The Washington herald., 1920-04-09
New York City
B. o. o. Mcintyre

New York, April s. - Thoughts
while strolling around New York {:
Where will I walk today? Always
crowds. hurry and excitement.
wonder IL mosts of the cowled
monks come from the city. An old
man run down by q motor. He Is
up and walking off a little dazed.
Traffic sweeps on and, now its for
gotten. Back home IL. would be
a ten-day sensation. Seems like I'm
always hungry. Perhaps 1t is re-
tribution. I once spurned clerk
ship In a delicatessen shop.
Young shop girls out for lunch
con. Light OF foot and laughing.
Wish I could take a few of them
TO lunch without being thought a
flirt. Last night / played bridge
with three old bores. All talked of
gout, rheumatism and a bruised
world. Today / want to daily by
the babbiing wells of youth These
new shoes are getting In their
/ work.
Easter forecast in all the shops.
Now for the lily profiteers. That
was a nice letter i got today. And
| IL came from Atlanta. But why
didn't she sign her name. You, can
tell an Englishman by the slope
of his shoulders A fellow talking
back to bus conductor. Bravoi
They won't let dogs ride in them
| any more I'd rather ride with
dogs than lots of other things.
| Another graveyard in ~ Eesiden-
tial district. Ought to abolish
them all. A relic of the dark
ages. Never could tell a circus was
| in this town. II they'd let all the
animals loose they wouldn't know
IL two blocks away. The only way
| to exsite a New Yorker these days
] is to raise his rent. AS Don Mar
| doesn't know where 1t Is going to
| live"
! Over here on Park avenue there
is class. Imagine paying s25,0O0
| a year for an apartment. I've
| got a relative who retired on S10.-
| 600 and his pension. Not an en-
| trance except for motor cars
! They're got me saying that.
mean automobiles. l suppose IL a
man would walk in one of those
| places they'd take him for a sneak
thief.
Billie Burkes car. It's tan with
| tiny lavender stripes. Everybody
rushing for the stations to get a
seat home! Something about a
depot fascinates me. Makes me
want to travel to strange places.
Like Boston or India. ouch! These
| shoes!
The New York eating public is
! doing some watchful waiting. The
restaurant men declare that they
are going to lower their prices. But
| how much? That is the question
| The last time they announced a re-
| duction in schedule they cut a nickel
! here and there off the price OF
meats. But in a few weeks they
| had lacked up the price of Vege-
tables to make up for it. Even in
| the one-armed restaurants now
where one waits on ones self, it is
| not possible to get 4 lunch for less
than 60 cents. The Bowery 15-cent
dinners are now 35 cents, and the
table d'hotes are charging So where
they formerly charged GO cents
with all the red and white wine the
! patron wished thrown in.
| A frail little New York girl went
| into a and 10 cent store the other
afternoon to look at the counters
| she suddenly 1elt StlnSlnS pain IN
her back. Her dress and coat had
been slashed by a Jack the
Slasher" There was a cry and a
chase. A well-dressed man was
captured. He protested that he had
4 Joined in the chase and was mis-
taken for the culprit. He showed
his business card and proved that
he was an executive in large
banking house. Nevertheless nc
was taken to headquarters and II
was discovered that once before he
had been arrested on the same
charge. But powerful influences
kept him out of prison. He was
permitted to go. He. still retained
his position. He is now under OBJ
servation in Bellevue.
The shooting galleries that, were
so popular on Broadway during the
war have all gone out of business
The proprietors say that the craze
for shooting ended with the armIs.
tice.