The Washington herald., 1918-02-15

New York. Feb. 1.-THE spin OF the
roulette wheel is to cease in Co.
than under the new police commits
sioner Enright, who was himself
copper. The word has gone out TO
the big hotels where all the high
stake gambling was played to cease.
1t has been a blow to the gam
blers, who have been fiocking into
New York. expecting an open town.
All the tough resorts-that moved
from the Bowery since that thor
oughfare became an artery Of COM
merce-are also to be closed.
Three remains only one resort that
smacks of the old days of Suicide
Hall, Minetta Lande and the Hay
market. 1t is on the fringe OF the
Tenderloin a short way from the the
atrical district
1t is one of those places that has
| been the fly in the ointment for
social workers. 1t has for years
been a louise nest of deprayity. The
! crooks of the town could be seen there
nightly.
Subway dips, cocaine sellers. till
tappers. pocket-slashers and porch
CllInDSTs COlleCleO luSTt IN q puITeS-
cent brotherhood of abomination. The
rat-faced cadets, in their loud cheap
silk shirts. held their daily confer
ences OF crime over the beery tables
Sallow-faced women, with lips heavy
with rouge, and unsteady hands in
dicative of needle-pumping. made II
| their rendezvous. The underground
wires gave the message that the new
| h,,e ~ IL
few hours the place was almost
/ ufeless.
The proprietor knows that he is
under the ban and that there is moth
ing else left to do but put up the
turn up.
The last person to leave the place
was a flaccid blond, burdened with
cheap jewelry. She stood in the en-
trance and looked back. I'm glad"
she said: maybe now I can go to
the country for awhile and get some
| fresh air.
And she coughed a racking sort
of cough that left her flushed and
trembling and on the handkerchief
she put to her mouth was left a stain
of pink.
Amelite Galli-Curci's triumph was
the most thrilling spectacle New York
has witnessed since Caruso won his
spurs. For two years the little Italian
| singer had knocked at the austere
portals of New York. and her sue
| cess in Chicago made her face a
critical audience. The pause that fol-
lowed her rendition of her first song
thu
have ever witnessed. When the ap-
plause searted it was deafening, and
the entire audience-a biIlowy sea of
white shirtfronts and a dazzle of dia-
mands-rose to cheer in unison. There
were in all sixty-five encores. The
lyric stage lives of glamour, for
glamour, by glamour. And when a
new singer swims into New York's
ken opera receives a new lease of
life. Seats for Galli-Curci for her
second performance sold as high as
$3.50 each. Among those I saw in
the boxes were W. r. Hearst, Rex
Beach, the writer; Louis Chalif, the
Russian dancer; Geraldine Farrar.
the singer: Otto Kahn, the banker,
and Roi Cooper. Megrue, the play
| wright.
Spanish dancing seems to have swept
the town. "A well-known Broadwayit
was talking about the new dancers
in a cafe the other night. Those
| Spanish dancers simply fascinate
me-" he said, by the way they use
their cascarets.''
Down in the Dutch Oven an OBJ
server saw a woman smoking and
knitting furiously between puffs.
And there was a fire in the Bronx
the other night caused by a woman
knitter permitting fire to fall from
her cigarette onto the sweater she
was knitting 1t is evident that some
thing has got to be done to prevent
smoking from interfering with knit
ting, or vice versa.