The Washington herald., 1918-06-03

| Especial Correspondent 10 Inc t1ei anu
New York. June AS Samuel Pepys
would record in his diary: At my wax
ing. a great hub-bub of town criers
beneath nv window and l in my bare
feet spent a two-pence for news
sheet two days old and fretful all
/ the morning at the hoax. Ny wife,
poor wretch. on early. We being not
very good friends nor great enemies
the trouble arising over my buying
brave striped suit of gay mixture
which she AYERS resembles the garo
OF a Monte Carlo croupier.
To breakfast on a good hogs harslet
and l to Times Square to see noble
parade and saw flying machines dart
ing about like so many sparrows and
thence to visit with my old employer
being much afraid ] shall not see him
much longer-he do decay so much
T, each day.
| The town full of soldiers and every
one intent upon getting into service.
Came by post letter from DIR. George
Dorsey who is in London and he tells
of the joy of giving up scrivenlng for
war work On the avenue l did see
the Dolly Sisters in the most fetching
clothes l have seen this year.
/ To a private musical in the afternoon
/ to hear young lady play on the
piano and the worst music ever L
heard albeit l was forced to commend
| her highly and in the late afternoon
with Mr.. O'Donnell TO the food eN-
hibit and saw there Sir Herbert
| Hoover, a serious minded man who
is doing a great work.
| Home and with my wife in a caSo-
! lene wagon through Brooklyn and TO
| Sheepshead Bay to Tappen's. low
built ramshackle building where they
| served the best food ever cooked and
very merry. And negro banjo play
ers made good music and serenaded
each table of diners. Back TO town
at midnight and so to bed.
The first candidates for the idlers'
battalion are to be the gorgeously up-
/ holstered persons who stand like
major generals in front of Fifth
| avenues exclusive shops. They do
nothing all day but open doors and
look grand. They are perfect speci-
mems of physical manhood. Many of
them get $50 a month.
New York has some strange forms
of idleness. There are legions who
spend hours superintcndins the cree
tion of skyscrapers. supervising the
raising of fallen horses, advising men
who are fixing their automobiles and
watching life-belt demonstrations in
drug store windows.
Francis NJ. Hugo. secretary OF
state of New York, is of an optimis-
tic temperament. He was telling
about it at a banquet tho other night.
when I began business. long ago.
he said, Il determined TO be as hope
full as the man who entered a restau-
rant and ordered an elaborate meal
expecting to pay for il with the pearl
which he hoped to find in the oysters.
The war is a great leveller. It has
caused many VINO thought nothing OF
buying an imported car TO buy the
cheapest kind of rattie-trap second
hand cars for the summer season.
They had a sale of rare old push
carts, mortally wounded automobiles.
buggies and other junk at police
headquarters the other day.
A touring automobile that was
plucked from a tree in Central Park
a few years ago brought slol. 1t was
purchas sed by a millionaire. The
original owner never has put in ap-
pearance. The police figure when
1 the auto hit a tree the owner went
up in the air and forgot to come
down.
Another rich man paid $50 for a
taSicab that looked almost as bat
tered as one of those now serving the
public The taXicab was founding
left on a doorstep. Another art col
lector paid 80 cents for a buggy. the
same man also bought eleven push
carts, which were in perfect condi-
ton save for broken wheels and han-