The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-08-23


Mans nefarious ingenuity has devils.
ed various ways Of extracting ethyl
alcohol from all kinds Of substances,
even alcohol, and it is this raw and
sometimes dangerous stuff that is
supposed to be the cornerstone of
New York's current metropolitan
life. AS matter Of afct, every arrest
of the kind for violation Of the pro-
hibition laws ,being duly recorded in
the newspapers, is merely free ad-
vertisement, and valuable advertise
ment, because usually it is accom-
panied by such valuable analytical in
formation that the fluid--whatever
it might be--was "real stuff" 1t has
to be or the charge would not hold.
So that is exploding theory No. 1,
must be an elect of the elect. The
chief morning newspaper gives this
information to 100000 persons daily.
Every such address and name is a
source of future supply for those WHO
desire to be SUPPLE
The real New Yorker, however,
tails to. get in on the ground floor of
these ventures, and, to be just, it is
doubted if any New Yorker worthy
of the name is even identified with
the sale of this booze. He may be il
ritated because of the bad name that
is given to his home town, but in the
end if he has sense of humor he
must laugh. It's what makes his city
what it is.
The real New Yorker, moreover, has
no need to go to the teaters and other
places of entertainment-not often.
So the constant plant about the high
cost of first nights and the like is of
no consequence to hihm. By walking
from Fiftieth street at Broadway,
then turning westward at Forty
second street as far as Eighth avenue,
or even a wee bit farther, he can get
all the free entertainment he can
stand If he feels like more, how
ever, he can extend his pilgrimage as
far as Thirty.-seventh street around
Broadway, and he has covered about
all of "wild" New York there is.
Of course, there is the quarter
the naughty" quarter, blandly known
as the Village, prefxed by Greenwich,
but this is another bit of local color
that is an imitation of the neighbor-
Boulevard st. Michel, the main arter-
les Of the once flourishing but now de-
cadent Latin Quarter of the French
capital. The Village is fraud throug
and through in the sense of naughti-
ness, but the fraud is aided by the pre-
mediated "artistic effects" of candle
light or shaded incandescents of low
wattage, for the Village thrives up
on such palid effects as the White
Way thrives upon the galring, chro-
indigenous and often inharmonious
illumination. So the diner after SEN
sations gets something served on q
coffee-and-ash-s cover that is
dubbed a tablecloth, marks left there
on by the geniuses that are supposed
to frequent those eating places.
But be it the Great White Way or
the Village, one cannot be insensible
to the almost painful exertions of
otherwise sane human beings-sane
human beings-sanc when they left
their home town-to appear as mys-
terious revelers in the forbidden pas
times. One may go into an ornate
but harmless soda emporium on the
east side of Broadway between Thirty
ninth and Forty,,second street to see
what? An able-bodied man acting as
host to pair of noisy flappers, he
drinking or eating, or drink-eating,
rather, a concoction before which he
would have passed, with all of youths
carelessncss and courage, some 40
years before, and actually apepar to
be enjoying it. 1t isn't the drink
it's the Vicinaga that counts It's
Broadway.
Telling the Folks at Home
10 the folls back home he will after
ward speak about drinks" and "the
life," and thus aid his listeners to
formulate wrong deductions. It's the
sort OF tale that foolish tourists take
back.
AS a rule, however, the places that
are truly the ones where high life
abounds are very few indeed; they
are fewer by manr than the number
that existed 10 years ago, before the
Becker r-Rosenthal affair snuffcd out
the spots, and even then these places
were anything but numerous. With
an average Of 100000 visitors evcrf
day, and if only one in hundred had
a pcnchant for wild oats, it would
mean 3,000-and New York today has
no organized facilities to cater to that
many predetermined. The latter
must do their share in attaining their
object, and if this is done New York
Will furnish little more in the way
OF diversion than any other towns
lurnlsh little more in the way of di-
version than any other town
What the metropolis will furnish
that no other city in the country can
furnish is greater variety of any
thing. And because it furnishes var
icty it also furnishes good quality as
well as bad. The traveller who cheer
fully permitted himself to be robbed
by Parisians on the supposition that
he was having good time is the pro-
totypc of the American who cheerfuily
pays all that New York asks of the