Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-04-27
RAMBLING
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NEW YORK
W1h HUGH KENNY

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lat Fifth Avenue and Central Park
South. In the Plaza across the
street a fair lady n marble or gran
lite presides over a fountain A
|southerner, looking at he two stat
ues remarked, "Just like a dymn-
|yank, deliberately staring at a nude
woman"
Add o your list of renting tech
niques not only the renting of
apartments by showing moving pic
lures, but also proving how amaz-
ingly light your future office may
be by means of the sight meter,
sometimes called the Eight Their
mometer." That's what Rookie
Teller Center renting agents are do
ing One of New York's cleo
trio light companies also offers a
free service to their subscribers to
prove the amount of light you may
have in your home-and whether
or not it is adequate for the pur-
poses you use it.
New York-the modern Metro
polls! And yet it has nearly 1000
miles of dirt and cinder streets.
If he stands and stares in the
window of an exclusive dress shop
for long-he may be a style pirate.
And his method, of course, must be
under cover, for deliberately steal
ing a style is an offense that carries
a penalty =. So style pirates
have developed short consciences
and long memories for the lines of
dresses. Thyll take in every detail
of a dress and then rush away to
make a drawing. The drawing
goes to a local manufacturer who
pays anything from $40 up, and
the dresses come out in quantities
a few days later-a copy of one,
} perhaps, by a famous French styl-
ist, at a tenth of the price of the
original.
Rev. Charles E. Dunn wrote re-
Gently that there are 10000 preach
ers in the United States looking for
Jobs; $4,000 churches unable to
keep full-time pastors. What a
contrast to the report of the Church
Life Insurance Company of New
York which operates for the benefit
of the clergy and lay workers of
the Protestant Episcopal Church
and their families.
The report shows a $50 in
crease in insurance and $40 in
crease in annuities for the first
quarter of 1884 over the similar
period of last year. The figures
seem contradictory!
Way up at the corner of Broad
way and 2O4th STREET stands the
only remaining farm building of
the eighteenth century in Manhat-
tan. Its Dyckman House erected
by William Dyckman n 1885 and
now used as a museum.
there are some queer occupations
in New York. There's one man
over On Lexington Avenue who has
the most complete file of scrap
books in town. When an artist
wants an authentic picture of a
costume, an animal, or a gadget of
some kind, if he can't find one in
his own file of scraps, he can be
pretty sure he can rent it there.
Walk the streets of Times
Square district for just a little while
and you are sure to run into a
crowd watching the mechanical
man. Mes a real man, dressed, in
tin soldier costume, standing and
moving in tin soldier fashion.
His eyes are so controlled that for
minutes at a time there's nary a
blink. He works on contract
one week attracting customers to a
burlesque show, the next to a cut
rate shoe store or perhaps one of
those "open-face" stand-up-at-the
counter restaurants that are COM
pletely open to the street.
Union Square, where Broadway
crosses Fourteenth, used to be a hot
bed of soap-box orators of the red
dest hue attended by occa-
sional brick throwings. But since
Mayor La Guardia has been receiv-
ing delegations of Communists and
the cops have left the Reds undis-
turbed, the Square has become a
virtual haven of peace, not without
the vestiges of some fanatics such
as the chalk sign we saw on the
pavement recently. "All out May
1st." That's a lovely day for a