The Washington herald., 1920-06-07
New York City
By o. o. MeIntyrs

New YORK, June GA page from
the diary OF a modern samuei
Pepys: "A sad. rainy. morning anS
Mr.. Anderson, the banker, canee
ana talked OF stocks and bonos
which 1 know nothipg about ana
my friends seem to lose more Inah
they gain In the market. n. Wep,
ster, the Inner. and Mistress Etne'
of for Maine to live on an isiane
they have bought there, but wou,S
liefer remain IN the city with nH
its heat and discomforts.
wearing my new goulasnes
went to the whistling Pig TO. meet
q. worts and II. Roth. newly come
from China, and they told some
quaint tayles, and @. brought me an
ivory piece. hand carved. the pref
tiest ever / saw. But they com
planned nightly over the prices for
tourists and confessed spenoihs
twice what they set out TO spend.
The town seemed foggy AND
gloomy, and dropped in at a play
house to see a rehearsal and victor
Herbert and Gene Buck there In .
darkened corner and some right
merry quipping. And. too. there
came a lisping girl. as fair as ever
saw, and she Is, / was told, one
of the noblest dancing girls OF the
town.
In the evening to IL Gramercy
Park, and Hale Byers, the. orchestra
man from Venice, Cal. there and
Carol McComas. the play actress
and a dozen others, and We drank
tea and played the talking machine
nd some danced. And then In
closed horse e-drawn carriage home
and so to bed.
A Limousine going south or
! Broadway sideswiped q taxicab that
had swung out from the curb with
out the proper signaling. The bull
| necked driver, with pfg-like eyes
jumped from his seat roaring with
rage. That Is one Of their tricks-tc
blame the other fellow first. A quiet
manly young fellow sat in the limou
sine and listened with white-facet
calmness.
Il am quite sorry" he said, but
IL was entirely your fault"
You're a yellow livered blanket,
blank liar" roared the other. "ant
If you'll get out of that car I'll MOI
UP the street with your"
1t was plainly to be seen that
the other was suppressing his in
tense agitation. Finally the chauf
| feur yelled: You're afraid to ge
out, damn you. you're plum vel
| low"
1T is impossible for me to ge
out" said the other, and he fun
| open the car door revealing tive
stumps gone above the knees. III
operated the brakes and accelerate
from the wheel. 'I happened 4
lose these in Flanders. That 1
probably proof that l am not vel
low. / am just merely helpless"
And at that a middle aged ma,
walked out OF the crowd an,
knocked the chauffeur fat. Will
the crowd applauded.
In the old days when I felt 1t
privilege to sit in the first row o
the gallery with a dimes worth o
caramels bought from the Greel
stand in Opera Place. there was a
actor-hero who had more of m,
boyish admiration than even tn
Highly Honus Wagner at the pea
Of his career. He wore his splendi
clothes in such a dashing fashion
| Inc Otner DAY was on flItn ave
nue. and / saw a rather worn look
ing man looking in a rug stor
window. He looked tired and tn
procession had passed him - tina
was evident. And he had fiecks o
dandruff on his coat collar. Tn
rest of that day / could think o
nothing but that faded hero and hi
dandruff For II was none othe
than hci
Last week several of the selec
soda fountains began a charge Q
a. cents each for soda water. Tha
of course, covered the war tax. Wit
straight whisky and gin H.25
drink. there seems nothing left bu
to drink that terrible stun that tn
burlesque comedian says Is USE
to put under bridges. And incl
dentally while the SAVIOR departe
from the wheeze when Plancus wa
consul it still gets a giggle in bur
lesque.