The Washington herald., 1920-09-24
New York City
BY o. o. Mcintyre.
StroIling Thoughts.


New York, Sept. 23. Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
The faint haze of approaching
autumn. Soon be time for oysters.
There goes August Belmont. An
alert, chunky figure and a true
sportsman. An Irish newsboy SELL
ing Yiddish newspapers. The sum-
mer loafers are leaving the Bryant
Park benches. Wasn't it Steven
son who wrote of the joys OF
idling2 A liveried limousine IN
front Of a and 10 cent store. Sup
pose the owner is inside Summing
A millionaires son in a striped
goblin-like roadster. Waiting at
the Follies stage door. STOPPED old
women in shawls selling theatrical
weeklies. New York is becoming
more like Paris. Small shops arc
taking the place of department
storec. BY actual count there are
ffty-four shops in this block. A
restaurant sign: Hash, 1S-carat
fine, s1.00"
Broadway has some new types
of Indians. The real things. Flock
here from Oklahoma to spend their
oil profits. Take the finest rooms
in hotels. They tip the size of their
check at meals. Wonder what
fur salesman does in the summer
time,
\ n rad
cars. Shamelessly applying the
rouge and powder The bloody
rich. There goes the actress who
rented a suite in a fashionable no.
tel for a pet goldfish. And the pa
pers didn't print a line about 1t.
The movie actresses have disre-
garded the pet lap dogs for the un-
gainly Russian wolf hounds. The
marmoset craze didn't last very
long.
The leaves are beginning to turn
in Central Park. The brown-stone
houses are being opened. A lot Of
seashore idols are back crying:
Cash girl-Thirty Six Out of
Dollar" A great pile OF foreign
labeled trunks at the Plaza. l once
bought a pack OF labels to paste
on my grip when l went back
home. And they're still laughing
about it. 1t didn't get over at all
Still you can't blame a guy for try
ing.
He Was superstitious.
To those who are superstitiOu.
about breaking looking glasses the
following authentic story comes
from Wall Street. 1t concerns a
fnancier whose name is known on
every tongue. He slipped in his
bathroom and in falling pushed a
chair against a great mirror in the
door, breaking it to pieces.
He was suDerstitious and told tn.
family about il at breakfast. When
he reached the office he found a
check for a half million that he
had never expected to matorialize.
At lunch the board of directors
notified him that he had earned a
vacation and they presented him
with a yacht-completely built and
luxuriously furnished. And in the
afternoon a daughter of whom he
was unusually proud announced
that she was not going to marry a
young maan her father opposed.
No Questions Asked.
One of those loosely conducted
hotels in the Fortics was visited
by the police raiders about 3 o'clock
the other morning. All the guests
were aroused and told to report az
the office down stairs. While the
register showed patrons register
ed from as far away as Pekin,
China, there were only four pieces
of baggage in the house. And one
Of these was an elephantine vanity
case. There was not single trunk
in the hotel.
Average Days Loss.
Great fortunes might be gained
in Manhattan shopping districts in
a day if one found the things that
were lost by shoppers. Here is
record of an average days loss in
the lost and found columns of the
Times: Purse containing $4,000;
diamond necklace; l long diamond
and platinum chain; l gold brace
let with sapphires: ! platinum bar
pin with 23 diamonds: l diamond
brooch circle with g. diamonds; "A
platinum diamond rings; l sable
coat: wrist watches, one set with
diamonds; $1,000 Liberty bond,
and coin purse containing Si5O.'