The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14
In New York
By Paul Harrison

 New York, - The myriad lights of theater marquees and Hobbies these nights are rivaled by the gilt ter of jewels. wouldn't know just how many are gems of purest ray serene and how many are paste phonies. But seen together, their twinkling facets seem to be signal ing the end of a somber era. Women no longer are afraid to wear their cherished baubies right out on the streets before the gap ing proletariat. And l don't be- lieve, either, that they're taking a tip from Mrs Edward Mclean, who dangled the Hope diamond before the hungry eyes of Moscow and boasted that she had given those poor, dreary Russians the first thrill they's had in ten years. Women in New York en- counter none of the glaring hate that thrilled the Washingtonian on her well-guarded tour of the Soviet fun-spots.
 Gangsters Go Broke
 As for the danger of robbery, there's less, I'm } told, than dur ing the glittering seasons of five and more years ago. The reason: repeal of prohibition and improv- erishment of the bootleg barons. There used to be a ready market for stolen jewels among the many rum-racket chieftains. It was a mark of tremendous underworld prestige for Pipeline Louie tO decorate his moll, Bubbles Devine, with few 20-carat trinkets pill fered from the Astorgould jewel box.
 By now, though, the hard-press- ed Louie has taken the jewels away from Bubbles and sold them to fence for tenth of their value. The fence. in turn, Is tell- ing his heist-guys That he has no more money to tie up in unsafe able gems, and to turn their tal- ents elsewhere.
 Some Gems Can't Be Sold There are many jewels so dis tinctive in size and coloring that they'd be almost valueless to a thief because they could be iden- titled even if recut and remount- ed. The center stone of Mrs Mc- Leans ruby necklace would como in that category. It's worth $15U, 900, but was returned to her after she lost it in . London night club few weeks ago. Then there are the Bonaparte family emeralds, and the Whitney ck-diamond earrings. The latter, incidentally used to belong. to Queen Amelie of Portugal and are credited with the grimmest of bad-luck powers.
 The George Baker collection of emeralds is famous. though sell dom worn. Mrs Peter Goelet Gerry owns, and wears, the per feet black pearls once given to the Romanoff Princess Yousoupoff (yet, Yousoupoff). Marie Anton ette's pearls came into possession of the senior Mrs J. F. Morgan, who willed several strings of them to her granddaughters. Some other Romanoff jewels-a long string of emeralds-belong to Mrs Jhn Mickle.
 Industry Uses Diamonds
 As for the owners of ordinary. run of -the-mine diamonds
 tiaras, necklaces and bracelets full of them-the list is as long as from here to the last page of the social register. Among the Broadway crowd, Peggy Joyce has rings of 50 and 100-odd car ats in addition to her collection Of sapphires Rozika Dolly owns emeralds. But I'd stake a dime store sparkler against the quality of most of the other bright bau- bles flashed along Sham Alley.
 If you want to know who are buying diamonds these days. they are industrialists. The Henry Fords and Walter Chryslers and Alfred Sloans, all men of quiet personal tastes, buy more dia- monds than, all the Indian rajahs put together. They grind them un and use the dust, in turn, for grinding precision parts of en- zines. These diamonds, however, are imperfect and off-color, ana cost less than $50 a carat.
 Dusty laborers who poke char tering drills into Manhattan's bed- rock use more diamonds than the average dowager ever will own. The drills employed for sample boring - which tell engineers what kind of rock they'll hit when { they excavate for buildings are diamond studded. Worth about s5OOO to each drill, but they wear 2 long time. When they are hope- lessiy dulled the remnants are sold for grinding into diamond dust.