The Washington herald., 1920-07-18
New York City
By o. 8. Mc1ntyre

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and the other streets that wind on
Its hips is like stroll through
deserted village. There Is no sug-
gestion of life save in the little
steam geysers that come up through
tiny openings in the man-holes.
A few messenger boys from
nearby telegraph ONCE were shoot
ing dice for pennies on the steps
of the Treasury. But the game
was interrupted by q gong from
their Office and they scampered
away.
Over at the Fraunce Tavern.
where Washington bade farewell to
his troops. the windows were shut
tered. A sleeping cat was stretched
out in the sun on the stoop.
The great banks. whose vauits
hoard millions, are not curtained.
One may see in all parts of them.
Even at night they are lighted so
that the watchmen and policemen
may see inside from the streets.
Wall Street is in a disorderly ar
ray just now. Scores of new build
ings are going up, for Wall Street
is in dire need of more space, and
the only way to satisfy this de-
manG is by building sky-scrapers.
Only in the clouds Is there space.
Banks and brokerage houses have
found that the only way they can
remain in Wall street Is to buy
or erect new buildings. occupy what
they need and rent the rest. The
Morgans have great new sky
scraper, The Gregory Building has
just been completed. In one block
five new sky-scrapcrs are in the
process of construction.
1t is gloomy afternoon one
spends in Wall Street on sunday.
At the very entrance is Trinity,
with its half-hourly doleful chimes
and chipped worn slabs in its GEM
etery. Now and, then the sexton
sits out on the steps TO take few
pipe puffs. He seems the loneliest
of men.
All the doorways are iron-grated.
Down in Broad street, where the
hundreds of young men gesticulate
wildly Nin deaf anG 6umo code dur
ing the weekdays, pigeons had de-
scended to the asphalt and were
fiuttering around. The Tapping OF
their wings could be heard several
blocks away.
Thousands of pigeons live in the
caves of Wall Street buildings.
There is a superstition about driv-
! ing them away. One of the greatest
financial crashes in Wall street his
tory followed within two hours aft
or a score of building attendants
had gone to the roof and driver n
pigeons away.
The narrow little slits of streets
like Beaver and Nassau have Few
llunchrooms that remain open on
Sunday, but very few patrons come
Those that cat there are building
attendants, elevator operators and
watchmen.
Elder Gould Happy.
Society is talking about the ap-
parent happiness of Miss EDITH
Gould. who recently eloped TO marry
Carroll L. Wainwright. a young
man of modest means. The couple
now live in a four-room apartment
on Park avenue. and the Gould heir
css is doing her own cooking and
housework. The former Miss Gould
pas never been denied any luxury.
She was her fathers fAvorite. IL
Is said. She was born on the pala-
tial Yacht of her father as II lay
in the harbor of Oyster Bay In lSOl.
Her two brothers, Kingdom and
George j., jr., ignored the question
of wealth in their marriages. All
seem to be supremely happy. There
are those who say that the elner
Gould, while pretending to frown
upon the sudden love matches tnat
ended in the marriages of his chill
dren, is secretly very much pleased.
Permit sunday Dancing.
Prohibition has lifted the Sunday
Jance ban in Manhattan. The ultra
places have never permitted sun
day dancing until the past week,
when simultaneously they decided to
permit dancing on the roof gardens
and in the smart cafes.
The rewrite men on Park Row
had a 10. of fun with the story
about Rusco, the monk, this week.
Tho monkey WAS in a pird and hsh
/ store over nieht The shCp is just
below the Waldorf on Fifth ave-
nue., and about 3 o'clock in the even
ing Rosco decided that the place
was TOO tame. He upset sixty oowls
of goldfish, released 200 or 900 ca
naries and when a policeman came
grabbed the officers club and whack-
ed him over the head with IL. Rosco
belonged to a sailor on shore Tor
the evening and he was lett al
the bird shop just for the night
He will never be permitted there
again.
The, Motor Truck.
II is a sight to see the thousands
of motor trucks travelling west on
tine roads around New York. Mdny
have huge signs saying II am oouno
for such and such a place. 1t Is
said that more than 6S,OOO motor
trucks passed a given point near
Peekskill last month. A motor
truck eXhibition-the hrst-ls 10 De
held in New York the first OF jan
nary to show Just wnat part the
motor truck is taking in the busi-
ness life of the nation. Many OF
the motor trucks now have pneu-
matte tires which il is said mate
rally lengthens their usefulness,
This has been demonstrated by the
United States government which
uses them on trucks under hve tons
which are operated in the army The
Merchants Trucking Corporation. a
subsidiary of the citizens transpor-
tation committees. announces that on
one day recently it moved a total
of 353.000 pounds of goods from
piers by motor truck. in this way
relieving the tie-up caused by the
local strike.
House Rent $50 n Year
A happy city man who does not
worry about the high cost OF rent
has been found. In fact he has no
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