The Washington herald., 1921-07-29

NEW YORK. July 2s.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
cherry vender playing a mandolin
to draw attention. A window sign
announces: Ma-jamas and a-jamas.
Nothing SO undignified as a man in
an old-fashioned night shirt. An
other parade. Wonder how long 1t
would take my creditors to pass a
given point. There's X. C. B. with q
neat but gaudy hatband!
Riffraf of profiteering nouveacx
riches lunching on hotel porticos.
Crests on their limousine panels.
The blue-bloods are roughing 1t at
Newport. A retired bully of the prize
ring now an apartment house door
man. Shattered houses where cryptic
lights flare behind crusted glass at
night. Gambling. Junoesque wom-
en- with eyelashes gummed ano
blackened airing their poodies. How
worldly they appear.
A street band playing THE Blue
Danube" Three tunes and not a
penny. And their expressions never
change. Wish they'd play a Sousa
march. I'd contribute q nickel.
There goes II. L. Mencken. Sings q
nasty pen. And looks like a pugil-
list. clerk in q flower shop wear
ing leather wrist band. Probably
fears a strain carrying lilies.
Old Churchilrs place Quilted, Will
soon be a chop suey palace. The
finest in America A marauding tom
cat asleep on u policeman's raincoat
Amusing how people stink into the
quick photo shops. Old fellow with
! round detachable cuffs and square
agate links. Bet he's rch as Croesus
Eighth avenue. Miles Of little
stores. 1t is a mystery where the
trade comes from. The proprietors
! stand in the doors, hatless and coat
less. And they stay open until 10
at night A line waiting at an un-
dertaker's parlor. The acres OF
white tiled lunch rooms and shinin G
coffee urns.
Women. freshly scrubbed. wheel
ing. baby carriages. waiting for
their husbands. And squaking talk
ing machines in every upstairs wIn-
dow. Lack luster faces. Blurs OF
flesh studded with staring eyes
Make-shift penny drink stands. For
eigners gesticulating wildly over
| some halt in a sale. Red-blooded
| movies with Gagged cashiers inva-
riably crunching cuds of gum. The
| youngsters say dis" and dat" and
| reek with health. Home, James!
| Ferdinand Fernandez runs a small
restaurant far up on Columbus ave-
| nue.. There respectable people &C
| for food. Red Duncan and Pal Buck
| ley. toughs of the neighborhood
| went there the other night infamed
with bad liquor. Fernandez had
been blackmailed by them time
after time but humidity had worr
his patience thin and when they be-
gan to juggle his pies and upset his
| little trays of food he shot them
both dead. And afterward when the
| police came he cried. II have tried
So hard to make a living" he said. 81
work from four in the morning until
one at night"
New York specializes in insulting
insolent policemen. The pick of thu
entire force are on Fifth avenue anC
Broadway. but in the outlying dis
tricts they have an exaggerated ides
of their Importance. A motoris
stopped beside one up in the West
chester section and inquired abou
the condition of a road. GO fnC
out for yourself" was the retort
The motorist happened to be a newl!
appointed deputy and the mex
morning the cop was called to head
quarters. II didn't know he was |
! danuty" the noliceman is reporte,
to have whined. Il thought he wa
Just an ordinary citizen"-and. tha
epitomizes the policeman's slant oil
the ordinary citizen.
The Globe has a popular musi
department that lists the two mos
successful songs of the week IL
point of sales. Last week MOI
Homme" and Peggy O'Neil" wer
first and second. respectively.