The Washington herald., 1920-01-09
NEW YORK CITY
By o. O~McMTYKE

New York. JafS s.-Thoughts while
strolling around Manhattan. A little
coffee shop named for Clemeneeau.
All the Fifth Avenue boulevardiers
wearing a white carnation bouton-
Mere. And they smell of perfume
Madison Square Garden. A mellow
old architectural pile. Wonder how
many stories have been written about
the gilded tin Dana top and cupola,
Irving Berlin and Constance Tai
made in a stunty roadster. say they're
, engaged. Flat little derbies look like
I Piccadilly. Quite ine rage. Great big
store sells only electrical appliances,
Something new. Employs 500 clerks.
An age of specialization.
Every shop has ouija boards for
sale. Craze to chat with spirits even
spreads to the theater. Chorus girls
spend all their time getting a slant on
the life beyond" r don't want to
know. My guess is it's got this beat
en-. Old Boss Croker coming out OF
the Holland House. Doesn't look ~.
Holland House is soon to be torn
down. All the landmarks going.
Upstairs clothing shops everywhere.
Whisky signs supplanted with fash
ing cigarette ads. Al Jolson back In
town for the sixth time with the same
show. Ice skating Kinks seem to be
packed. There's George Broadhurst
buying hot chestnuts. Always a boy.
Women wearing rubber bands in
their skirts to hold them tight around
the ankles. Hop like kangaroos. And
| at the opera a society woman stepped
from her cab during a snow storm
holding over her head a tiny paraso
made of ostrich plumes. Yet there
are very few bombs thrown in New
York.
Wonder IL there is a picket fence In
| New York? Restaurant prices COM
| ing down. Think I'll fatten up
/ Prettiest girls come out of the shops
at closing time. Look the happiesI
| too And I'll bet they are used tc
be happy when / worked. Now I'm
| unhappy because l fear I'll have tc
again. Still l put in eight hours yes
| terday. But today is another day
! HeiGh no.
Vincenzo de Santo sailed the other
| day for Rome to represent the New
York Sun. Due to the late war many
rare scholars were washed up or
American shores but none was more
! interesting than DIR. de Santo. lie
| came here on a highly important mis-.
sion for his government and then af.
H. a
and fell hopelessly in love with the
Middle West. Some of these days he
| is coming back to America to live and
he is going to settle there. Just any
city or village out there will suit me-
he declared.
A young man whose peculiar walk
is known from coast TO coast alights
| from an automobile near Times
Square once every week. turns up his
coat collar. pulls down his cap and
scurries into the back entrance of a
building on Broadway. He slips into
an Office. grabs package of mail
always awaiting him out of letter
basket and hikes to little areaway
in the back of the building where he
peruses it carefully. The young man
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He manoeuvres this way because he
finds it impossible to resort to the
usual New York Office-flage of sayinL
he's not in. And if he met all the peo-
pie who wants to see him he could not
do anything else. Despite the fact
that he has been considered soft
mark" for the White Way cleaners
for years he has never been able to
say no to an entreaty for a touch,
A young lad walked down Fifth
avenue the other day wearing a silk
sash, silk stockings. a broad lace col
lar and a black velvet suit. He had
long curls and n wistful white face.
He was a Little Lord Fauntleroy in
real life and the entire street turned
to watch.