The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-27
In New York
By MARY MARGARET MCBRIDE (Writing During Paul Harrison's (Absence on VacatiOn.)

(AUSGUCC OH
 New York.-A great deal goes on here after midnight. Most of 1t gets a good deal of publicity. first and last. and some fo it is served next morning with your breakfast, done into screaming headlines.
 But there is at least one phase of New York night life that prac- tically nobody knows. Nobody, that is, except those who are part of if, The octurna1 adventurer, out sometimes after 1 a. m. can find the beginnings of it at 18th street and Avenue B. where pro- cession of snow-white trucks with chromium trimming lines up nightly before low gray building. the pasteurization plant of the CO., operative Dairymen's league.
 The trucks look like nothing so much as those circus wagons that tigers and beautiful ladies ride In during street parades and grand entry. But what rides in these especially constructed vehicles is the milk that New York drinks. The tanks are lined inside with glass and each is filled with 4,000 gallons of milk from upstate.
 sls
 Right to Bottles
 Human hand never touches the milk from the time it is extracted from the COW by machinery, piped to the tank, and thence to the heat ing rooms of the pasteurizing plant. In the heating rooms 1t is kept at 145 degrees for thirty minutes. Hero it remains always in sealed pipes and great whirling caul- drons.
 The only persons who get a glimpse of 1t at all in this stage are the tall. white-garbed inspec- tors who take a look through small peepholes now and then. ap- parently to be sure that the milk is still there.
 From the heating room the milk is piped into the ice room for cooling. Here the sightseer watches it from in front of a glass partition, cascading downward in great white streams over the cool ing surface into a trough below and finally back into the pipes for it's final passage to the bottling rooms.
 In the bottling rooms you find bottle merry-go-round. The whirling containers on a turn table pass a certain point and are filled, pass another point and are capped, and finally are pushed onto a huge tray ready for boxing Incidentally some 1,321,670,920 quarts of milk come into the city daily by truck and train!
 The Fruit Auctions
 More of the feeding New York night life is to be seen on West Side docks where fruit and vegeta- ble auctions are held from two to five in the morning. Fruits are sold on one pier-at this season of the year. Georgia peaches. for in. stance. You don't see any women on these piers, just crowds of men rushing about. looking calculating | ly at the fruit and talking to one another constantly with emphatic gestures.
 That is before the auction When it begins, man mounts a platform and the prospective buy CTS close in around him. The auc- | tioneer's queer monotone is un- doubtedly uttering English, but nobody but the buyers can under. stand word of it.
 That it is intelligible to the milling crowds of buyers, however is evidenced by the way they call out, raise their hands. nod their heads. The auctioneer apparently not only knows everybody by his first name but recognizes voices for he does not have to see the purchaser to shout that sale has been madet some purchaser from a great chain store. hotel or res- taurant.
 And here's another figure for luck-201,1S7 freight cars of fruit and vegetables come into this | city in a year,