The Washington herald., 1920-02-16
New York City
By o. %. Mcrntyrc


the diary OF modern Samuel Pepys:
Up and a bright sun-rising. and news
that the tide has swept many homes
at the sea wall The plague decreases.
r. Brinkerhoff came iwth his her
rendous pipe and did skillfully get
him out of the house and we walked
to the artists inn and Mistress Mae
Murray there in q hat of gold cloth.
as pretty a bonnet as ever / saw.
Ding, the cartoonist, Is here from
Des Moines and the roysterers plan
to engage him in draw at my cham
bers this night and l pray i may
he lucky. Through the town and u
pock-marked fellow brushed against
me in the tram, feeling l believe, for
my watch which I had not with me.
A fine luncheon OF cold ham and
pease and strawberries, newest OF
the season. and Lord! ! did eat. A
fellow this day did write me an
anonymous letter full of venom. say
ing my scrivening was puny and the
fellow is right, so help me- hear
of whiskey being brought still and OF
much carrying on against the Lave
To my booksellers and i bespoke
three volumes and made bold to buy
thirty volumes of an encyclopedia
which will keep me paying out money
forever and a day. Sam Bernard
told me today of fellow on the
favenue wearing ruffles on his trouser
legs.
Home all the evening and great
storm came up and l watched the
horses fall with great pity and |
stayed awake to hear the wind howl,
hfah II lrA Nnla
of Poe and so hlled with fears that
III walked my wife, poor wretch. sew
eral times and she was in q pet.
A series of towers-one at each cor
rer-are being erected on Fifth and
Park avenues. which have become
one-way streets for vehicular traffic.
The towers look like oil derricks, and
| the regulation policeman. twelve feet
away. above the street level. will di-
rect traffic by flashes of light. A red
light moves traffic up the Avenue.
A yellow flash means a fire. and all
traffic must halt to give the fire ap-
paratus the right of way. A green
flash moves the traffic from the side
streets. Fifth avenue merchants have
been losing thousands of dollars be-
cause the trahc was so congested.
Burt l.. Standish, who wrote the
Frank Merriwell novels for years
and now clips coupons and dabbles
ct fiction at odd times, spends his
summers in a fishing community in
Maine. To a fisherman there is only
one thing in the world-and that is
fishing.
Standish tells of two old fisher
men meeting in front of a little
store one evening. 'T have just
been home" said one, land found
when l got in the house there were
some blood stains on the carpet. 1
went on in the other room and
there was my wife on the floor.
Somebody hit her with a club. It's
terrible thing. Here / come home
tired out from fishing all day
and"
How was the hshing?" inter-
jected the other.
Not in a ger Grafton have the New
York dramatic critics been SO
thoroughly in accord upon the
merits of a musical play as the
production of the romantic opera,
Monsieur Beaucaire." The music
by Andre Messenger hasn't a dull
note. Every song in the play is
distinct hit and is being sung,
whistled and played all over Man
haitian. Perhaps the most distinc-
/ tine hits are Rose of the World"
Honor and Love Are One" When
| l Was King of Bath" Il Gave My
Heart THE Gods Are Come
Again and Under the Moon"
Monsieur Beaucaire" stands at the
top of the stairway and not all the
rest of the musical shows in town
can pass It. Booth Tarkington's
royalties for the season will almost
buy a dinner for two at the Ritz
or a suit of clothes of Fifth avenue
tailoring or indeed the Kohinoor.