The Washington herald., 1919-08-22
NEW YORK CITY
Day-By-Day }
By o. O. MCINTYRE

New York. Aug. A.-Thoughts while
strolling around Manhattan: Women
wearing batik waists on the Avenue
Clara Tice started the craze in Green
wich Village. There's little Frances
White just back from London. Alfred
Butt put her name UP in electric
lights in Picadilly. Cafe announces
fried eels. John Drew leaving the AL
gonquin. Looks much older.
Spindly-legged girl picking an old
pair of shoes out of a garbage can.
Think I'll do little scavenging. Five
dollar shoes are now $50. Col. Harvey
setting his watch by corner clock.
Wish I could hear Wilson Miner testi-
fy in the Lynbrook gambling case.
Fashions undying epigrams.
New hair-dressing place with a gen.
tleman's parlor at the back where they
wax mustaches and pomade the hair
and tighten toupces, Window of jap
anese art store looks like a scene from
Micado-lilltes in japanese pans, pink
and green slippers. yellow pajamas
with oriental deS lgnS.
Apollo-like fellow is Herb Roth, the
artist Owns a music shop on Madison
avenue Only man in New York
know who chews tobacco Got the
habit in the navy. and quit smoking
cigarettes. A debonair figure. Chan
ticlerian. Smallish, clean-shaven man
IN crumpled pongee suit and shock
OF white hair has been husband Of
three famous beauties Looks unkempt
and lists to the starboard like a post
man. Wonder how he makes love?
Old bedraggled woman begging at
doors of limousines is Crying Mary.
Has perfect control OF tear ducts and
can cry at will. Police inspector once
told me she owned a flock of apart
ment houses in Ho'boken. Three chorus
girls Sinking out of a pawn shop.
Wonder what became of the watch
once pawned in Cincinnati? Think I'll
stop here in the Ritz. Nice deep
leather chairs. Lot of nifty girls pass
by, too.
You pay so much for everything
in New York that to get anything
free is a mental shock. In Bagdad-
on-the Subway the visitor pays one
cent for a glass Of water any place
in town, five cents for two two
cent stamps. ten cents for a FIVE
cent telephone call and so on and
so forth. But there is one thing in
New York free. In front of a down
town office of a manufacturer OF
scales is one OF the big samples and
you are cordially invited to step on
and see how much you weigh No
body asks you to sign anything and
nobody steps up and says: Let's
see, amt you Henry Harmon's boy
that used to live in Zanesville?" It's
free. boys. free!
The government has already sent
some of the famous revenue men to
New York. They are the still-blood-
hounds and can sniff out a whisky
making apparatus in the most OBJ
scure cellar. Several splls have al
ready been raided on the East Side,
and one in the fashionable section
Of the north shore of Long Island.
The revenue men came to Gotham
from Cambridge, Mass. for years a
no-license town. Cambridge had al
ways fiocked to Boston for its wet
goods until national prohibition
Then it happened that revenue men
found $50 gallons tucked away in a
barn.
The stupidity of the New York DO
lice has passed the ludicrous stage
1t has become both a tragedy and
civic disgrace. The recent dismis-
sal of a girl of undisputed high
character from the far West on the
charge of professional vice shows
the depths to which the police will
descend to cover up their bonehead-
ed arrests. The girl was here buy
ing her trOuSscau. Through igno-
rance Of the city she got into a
house of assignation and the police
trying to trap the woman who con-
Quoted the place arrested the girl.
They swOre she was sitting with a
man in the room when they entered
All of this was proved false. The
girl was held with other prisoners
prostitutes and drug fiends-for 4S
hours before her case came up for
trial. A fat-headed magistrate con-
victed her but a higher court re-
versed the conviction. rebuked the
magistrate. and has advised the girl
to arrest the police for perjury.