The Washington herald., 1919-04-15

New York. April 1I-who are the
best dressed men in New York? They
are not the rich any more. Statistics
show that the hotel clerk and the
actor run a neck and neck race for
the honor, with the second honors
going to the young bloods who have
money and nothing to do.
In the old days such men as Berry
Wall, who had 100 suits of clothes,
used to trip down Fifth avenue at
parade time and try to outdress each
other. Berry Wall was a rich nah.
Expensive tailors cay the hotel
clerk and the well paid actor buy the
best clothes and wear them better
than any other well dressed men.
well dressed is one of the tobls OF
trade. !
When~the directors, of the American
Iron and Steel Institute came down
I the elevator after a meeting in L. H.
/ Gary's office last week, an observing
tailor, who happened to be near when
they emerged, surveyed them as a
| group with professional eye.
! Not the best dressed men in town
/ by any means" he said, "and as for
/ spring style hats, didn't see one
/ IT'S odd, but the men with the big
gest rolls are not the tailor's best
! customers"
The exclusive Fifth avenue tailors
are charging $40 now for business
suits and $3.50 for evening and dinner
suits. Hats in the reigning styles on
the avenue are SO and shoes are SIS
to $50 and the smart scarves are from
( s. to s.. so to be well dressed cuts
quite a hole in the bankroll.
Down in Wall street there is a man
who is among the first ten of the
richest men in the world. His pri-
/ vate secretary looks after his
clothes as the millionaire is a bach
elor For several years the secretary
/ has been trying TO clothe his en-
| ployer in Fifth avenue styles
/ He has had the tailors drop in at
convenient times, but the millionaire
always puts them off. His clothes
are always just about ready for patch
| ing. but because, he complains. the
Fifth avenue tailors do not make
large pockets and plenty OF them he
I prefers his old-fashioned tailor on a
little downtown side street.
( The high cost of living has hit the
Natural History Museum a mighty
wallop. Several OF the halls have been
temporarily closed. The stuffed moose
goes short on moth balls and the
dinosaur goes for weeks undusted.
! The Aztec restaurant in the base
ment has had to revise its moderate
rates and raise the price of tea and
! mullins. The scientists who gather
there now do not discuss the antece-
dents of Paleozoic ooze-but they COM
plain that the crackers and milk have
gone up another jitney.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin johnson. OF
New York, are Off again to visit the
wild man and cannibal of the bush
country and the South Sea Islands.
This is their third trip in search of
the wild man. Mr.. johnson has seen
the real cannibsl and has been forced
to eat of human flesf He and his
wife have seen old men buried alive
a fate that befalls those too old to
work-and the old men go to their
fate with A smile. There is a strong
conviction among the savages of life
after death. The savage, the john
sons have found. averages higher in
morality than the white man. They
| have never witnessed any promiscuity
: They will take moving pictures, and
I in their two-year trip will attempt
TO bring back the record Of a race
/ called the Papua. the blacklist people
on earth. and also pictures OF q race
OF pigmies on the Solomon Islands.
Mrs. johnson is in her early TWEEN
ties. She told me that she preferred
the mysteries of the Jungle land TO
the bright lights OF Broadway.