The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-25
Daily New York Letter

iBy o. o. Mcintyre, Special Corre-
spondent Of The Chattanooga News)
Now York. July 2S.--Hunting lodgings
among the. boarding houses OF New
York. Is one of the most interesting
pursuits In the world. 1t opens the
heart to a queer new world where tne
speech and customs are very different.
irwin Cobb once said that everybody
has some time or other lived on Yves.
Fifty-seventh street In New YORK, ana
IL "a true. From Fifth avenue TO the
Hudson, there are boarding houses gal-
ore---paiatial affairs with rich furnish
ings and the kind that always has
care-worn slavey who does everything,
Picking UP morning newspaper ono
may read about as follows: For Rent:
Elegant front room with bath down the
hall. Imply imp west r1dtyrseven.n
street. Ring Finnegan's bell" the ele-
gance consists of birdseye maple
writing desk, a near-brass bed ana a
chair. The bath room Is down the nan
down three flights.
One finds all sorts OF people In board
ing houses, the obscure. though great.
I lived for a week in one where the ell
entele consisted of vaudeville contor-
tionists. thought nothing OF seeing
them walking upstairs on their hands
or, turning flip off the from tstoop.
There are all sorts of landladies. too,
on West Fifty seventh street. re-
member seeing one who wore silk
robe, a diamond stomacher and pearl
ear rings. And there was another
little further east who had a patch over
her eye and drank Jamaica rum before
breakfast. Her chief drapery was an
apron.
In some Of the better class boarding
houses now a single room with meals
va ', oau frn,,n Nk0 IN 9Tk weak. II Ia
impossible to get anything cheaper
than that. There is one woman who
runs a chain of boarding houses. They
are scattered over the town. She lives
in London. Has a fine place In Ken
sington and all that.
And whisper 1t softly. She has once
met the king. She was a savey girl in
one a number of years ago. A hand
some boarder with lot of money 9nd
an alarming cough fell in love with
her because she was so kind. The
cough took him off. The girl got the
money, bought the boarding house and
finally chain of them.
Honest Dan" Costigan. who was
put on the toboggan in Febreary with
his reduction from inspector. has been
sent to the goats" He goes out to
lonely Westchester station. For
years he was the head OF the Wgilant
Broadway vice squad. He cleaned up
the gamblers. the nymphys du pave
and made broadway safer place. 1t
Is said that the vice interests offered
him $4,000 a month to let them run
full sway, Why he was deposed is an
other story, but those who know say
1t is a lasting disgrace to New York
and it's police department.
Speaking OF the police. raid was
made on one of the ten-cent- a dance
dancing academies the other evening.
Forty young men were arrested.
Twelve were hit over the head with
clubs and brought to the station house
bleeding. Most OF them were clerks
who went to the place because 1t was
cheap. Not one resisted arrest, 1t is
said. But tho proprietor had been dis
obeying some closing law and SO his
patrons got the benefit OF the police
fury. There are some good policemen
In New York-but they are as the
westerner said rare avis birds"