Putnam patriot., 1925-07-31

New York City, July 2stA. I925.- l. doesn't matter much t0 the average visitor to New York whether pro hibition has revolutionized the life Of the average New Yorker or not. He can still find for himself the kind of amusement that New I fork always has provided for the visitor and al- ways will There are still the plays and there are places to eat and to dance and. despite the efforts of a mereiless district attorney, there are the usual Linsel places 10 dance until the wee sraan hourA These places, incidentally are almost entirely the property Of the visitor. The New Yorker works and the stress of life Ia the worlds biggest and most active city ddoes not perrnin it's working resi- dents to induige 70 frequently as may the idle yisitnr in those particular feshpots of which the out of town papers write vIviddly but which the New Yorker sees bat infrequeHtly.
 But the New Yorker has a particu- lar prejudice against prohibition and this prejudice has been created not by the beverages that have been with drawn legally from his lips but for the institutions that have disappeared because of prohibition and which were a noticeable and enjoyable feature of Che average New Workers life.
 "oid King Cole" Goes
 This wreckage Of the prohibition movement began first when New York aWake one morning to the fact that the Knickerbocker Hotel at the cor uer 0f Forty Second Street and a.. ..t did prohibition-th manager said he could not run the hotel without the bar-take away famous ren- dezv0us Here New Workers lunch ed and dined. Here Fifth Avenue and Broadway met in q passing thr8ng of notabilitieg. Here Caruso lived together with other stars of the stage and the screen and the opera. Here MaxheId Parrish's fam ous canvas of "0ld King Cole1 look ed down on a mahogany that gather cd about t in the late afternoon and evening a crowd of eonyivial friends.
 People said that the kaickerbocker' g management was too afraid of the ef- feet of prohibition and ridteuled the closing But even as they spoke an other famous institution suddenly clos ed is doors This was Sherry.s prob ably the most famous restaurant on this side of the Atlantic. Sherry had not enly atmosphere but excellent food Amhassad and milliouaires. actress es and singers. society folk and sight SCOTS met ig the big room at Sherry Bat prohibition removed large share .of tte restaurants profits. The doors dI The big tapest-ied room closed. the property became q banking house. and sherry became a smaller and less distinguished restaurant in another section of the city.
 Popular Places Pass
 The closing of Sherry's was follow ad by the closing nf an even older reu= dezeous of the New Yorker This was ] Delm0nico's. for three-quarters of a lcentury renowned for its cuisine and i Its hospitality. The New Yorker, pos sibly. preferred Co dine at home, where he could eat and drink without legal l restriction, since he soon discovered how easy f was e. break this uupop- ulnr law a condition of America socie- 1 ty which Is not restricted Co New York alone. So Del's closed and another fa- nous New York institution disappear ed. This week the wreekers began tHelf mereiless work of tearing down the old structure at Forty-Fourth street and Fifth Avenue and few New Workers passed the scene without q bang of regret and reminiscenee.
 But it is not SO much the passing of these greater establishments that the 1 New Yorker resents. as the oblitera- ton of many smaller and more inti- mate places. Jack s. for instance. where foreigners found the original in American cooking. has gone. Browns Chop House, across the street from the opera. was a recent loss. Here was the paradise of the baked potato and mutton chop with mug of ale. Here one ran in for refreskment be- tween the second and third acts of "rosca" or Carmen. But without its bar. Browns could not give the same service. It's popularity waned and the old place regretfully closed.
 Good Food No More
 The New Yorker. as matter of fact is hard put to 1t now to find a place to eat in a city that Is full of speeds. It Is possible for the fool to