Putnam patriot., 1924-06-27
Neg York. June 18th.


 the thing up pretty well Probably I ihe best public displays that dannat- | tan ever organized Tor the public ] benefit were the various receptions of war notabiIifies in 1917 and 1913. Bur the entertainment of delegates ! to A great national political conYen- ] ton is decidedly a home or domestic affair New York is s0 big in itself that when anything is done publicly
 It must be done on q large scale d | ff Is tD attract attention from its ! e.earning millions af inhabitants. | tot must be done Co prevent even so l large and important q congregation
 at the Democratic convention from ] being iost im the shuffle Therefore weeks ago New York began to ar range for this swelteflag week 9f eu
 tertainment for Che party out of power
 Firzt of al. Fifth Avenue was st tackled by the decorators Thus it ia that from Washington Square to the Plaza Che avenue by night is lined with sfrng upon string nf vary eoluret Hahts Then beginning 4 Washington saaare north each block bears upon lts lighting posts Che shields and the flax WIlh Che national colorz of an indi- vidual state. Connecticut. being fifth Ia She list iz lH proud possession for the week ef the block between Twelfth and Thirteenth street
 Arriving through this avenue Of the states at the Plaza ore passes Into au avenue of the 0belisks of the States extending almost 10 Sevennetn street. Brown obelisks rising to height of ten or twelve feet bear the name of the state in a lighted square at the top. On Monday night when masf of the sightseers had gone to their swclteriug rest. q violent thun defstorm broke out and many 0f these decorative ohelisks were oyerthr0~n FHe writer. passing up the avenue at a i4te hour could not but notice that are of the overturned 0belisks was that which bore the name of the
 fata of Wisconsin. An omen2 Per haHs
 Spending the Taxpayers Money
 But fl the visitor wants reai shock let him visit Washington Square itself. He will bc surprised. One af those wierd ways 9f spendine the tnxpayers' money which the HEian administration seems to discover with 70 much ingenuity has had ample ex- qualification here. for the historic old square has suddenly become a recep- ti8n room faH the Democratic ladies. 1 kieh and elaborate board feHce #uFfaauds fHF entire area and Just what r1ae en within # is hard Co kHa4 But Che cost of tne elHHHH H af hospitality is evident Co le# dT thc hbfn-rimmed eye
 On ndz <. ss alI 0f The delegate were coming from far and near and zeiliiur themselves into the h9Hes- combs of myriad hotels. New ] ark made aH appropriate gesture and held iIz annual police parade Naturally, l WHa could saF chat # was Democratic l urauurandH thut the parade should i he reviewed by the Governor af the E Empire Sfate. her faxoritc son. Al | Smith for Whoee nomination New E Workers are roofing with eharaetefis-
 lie fervor And could 1t be called
 Democratic propaganda that at the
 moment when the thousands were lin- F ing the avenue to see the spick and | span defenders of the law march by, that the Governor should ride the
 length of the street Co his place on
 the grandstand, cheered by the wait ! ing thousands2 Some of the old Re
 publicans in the windows of the | Union League club might snort all ! they wanted to, but they couldn't pre-
 vent Monday from being Al Smiths | day of glory. In the way of public | demonstrations he was decidedly m
 advance of all the other candidates.
 As the Police Go By
 And for the delegates as we'll as any other visitors. or for New York l CTS themselves, the parade was some l thing of an inspiration. With the
 precision of veterans the ''cops
 marched over the hot asphalt for four l long hours, led by no less of minute ! ly advertised person than that obscure and shrinking executive. Mayor John 1 K Hylan There were police on horse.
 back and afoot, there were ambu- ianees and thousands of street-elean'
 ing "white wings, there were massed
 banners and a hundred bands and there was a crowd on the sidewalk ] chat bought Al Smith buttons and bal loons and flags and that eheered itself huarse for every good Democrat in line
 But New York Is so enormous that there were moments when the eonven tion had to be sought out in spite of itself. It was to be found in hote hobbies and on Fifth Avenue busses wearing badges by day and the hahlli ments of gayety hy night. In th, restaurants there were earnest group ef men husily talking, at the dinner ] tables there were other takers ana about Madison Square Garden be
 hind the rigid lines established by tht
 police there were more talks,
 Among the newspaper men at the convention Is Harold <. lbetter knowr
 among his newspaper friends az
 "GusH) Corbin, formerly of The Pat.
 riot, and later with Worcester and
 New York papers and now with the New York Tribune, Mir. Corbin Is de.
 voting his spare time u looking after visiting newspaper men from this sec tion.
 ! But with that roaring continuity oi life m which conventions may come ] and may go. the city goes lts way The convention to New orkers is not half SO important as the 5.la Co New Rochelle and Red Bank and Staten Is land and Kew Gardens New Workers like Che flags and the lights and they ] like Al" Smith But. after all. they seem to conclude it's really too hot to bother ahel4t the Democrats over