The Washington herald., 1919-08-28
NEW YORK CITY
Day-By-Day
By o. o. MCINTYRE

New York, Aug. 27.-The Ghetto
districts of lower Manhattan hum
with strange unrest. The cellar
wine shops. long the Mecca in the
dusk of evening for the philoso-
piers, are closed. On the curbs
they must move on at the gentle
prodding of a night stick. These
old men with raisin shsrivelcd faces
do not understand the New World
mandate
Their young sons have gone
forth into the city and returned
wearing strange chcCkcrpd clothes
and near silk shirts and talk a
new lanSuaEc-a language Of jazz.
Eold-lust and pleasure hunts. So
at night the old patr.archs slipped
! their Eoblets of wine and talked Of
the civilization OF Rebekah. the FeE
and other native lands. But no
more
I The Ghetto Obeys the law and
while they serve soft drinks the
wine they love and drank all their
life is banned. But the young
bloods come back and tell of the
fashionable places far up-to'.H
where tho attendant serves only
charged waters and the pctron
pours in the kick from a hip
pocket flask.
The old whitcbeards. who lift up
their faces to God several times a
day. cannot understand such
strange law-brCal<ing and so they
sit on their front stoops-Jews.
Armeniars. Ncapolitans and a half
dozen Othcrs-wearinE their pic
turcsqu" skull caps and pulling at
their pipe and narghile.
The Ghetto is a land of fasci-
mating squalor. 1t IS the only
place where poverty at times is
made interesting. In a barbershop
one hears an italian tenor lifting
his voice in grand opera. At the
curb a push-cart peddIrr is doing
palette painting while waiting for
few penny sales
over under Manhattan Bridge ut
night is the market. The Ghetto
streams through it in drOvcs. Old
women cry out their wares in a
haIf dozen tongues, the men stand
meekly by to do the actual work
There is a smell of garlic. horse
radish. strange fruits and the like.
The little torch lights give Il sickly
bilious glare to the face. Very few
are smiling. Life is a serious bust
ness. on tn contrary 1t is Some
times tragic. But there is great
love for each other. Police are not
needed. People do not fight in the
Ghetto.
like the idea Ed Wynne,. the
actor. has for new hotel He is
| going to call it the Hotel Bolshc-
wiki. 1t will have 300 rooms and
. on, bath.
Bill PheIan. the Australian crafts
man. is in town. Bill IL a book
. bmd'r-a real artist. lie knows
/ thu. art value of gold stamping and
4 tooling. Of marbled lining papers.
/ and everything pertaining to the
/ book beautiful. He is going to
keep alive in little old New York
/ the art that has come down throIgh
the ages but which has been sadly
commercialiZed. Also the Marion
cite Thcater is being revived.
Reno Bufano. Of Greenwich Village.
is to have a marionette theatcr in
the dooryard OF the Poetry Book
shop on West Eighth street. Tony
SarE. who did much to pOpularize
this unusual art. has gone on tour
with his marionettes after playing
a year in Gotham.
The snub nOscd. freckled, red
headed back-talking office boy in
New York is a thing of other days.
He passed with the horse car and
the celluloid collar. The office boy
Of the present day is a diplomat,
He Is picked for his looks. smart
ness and pol.tcnrss. He must meet
people and people of Importance
and use tact. He has a dignity Of
bearing which approaches solem-
nifty. a perfectly clean record SO
! far as dying Erandmothcrs in the
! baseball season are concerned. and
/ a majestic sCOrn for the female of
/ the species that has pursued him
even unto his present ripe age Of
Z II or Is.