The Washington herald., 1922-07-10
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NEW YORK. July "a page
from the diary OF a modern samuel
, Pepys; Up and away to be trimmed
thence to breakfast with. Edgar Sci.
wyn and came Frederic Arnold
Hummer. the tayIe writer. and we
matched coins. gaining a shilling
or two.
walking through the Broad way
It was pretty odd to see the silly
iaoies with their canes and silver
neadsear as the manner In and vet
! cannot believe with the young in
.eiiectuals that the age has grown
100 nippant. The same thing was
sald In the bicycle era.
Home and at my stint while a
tu1ious storm flung down poles and
Dricks In the street. And came
hamish McLaurin and Mistress
withal. '
In the evening with my wife, poor
wretch. to see the colored players
IN strut Miss Lizzie" droll in spots,
ana afterward in a horse drawn
victoria up the avenue and about
tne lake in the park. the moon being
high. And so to bed.
They are to build monument
on the lower tip of the island in
memory Of Stoffel Mighielan. when
New York was a tiny village down
oy Bowling Green, the Dutch
ourghers stopped on their way to
market and gathered around Stoffel
Mighielan to hear the news OF the
DAY. He was Manhattan's first
town crier and received two pence
Tor every notice that he cried. He
was paid to cry thrice each notice
and to keep a book wherein he was
to write down faithfully all such
things with their marks. the names
of persons and the day Offering"
The old town crier has been sup
planted by the mechanical bulletin
boards around Times Square and
Park Row.
A New Yorker on his deathbed
testates his worldly treasures to his
/ wife in the following quatrain:
All my earthly goods / have in store.
To my dear wife / leave forever
more;
l freely give, no limit do I Ak
This Is my will. and she my execu-
trix.
Broadway has a new term for the
egg or trightwad. He is now known
as the canary. The canary is the
fellow who takes his friends to an
orange drink place. buys and calls
loudly for the carriage starter.
Around midnight he yawns and
suddenly yells. Lets breeze to
Child's and buy up the place"
The urge OF the city dweller for
the open spaces is strikingly illu.-
trated at one OF the busiest of the
| midtown corners. Traffic swirls
| about with the rush of Niagara
On one side of the street Is a sport
ing goods store. A huge window Is
| decorated to represent a road side
camp. Two wax figures are seated
at a table, dressed in khaki. There
are kitchen kits. short handled
axes. electric torches draped about
the tented entrance. 1t is the typI-
cal magazine illustration of the
open road. Because of the heavy
traffic conditions the police depart
ment had to ask the proprietor OF
the store to discontinue the display
The crowds blocked the pavement
by the hour. One man confessed
that he spent his luncheon hour
there for a week.
Two ambitious young italians
had an idea that they would give a
musicianly touch to a shoe shine.
One played an accordion and the
other was to apply the polish. They
started out in big downtown sky
scraper visiting various Offices. The
building superintendent stopped
them. Someone else had paid for
the shoe shining privilege. Now
they have established themselves
in Bryant Park and the idea is re-
sulting in the briskest PATRONAGE
among all the park sinners.
One of the chronic irst-night
is a doctor whose practice is almos,
exclusively among the theatrical
folk-from star to chorus girl. He
told me the other night that in the
eighteen years he had been prac-
ticing> he had not had more thar
| 5000 worth of bad debts