The Washington herald., 1920-08-20
New York City
Some Idle Thoughts.
BY o. o. Mcintyre.


New York, Aug. ls.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York'
A woman wearing an oilcloth skirt.
Shorty, Broadway's famous mes
senger. talking to Belasco. Tin Pan
Alley. The place where all the
tunes come from. Perspiring young
men singing and beating pianos in
their shirt sleeves. All seem to be
in their teens. ut they make
lot of money.
wish that guy Ponzi would give
me a little inside stuff. Think of
making sS,oOO,OOO. What's the
use. It's unthlnkable. There goes
Raymond Hitchcock and his yellow
vest. He thinks they ought to elect
Debs. With a President in Jail, he
thinks the country would run along
without trouble.
A crowd of gypsies in an auto
mobile. Somebody is playing
trombone in that apartment house,
No matter how much they raise his
rent, il wouldn't be prohteering.
A. l.. Erlanger. He always wears
a cap. Bugs" Baer in one of those
orange drink places. Hope he gets
seed in his drink. The snappy
dressed men are going back to the
mid-Victorian black coats and gray
trousers. And this fall the Ascot
tie is to be revived. 1t practically
eliminates laundry bills.
h.
than 20 years old. The pay Is SO
poor no one wants the job, And
they used to come all the way from
Ireland to land on the force.
Scholarly man with a Van Dyke is
Chief Medical Examiner Norris. He
has to view every murder victim
and suicide. What tales he could
spin! Never without a cigarette.
That's a new one. Selling ca
naries from a pushcart. Eddie
Dunn, George NJ. Cohan's man Fri
day. Noted for his highly colored
vests Cosmo Hamilton, the novel
ist. in Bond street tweeds and a
Homburg hat. Very English. 4
Chinese street car conductor.
A private detective has a big
electric sign in Times Square.
Bronzed fellow looks like a Turk
He's a lfeguard at Long Beach.
The piece bathing suit has fall
len under the police ban. Tough
for the chorus girls who bought
them. But rougher on the old boys
who flock down to see them.
The Home of Temperance.
Litchfield, where many New
| Workers live, is celebrating its
2OOth anniversary. 1t Is considered
the most puritanical town in Amer
lea and it sponsored the first tenn
peranCe society. 1t is the birthplace
Of Harriet BeeCher Stowe and
| Henry Ward Beecher. 1t is said
that a daughter of New York
| family was once seen smoking a
cigarette on a darkened porch and
she was so snubbed. even by trades
! men, that the family moved away
Indecent Trolley Cars.
A very prim spinster was at the
very front of a Hudson Tube coach
whizzing from Exchange place TO
Cortlandt street. Through the door
way was whirling a miniature hur-
ricane of wind. 1t got under her
skirt. Try as she modestly did she
couldn't hold it down. In horror,
she arose and closed the door.
Other passengers set up a wall of
protest and somebody quickly re-
versed the action. Whereupon a
man farther down the aisle ex-
changed seats with her.
Tn from Scranton. Pa" she
told him irritatedly There are no
indecent trolley cars there The
next time 1 go from one side of a
New York river to the other, I'll
use a ferryboat or decorate my
skirt with fatirons."
G. h. Chesterton Coming.
News comes that G. X. Chester
ton. the English novelist. is to ar
rive in New York in a few weeks.
The dwifferent stories that are ap-
pearing about his proposed visit in
New York newspapers leads one to
suspect that the eminent author has
press agent.