New Britain herald., 1926-09-14
VARIETY? ANYONE
 FINDS IT IN N. '.
That's the Place to See the Un-
 usual Things

Variety. as seen between Times Square and Fifth avenue within three quarters of an hour: a cigar store clerk wearing a Phi Beta Kappa key; a negro janitor sitting in a doorway, studying King Henry " a laborer, with greasy denims and a bag of tools, stepping grandi- osely into the rear seat Of a cost ly limousine: a cent on the side walk and hundreds of pedestrians passing it up" 0 lantern iawed taxi driver, distinguished by a crooked nose and cauliflower ear. singing Onward Christian Soldiers
 Priscilla, formidable negro nurse from Savannah, Ga, has de- cidcd opinions about Moo Yawk folks" Viewing the passing show from Central Park with her charge, she opines that New Workers don have chillun; dey on'y has pet dogs"
 The nightly religious services of a Salvation Army band in the heart of the Broadway theatrical section appears to hold special attraction for the folks from out of town. A reverent throng usually surrounds the band. To the out-oftown visitor it seems to represent bit of home transplanted to the Great White Way.
 New York is always in a hurry or thinks 1t is. It rides forty miles an hour in the subway: scurries to the street and elbows it's way to its ob- iectives but every day q crowd halts in it's maddening rush to watch the smoke pour out of a concealed chimney on the Woolworth building thinking the lofty skyscraper is afire.
 People rush pell mell down Park Row each morning to work but can always take five minutes of to watch the City hall cat stalk sparrow.
 The humid heat of the Dog days reryades even the precincts of the HOuse of Morgan. But the members of that banking firm have resorted 10 phvchology to cool their feNered heads A common garden variety Of lawn sprinkler has been installed on the roof of the glass dome that vaults the main floor and the 1lh- anciers on the stories above are mentally cooled by visions of flying sprav that float before their win dows.
 Salesmanship with the ''neWsics, in this town. as in most others IS as often as not a matter Of applied psychology. When Rudolph NaIeh- tino died, the newsboys did rush ing business with their late editions, especially among women customers. one newsboy in the Times Square subway station. instead of yelling thc latest" about the movie stars condition, simply sang out inc ac- tors name and "sold out in no time.
 Most New Workers seem to think that vacation without photo- graph or radio is no vacation al all' Tho extent to which this has aug mented the perennial baggage prob lem may be seen daily in tho Grand Central or Pennsylvania termlnais. To the onlooker the departing Vaca- tionists, struggling with the muiu- farious articles which the consider necessary for an outing, have the of refugees fleeing Wlth their entire possessions, rather than city workers seking freedom in the great outdoors.
 Foot scrapers. those relics of mud were supposed to have pass cd even before the hitching post but more interesting are they today when disused they stand before the brownstone and block granite residences bordering upon concrete and asphalt streets ! Many of them are to be seen in the i older section Of the city.
 Numerous sales recorded lately | cause lovers of thoroughbred horses, many of which. Kentucky proudly i