The Washington herald., 1922-02-10
MTNTYRE SEES
WORLD REVIEW ON
MILLIONAIRE ROW
Gutter Snipes and Shop
Girls in Midst of
Grandeur.
By O. o. MCINTYRE.


while strolling around New York:
Eight a. n. along Millionaires'
Row. Petit dejeuner. A canter
around the park. The cigar in a
weil-filled library. Why was I
picked for toll? A grimy coal
HEAVIER whistling at work. sleepy
club servants beginning the daily
grind. Cross-town cars hung with
workers.
Sandy haired kewpics in baggy
English clothes. Waiting the ar
rival of a British duke. There's
always something mysterious about
a spiral stair. A wounded sparrow
fiuttering in the roadway. Vibrant
ly healthy shopgirls with the luster
Of sea-wet shell. A servant
swings open a door and bows out
an adolescent. Probably on his
way shopping for polo mallets.
Prim governesses with curly hair
charges. A tatterdemalion scans
the gutter for vagrant snipes. Win
dow washers can ind more things
to talk about. Wonder IL anyone
has charge account at the Ave-
nue. and 10-cent store. Norman
Trevor and his lemon-color gloves.
Depot taxis piled high with lug
gage-formerly baggage. Rowing
Victoria drivers with burnt-out ex-
pressions. Something electrifying
about a big railroad terminal. Ro-
nance scurries along with the red
capped porters. The restaurants
and lunchrooms are somehow diff
ferent. Muzzled dogs wondering
what II Is all about.
There's the cats cuff-a purple
fur derby. Alta boy! Hooded kim
ding women trudging their dreary
way. Children dancing in the icy
cutters to the >tune Of a wheezy
phonograph. All the opera singers
are quitting in a hun. Too proud
to sing. I'd trade one good aria
right now for a bowl of piping-hot
bean soup.
Some OF the most worth while
poetry is written in New York news
paper shops by men who are fight
ing against edition time. Will Irwin
wrote THE City That Was" between
editions during the San Francisco
earthquake. 1t was a newspaper
classic. John Kendrick Bangs used
to say he could lock himself in
room for an hour and think OF
twenty five salable jokes. Berton
Braley has written much sprightly
verse waiting for his turn in Kelly
pool game Today I attended a
luncheon where a soulful Hindoo
poet said writer's must 60 to the
hills-far from the crowds-to do
real work.
Among the down -and cutters, dish
washing Jobs are known as pearl
diving" On Sixth avenue where most
OF the employment agencies are
located there are hundreds o: dish
washing jobs but no takers. The
agents say that while the pay Is
good men consider It the lowest OF
occupations and will only take such
jobs when starving.
A whirling dervisher violinist with
a great shock of black hair is the
attraction in one of the hotel supper
rooms. He spins about as he plays
ana MS HdIT mes "lluly
tions. The head waiter told me that
he gets at least a half dozen mash
notes every evening from young girls
who come there with escorts. THE
funny part of it is." he said that
his wife Is the hat check girl out
side. And all of the girls snub her
but she has a good time reading the
notes"
A New York stationer is right up
to the minute. He is advertising
stock wedding invitations and the
imprint in the corner reads: First
OF a series" Incidentally an actor
sends out the following announce
ment: Il am to be married on
Thursday for the fourth time.
would like to have you come to the
Little Church Around the Corner.
Your usual seats have been reserved
for you"