The Washington herald., 1919-05-08

New York, May jefferson Market
Nisht Court. the sink of the under
world, the place where women Of the
street, pilloried in the garish glare Of
the calcium. flung out their snarl OF
defiance at a wanton world-Jefferson
Market Court Is dead.
In its place comes the Jefferson
Market Clinic. the new hospital for
soiled souls. The blinds will be rolled
up and the windows opened and Gods
air and free stoshine will pour in.
The faltering and the fallen win have
fighting chance to stumble to their
feet.
II sounds the deathknell Of one Of
the great city's most hideous human
dumping grounds and the morbid
minded summer must find a new sem
I sation. Chief Magistrate McAdoo Is
the man who abolished night court.
His vision gave him the clearness
to see that the underworld is not a
place-but a condition. Most OF the
underworld habitues are a product
Of wrong thinking. Show them how
u anu lhC pANDANNh 50 ''~aA
solved.
The night court had become a
metropolitan institution. like the lam
tern-hung buses that guarantee a
glimpse at Chinatown or the profess
sional dive where one may go slun-
ming with a garrulous guide for two
dollars a dive.
Women in flirs and silks left, the gay
night life of Lobsteria to ride down
to the night court and get the stencil
of the city into their nostrils. They
seemed to enjoy the sight of shud-
dering at the raw. open running
sores of the city. They looked
statue-like at the furtive birds OF
prey as they were hauled forth to
pay the price.
Young girls, roguishly rouged; street
walkers, bueyantly 'bunned; pasty-
faced slaves of the needle. fiat chested
cocaine sniffers. the gutter harlots-
all paraded forth to pay their fines.
! if they had 1t. or go to n cell. While
the "holier than thou" gallery sat
and watched All of this is to end
as it should have ended years ago. >
A hyacinth fell into the street. By
night it was a white. ghostly phantom
flower. BY day it was just A
draggIed. dirty. faded bloom. A man
passed by. He picked the hyacinth
from the street. He placed 1t in a
glass of clean. cool water and sat 1t
in the sunshine of his window.
After while the hyacinth no
longer drcoped. 1t held up. its head
A faint flush of pink overspread its
waxen petals. The sodden in them
was gone. The hyac;nth that fell in
to the street became fair. and fra
grant blossom. A man passed by.
A first class film drama has proved
the inspiration for one of the most
popular sentimental ditties OF the
season. Norma Talmadge recently
appeared in Heart OF Wetona'' on
Broadway Sidney Mitchell and
Archie Gottler. two of the bravos
of Tin Pan Alley. dropped in to see
the movie before going to dinner In
stead of going to dinner they went
to Mitcheli's apartment and wrote
Heart of Wetona' and dedicated it
to Miss Talmadge. They have al
ready cleaned up a snug fortune on
their evenings work
In 1916 he went to France to drive
an ambulance. All during the two
years he was there he lived in dug
outs, slept sometimes under fire and
his clothing most of the time was sop
ping wet. He could lie down in four
inches OF water and sleep. His chest
expanded. his waist line contra cted
and his muscles became finely temper
ed steel. The other day he returned
to take up civilian duties again. A
spring shower came up as he was
leaving for work. George. dear" said
his mother, don't go out without your
rubbers"
And she wondered why he broke into
q mad fit of laughter.