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The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-16
Occasional Observance.

We will soon be entering that joyous
period of the year when Mr.. City
Feller goeth into his back yard gar
den to spade, wearing old shoes on his
feet and blisters on his hands.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-07-16
On London's BUS Tickets.

BY simplifying the system Of tickets
given to London's omnibus passengers.
a saving of 100 tons of paper pulp
year was effected.-Indianapo News
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tify the strangely changed city. THE
only portion that even now has come
back to me-" he wrote, sis the part of
Broadway in which the Carlton Hotel
dong since destroyed) used to stand
There is a very fine new park in the
outskirts, and the number OF grand
houses and splendid equipages is
quite surprising"
|, In the stories that made up Helen
Green Van Campen's "At the Actors
Boarding House" and its sequel, 1.-THE
Maison de Shine" the establishment
in question was placed in Irving place.
1t was there that readers came to
know the blondined ladies washing out
their stockings in the wash bowl, or
fighting for first place at table, and the
gentlemen standing off" Mrs. De
Shine for an overdue board bill and
currying favor with her by petting
her wheezy poodle. Fido. AS matter
OF fact the real Maison de Shine was
not in Irving place at all. This struc-
| ture where Mrs. Van Camper found
vaudeville In it's lair is still to be seen
| on the north side of Fourteenth street,
three or four doors east OF Second ave-
nue.. Involving Irving place was one
OF those curious authors plumbers that
every now and then creep into fiction.
This blunder was typographical. In
MAX Fargus" Owen Johnson described
the shadowing through city streets of
woman by rascally lawyer. The
way led from Washington square to
the middle east side. But the author.
New Yorker of long standing and
association, made the astonishing mis-
take of depicting the pursuit leading
| from Twelfth street north along Irving
| place to Fourteenth street regardless
OF tho fact that in actually Irving
place does not extend below the latter
! thoroughfare.
But a ghost IN Irving place. more
recent and intimate than Washington
irving, is o. Henry. Less than one
4 hundred feet north of the Irving
house, and on the same side OF the
place, is the building where Porter lived
when he was beginning to read the
heart of the city that he delighted in
characterizing as Little Old Bagdad
on the Subway" The Big City OF
Razzle Dazzle" THE City OF Toe
Many Caliphs," Little Old Noisyville
on the Hudson" The number of the
house is 55.
1t is a dingy. four story brownstone
building, with most of the shutters
closed, and an air Of resignation to the
demolition that is likely to come any
day. No. SO is in the very centre OF
the New York that o. Henry knew
best, loved best and described most
vividly in his stories. Just across the
street, at the northeast corner OF
Eighteenth street, there Is. or at least
was until July l. a saloon of comfort
able ease, presided over by a proprie-
tor of genial aspect and manners. By
the hour that proprietor will reel of
his recollections OF the gifted man he
esteemed so higly. albeit he has never
read line OF his work. "'Con,'" see
he to me, "I'm putting you into 6
new story
"'Go as far as you like, SEE T.
Maybe he did. I dunno. I never
read none OF en-
But for the benefit Of readers who
have found delight In 1.-THE Lost Blend,
that spirited yarn OF a drink, invented
by chance. but OF such potency tina
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ard Plumer. the artist who owed his
restitution to his strange gift in bring
ing out in his portraits the naked
souls of his sitters. was waiting when
, picked out to suit the within of Carson
Chalmers, as narrated in "A Madison
Square Midsummer Night Plumer
was only half impressed by his tenn
porary good fortune. New York he
held to be as full of cheap Haroun-al-
Raschids as Bagdad was Of fieas. The
men in the Bed Line knew them, and
there was a union rate by which the
certain stock stories of downfall were
| told in accordance with the quantity
and quality of the largesse bestowed
A score more of the o. Henry char
acters fit through the Square or from
its benches survey the world through
philosophical eyes. The tramp
Soapy of THE Cop and the Anthem"
is there, meditating just what viola
ton OF the law will insure his depor-
tation to the hospitable walls of
Blackwell's Island, which he regards
as his Riviera or Palm Beach for the
winter months; and the Prince Michael
(''The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock'')
OF the Electorate OF Vale Luna, known
| otherwise as Dopey Mike, looking up
at the illuminated hands of the great
timepiece in the Metropolitan Tower
and over on the sidewalk in front of
the Flatiron Building Sam FolwelI and
Cal Hardness. the feudists of the
Cumberland. shake hands, "Squaring
the Circle"
To follow through Union Square the
o. Henry trail before turning to other
trails. Probably no other park bench
in fiction was ever so Enthusiastically
indicated as " the third bench to the
right as you enter Union Square from
the east, at the walk opposite the
fountain" Whatever the minions OF
the Department of Public Parks have
thought of the matter, that bench was
the vested property of Stuffy Pete, OF
1.-TWO Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen"
There for nine years he had been in
the habit of awaiting the coming OF
the tall, thin old gentleman dressed in
black and wearing the old fashioned
kind Of glasses that won't stay on the
nose-the old gentleman who with an
elaborate peroration, always the same
constituted himself Stuffy's host and
patron every Thanksgiving Day
Across Union Square Hastings Beau
champs Moreley of ''The Assessor OF
Success" sauntered with a plying look
directed at the hundreds lolling on the
There for nine years he had been in
cording to Their Lights" One evening
Murray and Marony. the dismissed
police captain. sit side by side on 9
Union Square bench devising schemes
to repair their shattered fortunes. The
captain. though retaining one code Of
honor that holds him from "squealins
on a PAL" is reduced to the point
where, to use his own words. he would
marry the Empress of China for one
bowl OF chop suey. commit murder fol
! a plate OF beef stew. steal a wafer
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tho poem. as later It was to adopt
furiously Mark Twain's Punch, con-
ductor, punch with care!" laughed
from one end to the other. but many
women understood and sympathized.
There was one woman, however, who
regarded the verses and the success
they achieved with very different
feelings. and thereby hangs a story.
After writing the poem in his house
in Fourteenth street and reading 1t
to his wife Butler took 1t to Clinton
place to try 1t on his friend. Evart A.
Duylxinck- Then It was sent to
Harper's Weekly, where 1t appeared.
to be widely quoted and copied. When
its fame was at the height the
woman came forward as a claimant
for the FIRST nine lines and the thirty
concluding lines. She had dropped
the manuscript, she commended, when
she was passing through a crowd at
Fifth avenue and Madison Square.
It was a famous case in its day, and
the claimant found any number OF
supporters, but in the end William
Allen Buffers right to Nothing tc
Wear" was fully substantiated.
Horace Greeley espoused his cause
vigorously in an editorial in the
Tribune, and HdrpeT's Weekly
pointed out the fact that although the
verses were published in February
ttle spurious claim was not put for
ward until July. Howells, writing
forty years later OF Flora McFlimsey
and her problem in relation to Madi-
son Square, said: "It does not indeed
ind her posterity In Madison Square
That quarter has long since been de-
livered over to hotels and shops and
Offices, and the fashion that once
abode there has ned to upper Fifth
avenue, to the discordant variety OF
handsome residences which overlook
the park. But It finds her descendants
quite ono with her in spirit and a;
little clothed to their lasting salts
faction"
There was a period in the late
'70s and early sos when every Other
novel dealing with New York Life
introduced the Brevoort House without
inviting the suspicion OF exploitation
All visiting Englishmen OF hctor
stopped there Somewhat later the lit
erary prestige of the Brevoort passed
to that old Delmonico's which stood fol
some years facing Madison Square a
the Twenty-sixth street corner. I
was not regarded in the light Of {
business enterprise. but as an institu
ton, Just as 1t had been an institution
in It's earlier home at Fifth avenue ant
Fourteenth street in the days when thu
| Academy of Music was the centre o
the city's fashionable night life. TIT
Partisan novelist may allude to thu
corner table Of the Cafe de La Paix oil
the Place de lOpera as the point abou
which the world revolves. In the sam
spirit the New York novelist OF tn
late sos and early '9os wrot
about the Madison Square Delmoni
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from a waif, or be a Mormon for a
bowl of chowder"
on the south side of Union Square,
guarding what was once the most
famous of all New York's many
Rlaltos, the effigy of our first Presi-
dent sits astride his horse. o. Henry,
in THE Gold That Glittered," de-
scribed the point. twenty years ago
known as Dead Mans Curve" as
where Broadway skirts the corner of
the square presided over by George
the Veracious." But the action Of the
tale itself had less to do with the
square than with building a hundred
feet to the east of the square. Turn
into Fifteenth street and on the south
side. between Fourth avenue and
Irving place. will be found a red brick
structure that is known as the Hotel
America. Under q name slightly
changed 1t was the setting of the
story involving a scheme of Latin
American revolution. a counter-plot
on the part of New York confidence
men. and the yellow hair and corn
beef hash Of Nine. O'Brien.
In another tale, "A Bird of Bagdad. 4"
Porter told of the glory of the square
at the Fourteenth street corner. There.
for a brief moment, Fourth avenue
strutted proudly in the glare of the
museums and cheap theatres. There
its ambition scared: 1t might yet be-
come a flt mate for its high born
sister to the west, or its roaring,
polyglot, broadwaisted cousin to the
east. But only for a moment. With
| pitiless realism. o. Henry carried
Fourth avenue northward. 1t came to
the silent and terrible mountains,
buildings square as forts, high as the
clouds, shutting out the sky. where
thousands of slaves bent over desks
all day. Then It glided into a
medieval solitude. On each side were
the shops devoted to antiques. Men
in rustins armor stood in the windows
and menaced the hurrying cars with
raised, rusty iron bumpers, hauberks
and helms, blunderdusses. Cromwellian
breastplates, matchlocks. creeses and
the swords and daggers of an army OF
dead and gone gallants cleaned DULY
in the ghostly light. The medieval
solitude foreboded an early demise.
What street could live enclosed by
these mortuary relics and trod by
these spectral citizens? Not Fourth
avenue. Not after the tinsel but en-
livening glory of the little Rialto-not
after the echoing drumbeats of Union
Square. "There- need be no tears
ladies and gentlemen. IT'S but the
suicide of a street. With a shrek and
a crash Fourth avenues dives head
long into the tunnel at Thirty-fourth
street and is never seen again."
There was a period when Union
Square was to be regarded Us the
literary centre 'of New York. In 4,
or near It were the homes of most OF
the city's great publishing houses and
the offices OF many OF the principal
magazines. Near the southwest corner
was the big bookshop with an inter
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GRAMERcy PARK SOUTH At oflR IRVING PLACE.

cos. It was not only the hosiery IT
self but its surroundings. The square
was still the heart OF the town and a
stones throw away was the Garden
with the light of Diana glittering
against the sky.
The hero Of one OF Brander Mat
thews's "Vignettes OF Manhattan" a
failure in life, dining with an old col
lego friend at Delmonico's. pointed out
of one of the windows at the tower.
In the gesture and the accompanying
words was the story of his life and his
wasted opportunities. 81 would die out
of sight OF that tower" he said.
1t was In the restaurant that Van
Bibber's servant Walters, OF Richard
Harding Davis's ivan Bibber's Man. y
ordered a dinner for his master and an
expected guest that has from time to
time been held up as a model. AS both
Van Bibber and the guest failed to ap-
pear Walters himself sat down to the
repast, which began with little neck
clans with chablis; then pea soup, and
caviare on toast. before the oyster
crabs with Johannisberger cabinet;
then an entree OF calves brains and
rice; then no roast, but bird, cold
asparagus with French dressing. Ca
membert cheese and Turkish coffee
Walters enjoyed the dinner. but realis-
ing the enormity of his offence i'm
mediately parted company with his en-
ployer.
O. Henry ana Madison Square.
o. Henry came to New York little
too late to know the Twenty-sixtf
street Delmonico's, bat all over Madi'
son Square in his shadow and the
shadows Of his creations. Even colo
Diana herself Gaping the Garden
tower is in 1.-The Lady Higher Up
invested with the emotions. aspira
tons, caprices and vanities of her sex
Diana, in the estimation of the othel
lady perched upon the Bedloe's Isl
and pedestal and surrounded by tn,
waters of the upper bay, has the bes
Job for a statue in the whole town
with the Cat Show and the Horse
Show, and the military tournament
where "the privates look grand a!
Generals and the Generals try to lool
grand as fioorwaliers," and the Sports
| man SNOW ana, dDOVo ALL inc frenci
Ball. where the original Cohens anC
! the Robert Emmett Saengerbund So
ciety dance the Highland fling witt
one another"
1t was from the restaurant tina
succeeded Delmonico's that the young
man emerged to find the romantic lad!
In gray on the park bench. as told II
while the Auto Waits" the first tall
to win for o. Henry consideration a
a story teller of the first rank. In tn,
Bed Line nearby were Walter Smyth
and the discharged coachman Thoma
McQuade the night that the motto
car drumming up the Avenue lost tn
extra tire that the astrologer inter
preted to his purposes as THE Fiftl
Wheel" In the same Bed Line Sher
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national flavor, and there the pur-
veyors of real or alleged humor to
our own comic weeklies might be
found seeking inspiration gratis in
the pages of Punch or La Vie Paris
ienne. Many visiting authors were in
the habit of patronizing the Everett
House. which stood at the northeast
corner of the Square. drawn there
either by the quality Of the service or
by the fact that 1t was a convenient
spot from which to descend upon
Richard Watson Glider and Robert
Underwood johnson OF the Century
Mdoosfne. Nearby was the old Clar-
endon Hotel where Thackeray stayed
when visiting the city. At the south
east corner OF Seventeenth street and
the Square, over a drug store, there
was and Is still, an apartment house
which has ever found flavor as a
domicile OF writing men and women.
From a point Of the sidewalk on the
north side OF Fifteenth street. some
fifty or sixty feet east OF the Square,
one may look through gate and gar
den at the old fashioned house in
which the Authors Club of New York
was organized.
Ghosts I'm Irving Place.
In Irving place, running from
Fourteenth street six blocks to end
abruptly against the southerly palings
OF Creamery Park, there are two dom
mating literary shades-those of
| Washington Irving and William Sid
l., l., .,
Irving house, which httingly was for
time the headquarters OF the Au-
thorS League, is at the southwest
corner of the place and Seven
! teenth street 1t is three story brick
house Of color that is supposed to
DO white On the Irving place side
there Is a sheltered balcony over
looking the sidewalk, and on Seven
tenth street a bay window looks
north and west to Union Square. Here
| in the late forties when II was the
homo Of his nephew, John T. Irving
the author Of "Trip Van Wrinkle" came
from his Sunnyside estate to pass &C.
casional days and weeks in town, and
here, in the large room behind the
long windows he wrote most OF his
Life Of Oliver Goldsmith" and ar
ranged the notes for his last work
his Life of Washington" It is the last
existing visible Irving relic in brick
and wood and mortar since the pass
ing Of his birthplace, 1.-THE Hive" neal
Bowling Green, and Of Colonnade Row
in Lafayette place, where he once hat
| rooms,
Nearby, until a few years ago, wa:
the Westminster Hotel There Charlie.
Dickens stayed at the time OF hi!
second visit TO America in 1867. In tn
course OF a letter to Forster no wrote
There are hotels close here with 500
bedrooms and don't know how many
boarders. but this hotel is quite a:
quiet as. and not much larger than
Mivart's In Brook street. My rooms
are all en- suite, and come and g
by O private door and private stair
case communicating with my bedroom
The walters are French. and one nigh
be living In Paris. One of the two pro
prietors Is also proprietor of Niblo'
Theatre, and the greatest care is takei
OF me-" Twenty-Five years had elapse,
since Dickens's previous visit to New
! York. and It took him week TO iden
Evening journal., 1919-06-05
fIREMEN ON THREE
NIGHT "MONKEY RUNS"
Is OtHt

Arrested early this morning by Pa
irolmen Deprisc0 and Hawke on a
charge Of striking false Ore alarms.
Stanley Thomas. aged % years Of 80.
az Warner street. Is heing held by
the police pending an Investigation.
When the charge was called to-day in
Cty Court. Deputy City solicitor Mai
10y asked that The case hoe postponed
until tomorrow and bail was fixed at
$500
According 10 Information received ny
.he police the man who semi In three
false alarms between 1920 o'clock aud
2 O'Clock This morning was seen los r.
number OF residents and they VIII De-
asked 10 look at Thomas io see n
they can Identify him as the man,
Firemen who We're called oui, as well
as ihe police. We're indignant ai the
work Of the fire alarm hcnd and
threats were made against ihe man re-
sponsible for lhc monkey runs.
The first alarm WAS sounded from
Box no il2. al Third and lcnrrsnn
streets The 0remen Found only some
half-aWake citizens who had been
awakened by the arrival of ihc appa-
ratus This was a. 1870 O'Clock.
AZ ! o'clock En alarm was sounded
from Box no "a. at Fourth and Madi-
son streets Tho nrcmen found the
same condition existing ss thcy did
when respondine % ihe first alarm
The third alarm was sent in from BOX
No 26 al MARYLAND avenue and Linden
street li too proved 90 be- false
The last box Is near tho home Of
Thomas ne was arrested hy ihe ON
cers IN The vicinity of lhe box
Evening journal., 1919-06-05
RnTARIANs AT nINNER.

William J Sirandwitz. president of
the Camden, n D.. Rotary Club. adj
dressed the noon luncheon Of the local
ROtarisns TODAY.
Evening journal., 1919-06-05

Mechanics and chluneurs VIII find
lhc Want Ads a direct and economical
way to secure employment
Evening journal., 1919-06-05
DELIVER CLOTHES
BY AER0PLANE NOW

Following a schedule that began on
Tuesday. two Curtis aeroplsnes Wilde
liver shlnmenis Of soc.nlN nnlnd
Evening journal., 1919-06-05

vice marks an epoch II Sigusi'zes The
ilrst regular rlnpipSmcnl of HE aero.
plane in commercial pursuits
m adopting ths egih Century means
of transportation. ne makers cf So-
cieiv Brand Clothes were moved hy
the conviction ihal me commercial
use Of ihc aeroplane is not only foas-
ible but practical Tor quick delivery
The acrOplsncs purchased ior ilus
service are IN i-D2 model hipllncs
They are capable of speed of -
miles an hour Nncly tlNe per cent
of ihc American and Canadian military
Qyi3tors were trained in lhs model No.,
prove cniciencs led io as selection FOR
the Society Brand service
Tho planes Viii Doe dlstncuishablc
at ercal height hcrause of their
chockcr-board wings Military expert
mehl proved ird io as selection for
marking lent d ghcst visibility
They were chrslcncd society Brand
q and Society Brand ll by ll1wy u.
Merrick. president of ihc Chicago As
sOcialion nr Commerce. at ceremony
st society Brand Aviation Field, on
Tuesday
This ncid located al West Twelfth
street and Dcs PLANES. River. haywood
extends over 40 acres nn ii largo
hanglr has been constructed as the
home Tor the planes
Lieutenant David Bchncko. lately n
charge of testing and inspection III
army aer0plancs at Chanuie Flying
Field, Ranioul lll and holdor Of Aero
Club ef America License 40 Sis and
goVcrnmcnt permit NO Ii has been
engaged as pilot lie viii be- assisted
by "a slan OF trained aeroplane mcchan-
ics recently discharged from the army
aviation corps
Koshland tailor. or 80 s2i Market
Evening journal., 1919-06-05
DIRIGIBLE PASSED
OVER GEORGETOWN

Special 10 The Evening Journal.
GEORGETOWN, Dcl.. June 5.-Ihe
navy dirigibie C-s which lefi Akron,
Evening journal., 1919-06-05
NEW SERVICE STATION

~ rerar your FORD Truck Touring Car
will satisfaction Nc Gusreoteo
az, r ork specialize on FORD CARS and FULLY
Ne only and the job must be right bc{o
your the shop.
n no having with the urkssp Of your {
Evening journal., 1919-06-05

passed over he northeastern section Of
t;rorgcloNn 90 about ia yesterday
afternoon a the time. she was head.
"a towards Lcves and was plainly Wis
iblc 10 The residents hero
Evening journal., 1919-06-05
SOLDIER ON BIKE
DROPS INTO CANAL
- lo Do L1onIns lournal.

special 10 The Evening Journal.
DELAWARE CITY. juno 3 An van
usual accident without serious result
happened at ihc bridge over ihc canal
Lao Filth street Yesterday when : mo
iorcyclc with side car in which were
two soldiers from Fort DUPONT. broke
through ihe guard saic and plunged
ino uie canal while the bridge was
open The soldier .u me side rar. see
ms ihc danger jumped ip Time 10 save
himself. bat the other went overheard
Neither man was injured and the mo
torcycie Was rccoyrd
p. a.. Clark apd daughter. Miss caro-
line. spcnl yesterday in Philadelphia.
Alss Anna Pennington IS spending q
few day. with her brother, q a PEN
nngl0n.
Search the Want Ads FOR onporlun-
tiles In business partnerships
Evening journal., 1919-06-05

poiisncc to conssaer Al q mccine to
De- hei m Mayor lavsons offices n
5 O'Clock tomorrow nlghi The h"afd
has communication which VIII prob
ably he brought up ai This meeting
from lho state Income Tax Defense
League. asking That iho trolley fare in
This cii, be reduced nrom g 60 b cents.
The question of ro-rouliug trolley lines
in ihis city, is also lo he discussed.
The Want Ads viii locate lost sr-
iicles aud excellent bargains 10 house
hold furniture
Evening journal., 1919-06-05

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iiics In business partnerships
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Evening journal., 1919-06-05
sTATr HosPITAL TRrsTEEs MEEr

The trustees Of The state Hospiia
for the Insane held their monthly meet
Ing 40 Farnhurst today when the re
ports Of Or W H. Hancker. The super
intendent were received and approved
The population on June I was reported
10 be AIS During The month five males
and ten females We're admitted The
amount paid for fine board of patients
was slhll %
Evening journal., 1919-06-05

street. is Wilmington agent for Society
Brand Clothes Tie received an invita-
iion 10 attend the dedication Of the
Society Brand aeroplanes.