The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
NEW YORK CITY
By O. o. McrNTYRE

New York. Nov. 1.-THE Manhattan
sands. You may see them going to
work about in the evening and at
IL at night. They are easily spotted.
There is an indefinable something
about them that explains to the world
that they are sun dodgers.
The cafeterias and quick lunch
rooms are crowded with them at mid
night. Some day a statistics hound
who has made enough in the dried
fruit business and can devote his
dotage, to chasing trick figures will
have gathered for him the number OF
men who work while the nine -to-fiv-
ers sit up with a toothache or sleep.
He will be shown also that "a per
cent of the nighttime employees and
bosses wear worried looks, like men
who are constantly and Intellectually
trying 20 convince wives that they
ought to be allowed to continue to
work while the date changes. $780,.
Getting out a newspaper requires
reporters who begin deserting Park
Row at about II or IL o'clock at night.
while inside the Offices the COPY read
ers null over their yarns. A copy
reader is a man who cuts all the
good stuff out of a reporters story.
He also writes headlines.
These copy readers go home about
y a. mat least a few of them do
and the rest are supposed to. One
or two in each Office remain until 4.
in case something or somebody of i'm
portance should be blown up. The
compositors and printers stay until \
o'clock.
The night forces in the large hotels
like the Pennsylvania. Commodore
and McAlpin form a great army OF
night toilers. The all-night restau-
rants and drug stores and subway
workers another large army. One OF
the strange things about night work
is its impetus toward longevity. In
the recent flu epidemic doctor dis
covered that the night workers were
practically untouched ard those who
were recovered quickly.
At last the New York Morning Sun
has broken a hard and fast rule and
permitted cartoon to enter its sa-
cred pages. Frank A. Munsey has
for years been a cartoon atheist He
permitted them in the Evening Sun
fer awhile and then suddenly put up
the barrier. Now the Morning Sun
has a daily cartoon. II. T. Webster
is the cartoonist who. has the honor
Of breaking the Suns rule against
cartoonists.
There are all kinds of ways to have
an 1partment on Fifth avenue. Some
60 down In Wall street and make a
few quick turns and land on the ave-
nue. and others do not arrive by such
quick strides. But the window SELL
ers seem to have the bulge on all.
Many women and some men have
made the entire rent for q year merely
by selling window space to the popu-
lace who wish to see the New York
parades-all of which go up Fifth ave-
nue.. Window space" sometimes sells
as high as SO per person.
A well-known Hoosier novelist was
talking the other day y-about the ten
dency of children in this generation
to think garbage as something ex-
tremely ludicrous. He quoted a re-
mark mis- son had made about gar
bage to illustrate the point.
There are no alleys in New York
and the novelist was panied to find
the garbage can set out in front OF
the stone bungalows and brown fronts
to be snatched away municipality.
Back on the old Indiana farm"
he said over an after dinner cigar.
IT did not think garbage funny. for
after I had chopped wood, carried IN
water and curried a few horses 1t
was my duty to carry the kitchen slop
to the pigs. This Is why I~grew up
to be q strong mainland a power for
evil in the nation"
And then with a tear struggling for
expression he sighed: ''Slop and the
world slops with you; weep and they
turn and go; for the carrots we vast
ed yesterday, to the deep pure ocean
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