Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-11
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NEW YORK.-The street corner
loafer has once more been l~egislated
against In New York. It's a new
state law and carries q penalty of
$50 fine and six months in Jail for
Constructing the pavement" using
insulting language" shouting dur
ing the nighttime"-and causing a
crowd to collect except when law
fully addressing a crowd"
All the cops in town would be busy
if they enforced that last one You
can buy angling from toy balloons
to neckties on the street any time
and almost anywhere, and there's al
ways a crowd around.
The new law, among other things,
says 1t is unlawful to climb through
the window of a street ear!
If you know your way around New
York you can dodge many a rain
drop on a rainy day. Tunnels for
pedestrians exist at several points.
One of the best patronized runs from
the West Side subway at the Penn
sylvania station, Seventh avenue and
33rd street, over to Sixth enu and
33rd street. If you willing to
run up and down a few steps you can
go all the way from the McAlpin
Hotel to the p~ostoffice over in
Eighth ven without hitting the
open air-by using the Broadway
subway and Jersey tube station, then
the S3rd street tunnel, and finally
the Pennsylvania Terminal.
Canes have increased in popular
ity in New York. The reason, cane
dealers explain wrathfully, is that
most tourists returning from Europe
bring back one of those made-in-
Germany canes that you car buy
over there for Is cents, thereby saw
ing about $4.85.
Here's a mystery: Who put up the
Statue of the Soldier of the Bronx,
and why? It's a wooden figure, a
life size replica of a Civil War veter-
an, and it stands on a stone pedestal
in the shallow waters of the Bronx
River just south of the new bridge.
at Gunhill Road. The date 1888" is
carved on the pedestal. You can see
the figure. the blue paint of the mill
tary cloak now faded into graying
wood, from trolley cars and elevated
trains crossing the bridge. Various
oNOA ~ 4 LOAA ~ captain LllS oOI-
der of the Bronx. One is that a wood
carver, whose workshop was near
the river, had been commissioned to
make the statue for the grave of a
soldier in Woodlawn cemetery a
by, that it vas rejected when COM
pleted, and the angry carver hurled
it into the river. But it seems too
solidly placed for that; so some a
it was simply a trade sign put UP by
the wood carver to mark his work
shop.
One of the spots in Manhattan ia
nous because of reflected glory is
the Claremont Inn, which tops a
grassy knoll just north of Grants
Tomb in the middle of Riverside
Drive. It's a restaurant now. But
a century ago 1t was the house in
which Joseph Bonaparte lived. Jo-
seph, you recall, was king of Spain
by a of his brother, Napoleon
Bonaparte. When Napoleon got in
to trouble Joseph fled to America.
Until three years before his death in
Italy in 1914, he lived at Borden
town, N. j., but part of the time in
the Claremont mansion.
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People don't buy flowers from
sidewalk stands as much as they
used to. A woman who made a for
tune of $4,000 by selling flowers in
a little cubbyhole under Brooklyn
Bridge extension at the edge of City
Hall Park has gone out of business.
When the late Mayor Gaynor first
noticed her and arranged for her to
rent the space from the city-a space
IL feet square-the rent was $50
month. Now it is $101O a month
and she has gone out of business.
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Sunday night is no time to ride
the subway back from Coney Island.
Remember those huge dolls they
used to give as prizes at concessions ?
Well, the latest thing in prizes is
an accordion. These instruments of
torture, squeezing out squeals as
amateur musicians play them on the
way home, are in the fad generation
next after the saxaphone; the gen
Grafton before that was dedicated to
the ukulele.