The Washington herald., 1920-02-06
New York City
By o.. o. Mcintyre

New York. Feb. s.-rhoushts
while stroliing around Manhattan:
Big crowd skating in Central Park.
Women skaters wearing bloomers.
There's Mime. Kalich diminishing her
car and setting on for brisk walk.
Soulful eyes. I'll say. New cat store
near the Savoy. Persian cat In
window sells for $3.50. Some cat!
don't like them except when
they're kittens. stilI they occupy Q
great place in history.
The Sacred Cat of Siaml The bald
headed cat OF Beioochistan! And
the cat Of Marshal Foch that boned
its way to Berlini Wonder what
will become of the saloon cat.
Wynn. the village artist. Draws
with his left hand. Has a wild mop
of hair and q Charlie Chaplin mus.
tache and smokes so fags an hour.
New York has new artist each
week. The latest is a genius who
used to drive. a truck down West
street.
T Sleek looking moneybags playing
poker In a club for millionaires.
Suppose its table stakes. Funny
they don't draw the curtains. Mae
terlinck says gambling is the amaze
mic adventure OF wastrels. Guess
he never shot craps. What do
poets know about jack-pots? Every
body's talking to ghosts. No home
seems to be complete without its
little. ghost. Planchette and ouita
boards for sale even in candy shops.
There's Percy stickney Grants
church militant. Calls a 81 ade q
spade and always can expect a
sermon full of ecclesiastlc jazz. Lot
of churches putting on motion pic
ture sermons. Great balls of fire.
Pop corn balls So a dozen. wish
I'd taken up black -jacking as q
trade. So much more refined than
profiteering.
Ninth avenue! Full of hre es.
cape tenements. Women look
washed out. And toothless. Many
were once rosy Gretchens but with
or away toiling and living loyeless
lives. People seem ill hammered.
Row of sweat shops. Sunken
cheeks. Bent backs. Whirr of ma
chimes. Cackles. I'll take a str, ct
car.
Fifth avenue visitors have seen
nothing for years but long. slender
Vamp shoes on the well dressed
women until this year. And taen
along comes "a Par;sienne with a
pair OF stubby. funny little boots.
And the avenue laughed. But not
for long. Nearly all the well dressed
women wear the stubby, short
vamps. The short skirt wrought
the change. Without the short vamp
the feet look like they might be
from Chicago or something.
In that square mile below Four
teenth street where so many ma
! tionalities look west toward Broad
way there are almost as many
mayors as there are races. Nearly
every racial element las its mayor,
for the honor is distributed geo.
graphically rather than ethnoIogi.
cally. 1t was the late Charlie Lynch,
for many pears reporter for the
New York Sun, who first conceived
the idea OF creating an uncfn -ial
mayor.
Lynch was writing on space; that
is. the size of his wage depended on
the amount of stories his paper
printed. He covered the Essex
Market Police Court where he saw
his chance to build copy around
frequenters Of the courtroom.
He made Patrick Conolly the
Mayor of Poverty Hollow. Humpty
Hanover was elevated to the mayor
ship of Avenue A. Then there were
the Mayor of Broome street a-d
the Duchess Of Essex street. Sine
| Steingut was long the Mayor of
Second avenue and when he rassed
on a year ago the entire city
mourne1. He was a frie d q .
DoCr.