The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-01-05
NEW YORK CITY
By o. o. McNTYRE

New York. Jan. "a page from
the diary Of a modern Samuel
Pepys: Up and trimmed by the
new barber. lately here from
Greece. and the fellow seemed not
to know who Homer was or Of his
epics. With Mr.. Scott to breakfast
with Sir Hugh Walpole. the pamph-
letter, and found him we'll spoke
and his age amazing. being just
newly turned So. And he told of
his father, the Bishop of Edinburgh.
and how he himself had studied for
the church rostrum.
For a walk and saw on the high
way Claiming Pollock. who hath
writ a fine new play, and his
daughter Mistress Helen and N.
Maeterlinck. wearing great tortoise
spectacles, very noble. At the club
bronzen man from waikiki
thtummed q strange instrument,
the noise being horrendous and II
recalled Bill Nye's quaint comment
that wagner's music was really
better than 1t sounded.
Greatly troubled over the tale
told me by ]. Kaufman, the
chronicler, Of q woman of the town
having q gift of a great sable coat.
weighing i've pounds, and made Of
ninety-three skins costing ss5,0oo
and the public prints of the day
tell of 100000 children starving in
Armenia
A moving picture girl sent US to-
day a tierce OF claret which must
get rid of before the new amend
ment is In force for I fear some
new twist in the law may make me
trouble. Home where I fell to
scrivening and worked until a late
hour and so to bed.
Broadway slang for money
changes with the seasons. It has
been known as plaster" sugar"
gel" "maxuma," and the dollar
has been known as BONE" a
berry" a seed" and now the
latest name Is hitter" A collector
OF Broadway anthology declares
that most new words for money are
coined over the gaming tables and
the game OF draw is productive of
more new names than any other.
Miss Dana Gatlin, the short story
writer. entertained during the boli-
days a young lady from Shreveport,
La Miss Gatlin whisked her
through the mazes of the subway
to Battery Park where she might
see the great New York barbor and
the huge pile of skyscrapers that
form the famous skyline. The
lady sucked in her breath at the
sight and at length said:
This is certainly the Shreveport
OF the East"
Two daring crooks who pulled
on the most startling hotel robbery
New York has ever known, bore
the names OF Adriano Alvarez and
Raymond Rodriguez. To vocalfze
the names shows that truth is in
deed stranger than fiction. No
playwright would dare expose his
plot by bestowing such smoothly
alliterative names on his charac-
ters. stamping them before the cur
tain rose.
And they scowled just like the
regular villains and wore the finest
English tweeds, spats. hats from a
swell Fifth avenue shop and car
ried gold cigarette cases in which
nestled cigarettes bearing the
monographs "A. A." and "R. r."
They were Spanish buccaneers in
Broadway trappings. Headquar-
ters experts say that polished
crooks always seek the high-sound-
ing names. Many of them acquire
a smattering of French to impress
head-waiters. There is a cele-
brated adventures mixed up in
two diamond robberies, who is
known to her intimates as The
Dawn.
She has an imported limousine
and appears at the opera now and
then. always trailed by detectives.
who are in the Metropolitan lobby
to spot jewel thieves. She delights
in smiling sneeringly at them when
they come too close to her.