The Washington herald., 1921-09-30
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NEW YORK. Sept. 2s.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York;
A window filled with corkscrews
What a merry optimist! William
Pinkerton. the noted sleuth. The
face Of a poker player. Must be
past 70. Gypsy fortune teller.
Wonder where they camp in
Gotham! Life's new building. A
monument to humor. Tremblins
women going to swami seance,
Decapped and hopeless foreigners
selling chalk statues.
The old home of Martins. II wa,
thing to dine there in the old
days when youth could raise a
thirst. Chicken a la Marengo
Yorkshire pudding. And perhaps a
drop of Pontet Canet '93. Those
were the days. And HARDLY the
Amen Corner" of the old Fir,,
Avenue where Boss Plat ruled his
satellites. ''
80 NeiiJ WIDOW comes to
life again on Broadway. But
whittier has the wind blown Donald
Brien and Ethel Jackson? Drab
Greek coffee shops. Sullen, scowling
COOKS frying tough steaks. And per-
haps dreaming of mountain tons
and silvered lakes. The endless
hurry. The wrinkled brows. I'd like
10 see someone stroll along leisure-
ly.
Another parade. Give some men
a uniform and a plume and they'll
march themselves to death. The
winter Garden Is to become a
vaudeville house. And the drama
critics who praised the shows there
VIII no longer get their names out
front In electric lights. Richard
lie Gallienne. the poet And tina,
fellow in the baggy English tweeds
Is Toxin Worm. He's the Shubert
press agent. Not a medicine.
Upper Broadway apartment
houses are filling their Easements
with cheap shops. Casting the
beauty OF Venice into the lagoons.
Only Fifth avenue has been able
to stop the ravages of architec-
tural despoilers. All week rye
been craving waffles. And there's
waffle shop. The romance of des-
tiny! Hot dog!
The Hippodrome has opened for
the season after announcement had
been made that IL would be a pic-
ture house. OF course, New York
goes to the Hippodrome but its
biggest clientele comes from the
noating population. The foyer
any matinee day shows the rural
types. Lime and cement dealers
from Kansas with their gay coIored
convention badges. Retired preach
ers and wives and daughters of
Middle West merchants. druggists,
who have grown tired of wrapping
up Peruna in their local habitat,
and are in the metropolis for a
fling. And entire families who have
taken advantage OF excursion rates
to leave the unpainted houses along
the railroad tracks and mingle
amid a great city's confusion.
He shuffles along Fifth avenue
with an open satchel filled with
shoc races. mere Is pltl1ul Plead
ing look in his eyes. The other
evening at dusk he was resting his
tired body on a cathedral steps. An
auto came out of a side street and
drew up in front of him. He
shuffled out to II and said some
thing to the chauffeur and was
driven away.
Two red capped porters were In
a heated argument in front of the
Pennsylvania Station. Finally one
moved away with this warming:
Stay away from me from now on.
I'll kill you quicker than anything
you can get in a drug store"
A millionaire banker in wall
street had a visitor at his office. By
accident the visitor upset a bottle
of ink on the desk and was pain
fully embarrassed for 1t ran down
on a rug. It's nothing" said the
banker. And to prove it he
emptied another bottle of ink On
the rug. The rug cost 100000 and
the banker saw 1t was ruined and
made a good job of It and thus
helped smooth over an embarrass-
ing moment