The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-10
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

By PAUL fkANn1SON A
 New York-All around the town: According to legend, small-town folk are easy-going. But in mat ters of tolerance they could all take lessons from New Workers, who will put up with practically anything.
 Plumbing their evening news papers, Gothamites may read re- port of the police departments mendicant squad estimating that the average individual income of stret beggars is $16 a day =. Next morning, enroute to their of- fees, the same people will toss coins to the alms-seekers.
 The atmosphere over Manhattan contains approximately one mil lion pounds of dirt. Citizens think that must be sign of progress They brag about their sub ways, forgetting that the infamous shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central offers. about the same speed and efficiency as hanson cab Pitchmen i'll the Broadway sector sell outrageously fraudulent articles, such as "abso- lutely guaranteed watches" which have~no works in them. But does a sucker ever remonstrate, or call a policeman? Not bit of 1t. Let somebody else be the patsy.
 slow, traffic -paralyzing street cars should be replaced by buses. Oh. well-why bother? Scientists go to the trouble of discovering that midtown New York is so noisy that a lions roar would be inaudible at a distance of 30 feet. Who cares? In the theater district, on stormy nights, chauf- feurs whirl private limousines un- der the marquees. But taxicabs are not allowed to approach to pick up common citizens emerging from the same show-shops.
 Street Like Life
 Some of Manhattan's streets, while skirting a park or square, have both odd and even numbers on one side Out-of-towners seeking Houston street have a tough time of it until they learn that New Workers pronounce 1t Fowston, and sometimes Howsen There's one Gotham barber shop which has no baldheaded customers. It advertises: Haircuts Only-No Shaving A Brook lyn dentist, my own dentist tells me, is named I. Crown and in the same borough there's one way street which leads-to a cem- etery.
 Gotham's Voice
 Some of the Oriental novelty shops seem to have heard of lag Eiappe; they give Turkish candy to every customer So far as know, the only Shakespeare bust in town, publicly displayed, is one set in a niche of an old building on Twenty-third street. marking the site of the Booth theater . Religionists who send the Gail from Times Square have chosen heart-breaking task. They attract fewer listeners than the cheapest pitchmen One of the funniest shows in town is the demonstration of toy monkey salesman who roams Broadway And one Of the oldest sights is the Chinese beggar who covers the same beat.
 Sound engineers have come along and analysed most of the glamor from the voice of the city" which O. Henry and other fiction eers were fond of mentioning. Seems that Gotham's voice Is a tenor-the various noises produc- ing an average vibration of 50 cycles to the second. Most cities have slower vibrations, and hence. deeper voices.
 Skyscrapcrs Die Young
 Average life of Manhattan skyscraper- Is 30 years, an archi- tect tells me Incidentally. the number of stories in a building has little relation to it's height. For example, I work in the worlds tallest concrete-bearing structure, which is only 21 stories: yet the top of it is opposite the thirty sixth floor of the Hotel New York CT. And downtown, the Metropol- itan Life building has only two more floors than the Continental bank building: yet the latter is 141 feet shorter.
 Just a Lobby Star
 I've long suspected that the dark glasses worn by some movie ac- tresses were intended to attract at- tention rather than to prevent re- cognition. There's one Hollywood nymph in town-quite undistin gCished, really-who attends first nights at the theater and gets more stares and autograph requests than the major stars. That's because. in addition to smoked spectacles, she wears such a daring evening gown that it turns every head within sight.