The Washington herald., 1922-06-06
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NEW YORK. June SIN the
early morning the East Sides push
cart army winds its sluggish way
through cross streets to the busy
marts There are Greeks, Italians
and Turks. clad in corduroy suits,
white aprons, caps and pillow shoes.
They whistle and sing as they
trudge along.
The picturesque little carts.
topped by huge sun umbrellas. are
filled with hot frankfurters. lemon
AIDE cents glass. chocolate bars,
chewing gum and other staple gas
| tronomic bim-cracks They cover
certain routes every day.
On the sides of their carts are
painted inscriptions: George. the
Greek" Nick the Busy Bee,"
Pedro. who Loves America" Buy
from Me- and II Want to Be a Big
American Business Man." It is a
touch OF America in the making, for
the push cart men of today are
the East Side shopkeepers of to-
morrow.
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second street on Fifth avenue is one
of New York's largest confectionery
stores. 1t is owned by a Greek who
hve years ago sold ice cream
brickets at the curb in front. His
was the success of syndication
With his earnings he started others
pushing carts and took a percentage
Of the earnings.
The push cart men live in
, abandoned slum cellars As a class
they are the thriftiest among the
newly arrived immigrants At
| dusk daily a long line of them
stand waiting to deposit their meager
earnings in all night Bowery 1O-cent
savings banks
They live through the hard,
/ bitter days with high hope. In far
of countries wives and sweethearts
are waiting for news of their sue
| cess. The police keep them moving
and hundreds are arrested daily for
blocking traffic. but they pay their
81 fnes-perhaps a weeks earnings.
and rarely complain. They seem to
know that in the end they will sue
coed.
| The cut glass wash rug or the
fur lined bathtub should go to the
/ intrepid soul who walked down
| Broadway the other day at the
| luncheon hour with his straw hat
in one hand and his toupee in the
other. The gentleman was suffer
ing from the heat and cared not
whit who knew it.
| A stage director who is notorious
for his discipline discharged one of
the most celebrated beauties Of a
| summer show before the entire COM
| pany this week. While she was
going through the intricacies of a
| dance, number at rehearsal a uni
| formed messenger boy stepped into
the picture and handed her a pack
age.
What is thatr Numbered the
! director.
! Scotch" was the reply.
You're fired" he shouted.
But l bought it for you" cooed
the beauty. But the director
wouldn't be Modified He has been
| kidded by experts.
Bryant Park. the haven for home
| less and unemployed men. is to have
|
| placed in the center OF the square.
| When workmen invaded the park to
begin digging the other day they
| had to ask a loiterer to move from
a bench. Then the fun began. He
| insisted that the bench was his
| home. He had slept on it for three
! months 1t took five policemen to
carry him away. And they call
this a free country" he shouted in
broken English as they tucked him
| in a Black Maria.
A certain fddling bootlegger in
a Fifth avenue cafe boasts that one
of the most popular movie stars OF
foreign extraction was once mis-
! valet. All of which is not to the
| stars discredit If true. The inter-
! esting point to me is that the care
| bookkeeping fiddler has a valet
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