Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12

| Hcrce pnts mto MS Wkpot. everything
that fotos from his pen spdrkles and fsses.
He Is steamship engineer, no,o servino In
the British ndrp.
Mediterranean Meditations
BY William McFee
! Engineer sub.Lieutenant r. Mr..
! PART n
| 7 WAS just getting into real touch with
New Orleans life when I quit toctoeer,
1910 II ID q most curious city Every.
body knocks II. Everybody hatAs Il, or
says so> ana have hAd to hammer the Bar
ana make the half.shell ,dsnisens rattle
arnons the ice to convince than that Il IL
hne town and chock-f o. interesting
people. places .and things. Many 4 hAlf
hour ! have spent in sprinssrs IN Royal
street polishing on dozen on the half
she'll ana . pint Of the best Many
saserac cocktail has csshe to me across
| that wide tesselsted pavement between the
orAss rail ana the regal free lunch tables
| served BY an ebonite potentste in white
apron ana snowy cap. Many gin nxx
| have I suspirated in the Crescent, that
most convenient bar where you can dodge
a bore IN Canal street BY scink out at the
have ] dAwdled over in Antoine's, at the
Bourbon, a. Old Hickory on carondelet ana
| Conrad Kolb's German Tavern. Poor old
| Conrad had bad time in September. 1919
| we used to gather at the Cosmopolitan IN
| Royal street and then march down to
kolb's, order sehnitt apiece and start
| ''Rule Britannia"
| I NET queer start there-an English
man named smith Mr. Smith was
wisened little shrimp Of a man you could
| almost crush between thumb ana nnker.
He appeared suddenly in my friend ALI
| sons secondhand bookstore during the
! Huerta- villa. .carrsnsa scrap. He was all
| in, had lost everything. Had been Govern.
ment interpreter at c., was engaged to a
| large Mexican girl, whose photo he carried
next his heart. He was As nervous as
| kitten. Ne money, no trade, nothing. we
aid what Ne could. Got him room and
got some cards printed for him a. teacher
OF Spanish. Just as he had got about six
| pupils he took sick and nearly died in The
hospital. when he came out he came
| down to the ship as soon az she arrived
to see me. Wanted something to 90. ]
took him along to the port steward and
begged him to give a fellow countrNmsn
A lift. OF course, there was nothing but
scullion's work to 40 and believe he sot
a Job. loaned him ten bucks to get
some dunnhse and have never heard OF
him since
| CM1TH was an educated man. He had
~ been in Sotheby's or Quaritch's store in
London ana knew old books. He hAd A
shrimp's body, a rats face and great big
meaningless nose rising up like a rock.
He was all upset because he had to leave
Mexico. Liked the country and used to
sigh for his Dulcines. shall never forget
how one evening as we sat in Kolb's tavern
the band started the Mexican national an
them. Smith shot to his feet This legs were
so short his elevation was only a few
inches. flung out his arm and Joined In in
Spanish. big deep voice he had. almost
as astonishing as If kitten were to bark
like a st. Bernard. His thin nostrils hared,
his gingery moustache bristled, his Adams
apple worked like a pulmotor ana all the
world wondered. He was carried away"
when the music stopped he sank to his
seat and looked sadly into his beer where
three hies were in their death throes. He
| was the only Englishman I've ever met
who didn't want to go back to England by
the next boat. No, the peaceful land over
which the benign spirit Of Villa was reign
| ink beckoned him. He sighed for Car
ranza's caresses and the sweet music Of
the magazine rifles in Main street. RIP.
| 0F COURSE you know George w
" Cables New Orleans novels? I think
The Grandissimes" one Of hi. best. But
of course he deals with New Orleans Of the
vanished past. They tell me the old ST..
Louis Hotel has tumbled down. The
grand staircase never did look good to me-
loved Royal street. lived in Lafayette
square for while and acquired the neces-
sary boarding house reach" Very pleas
| ant to stroll out under the trees in the
evening and watch the youngsters sweet.
hesrtins on the steps, l used 10 spend my
evenings In Alisons store, talking with him
ian old newspaper mani, a Kansas lawyer
and a Washington Secret Service guy
Hdec ohm meminisse jurdbit.
TO be continued. In tomorro,os install
rent Mr.. HcFec takes as back to the Med
iterrdneon and describes ho,o he discovered
an amer Of the Garden Of Eden)
bride in Germany doesn't have to wait
two years to have a paper wedding. Even
the trousseaus are paper.
Ready for Another Reel?
The Social Revolutionary Committee is
barricaded in the Municipal Theatre At
Moscow-News item
Are they rehearsing "All's Well That
Ends Lenine"?
We never can remember whether = i
the White Guards or the Red that are
pro. .Bolshevik; but the sad thing seems 10
be that neither OF them is markedly anti.