The Washington herald., 1922-03-24

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NEW YORK. March 23.-Thoughts
while. strolling around New York:
The pell-mell rush of home goers.
Black lava-flow Of motors. Shop
girls with a kitten-gaze. Thin
borzoi dogs and gloomy grooms
Newsboys shrieking a worlds de-
spair. Spangled and plumed Broad
way Dianas-just beginning the
day. My hat is off to, that bird
he talked back to cop.
street lamps winking one by one
along side streets. Aged clerks
going to solitary exile In shabby
brown-stone fronts. The pigeons
descend upon Times Square for
crumbs. There goes Nora Bayes
Her hair is silver white. Tempus
does fugit.
A Chinese mandarin and an Egyp-
tian dancing girl-but only make
believe. They're leaving a cos
tuners shop. Crowds waiting to
see Dempsey leave the theater.
Wish l packed his wallop. I'd like
to try IL on the fellow who sold
me these shoes. Little man with
a paunch has married three beau
tiful women. No wonder he's short
Of breath.
A snow white limousine. Syco-
plants and adventurers. They row of
beggars lined up against the public
library wall. And the blind one is
smoking a pipe. Wonder what book
the tower policeman is reading.
More new perfume shops. And the
most beautiful ladies as clerks.
Mrs. Something -or-Other brings
out her coach and four. Always
feel sorry for the poor boob who
has to blow the bugle. Looks so
silly in his short pants. Wonder
how much jack coach bugler gets?
Geraldine Farrar coming from tea.
Pink hat and monkey fur coat.
What's become of what's-his-name?
I'll not give him any publicity. His
eyes are too soulful. Ambulance
laden with flowers from theater
dressing rooms. So to wafles!
At the bishops dinner the other
evening Bishop Manning said he
could probably tell Dr. Stetson, his
successor in the rectorship of Old
Trinity, a few unfamiliar things
about his parish. For instance"
he said. the Trinity charter gives
the church the riSht to all whales
cast up on the shore of Long Is
land" Long Island fishermen might
dispute the fact. Nevertheless
whales were deemed royal fishes at
the time when a British sovereign
granted the Trinity charter.
The Stage Door Inn in West
Forty-seventh street has opened.
1t is being conducted by "a group
Of stage ctars. and show girls who
are out of work are acting as
Mattresses. 1t is the. first effort
by stage people to CONDUCT CO.
operative business; the profits will
go into a fund for those who are
in dire need. And the plight of
chorus girls in New York is indeed
tragic. Three of the waitreAkes at
the Stage Door Inn are girls who
were making $50 a week a year
ago. No tipping is permitted at
the inn but those who wish to
contribute may offer the usual tip
for the fund. The place is having
quite a vogue for the sponsors have
asked prominent people of the stage
to dine there whenever possible and
others go to see them at close
range. The night / was there /
saw Hilda Spong, John Drew, Hazel
Dawn. Leon Enrol. Louise GroodyI
and many others of equal promi-
nence.
Dan the Battery Boatmen is a.
character known to every ship
news reporter He drifted into
ship-news headquarters fifteen years
ago, derelict from a tramp
steamer. He had once voyag ed
with stevenson and he became am
bilious to write. He acts as a sort
of messenger, boy and picks up
small change and enough to eat.
Each day he writes an article which
ne gives to some one of the scribes.
He has never reached print with
his stuff but he keeps at 1t. And
he does not complain because
editors do not accept his wares.