The Washington herald., 1920-12-24
New York City
Day by Day
By o. o. MCINTYRE.

while strolling around New York:
Caviar at s14 a pound. There's a
rich banker who has it almost every
morning for breakfast Eddie Foy
and his seven children going into a
restaurant But he has them all
working. Millinery, shops in prf-
tate houses with musical comedy
settings. And they serve tea and
cigarettes to customers.
Upper Madison avenue. The new
Ghetto Streets fflled with push
carts, fat. corsetless women and
smudgy faced ehile-en. Kippered
herring and horse-radish. The pun
gent odor of garlic The hurdy-
gurdy hangs on here until the snow
nies. Young orthodox Jews with
silken boards and sorrowfuI eyes.
Egyptian girls selling chalk stat
uettes from baskets.
The outskirts of Harlem. Church
graveyards. ParochiaI schools. The
tobacco shops are ofthe old fash
ioned sort. The proprietor is coat
less and sits in the doorway. One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street
the Harlem White Way. A dilution
OF Broadway but a bit gaudier. The
lights are green. red, pink, yellow
and purple. And there's a modern
hotel that houses 500 guests. There
Is an atmosphere of newness. Ev-
erything seems highly polished.
Side streets are filled with chill
dren- The apartment houses are
limitations ofsthe more expensive
kind on Riverside Drive. The peo-
pie seem to be a distinct class
Mammoth movie houses in every
block Every variety of dog. Little
parks every few blocks and all
hlled with baby carriages. The rent
laws are the chief topics of CONVEX
sation-
The subway express There Is a
grim expression about subway
passengers. They can't talk so they
sit and stare. For diversion they
read the ads The guards are mostly
husky young Irish lads. They can't
smoke so most of them chew. The
swaying of the train makes mapping
easy. That fellow has been eating
eggs for breakfast. Times Square.
That let's me out.
Harvey Dunn is the artist who
draws those colorful pictures of
hplking. scowling men for the mag
lzines. He knows how to give
vivid touches to brute strength.
Usually artists who portray such
things are the reverse in real life
but Dunn is the exception. He Is
bne of the strongest men in America
and can lift a piano on his back.
He did II the other day. Dunn was
moving into a new home in New
Jersey. Two piano movers were
there to move a grand piano from
one room to another. They looked
At II and finally decided to go down
into the village for more help. Dunn
was so angry when he found out
about it that he got under the piano
and carried it on his back into the
next room When the workmen re-
turned they were fired.
The movie theaters are substitut-
ing young ladies for men as ush-
ers- The pay is 50 a day and tips.
The movie managers say that girls
are proving more acceptable for
the positions because they are more
polite and are not apt to get into
arguments when patrons object to
the seats given them. Many women
who work in shirt waist places and
milliner shops are applying for the
Jobs because of the dull season in
their trade. Half of the theaters
showing so-called legitimate plays
now have girls as ushers.
Haywood Broun, the youthful
critic of the Tribune, has accepted
I chair at Columbia and will lecture
two mornings a week on the drama
Broun is not a high-brow. Just a
few years ago he was press agent
Tor a circus and after that he
wrote basebalL Now he does book
reviews and the theaters and his
reviews are perhaps the most pop
ular in town.
/ saw the gang of well dressed
pouths who are accused Of murder
mg two New Workers in one week,
utter Turing them to a hotel room
giving them whisky and then rob-
Ding them. They were the types that
would be called milk sops" in the
mall Midwest towns. Not one
ooked capable of any crime worse
han stealing a morning newspaper
rom the doorstep, and yet the po-
lice say they are members of a
Aood-thirsty gang OF murderers.