The Washington herald., 1920-03-19
New York City
B, o. o. McIntyre

New YORK, MATCH ld--InouBnts
while strollinE around New YORK:
These lions In front OF the public
library need Q bath. ons-iegged
soldier making living opening
| Limousine doors In front OF shops.
Deserves q better Job. Lackeys In
knee breeches opening the doors OF
the Vanderbilt mansion. Seems to
be nice, light work. Suppose tney
get Thursday nights out.
There goes the mayors c4r. No
traffic rules for IL. Young John D.
Rockefeller walking home. Got q
gymnasium and swimming pool on
his roof for the children. Rent
strikers on parade. The Plaza! An
imposing pile Of gray tissue. A
woman there has an apartment done
entirely In pink-piano, telephone,
lights and everything. And O pink
plush robe for her Pon,i
Columbus Circle. One OF the
city's greatest traffic points. Small
est store in the world here. A fruit
shop occupying space twelve feet
long and two feet wide. Rental 800
week. Shady hotels in the side
streets where they ask no questions.
All have canopy tunnels from the
curb.
An artist with his easel going to
Central Park. An oId-fashioned
dray pulled by horses. Looks anti
quated. Helen Keller. the blind
marvel. with her teacher. Holding
her fingers to her teachers face.
Face Is animated. II appearing at
variety theater.
A picturesque Italian vendor. Tur-
quoise rings In his ears. Black hair
plastered with grease. A bandana.
Wonder IL he carries a stiletto. Pig
cons In the Broadway caves. Auto
mobile row. The statesmen do not
seem to have anything to do. But
they're the best-dressed men in
town. Go in for loud scarfs, though.
A snappy-looking crowd of Win
ter Garden chorus girls. There they
go In bowling alley. Rector's old
place closed. Going to be turned
into a quick lunch place and a dance
hall upstairs. Used to pay George
Rector $4,000 a year just to use his
name. Lots of royal battles in
dress suits pulled OF there.
New York was excited over the
news that Secretary of War Baker
lost a pipe while on q visit to the
metropolis the other week They
didn't know Mr.. Baker was that old
fashioned. Dealers here report that
the pipe is almost obsolete. It is
still smoked in private, but the res
taurants and hotel Hobbies bar
them. The familiar dudeen of the
day laborer has given place to the
cigarette falling from Latin or Sla-
VIC lips. In the days when the ma
Jority OF this generation were young
he
ladies' and college students ali
smoked pipes. Cigars were limited
to capitalists and politicians, And
cigarettes were smoked only by a
class OF males known as "duoes.
The district attorney has refused
10 permit class of sociolo gical
students from a woman's college to
go through the night court. II is
indeed a sordld place. Young wom-
en- In years but old In experience
are hailed there nightly. They dis
cuss the reasons that led up to their
arrests frankly. Sometimes thew
grow hysterical, scream and hurI
out tnvectives that would shame he
Paris sewers. i once heard a WON
an cocaine victim call the presiding
Judge name that made even tbe
hardened court attendants redden.
And yet the authorities did NOT
raise a protesting hand the other
hIsnt when an opera singer of
worldwide fame appeared I'm an on.
cratic spectacle at $40 a seat. which
consisted largely of BacchanaIian
dances OF the frankest sort. II was
such vulgar performance that ev-
cry paper in town called II a DIS.
grace. Even some old rams down
In the ball-head row got up ana
iett the place in utter disgust.
worse than the county fair boo-
chez coochee."' said one.