San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-19
Hectic Days In
Liz or N York
By JESSIE HENDERSON.


lana ye ken that mak's the aud
town sac empty, like! Losh amichty
'tis naethen' mair nor less than the
grrrrouse season aboot tae commence
Ma. ma, laddie, We dinna say the
"grouch" season. The guild Lord kens
it's aye the crouch season here.
Pardon the slightly Gaelic accent.
We. caught it down on the docks
watching the steamers depart for Scot
land via England, and listening to the
scores of New Workers talk about the
prospects for grouse shooting in the
Highlands. Whether it's the effect
of the new Enright order, decreeing
that New York shall become absolute
" dry or the effect of wine clear
day followed by murky one-what-
eyer's the cause, the effect is that
every other New Yorker who isn't
hunting for an apartment is hunting
for n grouse. And whatever n grouse
is you have to 60 to Scotland to get
it.
Moreover the town seems empty for
the further reasons that Billy Burke
and husband Ziegfield have left for
Europe, not to mention Abe Attell the
featherweight boxer and the silence of
a great calm has settled down here
abouts because among the departees
was also the Rev. DR.. John Roach
Straton, reformer.
Cigarettes For the Departed.
Oh well, consider, if you will the
Chinese pilgrimage to the native ceme-
terry in Brooklyn. With ceremonies
that were ancient when Confuscius
was q child, with beliefs so old that
i you must travel back to the worlds
/ youth to find their beginnings, the
/ New York Chinese went to feed their
/ dead in long procession of automo-
| biles and the things they gave their
dead, included side by side with the
|. immemorial boiled rice-packages of
/ modern cigarettes. Was there ever
"a more perfect blending of old and
new? ~.
/ Chinatown by the way is response
BILE this week for one more of those
| Establishments, the sum total OF
{ which makes life less and less worth
while. Chinatown, that sinkhole of
melodrama rises to remark in no un.
4 y certain accents that 1T all amt SO.
There amt no melodrama. There
amt no opium. There amt no sink
hole. They have the statistics and
incidentally the votes, to back up these
declared on the guides of sightseeing
parties who persist in pointing out
the houses of wealthy and what's
more, respectable, merchants as 1.-THE
most vicious opium dens in the city"
From a moral viewpoint this pro-
ttest is all very lovely. But from the
Viewpoint of the rubberneck guide and
of the pleasantly morbid visitor, it's
little loss than deplorable
Boy, Page Diogenes.
Speaking of moral viewpoints, Do
genes. who spent his life hunting
through Southern Europe for an hon
est man, was in the wrong heml-
sphere altogether. He ought to have
come to New York. Yes, sir. Just
where you'd never think to look for
one. here he is and his name is Carl
Eduorarde. Suppose somebody offered
you for two dollars an old violin
which you knew to be worth $500,
what would you do? Well, Carl
Eduorarde who is an orchestra con-
ductor did just the opposite. He paid
the owner S49S more than the owner
asked, and there's lot more reason
why his statue ought to be in some
park than there is why a lot of sta
tues Of n lot OF other people should
be where they are. If you get what
we mean.
Now that we are erecting monu-
ments. let's put up one also 70 Joseph
PASCAL. Joseph, locked out of his
apartment. tried to enter it by climb
ing over from the next roof. He slip
ped off. bounced from a clothes line
in the fourth floor, bounced from an
other on the second, and landed UNI
hurt at the foot of his fiye-story
drop. And-no kidding at all-there
really ought TO be some recognition
of Patrolman Jerry Kilma. The pa
rents of little Muriel Laskowitz Wis
iting her in the pneumonia ward OF
the hospital were told that only a
blood TRANSMISSION could save their
daughter. They were also told that
their own blood would not do.
Dazed, the mother and father wand
cred the streets till they noticed the
East 22nd street police station. Hope
lessly. they entered and told their
troubles to the lieutenant.
pint OF blood?" asked Kilma. who
was just reporting for duty, "why
sure. Take mine" Which they did.
Kilma. wounded six times in the
World War, has Croix de Guerre
If they make him police commissioner
some day it will be all right with us.
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