The Washington herald., 1920-06-20
New York City
By o. o. Melnsyre

hot dog, q coney gastronomic ms
stitution, remains. No trip to coney
is really satisfying without q hot
dog sandwich-a thick bit OF well
nerwurst In a mustard smeared hot
bun.
Coney Is about the only place
around New York where the dime
is not looked upon with lifting
of eyebrows. There are many en-
tertainments at Coney for q dime
The Coney spirit is forever the spirit
of the carnival. It was built tor
pleasure only. 81
Every season sees<a new burst OF
thrills. Coney strives to thrill. This
year the newest sensation Is a
Ferris wheel which will carry Its
passengers out to sea, dip them
nifty feet under the ocean and bring
them home again.
The wheel runs upon a special
track built on the sea bottom as
far out as the builders bank ac-
count will permit. At the far end
Is a safety pier OF concrete to stop
the wheel in the event of cables
breaking. The cars are Of steel.
with windows of glass an inch
thick and circular fans to keep the
air moving. The door Is of steel
and slides up and down in water
tight fittings.
! An electric searchlight Is turned
into the green depths, and through
the windows one can see the fright
ened fishes scurrying out of the way
of this novel monster. of the sea.
At the last tip the visitor goes fifty
! feet below the surface. Here Is
darkness, for sunlight does not
penetrate to such a depth. At the
end OF the track is the skeleton OF
a sunken vessel. half buried in the
sand.
There is a loop-the-loop this year
where one may poise in mid air
| first being securely strapped In
Then the turn is completed after a
mighty series of breathless gasps
There are flying boats. electric
skates, roller coasters that leap of
| irto space and land kerplunk In
! quiet waters. There Is a house OF
| mystery where you enter In dark
ness and feel yourself suddenly
snatched through the air. passing
through pools of hre, shooting
through trap doors and ending sud
denly in a beautiful little garden
where a red devil with horns serves
| you a drink.
| Then there is the Checker Marvel
He plays fifty games Of checkers al
the sar-e time and you may win $50
II you defeat him. He Is little bald
man with a slightly Teutonic accent
A love affair turned him to checkers
and the assumption is that his love
was so overpowering that IL take,
| fifty games to make LiT, forget.
Mothers flock to the beaches with
their rocking chairs. Husbands &C
down at night fall and dine al
Coney Is overrun with scampering
yelling youth. Shop girls go tc
Coney dressed in their best Soor
they may be ou: on the beach hand
hand beginning the first stages OF
a summer romance, just as worth
while as those at Bailey beach
Newport
| Coney Island streets are filled
with bally-hoo artists who furnish
! great amusement for the crowds
They are personal in their remark.
but it is all good nstured and one
never sees a row. often wonder
how a man with a monocle would
feel walking through the jibes ot
! Coney's streets.
Nearly one-third of the couples
that take out marriage licenses on
the second floor of the Municipal
Building go up to the third floor
and get married in the Municipal
Chapel. 1t is cheap. The whole op-
Grafton costs $3-sl for the license
and 81 for the ceremony. Tips are
not allowed. Rice and romance are
lacking. One man performed $4,000
ceremonies last year In the build
ing. 1t is a great sight to see the
young couples sitting about on the
benches awaiting their turn. All are
holding hands. Now and then there
are embraces. Everybody is happy
and no introductions are needed.
George White qualities as the
latest producer of Broadway revues
He is barely thirty years of age and
II Is only ten years since he broke
out of the ranks OF the messenger
boys. He learned his first steps ir
a music hall on the Bowery and
began his career by playing small
time vaudeville. He appeared or
Broadway first in The Echo at the
Globe, the house to which he now
triumphantly returns as a producer
He is taking a small part in the
show and contrary to the usual pro.
cedure of actor producers Is no
trying to be the whole thing. The
critics received his new offerine
with fair praise although IL is mere.
ly an elaborate vaudeville entertain.
ment.
New York never apologies TO
anything. Her house is never 4,
order, and yet II is never too bus,
to have a parade. Nearly ever,
; week Fifth avenue is blocked 70
some huge swinging procession
down that thoroughfare. TIL,
streets are always torn up, tn,
, sidewalks filed with garbage cans
and skyscrapers are in variou
stages of metabolism and katabol
ism. Nothing finished, nothin,
fixed, sketchy. vague in outline a
life itself. With piles of pawn,
stones. building bricks, gas pipes
sewage pipes. subway scaffoldinI
all about her, always ready to tea
down, always ready to build VI
something new-that Is New York
New Workers are always opti
mists. Otherwise they would not b.
here. 1t is a spirit of eterna
youth that pervades this two b,
four island. The people are young
or they give the appearance of be
ing young. At the sight of the frs
wrinkle or the first gray hair Their
Is rush into a beauty shop to hav,
the wrinkles ironed out. the hair re
colored and the form reshaped.