The Washington herald., 1922-07-05
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NEW YORK, July 4.-Manhattal
has its midinettes the same as
Paris. The irruption takes place
around the luncheon hour when
they sweep out Of the towering Of
fice buildings into lower Broadway.
Wall and Nassau streets. They are
symbols Of youth and audacity.
The Paris midinette is somewhat
the gamin carrying bandboxes and
packages. But in New York she is
an office worker who Is simply
stenogging as a step upwards--per-
haps toward the footlights or an
avenue mansion.
She wears the smartest frccks and
hats and her vanity box is used
every few blocks She does not, as
does her prim sister, swirl into St.
Paul and Trinity chQrchyard to
eat box luncheons on the graves
of the immortals.
Instead she meets the natty young
man and bangles on his arm while
he escorts her to any one of the
better class cafes in the business
district. Commercial affairs are
sketchy incidents in her life. As
career, business Is a dud.
She may toll over a typewriter or
stenographic notes morning and af-
ternoon, but at midday she blooms
radiant, alluring creature who. on
upper broadway. Is called a vamp.
Many of the luncheon hour courtiers
lower Broadway palpitating->w with
the hope of new conquests.
State black dresses are not for
the Gotham midinette. She does
not even attempt to hide the cigar
ette case hanging from her wrist
chain. An office manager tells OF
discharging one of these airy. fairy
creatures. He expected tears. In
stead she laughed In his face. Then
she called up a number and asked
to have her car sent at once. An
imported Limousine came. 1t was
the boss's car.
There Is a chain OF restaurants
owned by three New Workers.. The
first is the financial hacker, the
second attends to the cuisine and
the third Is a newspaperman with
decorative gift. He was called
in when all the places were losing
money. One by one he made them
huge successes. But whenever they
decide to open a new restaurant
the newspaperman will have moth
ing to do with il and IL never sue
ceeds. Il always want one failure
in the chain" he said. Just to re-
mind my partners that they cannot
make money without me-"
The Sir Galahad of the taxi has
arrived. The East Side thug, with
criminal record. is passing on to
other fields OF endeavor. A new taxi
cab company recently began busi-
ness with the slogan Our driver
is your escort" They had only
twenty taxicabss but the drivers
were men of polish and the de-
mands for their cabs were so big
that they have been expanding at
the rate of twenty taxicabs a week.
So many brutal crimes took place in
taxicabs with the drivers acting as
confederates that not only men but
women began to fear them. Almost
any night the police found some
battered fare in the lonely drives OF
the city parks, beaten and robbed
by the driver. One taxi company
went over its list of operators and
found that IL per cent had prison
records. 1t dismissed them at ohce.
Another company announces that
1t will soon have in operation a
group of taxicabs that will be op-
Grated by chauffeurs who will re-
fuse to accept tips. That means
the millennium is just around the
corner.
Lupo the Wolf is now a lamb of
Little Italy. In real life he Is Ig-
nazio Lupo and he has inherited
$685. from his father in italy ana
says he is going to try to forget the
dark past. He was a suspect in the
famous barrel murder mystery. the
Tony Bozzufi KIDNAPPING and many
other crimes. He was sent to At
lanta prison for counterfeiting in
1910. He asks the police to. leave
him alone, but Lupo will be
watched. Once he ran a wholesale
grocery business in Mott street,
Chinatown. and went bankrupt,
leaving debts amounting to 500, 900.
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