Nogales international., 1932-02-24
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New Workers are generally con-
demned for sticking to the seaboard
and never going west. A young woman
who has travelled all over Europe and
crossed the ocean many times. recently
remarked that she had never passed
a night in a Pullman car.
Under questioning, she admitted she
had never been more than couple OF
hundred miles away from the city in
this country; had never been to Cali
fornia or even to Chicago, and knew
rext to nothing about her own
country.
There are millions of New Workers
like her, even in these days of fast
, travel, although the condition is
changing in recent years. The writer
lived here for seventeen years before
he ever got a hundred miles away
from the Atlantic Ocean, although he
had visited nearly all of the coast
cities.
New York Opportunities
Gotham is beyond question the
greatest city in the world for any man
to make fortune--or to lose it. Re-
Gently there died here man nearing
80, Leopold Zimmerman. He went
broke when II and made another for
tune and paid off all his debts.
Zimmerman's speciality was buying
exchanges on foreign money There is
always a shade of difference between
the currencies of the great nations and
he used to buy in London and sell in
New York by cable, poc<eting the diff
ference 1t sounds simple but it really
takes the finest kind of brains, which
explains why Zimmerman enjoyed
what amounted to a monopoly in his
field.
Victorian Art
a certain hve-story building on
lower Lexington Avenue has the most
curious decorations that exist on any
building in the world The structure
is built of brownstone and, over each
one of its sixteen windows, appears
a head of one of the earlier presidents.
The heads stand out from their
different inches and are remarkably
1ifelike. One curious thing is that the
architect, or sculptor, had his choice
of about twenty-four presidents when
the building was put up and he skipped
around, including Cleveland but leav-
ing out lot of others.
Canal Boatmen
Few visitors to New York ever find
one of the strangest colonies here. The
colony is one of canal boats and their
inhabitants. 1t is located almost at the
foot of the island and whole families
live on the boats. sending their child
rem to school when they can, and
hanging out the family washing on
the lines, just like the ordinary dweller
does in the backyard.
Recently tug boats have put up their
charges so high that it costs more to
be towed back to the Erie Canal than
the money received for freight, so
MANY canal boats have been tied up
for two years at their piers here, wait
ing for lower rates. Meanwhile the
families feel as though they have be-
come regular residents.
One Big Slash
Everybody knows that prices of
MANY things have come down but the
biggest shock we have received in
months came the other day when we
noted a truck carrying a big sign
through the Times Square district say
| ing 'Penny-A-Dance"
The movies have made us all ac-
quainted with the Dime-A-Dance es-
tablishments. where one can grab
more or less charming partner and
amble about the room for few min
utes but we are still curious as to how
long a cent will entitle one to swing
a girl around a dance floor
Tfs worth more than that in shoe
leather alone