The Washington herald., 1920-03-07
New York City
By o. o. McIntyre

thing to talk about back home.
speaking roughly. one might say
It is possible to get = drink. II IT
Is not SO. how is It possible for men
going home late at night to be so
wobbiy? There are sti.l A,unks to
be found every night.
or course II might be said they
were visiting friends who had . sup
ply. but that is not likely. 1t was
reported the other day that at GER
tain park where one may ride horse
back a boo tiegger ives making a
nice little fortune.
Away from the prying eyes of
government sleuths he rode horse
hack and carried with him a bottle
OF scotch and a coilapsible drinking
cun- He sold a fair-sized drink, IL
was said. for 81, and It was also ru-
mored that men who had not been
in riding togs for years suooeniy
took nm the brid4e path again.
The masquerade balls, given NJ
various large halls. are said 70 De
sources of supply for many
said that bootleggers are ratner
brazen at these affairs In disposins
of their liquor.
Then too there is another story
that the table d'hotes, whose doom
was sounded with prohibition, nave
started to sell white wine again.
According to those who know the
wine is placed in bottles labeled ci-
der. 1t Is the same color OF ciaer
and has about the same taste put ~
Is a kind OF white wine nevertheiess
and has a good healthy Kick.
one old time Broadwayite sized II
tup in this fashion: "fes, son. IL Is
quite possible to get a drink. couIo
name a dozen places within hVe
minutes walk. But people are
afraid. What they are serving LOT
whisky now is raw alcohol issued
for non-beverage purposes ana Is
colored up with brown sugar or
burnt caramel to make IL AMBER.
Maybe It is even wood alcohol. Wooo
alcohol does not kill every one' OF
every time. There Is no way 10 ten
from the odor which Is wood ano
which is grain. Even the raw gram
alcohol will make you awful soused
and the next day you are sorry
they didn't give you the wood alco-
hol because you feel so rotten.
IJp in Fordham road a man stands
on a corner selling pencils. he
wears colored glasses. on MS neck
is a sign: =, N, =.
was wood alcohol. I am blind
Spend your money Tor somethins
useful. Buy a lead pencil.
A ghastly attempt at comedy oy
a victim ofswood alcohol.
AS for private stills-the number
now in use may be Judged by the
fact that fifty have been confiscated
already. Always the perfectly hor-
ribfe odor was the cause Of the ZIP
to revenue officers.
So far as can be learned there is
no beer for sale except the KIND
that is permitted with the one-half
of 1 per cent alcohol. A great
many of the saloons hang on--pa-
thetic looking places with bartend-
ers that rarely make a sale.
Chorus girls say the worst mash
ers along the Rialtosare the men
of so years. The wild oats of youth
are much less perilous than those
of later years, they declare.
Father IS the dangerous masher
The wild oats the youngster sows
arc only flowers of illusions scat
tered on a sterile and unproductive
soil, But fathers oats are the
fragments of his ideals-and they
are dangerous.
The fact that porter at the
Hotel McAlpin has rented another
New York hotel for ten years at an
annual rental of s250.000 does not
xxyhn l.
come of the porters at the big hotels
The average tip to a porter Is 81
and on a dull day he will handle
the baggage of fifty persons. Some
times he will make $50 In day.
In this particular instance the por-
ter is not going to take any
chances. He will run another
hotel. but he is going to hold his
own job.
Broadway, is hard up for dimes.
There are plenty of golden notes
and coins, but the lowly dime seems
to be back in the rural districts
where the kick is In the cider and
the fiivvers are not in pawn.
Nearly all of the large theaters
among the big, thirty-five which
cluster about Longacre Square have
eliminated the penny and the
nickel in their arrangement of the
war tax. not so much out of tender
consideration for their patrons as
from the confusion which would
| result in an actual penny shortage
which would be the case IL any
more odd prices were inflicted or
the present almost changeless box
Office.
The Capitol Theater, as the lar.
gest change mill on Broadway
presents an interesting study In
fractured and fractional finance
When the registry system was first
put into the box office there it was
feared that inundation of change
which would follow prices like
s1.65 and s2.70 would wreck the
system.
Instead, of which. 1t has beer
quite the contrary. There isn't an,
use of statistics. according to Mr.
Rivington Bisland. the treasurer OF
that theater. The fact is simple
nohQdy by q chance ever appear.
at the box Office window with any.
thing but a bill. Consequently into
the theater each day comes q
husky individual with a large bae
or change. which he has had q
growingly hard time, to gather. to.
gether, and out of the theater eact
night goes gentleman with q
large pocket of large bills towart
the bank. A reserve supply OF
$500 worth Of change is constant.
ly on hand in the safe upstair.
against the day when the. last dime
has said good-by to Broadway. The
situation at the Capitol is dupli.
Gated all down the line.