The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-23
MAN o TOWN
SEES NEW YORK

Somewhere in New York. June 90
.23--Have just landed here, h town
being quite gay. The police force
here is not such 4 much. for / got by
without even attracting attention.
Thought that strange, but learned that
big Bill' had died a few moments
before ! landed. What I want to know
now, and what am going to start. cut
to learn. is who is operating The
Pump" hat Bill conducted for a long
time.
The military was out to welcome
me, for / saw no one else for whom
the guard should have been ordered
out. l managed to find a hotel and
slept all right after getting to bed, Tell
you the truth, all the night workers
appeared 10 be sitting up and waiting
for me n many of them escorted me
to tho hotel. $50 "ss@N.' "4 %%'' |tef &
Tried to find Harry Thaw. but I am
told that he has retired from his usual
active life n is devotinE his time
and talents to preparing for the awful
times that are coming after July l.
He must have heard | was in town and
he has left for the mountains.
Went up to the Winter Garden to
see the show, mi had the time of my
life, according to the remarks of my
friends, who went with me. 1t was a
good show, judging by the applause.
One thing that bothers me is why
the people of New York pay such high
prices for fish when there are large
quantities of them floating in the wa
for some one to catch them and eat
Them.
The crops in Madison Square Garden
are about the same this year, eonsid-
| ering this is an off year in politics.
Tammany is preparing to get a large
harvest this fall when members of the
legislature are chosen. Saw Charlie
Murphy, the snatchem of Tammany
and he asked how Harry Glenn was
getting on and expressed the wish that
he would be elected to the legislature
and then made speaker.
Sunday afternoon / went down to
ICooney Island, and what l saw down
there ! viii tell you about when !
reach home, for | am afraid to write
il out and put the letter in the mails.
The name of that place should be
changed to sooner Island" for every
thing there appears to be along that
liine.
Have made little progress yet to-
wards the purchase of the Woolworth
building, the owners saying there is a
/ question about the title passing to me
for several years. Considering all this.
1 have about decided that i do not
want to buy 1t after all. but 1t Just
goes to show what a man can do when
he begins to ave his nickels and
dimes and then do as the rest of the
people al largc-give them all to one
man and he will tell you how to save
money.
After being here three days and
seeing the ships come back from Eu-
rope with soldiers, l a understand
why 1t was that Germany suddenly de-
cided to let this thing stop before they
went so far they could not stop. and,
besides. the Germans were out OF
breath when the Americans began TO
f, close in on them. / have seen more
than six millions of American soldiers
come back, n I am told that nearly
as many more are on the way.
am seeing everything that Is pos
sible for a near sighted man. and l am
getting well acquainted with h town,
and | can find Central Park. the Bow
cry. Madison Square and the Statue
, of Liberty easily.
MAN ABOUT TOWN.