The Washington herald., 1922-11-10
Mem York City
Day By Day
By @. oA MeInsyre.

NEW YORK. Nov. s.-rhoushts
while stroliing around New. York:
Lower Broadway. Jog-trostIng
bank messengers. The Ascot tie
. nourishes down here. The dead |
calm Of Trinity. Wall streets mar
row canyon entrance. There goes ,
Henry L. Doherty. One of Americas
Richest bachelors. Pigeons on the |
subway kiosk.
The row OF steamship ofices.
Immigrants huddied along the curb.
A vegetarian restaurant. Custom
house. Doddering o,d dodoes car
rying banners for passport photos.
Bowling Green. city's Oldest park.
The rhythmic clop-clop OF hoofs.
Market wagons going to the ferries,
A painter daubing his impress
sion Of the harbor. Battery Park
benches are always filled. And the
Aquarium still lures the sight
seers. could look ut the sea horses
for hours. A group OF Japanese
sailors. Appiewomen along every
path. A giant liner fading on the
horizon.
There Is an immense dignity
about this lower tip of the island.
wonder what the fellow is doing In
green velvet Jacket? i like the
brusque manner OF seafaring men.
Nothing guileful or secretive about
them. They live close to the great
mystery.
Broad streets hub-bub. Crisp
business suits. A gaivanic atmos-
phere, Fortunes come and go with
the tick of the tape. Hello! There's
strolling. street band. Ancient.
winding cowpaths now bulging with
life. Screechy pushcart men watch
ing trade with one eve and cops
with the other.
The old pcstofiice. Mountain high
piles Of sacks. The glitter of Park
Row Basement pool halls and up
stairs shoe shops. Mirrored cafes
with hopping walters. A hatIess
old woman harangues a crowd OF
hoodlums. The hurry and worry Of
life at top speed.
And around the corner a peaceful
colonial home. This section is
teeming with contrasts. Sham and
substance. Lights and shadows. A
black-bearded sausage vender bu-
Cling his mares. A golden haired girl
hirts with a passing conductor. A
slatternly wife berates her husband
from an upstairs window. Chi
nese laundryman chases an urchin
with an iron. The stroll ends,
New York is cheered by the an
| nouncement that on a recent Sunday
I there was not a single motor car ac
cident. The chief medical examiner
and his staff are unable to recall a
similar record. The nearest record
to this was one hot Sunday a year
or so ago. when only fourteen per-
sons were injured. At the heavy
traffic centers when an occasIonai
pedestrian broke through the cor
don he would merely receive a
verbal rebuke. Now he Is immedi-
ately stopped by the police. Try
ing to catch a train is the oldest
excuse and one. that was generally
accepted. but not any more.
Nora Bayes recently opened in
play called queen of Hearts" and a
! brisk dramatic writer suggests that
Nora will wear crowns other than
those on her teeth.
Anna Gould's husband, the Duke
de Talleyrand-Perigord, has been
amusing the reporters, male and fe-
male. and the news photographers
with his displays of temper. The
duke. merely because he Is the hus-
band of a well-kpown woman. is
considered of news Importance. But
when the scribes and snapshotters
approach him he threatens them
with his cane. This has happened
several times. Once 1t tied up traf-
fc on Fifth avenue. There is a GER
tain reporter with an aggressive
jaw who is noted for his firm stands.
He will not be bluffed. He once
choked an apology out of a big steel
manufacturer who passed the insult,
Anyway, he was sent to talk to the
duke and met him coming out of a
hotel. The Duke lifted his cane
and started after him. The reporter
did not bulge and something in his
eye told the duke to desist. So he
halted and turned about. The re-
porter pulled a flower from his coat
! lapel. tossed 1t at the duke and
cried. Now that you've chased me,
I'll chase vou."