The Washington herald., 1919-06-26

New York, June 25.-A day
around the New York piers these
days gives a colorful picture of
families trickling back to Sunny
IT. Spain and other foreign coun-
tries. Down by the old Coenties
Slip the other day / saw a polyglot
group, with all their earthly pos
sessions at their side. getting ready
to sail for their native land.
Despite the difficulties and delays
In obtaining passports, the saiIings
from the port OF New York alone
average about 1000 weekly. All of
them say they are returning be-
cause of prohibition. In a speech
at the Waldorf the other day
prominent banker said:
With the going of these foreign
tongueAspeaking individuals Amer
lean banking and business insti-
tutions will suffer a big loss. 1t
means the withdrawal of bank and
, savings accounts estimated as high
as $4,000. 900. 900"
Most of the workers. now leav-
ing. are from Pennsylvania Their
chief objection to prohibition is
that they will not be BILE to get
beer. They may be seen around
the docks sitting on the curb with
a loaf of bread in one hand and a
ing the big meal Of the day at
noon.
Many of these foreigners are
men OF genius, blown by the winds
OF chance. They look upon Ameri-
ca and its people timidly. Many of
them are painters Of no mean abil-
ifV and
and lived in shanties that they
might return 20 their native coun-
try and pursue art without starv-
ing.
The cheap photographer reaps a
harvest around the piers. To have
a cheap picture taken is the final
gay fling before the boat pulls out
for home The women are young in
years, but old and drawn In looks.
They wear shawls and old wrappers
And they look out upon the new
world dumbly-for all the world
like cattle.
The first knowledge of Bobby
Ashe came when an infants cry was
heard in an ash can in New York
He reposed on cinders and on being
lifted out and given ablutions ne
was none the worse. Bobby found
refuge in a hospital. A childless
| couple came and arranged a legal
adoption and Bobby entered into
purple living. A special nurse was
his devoted slave. From a thin,
anaemic child he bloomed into a
rosy checked cherub. He had a mo-
tor car for outings and this sum-
mer he was to have a cottage far out
on a rock by the sea. His foster
parents were Christian Scientists.
A statute forbids an institution to
surrender a founding to a guar
dianship not of the religion there
is evidence the child is born into.
They found a card signed by a po-
liceman attesting Bobby was Of
Catholic parentage. So back he
went to the hospital. In this little
chronicle lis a cross section of the
old and the new.
Just the other day old friends of
Marie Dressler learned her real
name. She would never tell it.
But dramatic critic came to New
York and recalled having seen Miss
Dressler when she came down from
Canada-O! so many years ago.
Her name then was Leila Koerber.
A New York young man un-
known in society married a society
girl the other week. A reporter for
an evening paper told of visiting
them in their suite the next day at
noon. He told of the bridegroom
meeting him at the door in pa
jamas and after he entered the room
he saw empty champagne bottles
and cigarette stubs all about the
room. The paper printed the story
as he wrote it. Everybody who read
1t thought IT in poor taste. The
city editor. managing editor and re-
porter lost their jobs.