The Washington herald., 1919-12-02
NEW YORK CITY
By o. O. McNTYRE

New York, Dec. There are many
strange slants to so-called prohibi-
tion as 1t prohibits in New York.
For instance the news went zipping
up Broadway from Thirty-fourth
to the Circle the other afternoon that
at 5 o'clock one might obtain q
famous brand Of Scotch for Is cents
a drink. And surely enough the place
"a barroom-was jammed. No one
was refused and the Scotch was the
genuine article. At 6 the sales were
stopped.
Why? No one seemed to know. No
body feared revenue agents or the
police for the hour. Two or three
times a week the Tenderloin Is
bristling with these tips and as q
result patrons who used to take q
drink a day get artistically ossified
once. twice and even three times q
week.
There is another back room Of q
saloon I am told where one may get
q certain brand of gin only. Gin
drinkers crowd the place certain days
each week. Why certain days no one
seems to understand. But that is the
way 1t Is worked. Away up in Harlem
there is still another saloon where,
the rumors go. one may get beer Of
more than the anaemic 2.75 per cent
So it is that the man who really
and truly knows his New York Is IN
great demand. He may pilot a party
from old-fashioned beer places to
those ornate little private apartments
on select streets where champagne
is opened at $50 a throw. Oh yes! A
champagne party Is a cinch in Man.
haitian If you have a bankroIl with q
big bulge
People who think life Is drab with
out booze are getting, all they want
just now. II prohibition really comes
that is a different matter. Many
are even planning for that eventually
by selling their homes and household
effects preparatory to removing to
Cuba or France. Auction salesrooms
are jammed with rare bargains and
the auctioneers declare they belong
to people who believe that existence
would be utterly futile without liquor.
Mr.. Jimmy" Montague, editoria,
writer for the Illustrated News In
New York, resigned the other day.
The next day the News began ad-
vertising for a new editorial writer.
Says the ad: Our editorial writer
has resigned and on account of the
war and immigration laws editorial
writer's are hard to get this year and
terribly independent There was a
time when help OF this kind was glad
to get 50 a week and do all their
work contentedly in a little coop uu-
der the iron stairs between the third
and fourth floors. But those days are
gone forever. May the gods blow
this appeal into the hands OF the
man we are looking for. Address w.
H. Field. The News, Is City Hall
place, New York City"
At the Ritz the other day over q
luncheon table a naval officer told q
corking story about Admiral Sims
when he was in command in English
waters. It was a heavy. foggy night.
Every boat was fog bound. About
midnight there came a wireless to the
admiral from a ships officer read
ing:
Am fog bound. Shall proceed to
next port or return?"
The admiral, beng fog bound HIM
self. could not help but smile at the
stupid message. So he sent this re-
ply: Yes"
In a short while this message came:
Think you misunderstood my mes
sage. Am fog bound. Shall proceed
to next port or return?'
To this the admiral replied: NO"
Some writer's have all the luck.
Arthur Somers Roche. after complet-
ing two novels and some movie
scenarios, took a part OF the spoils
and left on the Adriatic with Mrs.
Roche for a sojourn in London and
Paris. On the boat was George
Broadhurst. Around the bridge table
one afternoon. Broadhurst suggested
that Roche write a play for him.
Two days later he handed Broad
hurst the synopsis. Broadhurst in
turn handed him S1.e0O in advance.
And a movie magnate on board gave
a 500 check for the movie rights
thus defraying Mr.. Roche's steamer
expenses both ways.