The Washington herald., 1918-01-17

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York, Jan. 17.-There is in New
York-unIess train setvice to points
in all directions has improved-a man
who has accomplished the impossible.
He has secured a drink OF water at
one OF the high-priced midnight roof
gardens.
This unsung hero went atop a res
taurant roof in good faith with three
companions at midnight. He paid so
for four seats and sl2 more to keep
the wine supply from jelling. All had
been seated and all looked well when
one Of the party asked for glass OF
water.
The headwaiter looked at them in
amazement. They couldn't have water.
that was all. Water was not served
to persons who came to enjoy them
selves on the roof. Water was suit
able only for initiating milk, adding
heft to sponges and bringing about
the construction OF bridges and any
one who drank it was beyond the
ken and beneath the notice of any
roof garden headwaiter.
1t was suggested that persons who
fell into the atrocious practice Of
drinking water might bring their per-
sonal Gunga Din with them, but that
while the management kept its health
and poise there would be no water
served ON the roof.
Then one of the diners-and he
comes from Toledo. Ohio-arose. placed
one thumb confidentially upon the
throat of the waiter and told him that
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turned there would be an immediate
efforIto toss the roof and furnishings
to the street below.
The head manager, il appears. slant
ed his head far enough toward this
brief demonstration TO learn the gist
of the recital and came over TO say
in his inimitable baritone that water
was a rather strange thing TO serve.
but IL the group there gathered were
addicts he would do what he could to
obtain il for them. The waiter
searched the city and returned with
four glasses half filled.
And still the sale Of the George NJ.
Cohan song. "Over There" continues
to boom. Cohan. it will he recalled.
wrote it in half an hour and got $5."o
for it. Now the publishers have pub
lished a Canadian edition with the
text in French and the sales in Canada
are reported to be nearing the sales
of the American edition. As Eugene
Kelcey Allen, the BrOadwayite re-
marks: THAT guy Cohan is just ct
up with luck"
A headline writer on the Evening
Globe pulled a divertinG caption the
other day when he wrote: New
York's Death Rate for 1917 Lowest the
City Ever Enjoyed"
What next? 1t was the luncheon
hour in Lobsteria. Broadway's board
walks were crowded. The red-shirted
subway workers were eating their
crusts-sf bread and gulping their beer.
Louis Mann was at his accustomed
post in front of the Astor canopy
passing airy persiflage.
The noontime street hawkers were
selling their patriotic emblems and
chorus girls were sallying forth for
the champagne drenched bites. Out
OF a high-priced eating pavilion came
n White Way Don Juan with red
rooster on a silver leash.
He walked up and down broadway
trying to be oblivious of the attention
he was attracting. Those who looked
at him closely saw that he wore a
lavender shirt and white ermine spats
and he also wore huge diamond
solitaire on the outside of his gloved
hand.
Frankie Bailey, for years pride OF
the Weber & Fields chorus. now places
her Justly celebrated and shapely
limbs under a desk every day. War
work has claimed the woman who
ti,tf so nuch to make musical comedy
what it is today. She is clerk in the
rdead letter. department OF the post
office She makes SIS a week and says
she is happier than she was in the
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