the ming
ling OF the two races can be seen as
well as in the spaghetti joints where
ink flows free and red.
There are a large number OF veal
thy young japanese In Gotham-bank-
ers, brokers, art dealers and i'm
porters. They have become strictly
AmericaniZed-patron the best
tailors and haberdasheries to say
nothing of the barber shops and
manicure parlors.
Nearly all OF them become expert
dancers. In fact enc young japanese
banker Is said to be as good as Yer
non Castle ever was and has been
offered theatrical engagements to do
ballroom dancing.
One OF the most exclusive japanese
clubs is on Fifth avenue and around
4 o'clock the finest automobile equip
page in New York can be seen out
front. The Japanese clubmen go in
for the o'clock Scotch and soda.
Many doors OF the Four Hundred
homes are opened to them. The coun-
try clubs have many Japanese MEM
bers and they are to be seen daily on
the golf links.
, Quite a stir was created recently In
one OF the ultra dining places when
the father OF a well known young
society bud apeared and demanded
that she Immediately leave her din
ing companion from the Far East.
The young japanese seemed to be the
coolest member OF the agitated group
and insisted that both go home in his
tufted limousine-an offer which the
father haughtily refused.
1t has been remarked that rarely
have Japanese girls been seen dining
publicly in the Metropolis. Another
slant on the japanese comes from
the police department whose records
have never carried the arrest OF
Japanese for vagrancy. The same
applies to the Chinese with one eX-
ception. The lone exception is
| Bowery character known as "Old
Horse and Wagon" who panhandles
amid the fading glories OF Chinatown.
Time is our most arbitrarily linn
ited possession. And so 1t Is that
many bachelor New Workers who
are in Wall Street are moving down
below Fulton street so that they
can get from their Offices to their
apartments in a few minutes. In
their downtown apartments they
can have a privacy as great as that
OF the famous "silence chamber" of
the National City Bank or one of
the vaulted rooms Of the National
Park Bank. Below Fulton street
after o'clock is like a second edi-
tion of The Deserted Village"
Gentlemen who thrive on statis-
tics could find interesting work in
figuring out how much of that
treasure of es-time-count-
less New Workers waste in being
shuttled down town mornings by
subway, L or surface cars. What
interesting reading such figures
would be for men like Pope Yeat-
man, the great specialist OF the
Guggenheims. who works in New
York and sleeps in Philadelphia
No more Gin Rickeys! Until the
end of the war, the cooling drink
is on the contraband list. Sense
can't be walloped into the Kaiser
too quickly to suit the Park Row
Cooler Club, the broadway Irriga-
tion Society and affiliated organiza-
tions. Lines have run out. Lines
take up too much valuable cargo
space coming up from the West
Indies and the government will not
listen to reason. The last ship
ment Of lines sold for 10c apiece
whereas they used to sell for 1oc