The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-20
IN NEW YORK

New York, April 20.-Our own Nam
haitian sightseeing trip A man
trimming . dinky lawn on one Of
those sky-scraper gardens -. Another
planting seeds and 4 third with q
sprinkling can.
The patriarch with the skull cap
and shylockesque curled whiskers,
who makes SO day posing for art
lists. And the former vaudeville
strongman who hangs about the art
school looking for = Job as model.
The pet shop In the downtown belt
where. dogs can be bought on the in
stallment plan. Most Of the custom
ers are actors and collectors who wait
at the stage door on pay days. And
the collectors hanging around stage
doors IL laid end to end-and heaven
knows the brawnier actors try to
would outnumber the Johnnie 10 to /.
Imagine for instance. paying q dollar
down on dachshund, and not know
Ing which end Of him you were pay
ing for. :.
Four visitors from Kansas meeting
at the Times Square stand where they
sch newspapers from outside cities.
Stand there for an hour and you'll
see half America meeting the other
half. It's the spot, incidentally. where
. detective may generally be seen
lurking, looking out for an out-of-
town crook. For some reason or other.
most fugitives from justice show up
to see what the home town papers
are printing about them. You'd be
surprised ut the number OF arrests
that are made there. And the num-
Der Of people who have disappeared"
from one place or another. I'm told
that most Of the people who "disap-
pear" show up. sooner or later, In
New York.
These Rolls-R Royce delivery autos
Of -Ritsy Fifth Avenue store. And
the newsboy who shouts his head
lines in Yiddish, and 50 sells q lot Of
papers. A fleet Of bathtubs in front
Of the hotel which will be "the tallest
IN the world" when completed, CATCH
Ing the April rain. And street gamins
using the tubs for sailing improvised
boats. The fruit trees along the
upper Fifth Avenue side Of Central
Park looking for all the world like
clusters Of fresh popped corn. And
the blind fiddler who, because his
beat is In the Ritzy Fifties. plays only
the classics. A good concert he gives
too.
The cavernS Of the Brooklyn Bridge
approach are like something out Of q
Poe story, or glimpses Of q modernist
stage setting. Yet the thousands Of
tradesmen who employ them seem to
give no heed - thoir damp. auo ,serie
quality. They jut out in q dozen
directions - series Of tunnels and
tubes and archways In which !, for
one, always get completely lost. The
| shadow Of the bridge itself keeps
these catacombs In the halflight. And
I've often wondered why q nice, grip
ping murder mystery was never
staged here. 49,. =. .-- =
Following one long tunnel, you can
be projected almost into the river.
| Trailing = narrower one you can
emerge somewhere near Park Row.
Still another thrusts you suddenly
out Into = street Of printshops ana
dank manufacturing plants and
Wholesale houses. Here you'll find
moro horses and wagons III q few
blocks than In most Of Manhattan
combined. etajrways lead. .myster1
iously to upper levels Of the bridge
and sunlight seldom filters through.
A few steps away and one end Of IN
elevated train line. helps to blot out
the daylight.
| "A most fascinating and vet depres-
sing spot. Il you asked me. But maybe
I'm funny that way.
49, + = $50
A gag that I like, which has been
making the rounds. concerns q. new
electric sign which made its appear
ance on Broadway to advertise the
motion picture 'Noah'S Ark" It Il
. huge block Of dazzling lights. from
which emerge clouds Of steam, in
tended to loan IN ominous import.
| Two boys from the cloak and suit
belt were passing. "Hel1, vots dot
steam stuff" asked the first.
"Oh. dots Just the Warner brothers
| downstairs pressing pants"
/ GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright, 1920. NEA Service. Inc.)