The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-25
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New Tork--odds end ends. m0stly odds: At the base of the Lincoln statue in Union square there's nearly always a group of communists engaged in informal denunciation of everything. On the pedestal is the inscription:
 with malice toward none. with charity for all''
 On Fourteenth street Is tailor shop run by Mir S. Needle {. ". On an east-side dress shop is a sign: "Closing Out Sale-No Advance in Prices" In lower Manhattan strangers are confused by the dis covery that the east-side subway Is west of the west-side subway.
 On Broadway the oldest Chinese restaurant is named Young'a {. At Ebbets' field, Brooklyn, are played the "home" football games of Manhattan college, which is lo- cated tn the Bronx People looking for West New York will Ind tt in New Jersey {. Coney Island isn't an island at all You can buy caviar at the ten-cent stores, but you can't buy Bull Dur ham in the, Waldorf-Astoria.
 City HaIrs "iandlord"
 one of the strangestl demands made on the city is that of little old lady who comes about once a week to ask for the rent for City Hall. To anyone who'll listen sho explains that title to the site came down to her from her grandfather. that she has the papers to prove 1t, and that she's going to sue one of these days. Refuses to listen to the suggestion that maybe the old gentleman bought the land from a city 'slicker, who may havc thrown in the Brooklyn bridge for good measure. 7e
 The building, though, actually was once sold to an individual, and legitimately. Back in 1858 a broker named Lowger got . Judgment against the town for $22S.0O0, put 1t in the hands of the sheriff, who in turn announced Q sheriff's sale of City Hall. Daniel Tiernan, then mayor, attended the sale, bid in the building for $50, 900, and finally sold 1t back to the city ..
 As . matter of fact, if ono
 goes far enough back, there's
 sonie question about legal title
 to all the land on Manhattan
 tsland--for there is absolutely
 no proof that the Dutch ever
 paid the Indians 42A for tho
 property. Historians believe
 that if tho money ever changed hands at all it was only in the
 nature of . peace Offcrlng-thc
 same sort of payment for
 "pr0tectlon" that modern mer.
 chants make to >rackctecrs.
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 Library for Paintings
 Reports of hotel scout con. tain the news that the New Vest on has opened an art lending It. brary, full of paintings which guests may rent for their rooms. The artists, who are capable but needy, get all the money; and the guests often get the picture, after they've become fond enough of them to buy them outright He also says the Martinique hotel has started school for "gucst con- tact employees" who are to advise guests how to order wines and IL. queurs
 Another item is that the New Yorker barber shop keeps all its clocks ten minutes fast-so that patrons will always be sure to catch their trains {. ' Another is that the Astor has done some redecorat- ing in its Indian grill room-all on account of Herr Hitler. The place used to be done largely in Navajo designs, with swastikas predomin- ating, even in the tile floor. Guests began commenting on these, and didn't seem quite satisfied whom walters explained that the floor was laid back in tho days when Hitler was an unknown, itinerant house. painter. So the swastikas were removed--and 50 was q paint ing of an aborigine with right hand upraised in what resembled Maxi salute.