The New York herald., 1921-08-29
IN. va City With a Soul, Says Northcliffe
Fifth Avenue He Believes, Is Among Greatest
Thoroughfares of World-Women Here Are Lauded.

above even Paris or Madrid--and you
know who have been there I'm May, what
beautiful women can look like when they
have on their latest frocks for the first
time--know that the newest hat worn
by any woman, could not possibly be
worn by any other woman. and that
every other woman is torn by the fires
of jealousy.
! The charm of the young girls and
their elders walking airily down Fifth
avenue is a thing unique--it Will not
be found anywhere else in the world.
Just now we have been suffering from
what they call heat wave-it IS slight
ly hotter than London was when l leIt
in the middle ~ July-and every one is
groaning heavily about 1t and those
who dare take off their coats and carry
them, unabashed. about the streets. and
the rest, men, women and children, gasp
i'm what are called Palm Beach suits
tussore. Shantung and muslin.
Conditions. therefore. are not really
suitable for the proper exhibition of
American or any other type of female
beauty Yet in the damp, airless, sod
den heat of Fifth avenue you see every
morning the same crowd. or similar
crowd. of beautifully turned out women
and girls. with never sign OF hair out
of curl, in simple, sensible, but extraor-
dinarily aluring clothes and. OF course,
the most perfect shoes.
In only two other cities. / think. are
women so exquisitely shod as in New
York-in Athens and in Madrid.
No---so far as women are concerned
Fifth avenue will never be changed.
They would not allow it. And as they
in the abstract-if not always in the
ficsf-rule the United States, their COM
mands run no risk of being overlooked.
A real and most important change /
have noticed this time is the new block
system of regulating traffic. At inter
walls down Fifth avenue are erected large
signal boxes, fitted with red. green and
white lights. by means of which the two
streams of traffic are handled.
Red, OF course. signals Full Stop and
green. Prepare to Stop" White means
eco Ahead"
Then there are policemen on point
duty at all dangerous cross streets, who
hold up or let pass all traffic making for
the big avenues. 1t is really magnffi-
cent scheme and nearly all the old ter
rors of driving-or worse. being driven
lin cars about New York. have van
ished.
have been very careful studying her.
the scornful Head in Air. for about two
weeks, and although there are certain
tangible and visible additions-not
changes-like traffic control and the
street swimming baths for those of tender
years. am very nearly certain that the
mask theory is correct and that New
York has distinct soul OF her own.
do not know whether that once very
favorite and caressing phrase. "Li'p oil
New York" is still used, but l know
that the man who invented it, with the
ceaseless rumble and crash of fevered
building roaring in his ears. felt in his
bones that out of all the nightmare of
rush and tumble. OF riches and ruin, each
born and dead In q day. of weekly de-
facement OF land and sky. would one
day arise q durable and honored city
which should have we'll earned his name
for her. | think the time he thought of
has come.
This is li'r OF New York.