Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-05
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NEW YORK-Who are the pa
tient people you see sitting in sight
| seeing buses drawn up at the curb
In and about Times Square? They
seem to sit there for hours waiting
for the buses to get under way.
Well, here's the secret: Not all are
sightseers. Some-and women in
variably-are ''cappers.' They get
fifty cents an hour for sitting in the
buses to help draw crowds.
Ever notice that almost every time
q bus begins to fill up that one or
two women get up-as IL suddenly
changing their minds about taking
the trip-and climb out? They stroll
on to another empty bus UP the
street, and sit down to walt for an
other crowd to gather.
Not all the wild things are in the
zoo in Central Park. Up around the
SOS, near Central Park West, a flock
OF Wild parrots have made homes in
the trees. They're the non-swearing
kind, for they've been there so long
that a new generation has grown III
without the benefit of domesticated
education.
A small wooden box neither paint
ed nor vanished and without a
wrapping went through the New
York postoffice the other day. 1t
came from a Long Island suburb
and was addressed to Paris. The
box was seven inches square and
eight inches deep. It weighed eight
pounds and carried SO cents postage.
With It was a customs declaration
with this notation: Human ashes
no commercial value" Postoffice
gossip said the box contained the
ashes of a young woman who drown
ed herself because he man she loved
had married another.
Odd things about New York: Very
few apartment house windows have
fly screens. Separate houses in the
suburbs and in Brooklyn, Bronx,
Queens and Staten Island are usual
ly equipped with screens. But apart
ment house jewellers seem to think
they're immune from flies and mos
quitoes. Try a furnished room on
the second or bird floor and you'll
find out!
When you mention Brooklyn to a
Manhattanite he shrugs his shout
ders or shudders. They think Brook
Ign is a foreign country. Yet there
Is a roof garden over there that
beats anything in New York for
scenery. It's on top of a hotel
perched on the bluff across the East
river from the Wall street district.
1t is furnished to represent a ship
and diners sit on either the upper or
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down the bay and up the river. It's
like looking at New York from an
airship: scores of ships riding at
anchor in the bay; Ellis Island like
a tiny house of cards; the Statue of
Liberty, now a mere speek; churni1g
ferryboats; Governors Island nearly
and Staten Islands shore in the
feggy distance; the graceful spans
of three bridges; and piles OF brick
and stone over in Manhattan, partic-
ularly gorgeous if you happen to be
sitting up there in that grandstand
seat when the lights begin to flash
IN in the evening.
Heard in Harlem: whats the
name of the President? oh, yes, l
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Coolridge."
Even back yards are standardized
in Manhattan. Brownstone houses
are as alike as so many peas, and SO
are the tiny yards in the rear. Those
who put on swank call them gar
dens." Everyone is q r~ectangle,
about twice rs long as 1t is wide.
Each has a stone walk slightly de-
pressed, laid out like a handkerchief
border a few feet from the high
fences. And there is no entrance to
the yard from the street-and no
back alleys.
The man-who-said-New York-is-a-
jay-town changed his mind the other
day when he walked around the
block and saw two fires, a man run
down by a taxi, and two beer trucks
unloading cargo.