Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-05
Highways and By-Weys
of Lii Or New York
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By RAYMOND CARROLL
Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledge

| time the mayor is seen at Jim viI1epigues
Inn he can lean back in his chair at city
hall and say: II fancy it must have been
Cahill you saw"
MY first official act after I become
mayor will be to accept the resigna-
ton Of Mr.. Enrlght, police commissioner"
shouted Henry FL. Curran, the coan-
ton candidate last night from the pub
lie platfGm, addingi Immediately
thereafter shall accept the resignation
of every one of his millionaire special
deputy commissioners
At the identical tune MIR. Enright was
being oratorically jecapitated, a white
haired middle aged man was host at a
dinner party at the hotel waldorf AS
toria. There were four men and five
women at the table besides the donor of
the feast
The man gi-ing the dinner was Mr..
Enright himself and the occasion was
celebration Of the twenty fifth ami
versary Of his first day as a New York
policeman. He carried locust club that
night OF quarter of a century ago,
and he did patrol duty in Cherry street
under Brooklyn bridge.
$50
Suicides are sometimes very incon-
siderate Of others in the selection Of
places for their quick finishes. The late
Simon Ford, manager Of the Old Grand
Union Hotel once told ne that there was
lure in his premises that he could not
control, as nine out Of ten suicides in New
York city were fated 10 take place in his
hostelry on the site Of which there is
now an office building Only few
hours ago Louis n. GOidsou went into
the dainty writing room of a fashionable
hotel off Fifth avenue and mussed it all
up by shooting himself while sitting at a
desk "Why don't suicides use some
consideration" complained the pretty
maid IN charge Of the writing room to-
day. What is your idea OF a fitting
placer" we asked. "Oh, should say a
vacant lot or an old barn" she replied.
Alas! where are there barns and va
cant lots to be found on Manhattan Is
land?"
Only a fortnight ago we told of the
fake veteran" being in front CT the Hotel
Commodore and his unmasklng by Capt.
Joseph Tucker. who went overseas with
the First Division, and the determination
Of members OF the American Legion to
stamp out that form OF imposition. Last
night Major General Organ, who COM
mhnded the twenty seY enth Division, was
walking along Madison avenue when a
thick-set, poorly dressed, youngish man
came out Of building recess and shout
ed Hey, l want some help from you ?"
General Organ saw the man was desper-
ate, and had revolver IN his outside coat
pocket
Were you in the war;" he asked IN a
kindly voice.
Sure, with the Twenty seventh"
What Twenty seventh ?" said the OH
Ger sharply.
"Why, the Twenty seventh artillery"
VIGOROUSLY answered the beggar, and as
they were walking along side by side he
took his hands from his pockets.
- Now, you'd better come clean" said
the General. There was no Twenty
seventh artillery with the Twenty seven IN
division and ought to know. Were you
IN Frence?"
Whereupon the man broke down and
confessed that he had not been in the
army at all.
He told such a story Of continued mis-
fortune that the general gave him q bill
and told him to call around at his office.
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