The Washington herald., 1919-08-26
NEW YORK CITY
Day-By-Day
By O. o. Mcintyre

I New York. Aug. 25.-Prohibition has
shot hotel rates skyward. The hotel
managers announce that they have
found no relief in the sale of soft
| drinks and that the big loss Of bar
revenue must be made up in room
prices. 1t is said that three large
hotels planned for Manhattan have
been given up by the promoters. In
some OF the best hotels the rates
are going to be doubled.
while some of the big hotels ad-
| vertise rooms s. a day up it has
Tor years been buncombe and a re-
nectlon upon the intelligence of the
| motel industry. AS n rule there Is
perhaps one room for 81 and it is al
ways occupied. The patron lured by
/ Ihe advertisement usually finds the
/ prlce Is from "a up. But in few
weeks it will be $ a day and up-
mostly up.
And just now eating In the first
class hotels is almost prohihitive
Down in the hotel district a Street
| OF Restaurants has burgeoned. Forty
fourth street. from Vanderbilt avenue
/ to the Hudson. is studded with eating
| places-big and little.
Fourteen restaurants contribute TO
/ the atmosphere of a single block on
/ the street between Broadway and
| SIKH avenue. Some have regular din
ners for 45 cents and are apologize
about It. Others have six Little Neck
CLAIMS for Co cents and seem proud
Of it.
The street is = scene OF gastronomic
democracy. The rich and poor eat
together On ii. The Claridge is the
ltrst food depot Two of its cafes
have bowed to boozeless days and
closed. Other places on the street
are the st. ReEis-yellow lighted and
pastry windOwcd and not the replica
OF the swell ST Regis on the avenue
Jo"'s No. ,. The Blue Ribbon Cafe.
Hotel Gerard, Mr.. Kean, Henri. Yet
"ah Lou. the lone Chinese member:
Lucca and the Algonquin. belmont
cos famous gem of the collection
, Before Louis Sherry gave way to Il
bank his restaurant was a colorful
fifty feet of the street.
The harem Veil has come to Fifth
avenue. Newport put the seal of ap-
pruval on the style when Mrs Arthur
Scott Burden and Mrs. Harry Payne
/ Whitney Wore the facial camouflage.
The harem veil does two things which
the ordinary veil never has done Sue
' SsLully-proteCts the complexion
and allows the wearer to see what is
going on around her.
Young T,oChiuvar, coming out OF the
West Via TEirty-fnurih street strurA
4 frtu Avenue at the busy noon hour
"" was ~iN Years old and small for
I'~ ."- :" small that he couh <qucczr
Int" the >u1u barrel that formed the
r t"sIs 'Dr his al'omrhi.c. Nouulr,I on
e. s''' 'n i"ar Wheels and numbered d
.'!l' .n a.s n.'E letters. The, approved
'--Hr s'g.c. < was m.hUy ,,r. ii
. Az. rr.TvtrG A,- two bare feet I'LL
d"ruc"th. L.,HiLyar wore green Cog
%.'s. The corner traffic cop saw him
Held ~ traffic while he dashed
across.
, People still cat sauer-kraut in New
York under the name of liberty cab
hore. Hut trying to call the dachs-
hund tn" liberty hound failed miscr-
ably. II couldn't bc done As a re-
u1t the d-cl shund is becoming ex-
unct. They say that Paris is kinder
10 the dachshund than New York.
They have a lot Of captured ones
ther" and they're proud to be seen
walking down the boulevard with one.
But no one ever thinks Of walking on
the street with a dachshund here.
The dachshund is Gu~ loyablc
Hmimal-gcut!e and Intelligent lie
had nothing to do with the war. II
the T'utons had assimilat"d some of
the dI, h>auud's virtues there would
not have been a war