The Washington herald., 1919-04-07

New York. April GA page from
the diary of modern Samuel
Pepys:
Up and breakfasted alone. Spent
st Petit Pas Is. Home where the
boy brings letters from ID. Burnet.
the scrivener, in Florida, and H.
Corey, just back from the wars.
All the morning at my labors and
depressed that labor so poorly
and with so little heart.
L. Hutchinson came and was ex-
ceedingly merry in talk being, /
think, a little foxed. but he told me
tale of the town that is a great
scandal of a great man being loose
in his amours and buying a great
mansion fer cinema play actress,
who is a jade and has little ability
scever.
For a turn on the Stone Walk in
the park and to lunch with A.
Roche and a bad meal and little
mirth being both in i'll humor, and
yet L do value him nightly. In
the afternoon fell to reading His
own Country" a volume greatly
praised but seeming inept to me.
To the dress shoppe with my
wife, poor wretch, where she is
nav ms d bO"h AdshiOhtof SAAt bt-
ing the prettiest of all the ladies
there do swear. The avenue,
alive with colors and gilt and the
Arch of Jewels" the prettiest
spectacle ever l saw.
In the evening We took coach
and far through the town to a
quaint little house on West Fif-
teenth street, where the best
French dinner ever I ate was
served and none could speak Eng
lish and the price so little I was
ashamed and gave the garcon an
extra duid. Came pretty French
lssses who smoked paper cigarettes.
played the hsrpsichord. drank cognac
in coffee and danced, the best evening
have had in a twelvemonth. And so
home at midnight and to bed.
In playing around Manhattan one is
impressed with the diversity of types.
There is, for instance, the Subway
Grabber., He may ride sometimes on
the FL. He enters a crowded train,
picks out the most, densely populated
section Of the aisle. penetrates by dint
OF ruthless might to the center OF the
congested area and then calmly per-
mits his neighbors to support him
throughout the journey. The Subway
Grabber prides himself on never hold
ing on to a strap. His confidence
in his fellow man is sublime. When
the train stops, starts or goes around
a curve he never takes the precaution
OF bracing himself. He simply throws
himself on the mercy of the nearest
straphanger and trusts to him to sus-
tain him.
Speaking of subway travels, slick
looking actor in a fur coat natty
gloves and >ntauve spats, despite the
fact that he has been at liberty for
some time, was in a Broadway sun
way train the other afternoon when
he stumbled over a mans foot that
protruded into the middle of the car.
why don't you pull in your FOOT"
demanded the actor. angrily.
Il can't" replied the other.
why not?"
"If you'd been with me at Chateau
Thierry- you'd know" said the man.
The actor apologized.
And the train sped on and on
through the darkness.
Broadway has been interested in the
news that Black Billy Gordon, ex-
doornan of the American Embassy in
Petrograd, former cabaret buck and
wing dancer. is prominent member
Of the Russian Soviet government.
Black Billy, known by every man OF
prominence in the sporting world, is
violating the old tradition that states
men must come from the Levitic class.
Broadway may sneer couple or
sneers at the Bronx which boasted OF
Trotsky who now rules Russia. Those
who know Billy Gordon are expecting
him back on the Great Flash Alley
next winter airing the great fur coat
that the Grand Duke Boris used to
wear.