White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-03
LIGHTS s r x455ss
of NEW YORK


old Waldorf site, Is rising rapidly to
the sky and the new Waldorf is TAX
ing form, but those Of us who came
to New York some time ago never
will cease to miss the old Waldorf
Astoria that Bolt and Oscar made IA
nous. Kings stayed there; presidents
visited there; the old ball room, at
dances or dinners, saw every leader
of society, finance and politics within
it's walls. The Dutch Treat club held
it's annual dinners there. Before pro-
hibition, the Waldorf bar was almost
de la Paix. Sit there long enough
and you would see the world go by !;
although many of its citizens stopped
while. There are hundreds of no.
tells in New York, but not one of them
has the atmosphere Of that old hos
telry at Thirty-fourth street and Fifth
avenue 81
There are other vanished land
marks which have their place in the
book Of memory. The Astor house
, oyster bar where you sat on stools
and men opened oysters faster than
you could eat them; Moquins, where
you found artists and newspaper men,
drinking claret and indulging in deep
argument; Martins; the Hoffman
house, old Delmonicos, The Brevoort,
the Lafayette, Faunces tavern and a
few Of the other old-time places still
stand, but Healys and Reinenwebers
are things of the past, and so is Cap
Churchills.
Churchills was a great place for
morning newspaper men. Herbert
Bayard Swope and l used to stop
there regularly on our way uptown,
usually about three O'clock in the
morning, for ham and eggs and bit
of gossip. Cap Churchill was a great
follower of the track and used to lay
his bets on horse for straight and
show. A bet on a horse to finish first
or third is still called by his name.
Then there was the famous Jacks,
where you could find Rex Beach, Fred
Stone and T. A. Dorgan, better known
as Tad. That was the place where the
| trained walters could be depended
upon to throw out an entire college
football team, when the boys got too
rough. 1t was there that Hype Igoe
used to play ukulele, until Jack is,
sued orders that it should be taken
from him at a certain hour of the
early morning and placed in the ice
box for safe keeping. All the theatre
cal world patronized Jacks. Most Of
there at one time or another. Rubens
has taken over lot of that trade
and the night clubs and speakeasies
have the rest.
AS far as cooking goes, New York
| can furnish any type you desire. Ger
man cooking, for example, at Luz
elbows; French at L'Aiglon; Swedish
at Henrys; Italian at Morris or Mo-
nettas; Turkish at the Bosporous !;
Spanish at Fornos; Mexican at Chilli
Villa; Bavarian at Munich tavern !;
| Japanese at Tokiwas; Russian at
| Loranges; English at the White Horse
| tavern; Chinese at the Chinese Del
| monicos; Southern at the Dixie kitch-
| en-. These are only few of the many
eating places Of various nationalities.
,ntS I'm tn In n1v fc
represented in some part Of New York
| by it's restaurants, stores and thea
tiers. Somewhere in the city, practi-
| cally every language is spoken. Alad-
| din could not rub his lamp and wish
for anything which money could not
buy somewhere in New York. Mice
| and elephants, diamonds and glass,
airplanes and diving suits, you can buy
them all, if you have the price, New
York is one Of the gateways and store
houses of the earth.
The Motor parkway runs for about
fifty miles down the center of Long
Island. 1t costs a dollar to enter it
in a car and, since the Wall Street
crash, business has fallen off. Motor
lists now stop to consider that a dol
lar will purchase several gallons of
gasoline. The parkway, with it's in
frequent traffic, still gets the dollar
from millionaires and lovers-and for
the same reason: they can get along
faster on it.
| 1 am told that, on a chill autumn
day, the hands of stranger playing
the golf course at Great Neck grew
cold, so he beat them together. Al
the capping sound, 81 actors stopped
in the middle of their swings and tool,
a bow.
I saw a cigarette smoker, the Other
day, go to three places before he could
buy the particular brand he fancied
No other brand would do. Then he
went to gathering Of friends Sieie
he smoked every brand Of cigarette