The Washington herald., 1918-04-11

Srecial Correspondent of The Washington Herald.
New York. April lo-The ferryboats
to Staten Island and Jersey City pre-
sent a phase OF metropolitan existence
that is as interesting as the second hand
clothing shops of Baxter street, the
push cart vendors OF Hester street or
the tough lads Of Mulberry Bend. The
old tubs are always crowded-jam-
med with polygIot, jinkle tumble OF
folk.
The boats are great double deck af-
fairs and have promenade walks
around them where the glutton for
exercise may spin off a mile or two TO
whet his appetite for the evening
meal
promenade on late trips will in
variably reveal couples of cutie Cud-
dlers sitting 50 close tocethcr that an
adhesive plaster could be considered
Stacker in comparison. An accordion
player accompanied by doleful warb-
lers or a violinist and a harp player
furnish the popular airs. Passengers
may dance il they are SO inclined.
Always there is an unstable but
friendly souse, whose liquid load, ac-
Cording to an impressiouist poet,
sloshes around with such realistic
rhythm that il makes the passengers
seasick. Then there is the tired baby
making life miserable for a pair OF
inconsiderate parents.
Down at the stern Of the boat are
series of blase googooers who -aze
soulfully into each others sentimental
orbs between kisses. They do not
'Tbat- do
know them and may never see them
gain and they must have some place
to spoon.
Once a year or so, IL you are lucky,
YOU can see a suicide flop over INTO
the dew opposite Ellis Island. Then
there are the bootblacks-one must
never forget them. How could one
They make life miserable by beginning
TO shine shoes before you give your
consent
In the reading room are the tired
business men studying the financial
columns for the next day. When they
make their killing they will move up
on the Drive or on Fifth avenue.
When they talk to each other they
talk of Rockefeller and Gates and
others who have made their fortunes.
Down on the lower deck are he
truckmen. They smoke their pipes and
IL a cop is not on hand they roll dice
or play a round of poker. Going home
on the ferry is an event in most of
the passengers lives. It is the one
thing to which they look forward.
The stage door Johnny and the
Broadway faneur have been wallow-
ing i'm joy the past week. The Food
Administrator has declared there is
more energy in a quart OF milk than
there is in four and one-half pounds
of lobster. Thus he urges patrons OF
Lobsteria TO buy milk instead Of the
vermillion lob.
Lobsters are IS a throw-a quart OF
milk about 20 cents-and so the Chaun-
cey- ey-of-the-Scrambled Cerebellum can
follow the victorious sirens with the
belladonna orbs without blowing hole
| in his wad. He can insist that she
| drink milk II she desires 10 be pa
| triot. And. too. if the chorus girl fills
UP on lacteal fluid there is less room
for bubbles.
The Johnny can take the girl he
| admires to the dairy lunch now and
get away with il. He will not be con-
sidered a piker-he will be a patriot
And Johnny is looking for a chance
! TO be a patriot without going TO war
Indeed he is.
Young men o~ Gotham have learned
| TO beware how they allow whiskered
strangers to kiss them. They have
taken to heart the case Of Matthias
Michitch. Of Harlem. who suffered
himself to be saluted in true Russian
fashion by a man he had never seen
| before and later discovered that his
wallet with $500 was missing.