The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-09
? IN MI | NEW H l YORK
By PAUL HARRISON

New York.-The moths seem to be getting into Fifth avenue. For there are two establishments on the smart street that specialize In moths and butterflies. . Ottv Fuida's is one of them, and hc mostly uses the insects' wings to form lovely decorations for vanity cases. paper weights, jewel boxes and such.
 Otto is an entomoiogist, though. He has ben chasing butterflies for 30 years over mountains and hot lands of California, Mo1ico. and South America. One thing that l tichles him is that in California, which boasts the largest of every thing else, he has found the small est butterflies. And in Brooklyn, of all places, he captured some specimens of the Cropia, brilllant- iy colored giant moth.
  Business on tho Wing
 A few blocks down the street, and high in an office building, is the hatchery of c. William Wur- ster. He raises moths and butter- flies, sells. them to some 800 schools and colleges and to scores of private collectors. His place IS full of cardboard boxes contain- ing matching coeoons and cases of mounted specimens from all over the world. t somc of them arc pretty startling to look at. The Deaths Head hawk moth has the outline Of q skull near the head, and the Attacus Atlas has cobra eyes on tcn-inch wing tips. Highest priced are Hercules moths from New Guinca-$fs each. wurster started collecting such things when he went to high school in Grand Rapids, Mich. and q few years ago gave up his advertising business in Buffalo to capitalize his hobby. He now has agents all over the world sending him cocoons, and he matches them right in his office. Lately he has tried ss.breeding some of the insects, with results that keep the Chronological society busy issu- ing bulletins about them. Wurster admits that moths and | he has e real affection for tho Praying Mantis, and can't under. stand why more people don't make pets of them.
 Strictly Kosher.
 | Meanderings: Some of the best gefulte fish, kosher delicacy, Is to be had at Dinty Moore's restaur- ant, and Is prepared by Yiddish chef who comes in regularly to make 1t. Dr Bon Haines. a dentist, has Q collection of auto graphed teeth that once belonged to prize fighters who arc Broad- way big-timers. Next best to the Coney Island wax-works to visit for Q spine-ohiiling thrill is tho police museum, down on Gen. ter street near headquarters. Hero are cases full of knives, bombs, guns. opium smoking outfits, lengths of lead pipe, vials of poison and all manner of things seized by the laws minions. There arc also weapons used in famous crimes. each of them mattor-of.factiy la- beled by some bored clerk to whom q bloody sashweight is just another blunt instrument" According to a straw vo..
 of somc gossiping literati, the laziest authors fin tho world ' arc William Haxlltt Upson. | Dorothy Parker and Alexan-
 der Woollcott. No editor has
 ever devised . way of getting . manuscript on time from
 any of them.
 
 Authors on Demand
 By tho way, if anyone wants some authoring done, there are five writers listed in the classified telephone directory. More remark able are the S91 artists named there, with only five of them ad- hitting they're commercial artists. The other Ss6 apparently are just in the game for arts sake.
 Saturday night note: John Ras- kob's apartment has nine bath rooms Billie Burke. who will have something to do with tho rc- vlval this season of tho Ziegfeid Follies, also may return to the stage in legitimate play George Jean Nathan looks more than q little like Eddie Cantor.