The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
MANHATTAN SMILES
 AS ANDERSON SWEATS
Gotham Press Mirthful As Dry Leader Tells Strange Tale Of Gifts Of Thousands
 And How He Spent Money

Did he eat grapefruit for breakfast or did he prefer tub-bath to shower |? Such things us that Mir. Pecora wished to know on, behalf of the public, al- though, personally, you understand. Mr. Pecora may have been willing to believe everything MT. Anderson said just as the unsuspicious ministerial gentleman of the Anti-Saloon league had believed li'n.
 At times it almost seemed that Mir. Pecora was testing at the wound in Mir. Anderson pride. For instance. Mir. Anderson said he had explained the whole thing quite satisfactorily to one of the reverend gentlemen of the league, Dr. Baldwin. -s- s,,-.'
 f"And Dr. Baldwin is dead, is he not ?'' suggested Mir. Pecora.
 Yes said Mir. Anderson.
 Then Mir. Anderson said he had dis cussed the affair with another official of the league.
 "Oh, indeed" said Mir. Pecora. And may I, therefore, assume that he has had the misfortune to die?"
 So<New York. which has ragged and expended much energy in angry frotli- ing at Mir. Anderson, for several years. is now in the throes of uncomfortable hilarity, thanks to Mir. Anderson. He has brought back skeptic city that old faith which once upon time enabled slickers in dappled weskits to sell enough gold bricks on Broadway to con struct another sWoolworth building. La. Papers Chuckle
 And the papers are chuckling over the restoration of city's child-like confidence in the goodness of human kind. If New York believes Mir. An derson. they remarked with something like unanimity, today. then every adult os well as every child in town will hang up stocking next Christmas, with full faith in Santa Claus. And. they said. who can tell but that one of these days the fairies will drive down Broadway in pumpkin. drawn by 10 white mice, distributing eases of Five Star Scotch whisky to all who chance to pass? .
 E So Anderson. reluctantly. told the money was given to him by man named King. who called on him in Bal timore, told him what fine work he had been doing, remarked that he was underpaid for such valuable puoli. service. and begged leave to endow him with presents of money.
 He did not know and never had known the precise address of the mys- terious MT. King" couldn't find him to support his testimony. and was forced to appeal to the credul:ty of New York city
 Now. New York, may buy more oil stocks. more Confederate ten-spots, and more secondhand motor cars in year than any corresponding section Of the American populace. Never does a day pass on which New York does not dem 0nstrate anew that beautiful faith and trust in human-kipd. which makes the place the happy hdating ground of the wire-tapper. the .connlan and the sales mn with swamp frontage to peddle at town-lnt prices. But this was placing a great strain on the gullibility- of the one and only -eenter-on-Eudson..
 The Herald began to litter. edito- rially. The prinn and prissy Tribune raised her fan and was heard to utter a polite tes-h9e. The Daily News, which is nest indes orous young pa Der, threw back it's editorial head .anl followed ap earthquaking har-haf-har. Alr. Anderson looked stern, surprised hnd hurt in the order named. Unless he was mistaken, the people seemed t0 De doubting his wosfls