The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-03-03
L;qhts ofNewHrk
By L. [. STEVENSON

BY L. L. SItVENSON
When Magistrate Frederick Hughes
told an eIghteen-year-old youth. ar
rested for hitchng onto II trolley
car, that hurrying 10 get anywhere
Is a new disease. he made an accu-
rate diagnosis. New Workers, de.
clared the judge, rush everywhere.
They fall downstairs into the sub
way when they are going no place
In particular The judge might
4 have gone even farther. lie might
4 have mentioned the fact thai many
Z New Yorker risks his life thread
4 Ing broadway or Firth avenue traf-
flc and having reached the opposite
curb safely. stops 10 chat with a
friend or look at The scenery. or
he might have added that having
tilmblcd down the subway stairs.
he holds up trains and diScommodes
others hy endeavoring To crowd
into cars before those who desire
to leave have succeeded in getting
out.
On Fifth avenue, I observed
tall, well-dreSsed man run wildly to
catch bus though one of the same
number and the same destination
was right behind. Quite probably,
the two busses reached his street
Mt the same time. But he chose to
make the race just the same. That
same afternoon. In Times square,
way through the crowds as If pur-
sued. At window full Of shirts.
be stopped several minutes. then re-
sumed his mad scramble to get
ahead. Drivers endeavor TO beat
traffic lights and risk arrest mere
~ To gain few seconds mt best.
II all reminds me OF an officer ut
Sixth avenue and Forty-second
street who yanked a pedestrian
ont OF the way Of taxi IF you
don't quit your hurrying. you'll get
to where you're going before you're
due" he declared. And the res
cucd one. rs soon as released, dart
ed into the traffic.
New York's hurry habit seems to
infect visitors also. AT thcaicr time
| walked through Times square with
an out of-town friend. There were
only two blocks to 20 and fun
fifteen minutes to make II. But
he made nasty remarks about the
self into quite stew because the
crowds wouldn't hurry. But hurry
doesn't seem 10 be In the veins of
thcatcr crowds. Many drama Gus
toners seem to pride themselves an
arriving late.
What ! started out 10 say, how
ever, was that woman coming In
on New Haven excursion, became
victim of New YOrk's hurry habit
as the train entered Grand Central
station. She hoped Off before the
train stopped. A brakeman fear
Ing she would fall under the wheels,
pulled the emergency cord. The
brake went on and 40 passengers
were injured
Recently. mentioned n mall
| truck driver whose heart had be-
rome affected because he had been
lifting heavy sarks for years and
that though he was In the hospital.
his employer WAS doing nothing for
him. The United States Of Amer
lea need not worry about him now
: He's dead.
Down Ia the fur district. a picket
was walking up and down, the
placard he carried announcing that
the workers Of certain store, i'm
porters Of furs. were on strike. BY
and by. the proprietor came along
and asked the picket II he wanted
to earn S25. The picket inquired
how. "Oh, just put fine In front OF
curs" was the reply. l.. S.-The
Ofcr was rot accepted.
Raymond Barbas. Paris perfum
rr. doesn't sec much hope for tho
Industry he represents among men
of The United STATES European men
generally lmve accepted perfume.
bat hr dursnt believe American
men viii ever capitulatc. He's never
come M oui OF the subway nj Sry.
cnila,cnur and Forty SECOND street
anl Whitfield that barber shop.
Mr. Eurhas also has found Amer
iran women different when il comes
20 perfume. In Europe. a woman
'hooscs q scent and stick TO II. In
America n woman will use half a
dozen and frequently combine sew
eral az one time.
G. 1898, Bcn sJndlcate.-wNu Service.
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