The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-21
In-
 [Meze, York
Bx PAUL HARRISON


 New York = This Is the time of York are likely to remark that au- tumn doesn't seem as far advanced in the city as 1t is in the suburbs. Even in the broad acres of Central Park tize autumn and winter seq sons are delayed Q full two or three weeks, and in some of the little garden courtyards which are surrounded by tall, heated build fngg, winter doesn't come at all. It is actually true that the great mass of steel, brick, stone and as- pfralt which is New York holds and radiates 50 much heat that 1t mod crates the climate. Most parts of the town are ten or more degrees warmer than it's environg. Another thing, the rising heat constantly holds Q great cloud of fine dust over Manhattan-so many hum dreds of tons of particles fin all that the cloud is clearly visibb to airplane sightseers.
 Public health officials de plore 1t, of course, but 1t is a welcome and reassuring sign to lots of other people. Meteorologists tested the air
 the other day and found it contained much more soot than at any time since the
 early winter of 19S0--a sure
 sign that more home fires are burning and more factory
 chimneys are belching smoke. old standbys Popular
 With printing presses going fuil blast on the fall lists of the
 many book publishers, 1t seems that Americans never could find time, even by the grace of the
 Blue Eagle, to wade through all
 the new fiction. They'll not only
 they'll also buy an equally large number of the old stand which
 have come to represent the real
 backbone of the publishing game. The Bible always has been c best
 seller. Dictionary sales have
 slumped only little since the crossword puzzle craze passed it's peak. And Mark Twain, o. Henry, Conan Doyle, Kfpling, Con-
 rad, even Henty and Louisa May
 Alcott remain firm.
 Of course there are many others, among them the Elsie Dins- more books. To this day a good Iit- tie Elsie is outselling lot of fair ly popular modern novels, say her publishers. You may remember that there were twenty-eight vol- tunes of the Elsie books in all. Of
 these about 60,000 copies are still
 sold each year. One reason they
 are purchased is that most libra
 ries no longer carry them; another Is that hundreds of women, who apparently didn't own the whole set in their girlhood, are sending
 in to complete 1t now.
 Recognizing the Classics
 Speaking of publishers, 1t seems that e cruel trick was played re-
 gently upon one of the puIp-paper magazines. Some literary people. at c luncheon had gotten to argu. ing about the relative popular ap. peal of this and that author, and one man offered to bet that he could submit Dc Maupassant's "A Piece of String to a magazine and that 1t not only would be unrecog-
 nized, but rejected The bet
 was duly made, the story was
 faithfully typed out, word for
 word, and sent off with a new title and authors name. Sure enough, 1t wes back in . couple of weeks, with the comment from one of the manuscript readers: Would be ac-
 ceptable if we had an 0. Henry to rewrite it."
 Attempts at plagiarism rarely
 succeed, though they're frequent ly attempted. one New York firm has received several such manu-
 scripts from . woman in Illinois.
 Here ig my latest story" she will
 write. T hope you will like 1t
 and send generous check immcdi- ately." Then in labored 1ong-hand, stories of Mary Roberts Rinchnrt.