The Washington herald., 1920-10-14
BARGAIN CRAZE
REACHES ELITE.
Limousines and Push Carts
Vie in New York Compe-
tition, Says Mcintyre.
by o. o. MCINTYRE.
Special Correspondent Of the wash-
fnEton Herald.

fnEton Herald.
New York, Oct. I3.-In this era of
shrewd buying. stately limousines
stand brazeniy at the curb OF the
hve and ten cent store on Fifth av-
enue. Indeed 1t is becoming al
shopping center--so much so that
the blind and armless beggar who
used to stand three blocks away
now stands in its shadows.
The push-cart section on Hester
street is Cow enjoying uptown pat
ronage. There are real bargains to
be found in this colorful section.
Yiddish merchants have heretofore
depended on East Side buyers and
the bargaining is sharp.
But the hordes from uptown have
learned that IL is considered bad
luck by the push cart men not to
make sale so they are haggling
with all the fervor of the natives.
The push cart merchants sell ev-
erything from pins to phonographs.
Most of them are old men whose
sons belong to another day--the
day OF gaudy hose and silken shirts.
The fathers are daily visitors to the
Tabernacle, strictly orthodox and at
night gather on the stoops of the
tenement section. silent and brood
ing.
Hester street. Is filled with young
full bosomed, red checked girls.
They obey their parents better than
the sons and assist in the sales. In
many instances they display the
merchandising in a fetching man
nGr-for there are push-carts piled
with hats, shawls, ribbons and
blouses.
Another phase of the craze for
bargaining is echoed in the high
priced hotels. The guests may stay
there but they eat at the little cafe
terias that dot the neighborhood.
Down in the Grand Central hotel
district scores of these eateries
have bloomed over night Their
patronage comes from the big ho-
tells.
Tips Soup Plates.
L had dinner the other night at
the next table to Charlie Chaplin.
the film star. Charlie takes big
bites just as / do and tips his SOUP
plate in the same fashion. He looks
little as you would expect him to in
real life. OF course the absence of
the moustache may account for
that. But his face is longer and
more youthful than I expected. He
was in correct dinner dress and did
not display any self consciousness
although walters had spread the
news that 1t was none other than
he and all eyes were upon him from
soup to nuts. He might well be
taken for young man of "a or 25.
lie has an English drawl and says
"eNtraw-dineery," really" and NV
word! He smoked several cigar
cites during his meal and the tin
| that he left couldn't hAp but see
L. twas not remarkably big for the
character of the place. Going out
l think many people expected him
| to trip. smack his hand kerplunk in
some lady's soup and then whirI
around and upset a huge vase at the
| doorway.
Ride to Apartments.
The gilded after-theater places
| look so pitiful after the play these
! days. No one goes out for supper.
| Instead they ride to apartments
! where Meadows has a fine frost on
| the cocktail shaker and goodly
| chill upon the wine. The soda wa
Ter places get a good patronage but
the stately places where one crossed
itching palms with $40 bills to get
/ a good table are ghOstly in their
| llfelessness. Quite a few are con-
sidering closing after the dinner
| hour-sO dull is the business 1t is
said that an old time New Yorker
sent a wire TO Cap Churchill the
other day-as per his usual custom
asking for a good table on New
| Years Eve. The poor fellow is
prospecting for gold in Alaska and
didn't come to the States last year
Cap is arranging to take a feet of
! doctors with him to Seattle to break
the news when the ship arrives
| from the north.