The Washington herald., 1919-02-03

New York. Feb. 2.-As Samuel
Pepys might record in his diary:
Up betimes, the day being drab
from a heavy rayne and my
thoughts heavy with the futility of
scrivening. Came Mr.. Allison, the
journalist for Mr.. Taft's journal,
and fine talk of this and that and
in especial the nations decree to
Danish rum.
With my wife, poor wretch, TO the
Mall and there took n turn or two
in the park and in a fine benzIne
buggy we saw Lady Frances Starr.
the play actress, and at the noon
yictualIing hour | did meet Henry
Leverage, the writer of Whispering
| Wires" and many other rogue tayles.
and he is well spoke and has been
around the Horn on windjammers
and Travelled to all parts of the
earth.
In the afternoon to my dentist
to have a tooth drawn and he tells
me of his wife he lately married GO
inE to the courts for n divorce,
which seems sad. Thence to a
ilhSiG nail "uFTt L ulu see u
eat Goals OF fire so engagingly that
1 was entranced. To my mother-in-
laws and there supped and talked,
and staid pretty late. it being dry
and moonshine, and walked home
and SO to bed.
Overheard on a subway express
train: ''Kvit pushing! Kvit shof-
ing! Vot did you mean by insult
ing mein wife? | will not haf you
insult mein wife. Ven / want mein
wife insulted l insult her meinself"
The New York chronological So
ciety had a racket at the American
Museum of Natural History the 9TH
er day. 1t must have been a scan
dalOus affair for. according to the
invitation ii read that the affair
was to be a Symposium on the
Legs of Insects" Don Marquis, OF
the sun, was invited to bring his
celebrated type-writing cockroach
Al chy. Admission was by card and
heavy convex glasses could nc
checked at the door.
, New York reveals queer romances
in odd places. That is why o.
Henry found Manhattan such n cap
|tivating city. On my block ono"
every week, usually in the early
dusk. an old organ grinder. bare of
head, Erinds out whrczy tunes. The
other day h" was arrested for not
having a license.
Until he got in court people did
not know that the man to whom
they tossed pennies was saving to
establish a claim to an estate of
S35, ,000 600. In his patched coat OF
many COlors repOsed proof in queer
looking Russian documents of the
OrEan-Erindtr's inheritance. an in
heritance that for the past twenty
years he vainly has been endeavor-
ing to collect.
Twenty yrars ago h" owned a
general store in Warsaw. There
came news in a Russian paper that
his wife's uncle had left them a
fortune of $35.O0O,OOO. They came
to America. He never knew in
what city the uncle died and as he
had changed his name no trace OF
him has been found in all these
twenty years.
The Times Square Alps are fast
melting. During the -FOUR years OF
subway digging the once open space
of Times Square has been filled with
shanties, derricks. siEnbOards, fenC-
es. sewer and water pipes. sand. tool
boxes and the profanity of CirCum-
ambuIant citizens. In the midst of
the appalling mass an air compress
sor emitted elfin music like a stone
crushing machine. \ month ago the
TnrnaINHvuN- agSATIatinr lHrihal fh a 1
Times Square must b" dolled up.
Only a few hummOcks of debris are
left and the whole square is visible
for the first time in four years.
Spurred by their first success. the
association is going to make Broad
way regular street from Bowling
Green to Spuyten Duyvil. That is
they say they are.