The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-08-27
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-They got
FRANKIE the wop" the other day.
And Chrystie Street breathes a lit
tie easier. A thick, squat. black
faced assassin pistoled Frankie az
he sat smoking and doing in an
old automobile at the curb. His sort
rise late in the day and frankie
had just finished his breakfast nj
$50 in the evening.
To Chrystie, that teeming street
or vegetable stalls and push-carts
frankie was the worst of the drug
sodden toughs. He was a fierce and
obscene bird of prey, a highly
trained petty thief and drug runner
"a 'snarker" OF talent. Old men
and women nursed bruised eyes and
cut lips when he went on a foray
His black hair was straight and
hne and his eyes flashed the green
Of jungle cat and were set wide
apart beneath delicately pencilled
brows in an oval, privet-white face
He was thin as a lath and in bis
tigtt-fitting clothes and salmon
pink shirts typlified the East Side
| dandy. At 80. he was the habitual
criminal who had done SIX
stretches up the river"
Despite his look of fragility, II
was a hard and strenuous life he
led. Drugs gave him a cocksure
| carelessness. Once he sauntered up
to a policeman in Grand street
'Iookin' for me?" he said with
| cunning leer. NO" said the COP
who was a rookie detailed to drive
Chrystie and Grand street loafers
off corners.
We'll, in case you ever are-take
this to remember me by" and
flashing knife grazed the police
mans cheek. It was the first ster
,, in "ganging a cop" and was meant
to intimidate the newcomer. frankie
knew that there was plenty OF his
satellites in hidden doorways tc
| make his getaway certain.
The bootblack parlors and poo
halls feed these frail young gang
| sters to the East Side. They begin
in a small way. swiping fruit from
stalls. and they form an early
| hatred for the law. Very few OF
them can read or write.
Promotion has been rapid for
Frank Tinney. the actor. this sum.
! mer. He has just been made head
ladder holder of the Bayside, L. J..
Fire Department Up until this
| summer he had only been nozzle
man with the Great Neck volunteer
department.
Haywood Broun is going to the
New York World as dramatic editor
from the New York Tribune and
Percy Hammond. the Chicago critic
is to take Broun's place on the Trib-
| une. Another change is rumored
along Park Row. Franklin p. Adams
the pungent paragrapher Of the
Tribune. Is said to be planning to
move his typewriter a few doors
north to the editorial rooms of thu
World. Adams has the largest fol-
lowing in town.
Two chain stores have cut the
price of candy in half and are do
ing a rushing business. They have
also returned to the custom of SELL
ing the 5 cent poke of candy
which they spurned during the war
The Fifth avenue candy shops lift
a supercilious brow at the slash in
prices. perhaps they can do II in
the cheaper shops" they say but
we don't intend to-" Speaking as
one candy eater to another, they
had better. Their stores are as
deserted as the business section OF
my home town when the IL o'clock
dinner whistle blows.
The EIhert Hubbard fowinc tie
Is creeping into popularity among
he-vamps along Fifth avenue. And
the tam o'shanter for men is really
raging. I saw ten in one after.
Moons stroll. Still there is some
consolation. Nothing could be
worse than white spats.