The Washington herald., 1919-01-20
i Correspondent Of The w.shinstou herald

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New York, Jan. 19.-As Samu.
Pepys would record in his diary: u
betimes and for a quick bite with M,
Simpson, the barrister. and thei
, through the town and to Washingtol
News and thence TO Irving Plac,
where we visited the house where o.
Henry lived and sat In the room
where he wrote 1.-THE Defeat Of the
City"
Thence to a studio where lives an
artist whose work strikes me with
great pleasure and yet he is so carp
ing in his comment of other artist
that he loses his charm albeit sup
pose greater artists do criticise his
work and thus bring home the couplet
Big feas have littler fieas to bite 'em
And SO on, pet. ad infinitum-
Home where came Mr.. Rafferty,, long
friend of Sir Theodore Roosevelt.
who told of his fine human qualities
and l wept In especial his little
story Of the Colonel after the death OF
his son, Quentin, did strike my sym
pathy. He had gone to the barn at
oyster Bay to give way to his grief
and his lost boys pony rubbed its
nose against his sleeve and the great
statesman did hug the animal and cry
On its neck.
Through the town again and sad
dened to see so many sounded SOL
diers, fine brave boys who bear afflic-
ton so lightly. On the avenue were
Sig. Caruso and his wife, newly wed.
and Macyln Arbuckle and owen Moore
in great coat of fur and Old Fred,
the lavendar man, did tell me that he
expected this to be his last winter on
the streets, his infirmities being SO
great and in truth he does decay rap
idly, poor fellow.
Much talk of several tragedies in the
past few weeks along the Broad Way
as the result of drug using among
young stage folk, two pretty maids
falling victims and dying in stupors.
The craze for stimulants seems to be
accentuated by the night life excite
ment
In the evening to billiards, playing
indifferently, then fell to reading Ib-
sen, without no great interest, and so
to bed.
The other day a man holding Il
very responsible position in New
York began to hunt for a place in
town for the winter. the weather
being too severe in New Rochelle.
Apartments are almost impossible
to secure and ordinary hotel &C
commodations for a family will cost
about $4,000 a year. He began to
scour the Broadway district and in
the shadow of Times Square he
found a suite Of offices, overlooking
Broadway. which he turned into liv-
ing headquarters after installing a
bathroom. Underneath is a theatri-
cal agency. next door a haberdash-
cry and a few doors away a vaude-
willie house. The New Rochelle man
used to all kinds OF luxury is so i'm
pressed with his new home that he
has taken a two-year lease and is
fitting it up in better style prepara-
tory to living there the entire year.
II didn't know New York was so in
teresting," he said.
1t is reported that Jack Francis,
the bred-in-the-bone Broadwayitc,
is to write q book of "Reminiscences.
He knows the old New York of the
pre- -Metropole and Aulic days and
the innermost life and secrets of the
Great Street.-The knows il from the
time the Windsor Hotel burned
down up to the last edition of the
Evening Journal. Parts of the book
would have tosbe bound in asbestos,
parts in lavender and old lace, parts
in petticoats, but all would be worth
reading. He knows all the intimat te
stories concerning theatrical man
ayers and stars. he has been named
correspondent himself by Harry
Thaw, he knows the whispers of the
grills. the best places to dine. head
walters by their first names-and
all the things that make for the
magazine picture of the real Man
About Town who is very seldom
seen in real life. He has been a
newspaperman, press agent and ac-
tor.