The Washington herald., 1918-11-02

New York. Nov. Ian adventure
born OF impulse took a maRaxins
writer and myself out OF our com
Portable surrounding sand made us
gentlemen boarders' IN one Of the
most famous theatrical boarcsng
houses In New York in the forties
The boarding house is one OF rnoes
musty brown stone fronts In the final
stages OF delapidation.
According TO that roon-rentina
mine Of information. the Evening
Telegram, in its final pink extra.
there was a room TO rent there and
Ito ring F1arigan's bell" So we
1ipped the button under the card
marked ''F1ar1gsn" and were ushered
into the presence Of the landlady.
whose Broadwayesoue comments
formed the basis OF the colorfui Sun
day stories that Helen Green. now
in Alaska. used TO write for the
Morning Telegraph.
Mrs. Flarigsn should be drafted
into the Secret Service Immediately.
We lied like gentlemen bosrosrS
and told her that we were playing
the Considine circuit. but on account
OF the influenza scane had come 70
New York from Bridgeport TO lay on.
She listened to the story, broke into
old a bird. You're not hams Whs6dH
va doin'? Tailin' q spy or are you a
couple OF space writers looldn' for
color? One OF the two or I'll split n
bottle OF beer"
There was nothing TO DO but tell
her the truth. and she satisfied her
self by calling up city editor known
by all Of US. and We got a back room
on the third floor right nert to a
juggling team opening at q Harlem
vaudeville house.
That night at dinner we ate at a
large table seating twenty-four. prob
ably the only old-fashioned boarding
house table left in New York Mr..
Flarfgan-and that is not he- name
sat at the head. The chronic dyspep-
tic was there, too. and the star
boarder. and all the types Of the al
mAnac jokes.
A dapper little baldheaded man who
is billed as Keno. the htno-readinE
Marvel. broke the conversational To-
nv declaring that he believed he han
Spanish influence" Then q solo sc-
cordian expert recited his experiences
with a similar malady while PLAYING
in Nome. In q short while everybody
was talking The familiarities were
easy and pleasant. The food Wa
brought in on hesping platters and
passed around.
A sIatternIv maid who served every
bodv wound up her part OF the pro
gram by passing the toothpicks and
no one refused them Later IN the
| evening when all returned from their
engagements they sat around bic
open FIRE in the parlor. The bens were
, comfortable The next morning a.
every door was q bottle OF milk and
| cruIlers in a paper bag. There was =
smell OF cooking in every room. Mr.
| Flarigan told US before we left that
there were nineteen dogs In the
{ house Hams have got TO have
| dogs she explained. -for the more
they see OF people the better they ike
'en."
This is a true story OF New York
business life. A human triangle the
fnancier. the East Side barber and
the red-hsired telephone girl The
francier. head OF a vast enterprise
Used to 20 over TO the East Side 10
be shaved by an Italian barber. FIN
aIIv he gave the barber & place as a
salesman. The telephone gin and the
barber fell in love. A few years aEo
! they were married The former bar
her has lust been given next 20 the
biggest Job within the gift Of the hig
| enterprise. HIS old customer who
gave him his start has been dis
missed. The barber and the telephone
! girI have country homes. town houses
/ and limousines and are patrons OF tho
| opera They DO not speak 10 the
I financier. Why should they
A COPY reader. borrowed from tho
/ ka he
| took Nazareth. gave Park Row a col
| Iective giCgle by the following gem:
British Take Christ's Home Town
The American Red Cross has Civ
| en- $500 70 the city OF Dinan lCotes