The Washington herald., 1920-05-31
New York City
B, o. o. McIntyre


New York. May so.-A page from
the diary Of a modern samuel
Pepys: Full OF wants OF money yet
rose cheerily and walked 10 the
river front to see MY Lord Wood
rows ships and. ON cutter down
mast Biackwelrs Island where saw
the prison convicts play q cricket
like game called baseball. A sad
thing 70 consider how men must be
behind walls In this fashion.
For 4 gay luncheon on Bleecker
street Of hash and fried potatoes.
plain but fiiling victuals, served by
a well bodied woman. Then on the
elevated train uptown looking into
the windows of the tenements see-
ing haif-clad women. sleeping men
and much squaior. Across from me
ali the way sat James Corbett. the
good looking pugilist.
hear this day that Grantland
Rice has become the editor Of a golf
magazine. Home where came young
/ sluggy, the printers boy. now
1 grown TO man. and he hath great
position and Is travelled and we
talked Of the print shop days when
was reporter and he a galley
boy.
All the shops are selling cneaply
which Is extraordinary good news
Lawrence D'orsay. the English play
actor. called and gave me comics
ode he had written about ME. Late
in the afternoon we walked over
past the. Plaza and down the aveaue
and saw a live she-bear In win.
dow of q petrol wagon shop and u
is a pet and playful and my dos
y a.. - atUhf
In the evening / sat by the win
dow nodding and ceading. but very
| comfortable, and ! ind myself
! growing more to like quiet and
peace, which may be from age. And
so to bed.
Theatrical producers are qaeel
birds. Nearly every one Is dis
tinct character. Victor Herbert told
me the other day of one who wal
i producing a play for which he had
written the music. Herbert wa.
sitting at an old battered piano
greatly out of tune trying to teach
members of the chorus a certain
strain.
: During a lull the producer said
"See that little girl with thin ankles
Well, 1 gotta cover her knees. Shes
got knees like a wrestler. But I'm
going to put a plume in her hal
that cost SITS"
why don't you spend IS and rem
new piano." queried the com
poser.
Jaw, what's the use they cam
sing anyway" was the reply.
The counter conversationa'isti
are among US. They are the per
sons who used to be Intrigued.
The poor. fat. old verb 80 saw" hai
been discarded. Fiction writer's ar
responsible for the people VIII
counter" When a man has "coun
tered" several times IN one sttry h
. may be permitted to ''temporlze" g
critical moment. to "come hack
or to Notwithstanding as lonl
as he does not SAY" what he means
Several years ago he was n me
chanic employed by a rich Fiftl
avenue family. He was brigh: an
ambitious and he quit his job an
went to Columbia a year and then
course at Harvard. He got into
good club and he met the daughte
Of a very wealthy man. Now h
lives next door to the people on III
, avenue for whom he formerl,
worked. New York seems to offe
Z greater opportunities to marry int
; rich families than any Other city.
A Bronx man has complained ii
court that his wife's oddities
caused him to move twenty-on
times in six years. Nothing Yer
D remarkable about that. The odditie
of many landlords have cause
many in this town to move NOR
= times than that.