New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
The Train Takers

"Well, l see Roosevet's sons going to
follow the old mans footsteps"
"He should have more luck than |
with my son in business. If he don't do
better than Milton they should only make
him Postmaster General"
"Did you read what they done to Ford?"
"Who done what?"
"That liability suit against the Chicago
Tribune"
"Who's defendin' him ?"
"Some shyster"-
"They call him ignorant idealism."
1.-THE lawyer from the Tribune put him
through examination until Ford says
Let me alone; don't bother me-1'm ig-
norant enough"
"Never mind, there's lot of men who
think Benedict Arnold is cutter, at
the head of some labor union, and even
don't know how we stand for men in
Porto Rico
"They can say what they like, he's
smart feller.'
didn't know nothing"
"Wcll, it's damn good car for the
money, and look how many he ships a
year."
"say, listen, If I could only get the
merchandise I could ship five million
dollars. What's the use of talkng?"
THE COMMUTER
Gonna" C. B. D. holds, is correct. And
to the potted mother tongue of New York
he adds "twenny" and "penny." "The
aversion to that dental consonant," he
adds, ais noted also in words like battle or
BOTTLE" We have noticed that frequently
the New Yorker would refer to The Ba' lof
Hund't n Twcnny Fiss Street.
We despair Of our ability to transcribe
the New York pronunciation of bottle or
battle. The vowel sound is short, Of
course; and the word is just shade
more than one syllable. The New Yorker
asks for Bo'lo ginge- -rayal.
Three Carps
Sir Not that l want to play the part of the
carping critic, but in "The Five Million the
hero is spoken of as having bombed Essen and
fought air battles in the Argonne And he is
dressed in the uniform of u. S. naval avatorl
And by the way, the Stacker in the same show.
a lawyer, threatens the inventor with a suit for
criminal libel when the latter calls him a crook
Even stage lawyers should know the difference
between libel and SANDER.
l almost forgot to add that the hero in his
thrilling story of his capture by the Germans
that he found himself looking into the
business end Of gating gun" I may be
ignorant of this, but did the Huns really use
that kind of gun? ClIcor
Mr.. W. S. Stock of Portland, Ore, bids
for the mixtmet title. "Like Cesar" he
says 1--WE have crossed the Rubicon. and
now we have the fairest winds and easiest
sailing" Or maybe he is an aviator
WASHINGTON, July 17-"Two German
prisoners of war, consigned to the Director
of Military Intelligence" are aboard the
transport Agamemnon, due at New York
July 23, according to the schedule of trans
port sailings announced to-day at the War
Department..
War Department officials said they had
no information as to the purpose in bring
ing the Germans to the United States
The Sun.
Until the purpose is ascertained or de-
termined upon, the prisoners probably will
be filed.
Doubtless Mrs. Wilson Is putting in tho
evenings writing bread-and- butter letters
in French and Italian
The New York Evening P. M Post prints
picture Of "Thc American A. F. f. Grew
on the Thames."
"Tep Cent Cnoko To or
Cents" says n Sun headline
Well. that's little Improvement.
The Tribune refers editorially to Henry
Ford as sitting on tho universe.
Ae N rsciprooating. ,. r. A.