The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-17
-In- .Mezc York
BY JULIA RL,ANsHARD


 New York = New York's oldest colerful characters. Among the most seasoned ones is Italian Joe'', who got in on the ground floor and his ssworked" the New York Graduate Hospital for 30 years.
 Joe has a regular routine. Be- ginning in the wards at 6 a. m., he goes through every cordidor in |the hospital, reaching the private Irooms in mid-morning. He is a picturesque little figure, with every pocket bulging for he. car Tries all brands of cigarettes; chew ling gum, hints and fruit drops, | fine cigars and cheap ones and will buy patient anything he wants from an ice cream cone to an ex- otic fruit.
 Everybody knows Joe and pa- tients returning for second or third sessions call out to him : to see if he remembers them .. Of all his rich customers, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin bought the least, only one newspaper daily Roxy was the most pro- fitable, buying five to six news papers, daily, and dozens of maga- zines, several cigars of an expen- sive brand and all kinds of chew ing gum and small candies Joe's memories of old New York entertain his bed-riddep customers nightly. He even remembers the day that President Grants funer- al procession went up Fifth Ave- to their final resting place in tho | Drive. i M likes the Blues
 l Helen Hayes, visiting fireman in New York, now, has Q suc- cessful woman's preference for the blues! She wears blue most of the time, all blue. She requested a blue boudoir and bathroom in her suite, but the management did not have one for her How ever, her blue negligees and host ess gowns look very handsome against the creamy walls of the apartment she took. #
 Diamonds in the Rough
 Increasing numbers of New Workers are becoming farmers. Chapin Marcus. noted diamond ex- l. fWyoming, which he runs as cat. tie ranch in the winter and as q dude ranch" in the summer Admiral Byrd has grown some of the finest apples in all America on his Virginia farm John Ras- kob raises ducks by the hundreds on his New Jersey place and af- fords his friends some of the best duck hunting in the country.
 Thej Rise of sIeuth
 One of the worlds most inter- testing Sleuths Is Gordon T. Me- Carthy, now visiting America in connection with the Lindbergh Kidnapping case. Mccarthy. chief special agent for the American Ex- man who handles all thefts there and has been known to 'get his man" even when the thief and for ger has gotten as far away as China. Mccarthy is on the trail now of @ confidence man who is reported to have had in his pos- session some of the marked Lind- lbergh ransom notes.
 Mccarthy Is a sunny-faced, red- haired, keen-eyed man who wears English clothes, spats, carries a cane and talks In such slipped Ox- ford accents that 1t is a shock to discover that he is a plain Irish- American. As q matter of fact McCarthy was . youngster driving To truck for the company in Buf- falo about ten years ago when his alert mind caught wind of some : clues in the Gerald Chapman rob- bery and murder cases that had 4 baftied everyone. McCarthyewent to the head of the company, laid his cards on the table and impress ed that worthy SO much that when he emerged from the office he was 2 fuil-fedged private detective for the company. He climbed right back on to his truck and in fairly short order he had collected the facts concerning Chapman which helped to send the latter to the Ipen and finally to the gallows.