The Washington herald., 1920-07-12
New York City
B, o. o. Mcintyre


New York, July IA page from
tho diary of modern Samuel Pepys:
Up and my wife child me for wear
Ing a gaudy scarf and ! LETT In
pretty hun. Bought some things:
among othcrs a clock that lights
at night and tinkcred with 1t all
the morning until II was IN ruins.
This day I visited q great new
inn which has telephones one may
use In the bath AMI ice water faa'-
Gets at the bedside. But Lord. the
cost, And on each hoor an apothe-
cary shop, u barter and library.
While walking near the station
saw man overtske q lass ano
handel her soniothlng which sne
quickly gave to q man In petro'
waggods at the ocrb aud so mys.
terious 1t all wss that 1t worried
me all the day.
At a iunchc place ! came upon u
Byrne, rhe SERVER er. who has nm
ished 9 new tayle and was fron X
ing. To Greenwich In the aitcf-
noon, where ] rode on the great
yacht. Sachern, Sir Atchic- An1rews
baraue. cnd We went to sea and
ready for the cuI races.
In the evening We sat on the deck
watching the sky and TIE water
and fun of fine thoughts and never
was such an appetite raised In me.
Al midnight we came to land and
home BY tram enc so To bed.
All records for grand and lofty
| food prc fiteering are broken at Lons
Beach. Just twenty-nve-m mute
ride from New York and with no
! attra ctions to make 1t expensive
except that II happens To De nea'
the ocean.
! The menus OF ,hc cafes there ex-
cite the eas glands instead OF the
saliva glands. Watermelon Is u
a slice-I luote from the menu pe.
fore me-coffee 50 cents a cup am
cream 10 cents extra.
Ah,if canteleup is Sl.2o and green
turtle soup $40. a steak Tor on
Is 50 and fer two $3.50. Ice cream
Is 90 cents a dish. toast 81 an order
/ and II served 10 two, sl.i5. II
seems a shame the way Capt. Kidd
and Jesse Janne~- havo been ma
ligned. They we're poor duos'
Henrv L. Doherty, the oil ano
traction magnate, has fled plans foI
a home he will build atop one OF
the three skyscraping once build
ings he recently purchased facine
Battery Park. II Is so arranged
that Mr.. Doherty will be able &c
breakfast each morning facing ths
statue of Liberty. And he Is just
exactly a one-minute walk 10 Ms
ofices.
Bell hopping is not such a proft'
able occupation as IL used to be II
the large New York hotels since
prohibition. In the old days there
were bright-faced young ice watei
hustlers on the early trick ,wher
tbirsts were terrible who made $S'
a day. Now in hot weather they
make about IS or $40.
/ The rrst accident has happened
TO one of the trafic towers on Ftftf
avenue. These towers are fivt
blocks apart and by a series o'
lights they direct the cross towr
and avenue trafic simultaneously
They are twenty feet in the air
The other evening a bibulous gen
tleman in a stunt roadster wal
coming down the avenue at rapit
gait. He had his mind on othel
things apparently for he ran Int
one of the towers and 1t crashec
to the street He turned up a SID
street with an expression tina
seemed to say. Goodness, hi
. something" Fortunately no on
was in the tower as it was afte
Is o'clock. The new traffic signal'nt
system, incidentally, has proven
great success. 1t used TO be tina
il was almost impossible to ge
down Fifth avenue during the after
! noon crush in less than fort!
minutes. Now il takes about tel
minutes.