Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-02
New York
Letter

NEW YORK, Sept. All the
jokes hinged on the alleged difficulty
Of disposing Of used safety razor
blades are applicable in New York to
used automobiles. For most New
Workers there are no vacant lots.
backyards or back alleys into which
WORKOUT and unstable autos can he
thrust, and 50 thousands Of stripped
ears are abandoned annually in the
streets.
Disposing Of these cars Is trouble
some and expensive to the street.
cleaning department. Junk Yards
cannot absorb All or them. and they
cannot he deposited In nearby rivers
or used I'm dumps TO fill i'm lard. 80
they must be loaded on scOws and
towed 70 sea 70 be tossed overheard.
The used car market IN New York
always Us glutted. Hundreds az cars
are sold for less than Sl00-cars
which would bring higher prices any
where else. Poorer families have the
habit Of buying these cheapest cars.
driving them until they begin to fall
apart, and then abandoning them i'm q
street and acquiring another.
Cars picked UP BY the street clean
ing corps includes many with licenses
Of other states. Obviously many per
sons moving 20 New York buy q
secondhand car IN which to make the
trip, and then finding garage and
upkeep IN the city expensive, drive
them until weather and wear neccssi-
tate abandonment
AT Coney Island. IN a sideshow.
the ugliest girl w the world" and
Venus, the perfect omar the girl
with the prettiest shape I'M the
world" are on exhibition. The for
meE draws the biggest crowds.
AT a time when penmanship A. b.
coming q lost art because of the
rapid growth IN use for all writing
purposes OF the typewriter. the num-
Der Of professional and amateur col
~lectors Of autographs is increasing. d
dealer told me.
Al the moment, the signature OF a
living person most eagerly sought by
collectors IL that Of Colonel Charles
4. LindberRh. All of the established
tricks Of the Observation-Disclosures
claiming kin, letters paying back
money that was never borrowed.
threats of lawsuit. personal calls, etc.
have been tried on him in vain.
and his autograph brings a higher
price than that or any other modern
celebrity. Other tough ones" FOR
autograph collectors are Henry Ford.
John Barrymore. the actor: Edwin
Arlington Robinson, the poet. and
George Bernard Shaw. the dramatist.
Shaw, unlike the others mentioned.
answers letters designed to ret MI
autograph, but doesn't sign his name.
Every first night" every ball or
other affair nc which notables assem-
bic in crowds, brings out the auto-
graph collectors in SQUADS. Thav
plague the celebs going into the the
alter, IN the aisles, in their seats. ana
leaving the theater. They yet a-
many autographs of the same person
A. possible, and use the extras M
trade with collectors for other sigma
lures.
A kentuckian by birth and natur.
and something of a C~hicaRoan M
spirit, ! keep my trigger finger well
practlced by visiting the shooting
galleries frequently, and I rarely w
into one in New York without findisg
soldiers, or sailors, or marines there
a TACT, II seems TO me. parallelinr ths
weli-known disposition OF busmer ~
spend their days off bus-ridinr-
2 than one gallery proprietor
mas fold me that sailors and marines
are more expert as riflemen. at least
IN the galleries, than soldiers. who
presumably use their guns more.
fossioly the explanation il the fire.
quent efforts of sailors ard marines
70 preserve peace in Nicaragua.