Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-17
SEVEN DAYS IN LPL Oh NEW YORK
BY JESSIE HENDERSON
Especial Dispatch to Morning JOurnaD
NCnnNrioht IN21 nv AIhmnne rnMe lnnrnnh

Especial Dispatch to Morning JOurnaD
Copyright 1921 by Albuquerque Journall
New York, oct, 16.-Twice
within the week the impossible has
happened in New York. Amid the
fret and clabber of the busiest
town in the world, woman at
tanned the age of one hundred in
stead of restlessly passing out, as
statistics insist. at feverish fifty
five. And amid the high rental,
the high food and the high clothes
of the highest priced town in tie
world, q trade journal employe
amassed one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars on n salary of
forty dollars u week. The one
achievement is as extraordinary as
the other.
When Mrs. FRANCHISE lie Vapres-
co came to Gotham, steamboat
was as rare as two dollar steak,
while the telephone had yet to jim
gle and the electric light to glow.
In q breathless century she has
seen the trotter give place to the
motor and the airp1ane. she has
seen a square meal progress from
roast turkey with half dozen veg
etables and two kinds of pie at
thirty cents, to a club sandwich
and wisp of ice cream at seventy
five. She has seen the hand that
rocked the cradle reach out to rock
the ballot box, She has seen
Broadway widen from an unso-
phisticated road to the broadest
street anywhere. In short, she has
seen the pearl grow as common
place as the oyster and the oyster
as costly as once was the pearl.
Yet she lived a hundred years
through it all and celebrated the
event by doing a days wash.
Wentworth Tucker, on the other
hand, will forevermore be the
shining example of people who lee
ture on thrift and careful invest
ment. While the brisk young
man lamented that he simply could
not scrape along on less than fifty
dollars a week, Mr.. Tucker drew
his forty dollars as worker on a
motion picture journal, supported
himself and his wife and by ac-
railroad and public
utilities stocks managed to leave
a one hundred and fifty thousand
dollar estate. II only he had left
a bit of printed advice on how to
do it, he would have been the Ben
jamin Franklin of today.
Almost on par with the &C
complishments of Mrs. lie Vapres-
co and Mr.. Tucker was that of
John Shaw. He achieved the ade-
quate taxi tip. When he TAXED
around town seven dollars worth.
John Shaw alighted and handed
the driver n check for sixty-nine
thousand dollars, bidding him keep
the change. True to type, the
uttered complaints in
stead of thanking him, and po-
liceman took charge of the pas
senger. When Shaw mentioned n
fleet of airplanes, twenty-four
touring cars, and 149, tug boats,
the magistrate sent him to an OBJ
ward.
Two other police court incidents,
by the way, served to show how
some people play in good luck and
others in hard. Ridley Whidley,
Hindu sailor, was arrested on
charge Of disorderly conduct. I'm
able to tell his side of the case,
Ridley neutrality-suspicious. name
looked helplessly at the patrol
man and the patrolman secured
the city for a Hindu interpreter.
After many hours the policeman
returned from his fruitleSS quest
and found the lock-up keeper
chatting vivaciously with Ridley
in his native tongue. 1t
proves how cultured Goth
am lookup keepers are. This one
had spent many years In India as
a British soldier and could talk all
the native dialects. You will never
convince Ridley Whidley that
Buddha or some one of the Hin
dustan godlets did not lead him
into the hands of
lookup keeper who could give
him his first homelike chat he had
enjoyed in many a moon. 1t was
well worth getting arrested.
Anon other things, thH week
taught what every voting woman
should know:
How a lady candidate ought to
iress.
1t takes no m an brand of tact to
iress for the approval of ones fell
ow men. when one is running Tor
he office of registr~r. A man can
1idate has no such trouble. A clean
collar and a clean shave VIII In