The Washington herald., 1920-04-13
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

New York. April IA jolly old
basher in a camers hair top coat
and cap to match-handsome no end,
ripping Is the word-bowled up to
one Of those smart haberdashery
shops on the Avenue the other morn
ing. presented his card. which read
something like this: 'Montmorency
Fitzhugh-Fitzhugh Grosvenor
Square, London" and selected some
silk socks. shirts. pajamas and other
luxuries totaling $3.50. MY man
Meadows will call for these" he said
carelessly and departed. stroking
his walrus-like mustache.
Later Meadows" with side-wheel
whiskers, fish eyes and everything,
called, presented q check for $1,000.
took the goods and the change and
departed. The next day tho check
came back. mo funds" II is an In
dication of how easy things really
are In this City Of Dreadful Bluff.
II perfectly reliable longshoreman.
pockets bulging with money, had
rolled into the same shop he would
have received such scant attention
that he would have left in utter dis
gust.
Snobbishness reigns in these es-
Establishments. In this particular
case the Englishman was English
Joe, a seasoned crook, who used to
play the liners in the old days. skill
fully rnulcting the passengers by
n.
f1nds the graft better in the New
York shops. All he had to do was
put on a little side and the rest was
easy.
Give a RitzS address, speak OF be-
Ing In hurry to get down to tn.
Stock Exchange and Lo further
questions will be asked. There Is
no city In the world where IL Is SO
easy to open an account as in Man
haitian. Shops and stores fairly
beg You to nave purchases charged
And the strange thing about Q, Is
that a customer who has goods
charged Is treated with infiritc.y
more consideration than the one who
is willing and eager 10 pay cash.
jerry Lenox-Two Brace Lenox-
used to say that he could blk any
smart cafe or hotel in town IL he
had on evening clothes and a silk
topper. Caught in the police tolls
one time, he discussed the matter
with detectives. AS an experiment,
he was dressed up in evening at
tire. He flushed up a covey of cho-
rus girls and took them to old Mar
tn's-pronounced Mawr-tan's-and
he had everything from terrapin to
Egyptian squad. He was without a
cent. So he signed the dinrsr check
The Hon. Sir jeremiah Lenox," and
added q notation, Fifteen dollars
for waiter" The whole establish.
ment bowed him out and begged
him to return soon.
The spring reunion is taking place
In the upper reaches of the Bronx
The sidewalks are lined with baby
carriages, and hundreds Of comfort
able chairs with women tenants fill
the Gutter edge. Families who, dur
ing the hard winter. have remained
In their apartments and seen very
little Of each other except through
the dumwaiter. hold old-time re.
unions on the sidewalks. They are
and others OF the so-called middle
class. They do not hit off to some
countryside for the summer. They
remain In town, happy in their DO.
mestic duties, looking forward to
evening, when barbards come home
remove their coats, fill up their
pipes ana Join them. There is more
of that elusive thing called happi.
ness In the Bronx than in the SOM
Der realms Of Park avenue.
The shortest song title ever re-
corded on Broadway is, "Oh" the
reigning hit Of a musical melange
The Evening Mail, which keeps
track of song hits, announces that
the two most successful songs frou
a sale standpoint of the month are
Irene" from the musical show OF
that name. and Peggy"
Following the revival Of "Floro'
| dora" 1t is now announced thai
wang will be revived. with De
Wolf Hopper in the stellar role. The
play first appeared at the Broadwa!
Theater on the evening of May 4
1891. Without Della Fox and Al
fred Klein, one wonders IL wang
will have its old-time charn