Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-09
The World and ALI
IN NEW YORK
By Charles r. Driseoll

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Sunday morning in the subway trains is = dismal
time. The last or the Saturday night workers have
gone home. and the first Of the early church-xoers are
astir. The stations are bleak, almost deserted. and
sadly Uttered with torn newspapers.
Aboard the trains, the bieakncss Is accentuated.
There IS plenty OF foul air, but not quite enough fresh
air. Torn and trsmpled newspapers arc everywhere,
despite the half hearted activities Of a uniformed guard
who lounges through the train, gathering up some or
the more obvious papers and carrying them out to pa.
per r~eccptaclcs on station platforms.
In almost every car there is at least one man with
a powerful hangover. sleeping soundly from end t.
end Of the line, and back again. Some Of these per-
sistent Sunday morning nappers will not awaken 10 this
cruel world until nearly noon. Nobody disturhs them.
There is plenty of room in the trains on Sunday morn
ing, and passengers consider the other fellows sleep.
ing habits none Of their business. Trainmen are bored
with life and trains in general, end pretend not to
sec the ~sleepers.
Life in the subway On suns morning isn't -xaetIy
bright and CHEEKY.
The waldorf-A.tcria hotel i. nearly NJ well known
hy Americans outside az New Ycs- a u the Woolworth
81 Americans outside or New York As i the woolvorth
just four landmarks in New York very we'll. The
State OF Liberty, the Pulitzer building. the Waldorf
building. When | vas a small boy in Kansas | knew
Astoria and the Flatiron building. We used to &c.
some copies Of the New York World from a nciEhbor
who had cosmopolitan tastes. and in the Sunday sup
elements, as they were called in those days, We used 4.
see pictures of these monumental structures.
The Waldorf Astoria occupies probably IN. most
valuable large building site on Manhattan Island that
can. BY any stretch or the imagination. be considered
available for = sv structure. II seems almost unbe-
Iicyahle that the new owners will rarc the hotel .D
make room for ! building only fifty stories high. Fifty
stories viii re quite an ordinary height BY the time
this building Is completed, and is net very eNtrsordi-
nary nov.
Probably the next large midtosn building site that
viii he available for = new skyseraper y the Metropol-
itan Opera house site. on Broadway. Whenever tho al
rectors and owners of the opera can agree upon /,
building policy. the present opera house will be on the
market. and It viii Be . prize plum. since \, occupies
an entire block. facing both Broadway and Seventh
avenue.
But the opera owners are III knctted Up in disagree
mcnts about precedence. box occupancy, social stand
ing. and a ch.iec between exclusive aristocracy and \
leaning toward democracy. Otto Kahn. who i AHirri-
cas- most liberal patron r the fine arts. fsvcrs y DEM
ocrstie policy. That is TO sag. he wants q new Metre
poltan Opera house. biz enough 70 accommodate Soodly
audiences or ordinary folk. while furnishing plenty ~
boxes for the aristOcrats.
Those who already own opera boxes. however. do no.
want the number cf boxes increased IT sil. lest some
i~il-fa,crsd person who set his money within the last
tao generations should horn in where angels rcar -
tread.
And here's my best opera stcry. snd is trae. oncs
uas hunting my seat - the Metropolitan, aud handsd
my check sbs.nt-mindedly - . fellow IN evening
clothes who happened T. IL standing ~ tn hesd NJ thr
stairs. He bestowed a frightened 'ook upen ms and
turr>d r. y ~. mi city entering his Rex. IL was
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