The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-08
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

BY PAUL HARRISON New York, Aug. 8.-In case New York city ever secedes from the Union, as has been proposed from time to time, it will have flag all ready under which to set up, house. keeping.
 I probably never would have known about the city's flag if some tourist friends from the kSouth hadn't become curious about an odd-looking banner float ing over City Hall and asked a policeman about it. He scratched his head and admitted he didn't know; said he scarcely had mo- Flair and Warmer" or Ball Game Today" or something like that.
 Turned out, though, that it was the big towns own emblem-an adaptation of the blue, white and orange flag of the United Neither lands in 1928. Probably not one New Yorker in a million could fully describe it, however. for it also bears a seal which includes a Dutch windmill, an Indian, a sailor, some beavers, some flour barrels and an eagle.
 Pretty complicated, but 8 cou- pie of other civic ensigns are even more so. The Board of Alder men has a flag of its own, dis player whenever the aldermen meet. And the mayor has a flag of his own, which has been in moth balls since Jimmy Walker made his somewhat precipitant exit from office. Even Jazz-Mayor Jimmy seldom used his special banner, though it might appropri- ately have been unfurled before the grilled doors of a dozen night clubs.
 Cost of Marriage
 Visitors in town continue to show a tender and romantic interest in the celebrated Little c h u c h Around the Corner, always recall ing the heart-warming legend of its nicknaming, and incoming about the great numbers of love affairs which there have turned to wed- lock.
 Great numbers is right. Fact is, so many people are married at the Little Chuhch Around the Cor the Little Church Around the Cor a year---that the traffic has to be handled in most unromantic but very businesslike way-form let. ters, price lists and stern admoni- tions about baptisms, divorces, be- ing under age, and secret unions (the church is against all the lat ter).
 The day and time of each cere. mony has to be exactly set, and | confronted to, because the altar business is very brisk-sometimes as many as forty weddings in a day being performed by the Rev Randolph Ray and his two assis- tants. The price list goes like this: Office fee, $S; use of chapel $10; use of church, $25. Pay. ment for the ceremony itself is a voluntary offering to church and clergy, but never should be less than $10. Music costs $l5 and includes two wedding march. es and incidental soft music dur ing the vow-taking. Candles (ii he wants candles) set a man back $5 If he decided to brighten up the church, $2 If he rents the chapel An awning, from door to curb brings a $50 rental. People dofi'i witness marriages just for the TO. mantle thrill of 1t. 80 there is 6 witness fee of $1 per person Ii the church provides them.
 One thing a bride and groom get for nothing is a years mem. bership in the Family of the Little Church Around the Corner. After that, though, 1t costs Q dollar q year to remain in the fold.
 
 Going in the Hole
 Very clearly the upturn is marked by the purposeful down. strokes of steam shoveis. Not Sd long ago there were plenty of peo. pie to watch excavations, but they had nothing to watch. These dayi a couple of fine. large holes are being dug right in the rialto Broadway looks a little like the Aisne- -Marne sector, and chatterine pneumatic drills help along thu impression.
 It is a very bad thing for idls New Workers not to have excava. tions to watch. They get disgrun. tied and listen to the radical ora tors in Columbus Circle. But give them . steam shovel, . derrick oi two. Some panting trucks and sporadic blasting and they ars content.
 Along the entire block between Forty-four and Eorty-fifth street. at Times Square is Q yawning pit recent site of tWO ancient sheaters Alaa ffsa .sn..4t.rraat nmm.&e zf f1.