The Washington herald., 1920-02-05
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

New York. Feb. 1-New Workers.
who deal in weighty affairs are slow
ly cutting away from the routine OF
appearing at their Offices at fixed
hours. Despite all the barriers that
may be set up to protect them from
unweIcome visitors. the ONCE is prov
ing q place of petty annoyances.
Now they are remaining at home
where, in silken house robes. they
may loll about. receive visitors and
decide important matters. For two
years the real office Of William r.
Hearst has been at his apartment
house home on Riverside Drive.
It is here that Hearst calls his edl-
tors into conference to decide the
problems that are being confronted
in his various publishing enterprises,
Hearst invites his visitors to be seat
ed upon a large leather dvan where
they may be comfortable and he
faces them in huge leather chair.
When Charles NJ. Schwab Is in
town, he rarely appears for impor-
tant conferences at his Offices DOWN
town. Instead he confers in the sane
tuary OF his mansion, also on the
drive. The stiff dignity of office gath
erings Is abolished in the home. 1t Is
said that men have found their busi-
ness guests more apt to unbend and
OF aN he - NJ he tat
in hand.
There is a certain comfort about
working at home and yet II must
prove iTksome for there are num-
Der OF writer's, who could easily do
their work there who have offices
down in giant skyscrapCrs. Arthur
b. Reeve. for instance. has his office
and keeps strict office hours like a
doctor or lawyer.
Roy McCardell is in the Park Row
Building which he visits every day
from the wilds of New Rochelle Just
TO write Sunday feature stories, plays
and movie scenarios when he could
just as well do them in the blue
breakfast room clad in his famous
Persian silk pajamas while the coffee
cools.
Pelham wodehouse and G.. T. Bolton
have a joint office for their comic
enterprises for the stage world with
a baby grand. blond stenogtapher and
everything.
, A certain EnGlishman has written
to a certain New York editor-re-
GREETING 10 bother him and all that
sort of thing-askinG him TO toddle
down the passage and speak TO the
sporting editor. old bean, about a re-
cent fight description. In the jolly
old account and sporting editor
spoke about chappies being chopped
into pink ribbons" and the bl'shter
with the red grin that bubbled
gore" The sporting editor is one OF
those healthy. hearty fellows who
skip out of bed like a two-year- old.
feeling perfectly topping before
breakfast. but the Cnglishnan-well.
he is never much of a lad before
breakfast, and he read this particu-
lar account just as Jeeves, his man,
put his chop and egg before 'Iim.
Well-anyway he wasn't much for
red grins and bubbling gore before
breakfast and he told the editor fso.
winding it up with n Cheerio and all
that sort of rot, you know.
Mai. Gen. Sir David Watson quite
took Manhattan by storm during his
visit here from Canada. Knighted
for his bravery, he didn't hesitate to
say that his teeth chartered and his
knees shook before going into every
battle. And here's the story that
goes with Gen. Sir David's knight
hood. The King told it to him after
the accolade had been delivered and
they were talking human stories to
ach othr..
lone time when was making a
round of the front" said George ",
'T came across contingent of Amer
leans. One of them observed me
closely and called to a comrade: Hey
Bill. there goes the Kink" The pal
shouted back: What dye mean, the
I<ink?' And the other one said:
Right there. bonehead. The little
guy And the second one came back:
'Kink. hell! Where's his CROWN"
The advantage of higher education
are clearly set forth in n morning
paper in New York. Under an OBJ
scure heading is a small item saying
that eight students on scholarships
at Harvard and under a three column
screamer was a two-column Story Of
student who expects to win the
standing broad jump.