The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-11-19
New York Letter
By Lucey Jeanne Price

New IOrK-COmmon folk who are
| rejoicing because their favorite dairy
lunch has reduced the price of dish
of prunes from Is to 10 cents, and
continued to practice of serving five
prunes to the portion, will be jealous
of New Workers now.
Three big hotels have brought their
table d'hote dinners down to a mere
$3.50 per plate-the Waldorf-Astoria
from $3.50, the McAlpin from $A25
and the Claridge from $3.50.
Carmen Campellano, just in from
a train, was too darned anxious to
induce the recruiting officer to send
him to an army post farther removed
from New York than Fort Slocum is.
A Pennsylvania railroad station de-
tective who heard Campellano vainly
endeavoring to enlist conditionally
upon his being sent to Honolulu or
Manila, decided to arrest him on the
chance that he might have done some
thing somewhere and wanted merely
to get far away from there for a spell.
The Sleuth's bunch was right; Cam
pellano had the day before killed a
man in Philadelphia.
Even those who have been tempted
to shoot singer for singing will
sympathize with Nine. Nina Korshetz-
Shubert, Russian prima donna just
landed on the Pannonia.
Nine. Korshetz-Shubert was a So
prano in the Russian Royal Opera
Company at Petrograd, and was cap
tured by the Bolsheviks. The singer
said that they Mathematical her
voice."
Until her escape, the Bolshevik
Government forced her to travel
throughout Russia and sing in public
concerts, the Reds taking the receipts
and giving her barely enough to live
on. The several times she refused to
sing, she was told to either sing or
be shot. She sang.
| Robert H. (Rob) Davis is leaving
Munsey's. He who handled o. Henry's
copy, who published the early stories
of Mary Roberts Rinehart, who
guided Fannie Hurst, who brought
Charles E. Van Loan and Ben Ames
Williams out of newspaper city rooms
and who stood between Montague
Glass and law office. Davis found
the inimitable o Henry on the top
floor of little hotel in Twenty-F Fourth
street in the early nineties, read few
of his stories, and put him under a
contract for five years.
Davis published the first three novels
and all of the early short stories of
Mary Roberts Rinehart. To Fanny
Hurst he suggested the type Of stories
she now excels in; he bought her first
years output when she came to New
York from st. Louis. Van Loan and
Williams left the newspaper game,
confident of themselves because of the
trust he had in their ability.
Montague Glass came to Davis
ready to quit writing; he would re-
turn to his practice of law. Davis in
duced him to try three more stories.
One of them was the first of the
potash and Perlmutter" series.
Glass never returned to law.
Very few New Workers, when ar
ranging nowadays to give party,
put "R. S. V. P" at the bottom of
their invitations.
Instead, there is almost universally
the mystic letters, "B. Y. O."
I'll warrant that in this A. P. day
and age few will need more than
three guesses as to what "B. Y. o."
means. So everyone will be given
equal opportunity, I think I should
explain that "a. p" means after
Prohibition"
Not particularly because the fore
going suggests this, but:
The gentle bovine is no longer
needed. The brontosaurus had to go.
So the horse is vending his path. And
this time it's the cow.
Milk is now to be made by machin-
cry. Fact. The mechanical COW is
already in working order, installed
and giving any number of quarts of
the Tactic fluid per day There is even
a refinement on the device which sees