The Washington times., 1934-07-31

the thing that gives it most of its charm precisely the
that has uccumbed to New York characteristic
vaues-that is whole hearted way and large
SCALE Most of the other cities of the East have to grief
by doing so just most of the cities of the Middle West
have grief by trying to initiate Chicago, but BaItl
more has always been wise enough to hold aloof
accepts very frankly the fact that it is not New York.
and for occasional alterations sticks to It's own ways
of thought and 1t thus maintains ancient, and
the whole tradition which the best Of all testimonies to
its soundneSs
It give great deal Of secret pleasure, in the
days when there heaters to hear such visitors
plain that Bamoreans did not frequent them enough to
make their owners rich Why should they?
For the American theate in those days in these had
little to offer in the line of civilized entertainments In the
man it simply for the exhibition of bombasc
stupidities and witless obscenities.
When any entertainment fit for erate persons to
town it usually patronized sufficiently but the
of Broadway trade goods drew few customers
Why, indeed, should such trash draw customers?
Baltimore and then has yielded to the lure of New
York, but to its profit we'll remember the
ment begun thirty to provide the town
with gaudy hotels the order of the old WadorAstoa
It argued that we remain in the hck class long
stranger using Baltimore hotel found nothing for his enter
tanment save good meals sound drinks and comfortable
What needed we were told was bar full of stock
tipsters and their clients Peacock Alley swarmng
with idle women.
WE'LL several Baltimore hotels made experiments in that
dectionand all lost The enterprise simply did not
tit into the Baltimore scheme of things It foreign
to the town as the Golden Horseshoe ferry-boats.
have always believed that Baltimore made mistake in
building socaled skyscrapers There any need
of them there their hard struggle recruit has
demonstrated and the downtown would have been much
more slightly and comfortable without them
They erected only because all the other big towns
following New York and Chicago erecting them It
seemed disgrace to certain persons that Baltimore shouldn't
have any, and so they went up.
Let the reader who believes that they necessary go
down and look at them and then retire his praying closet
to figure out how much their sendors have back the
town in hard cash.
Wasting millions such follies is simply not Baltimorsh
Every enterprise of the kind of confession that Ba
inferior to New York. and should jump itself catch
up No true Bamorean believes that He accepts the diff
ference between provincial capital and national metropo
lis natural and inevitable, and he why
effort should be made to conceal it. He lives in Baltimore
because he prefers Baltimore One of it's greatest charms
in his eyes, is that it is not New York.
To the New Yorksh type of mind of course this sounds
like grapes but that only proof that New
Yorker born and bred who has found New York
comfortable and congena simply cannot understand any
other kind of town.
There arguing with him. the most is
that the thing also the other way know good many
natives of Baltimore who have moved to New York but
recall who really likes living there. The most that
Of them manages to endure it. The town offers
tertanmen than any other earth but nneenths Of its
peculiar shows charming only after alcoholic preparation
and all of them, in the long run, become bores.
My contacts with have hirtyfve years,
but have yet to develop any delight in it. indeed any
interest in it. had office Manhattan Island for
twenty years end and have great many old and good
friends in the town.
the fact that they live in New York only accident
and that sincerely regret they would be even more
agreeable in Baltimore All of them show kind of strain
that to go inevitably with life between the two
They in the MAN, successful people, but they seem to
get relatively little out of their success The sod COM
pacent nd perhaps also somewhat bovne contentment of
natural Baltimorean is simply not in them
TOMORROW Mrs. }. Borden Hartman
GOrites for Mrs. ESsarv)