The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-10
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York = All around the town: Overheard on Broadway: "1 don't have to know anything about music; I'm the leader!"
 On lower Fifth avenue, a spruce old gentleman leading a black eat on a leash. When yippy wire hair or a tough bull terrier comes along, the cat leaps to it's masters shoulder In a Chinese restau- rant on Forty-Seventh street, four Orientals try to give an order in their native tongue. The Chinese waitresses doesn't understand 8 word of it. .Oh, well, Anna May Wong doesn't speak the language, either.
 At Times Square stalks long, bearded sandwich man, his signs advertising a beauty parlor And over on Eighth avenue a crip- pie holds poster announcing the opening of new dance palace .:. On First avenue, a saloon with two old d-fashioned gas1ights in the windows boasts 1t hasn't closed it's doors in AS years New York, like London has No 10 Downing street. But the address here is On the lower east side. and marks the editorial offices of Dan O'Brien, King of the Hoboes, who is publishing "Fellowship" mag azine for the knights of the road. Drug Store Vaudeville
 Park avenue is the poorest street in Manhattant = for panhandlers Manhattan, worlds most modern city, has a street without a single telephone. Extra Place, on the east side Up at 116th street, where depositors used to enter the defunct Bank of United States, lines of people now gather to receive relief packages of food.
 Vaudeville plans a wholesale entry into the medicine-show busi- ness, with performers doing their turns on tiny stages in the big Broadway drugstores and spieling the merits of various preparations. If the idea works, drug chains may employ it in big stores all across the country .. Dance halls and cheap night clubs collect pictures of prety hostesses and en- tertainers, and display them long after the individuals have left. One such plac efeatures a portrait of Barbara Beck taken two years ago, before she became a prominent showgirl. Another lobby contains an arty photo of Gypsy Hollis-a suicide of 1893.
 Again a Park
 Bryant Park, that newly land- scaped tarea behind the public li- brary, has completed another cy- cle. Once it was field of glory, with Washington making a brave but futile stand against the Brit ish. In 1890 1t became a potter's field, and to it were transferred the bodies from Washington Square. But the nameless dead were not allowed to rest long, for in few years they were moved again. The city, fearful of a
 drought, built a reservoir where they had lain.
 It was the showplace of the city, and there was erected the fa- nous Crystal Palace for the first worlds fair. The palace was the worlds tallest building then, all of 125 feet. It burned in 1859, but they didn't clear away the debris until five years later, when Union soldiers needed drill field. Doughboys drilled there in 1917, too. To-day, although Bryant
 Park has had its face lifted, it again is a sort of potter's field. Down-an buried in anon ymity, their hopes dead, sit on it's benches and blink at the weak sun.
 Manhattan's Meaning
 Probably you've never heard of Manhatan's Columbus Park, but you may recall. in fiction, the mo- torious Five Points. The region used to be the toughest place in a tough city. and many a character from it's dives and brothels ended his career on the gallows in Tombs prison, only a block away. They found underground passages leading from one building to an- other when the tenements were razed. Gyp the Blood wouldn't know the spot now. Just a park and playground. full of Italians. This columns history depart ment has turned upu couple of
 possible derivations of the name, Manhattan. One theory is that it came from the Delaware Indian word, ''menatean," meaning "lit- tie island" Just as reasonable, though, is an idea that the Lenape Indians may have named it Ma nahachtanienk." for party they had with Hendrix Hudson in 1903. That means "the island where everybody got drunk"
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