The Washington herald., 1919-03-25

New York, March 2A-Manhattan Is
quite a little island IL you study the
comparisons. The average New York;
er never realizes the amazing facts
about the city-he is complacent
citizen, and thinks more of batting
averages and the latest addition to
the variety stage.
Back in my home town we used to
have two hotels, but / understand
someone jerked the prop from behind
one and II fell In and now there 10
only one: SO the fact that New York
has 900 hlgh-class hotels and enter
tains 800, 900 visitors daily never fails
to furnish a thrill
There are fifty-eight morning news
papers in Greater New York and forty
evening editions. There are thirty
one Sunday newspapers. from the
Chinese to the wild saffron sheets. II
a stranger were to walk 10 miles
day II would take him year to cover
the 361s miles of streets open to travel
in the city, and II II was all one street
II would reach from New York to San
Francisco.
The number of telephone calls In
New York reaches 10000 day, ex-
ceeding by 10000 the number used BY
London. Paris and Berlin combined In
normal times. The Equitable Building
dow ntown has 444 stations.
There are sevsnty-four skyscrapers
| in town, and many of them contain a
population exceeding that of the city
of Saratoga Springs. New Workers
spend more than $50, ,oOO, 900 year on
nmusements, a large part of which
goes to the movies and theaters. The
Evening World has figured that of
| this vast amount the opera alone
| takes about $4,000, 900 of II. There are
! 2.74s billiard rooms with $500 tables,
| 100 shooting galleries, 77s public dances
and 1854 policemen.
The consumption Of cofYee daily Il
| 2So.COO cups and the consumption of tea
Is about 35OO 00o-and tea drinking is
on the increase. There are 22os,0
gallons of water drunk daily and
about 100000 glasses of soda water,
and the city pays 100000 daily for ice
cream.
A gold meshbak. containing a sprink'
| ling of good-sized diamonds, wal
found two weeks ago in Broadway
theater There was no doubt the bag
belonged to a lady of means. 1t con-
tained $50 In money and two huge
diamond rings and a diamond brooch.
Although il has been advertised ex-
/ tensively 1t Is not believed that there
will ever be n claimant. Tucked away
| IN one of the silk pockets were two
walls Of white powder. which was
anaIyzed and found to be cocaine
There Is little doubt but what the
owner is a cocaine addict-a snow
bird" in the Broadway vernacular-
- hA CIrh
| To an investigation by the narcotic
SQUAD she will not call for the purse
I The management will hold II for
awhile, and then turn the cash and
| the Jewels over to the, department OF
charities to help the fund for the
treatment of drug addicts-
The passing on OF Nixola Greeley
Smith has left void in the Journal
! istic life OF Park row. Miss Greeley
Smith, a granddaughter Of Horace
I Greeley, was the first of what nip
pant writers choose to call Sob SIS
/ tcrs." Her husband was city editor
| OF an evening newspaper. Miss Gree
lev Smith had interviewed everyone
! Of importance who came to New YORK
during the past eighteen years. she
never betrayed a trust or distorted a
fact to bring the scalding tear-ou'
she could write to make people cry
Just as well as she wrote to make
them laugh. She also was poet OF
no mean ability. and her sparkltns
satire in Vanity Fair was monthly
treat.
The owners of concessions at Coney
Island are blue over the outlook FOR
summer business. Many of the big
amusement places may not open. a
dry Coney, they declare, will never
bring the crowds. They also declare
that the fame of Coney was built on
its high-colIared beer and its hot dogs
| and to take away the beer is like
| separating the Siamese twins and ex-
hibiting them separately along Surf
! avenue.