Putnam patriot., 1930-02-13

New York City. February ilth. 1880
 After the holidays, when youth has been hauled back within the portals of various colleges and boarding schools, there comes a lull in the so- called New York season. Then 1t is that the papers suddenly blossom out with long lists of those who are sail ing to spend the winter on the Riviera and there is the daily column of Palm Beach news largely concerned with names Of people whom one has never heard of and never will hear of again until another Palm Beach season be gins. This is the real New Workers aensoh. however. Let them al go south and north and Co Europe, he has Co stay at home and work and be knows that when the weather behaves iu a gen0emanly, New York winter manner that there is no city in the world that can compare with Manhat- tan's crowded. towering isle. Y is true that this winter there has been a dearth of those bright sunshiny days that were oE Yore il winter feature. London fogs and mists and rains have prevailed but January has frightened
 
 own season very much to heart. When Sunday comes. the New Yorker puts on his wedding-funeral-u ing coat and top hat and takes the air'-and the dog-on the avenue. During the week he goes to the play. glad Co enjoy 1t without the surround ing cackle of the beyy who have taken themselves to the more seasonable resorts IL is the New Workers season. in fact He hears good music. pretty bad opera. few. very few good plays. excellent pictures and enjoys the stimulation of the worlds most stimulating city.
 Private House"
 And speaking of stimulation, though from m entirely different angle, if among you residents of northeastern Connecticut there are those who read the unhealthy dispatches and tales of night club life and speakeasies which hli the tabloids and penny dreadfuls. then let ns take you with us through what used to be the staid Forties and Eifties You will remember that it was Mrs Atherton who wrote a book about pioneer California and called it "The Splendid Idle Forties" Later r. r A. or Haywood Brown or some body or other. remembering the prox- imltv of most of New Works clubs in the Forties. referred to that section af the city, parodying Mrs. Atherton. as "rhe Splendid Idle Forties." Now one can go Go the other end of the ewing and refer to these streets as the "Furtiye Festive Forties" for north of Forty Second Street and al- most Co Fifty-Ninth Street, there Is scarcely street on either side of Fifth Avenue which does not boast .ts quota of night clubs and speak easies You will not believe it. but If You ride or wax through these streets. keep your eyes open and you Will see brownstone front after hrownstone front of the old regime still clinging to its Victorian or Ed uardan responsibility but with diff l feultv for so frequent and numerous arc the speakeasies that the residents. ! whose property is steadily decreasing in value. have had Co resort Co placing on the front of their houses large I signs marked Private House" lest the furtive seeker for drink should the family area entrance as [ he gri le that hides behind it the per frctly equipped bar Of these prohi- !. hiiion days
 Mid Town Towers
 And to go back Co Forty Second Street. there is certainly nothing more impressive Co the visitor to New York who has not seen the metropolis for a year or two than to step out from [ he Grand Central Terminal and sud denly behold the great buildings leap ing skyward from Fifth Avenue Co Lexington and beyond. Most impress sivc of all Is the great tapering tower of the Chrysler Building, rising to togpcring height at the corner of Lexington Avenue and Forty Second Street Just across the way Is the complete and fully occupied Chanin Building. rising t0 some forty or more stories. Then there k the great bulk af the Lincoln Trust Company's struo- ture which has made of the old Bel mont Hotel something which looks very old and very withered We'll can we remember the day when The Belmont was the commanding build HHtH NN AfkAL MHHNt HffAtNN or AlN NtNNa Then came the Bitmore and the Commodore to rival its elegance and ponu arity. And now, thanks to the hammcrings of a thousand and more electric riveters, the Belmont Is re auccd from it high estate and become a hostclry of the lower rate Already these great new buildings are present ing a traffic and transportation prob. lem What is Co happen when the clos ing hour of five o'clock arrives and into the streets and the rail and sub way terminals are suddenly released over 50.000 souls who have been laborinr their eight hour stretch in the district2 These added Co the great lam that occurs every day as usual makes the problem even greater for police and railway officials as we'll
 Rudy and His Mierophone
 \ friend of ours who Is the editor of one of the more popular magazines was speaking the other day of the latest craze of the nation. Rudy Val lee. that sweet singer of the micro phone who has so captured the hearts of the radio fans that his audience. when he crO0ns his songs. is probably Far lavwar than that af tha President