Smyrna times., 1932-07-20
SOME SIDE LIGHTS
OF NEW YORK CITY
Told By Walter Trumbull in
His Own Immical Way
of Doings in City
INTERESTING SKETCHES

a women's club in New York was
holding its annual meeting. The
secretary said:
Il am going to ask you to rise and
stand while | read the list of our
members who have been taken from
US by death during the past year"
The ladies rose to their feet, but
scarcely had the secretary begun
to read when a wave of intense agi-
tation ran through the room.
II saw her only yesterday" cried
one woman in startled voice.
My heavens n almost shrieked
another. "She took dinner with me
last night"
1t developed that the secretary
had made a mistake. She was read
ing the list OF those who had, for
one reason and another, resigned
from the club. But the members,
while relieved, are still suffering
from nerves.
Norman Beasley told me the story
of the contest held by a state gar
den club for cooking recipes. When
these were sent in, they were turned
over to a hotel chef and the food
prepared by his department. 1t was
then sampled and the prizes were
awarded on merit. Each night a
dinner consisting of these dishes
was served. One evening it was a
vegetable dinner, and a prize was
awarded for carrot soup. The win
ner was highly elated. She sent the
recipe to a wholesale soup concern,
saying that it had won the prize
and asking whether they wished to
purchase it. The concern wrote
back that it had tried the recipe,
but could make nothing out of it fit
for customers appetites. Much
concerned, the woman went to the
manager Of the hotel and told her
story. He sent for the chef
"Oh, that!" exclaimed the chef.
1T was not good. SO l used an old
recipe of my mothers. She made
beautiful soup"
There is a publication devoted to
the doings of taxi drivers in New
York, and each issue has its news
of holdups. One bandit finally was
arrested who confessed that he
preyed only upon drivers of taxi
cabs. He had robbed Is taxi men
in the space of few days. A taxi
driver told me recently that some
men hailed him whose appearance
he didn't like. They stopped him
on a busy portion of Broadway and
told him to drive them to an ad-
dress far uptown. 1t was at night and
he knew that at that hour the part
of the city to which they demanded
to be driven would be dark and
lonely. He let them get in the cab,
started, and then pulled out the
choke. The engine sputtered and
stopped.
Sorry" he said. I'm out of
gas. You'll have to take another
cab"
They climbed out, grumbling. To
this day, he doesn't know whether
or not they were bandits. But that
was quick thinking.
Arthur S. Vernay, many of whose
trophies are in the Museum of Nat
ural History, was telling the other
day Of his journey to the Malay
states in search of a one-horned rhi-
noceros. He Travelled 25,000 miles
and spent good many months in
the undertaking. When he arrived
he got Just two shots before he came
home again. But with one of those
shots he got his rhinoceros.
Jock Hutchison, the well-known
golf professional, playing at the En-
gineers club on Long Island, once
took 13 shots ON a short hole. Some
one asked him what had happened.
Nothing he said. '%rhat was
the very best / could play that hole
that time today"
There is no alibi in that, and con-
siderable philosophy.
20, 1892. Bell Syndicate .)-wNu Service.
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