The Washington herald., 1922-08-01

NEW YORK. July s1.-The lower
East Side roof tops these sweitering
nights are alive with humanity.
From the elevated railroad one may
see the tenement jewellers strug-
Cling for fresh air. and comfort.
Mothers In loose wrappers sit FAM
ming naked babies and the fire es-
capes are filled with balloon bedding
where the men swelter through the
long nights.
The East Side. with its typical
stoicism toward life, does not rail
at the heat. When the sun goes
down the families. living in many
instances ten in a room, climb to
the roofs and have their evening
meal picnic fashion. The children
frolic about until overcome by IA
tigue and then they sprawl along
the roof edges
The other evening a thin. coiorless
woman sat along the coping OF q
Hester street tenement. About her
| stood group OF tired. heat-weary
children. One by one she held them
In her arms and rocked them to
sleep. over near a chimney the
husband lay in an alcoholic stupor.
L AT midnight when the street had
cleared Of its jostling throng. there
was a high-pitched scream and n
body went hurtling to the asphalt
telow. Under a stone on the roof
top an assistant coroner found the
Following penciled note: "They will
call me coward. But tried so
| hard. May Heaven be good to my
motherless children"
That Is n despairing note in the
East Sides struggle against the
| heat. For the most-part there is a
note of gaiety and an effort to cheer
each other by laughing at misfor-
tune. The young meh and girls sing
and dance for the pleasure of their
| elders. They even give amateur the
atrical performances. athletic tour
naments and the like.
] The Older women try to give a
I home-like touch to the roof tops by
draping corners and copings with
| bright cretonnes and flags. Every
| roof. too. has its rasping phonograpa
and the husbands chip in therr
nickels to furnish lemonade and
| cooling drinks. Nights may he hot
i and enervating, but the East Side
masks its misery with the spirit of
| the carnival
New York carriage starters de-
pend largely upon Gratuities from
those whose limousine doors they
| open for a livelihood. The gray
haired. military figure. who stands
N front of the largest Jewelry es-
| tabllshment on the avenue used to
be the doorman at a dance hall on
Tenth avenue. When he moved over
to more aristocratic surroundings
he lima lined that his future would
be rosy. Instead. he has found him
self completely out of luck Not a
single customer has ever tipped him.
New York's theatrical world Is
stirred by the internal ruction that
threatens. so II Is said. to result in
the retirement of Miss Marilynn
| Miller from the cast of the notable
| musical comedy success, Sally"
Miss Miller's engagement to Jack
| Pickford started the rumpus. The
| company has ended temporarily its
| Boston engagement. Mr.. Ziegfeld.
the producer. has been broadcasting
from Paris his opinion of Mr. Pick
ford and Miss Miller intimates that
she Is tired of the furore and may
| go into motion pictures. Ic is quite
probable. Of course. that ambitious
press agents are pouring oil on the
journalistic fire. but at any rate IL
gives the Rialto morsel of gossip
| during the slack summer season.
| AS the liner Cedric came into dock
the other day an actress appeared
| on the upper deck waving a bottle.
filled with clear liquid and labelled
| Gordon Gin" At least forty Of
ficials halted her to say she couldn't
bring liquor in. But this isn't
liquor. ha. ha. ha." quoth the actress
Then what is 1t. ha. ha. ha." Choir
| used the officials. Perfume" CUR
| gled the actress. and so 1t proved to
be. and so the lady tripped gayly
away stopping en- route to ask re-
norters MT to say anything about
her arrival.