The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-22
NEW YORK CITY
By o. o. McNTYRE

New York, Dec. IA page from the
diary of a modern Samuel Pepys:
Lay late, the wind being high. and
came by post a document that does
me high honor and I pray to be kept
humble and not too much lifted up.
In high spirits with my wife. in her
newly made boots. to the booksellers
and got Strindberg's Married" and
some volumes of verse.
Then through the avenue and to an
art gallery to see some new Dutch
paintings and one in especial Of a
worker waiting for the ferry at dusk,
the best expressed that ever / saw
in my life. To lunch with A. Roche,
the scrivener, just home from over
sea. and Capt. Rupert Hughes came
and We ate some fish, newly catched.
A comedy woman Of good language
hailed me for instructions to enter
the underground tram and / escorted
her with fair grace and found her to
be relative OF Mr.. Arbuckle. the play
actor. Home, where a boy brought u
paper from a poet who Is stranded
and has a panegyrique to finish. but
gave him only half his demand.
c. Falls, the painter. called and told
Of B. Harrington being in town to
see his book set to music; and too, OF
the high scandal Of the clothes in
"Aphrodite." which made me want to
see 1t more than ever. cast up my
Christmas expenses today and grew
sullen.
To Brownies wine house to dinner
with II. Station. c. Briggs. II. Webster.
r. Rohn and w. johnson and we sang
old songs and quipped and quirked
until very late. but drank nothing but
Fale OF ginger and black coffee Then
in fiacre home and to bed.
The other day a reporter passed one
of the smartest Of the pre-war Broad
way cabaret places. He looked
through the silver and gold curtains
and there at lone table. the only one
occupied in the room, sat one of New
York's wealthiest spendthrifts-open-
ing a quart bottle OF milk.
The death OF two rich men recently
revealed the fact that each supported
separate establishments-not new 10
New Workers but interesting. In one
OF the most fashionable hotels in New
York II Is said live no less than forty
four women of this social status. In
| their home towns, OF course, such life
would be impossible. but for the new
conner in Gotham there Is no social
scaffolding. They mingle in the cafes
and hotels with the very best people
No one seems to think anything about
IT. Respectable people accept it much
as they would almost anything they
dislike. but are forced to tolerate.
Fourteen deaths resulted from puis-
oned whiskey in New York last week.
The stun was sold, too, for SIS a
quart. A standard brand OF gin. which
used to be retailed al S. cents a quart,
Is now selling all along Broadway for
SIG quart.
The noisiest street N New York is
Hudson street, away downtown
where the strike of hoofs against cob
blestones resembles the pounding OF a
heavy sea. 1t is a street Of heavy
truck traffic, for the piers are neal by
and the ferries close. Hard by is
Broome street. one of the most fas-
cinating streets of the metropolis.
All the houses are alike. two-story
brick with the stamp OF the old Knick-
erbocker period on each. There are
very few rich on Broome street. Over
each door Is a little white paper on
which is written. il you investigat e
carefully, in varied scrawls: Rooms
for Rent" Almost any family has a
furnished room suitable for a re-
fined gent on Broome street.