The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-05
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York-In case you've been worrying about 1t, Cleopatrn's Needle. the Egyptian obelisk set up in Central park, is enduring the rigid winds cnd wintry rains with out Q trentor or a chip. v
 I don't know whether they still do, but my own primary school geographi9s all contained pictures oI the monolith, together with the statement that ft was ,crumbiing away in the North American cii- mate; It's doing no such thing, ana hasn't been since 1883, when man named Caffall invented n process to protect 1t. f The obelisk Is moro than 5000 years old, and for several centuries before Christ, had lain in the sand where a Persian invader of Egypt had tumbled 1t down. Still 1t was in good condition when brought here in 1881, but right away 1t be- gan to crumble. Caffail was called in and bolved the difficulty by np- plying paraffin to the stone with blowtorch.
 It worked so well. and he got Bo much attention from the job, that he organized the Obelisk Weather proofing company, now a prosper ous concern. By this time. 1t has weathcrnroofed most of the monu- ments and historical buildings in thc east, including Fraunces' tavern, Trinity church and Ply mouth Rock.
 What's in q Name?
 Society people don't have c mon ] opoly on all tho funny names, but at t,,A | pretty close to 1t. There's Princess Dmitri Djordjadzc, for ono, and Prince Paul Chavchavadze for an- | other. Names such as Taneuii Suy- dam Wcisse and Edward Cameron Ff0ulkes and Ch1odwig Hohenlohe- Schillingsfuerst all sound impress | give. And the Russian ex-nobility trace their relationships to His Majesty, tLe Orthodox and Pious and Christ Loving, tho Absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Kyril Alexnndrovich, Emperor of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Tsnr of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan. Among New York's taxi drivers is q Peter Pansky. And dancing in a Brodaway floor show is a lass named Lovee 6ybalis . Some body amusing himself with teie- phone directory research has dis covered that q number of Kisses | ward. Kiss Emil, Kiss Irene and l Kiss Joe. On Second avenue, AL bert Kiss has his place of business right next door to that, of Joseph Hug.
 Derby Store Doomed
 l The original brown derby hat store has gone into bankruptcy. | It's still at No 140, the Bowcry, 1 but even James Calvin, the propri- etor, has any. hope that 1t will sur vive.
 The store originally was called l Caliahan's, and still fs. Calvin ig q former clerk who took, over tho business. That was in tho days when the Bowery was the Bowery, and Big Tim Sullivan and Tom Foley and other powerful politi- clans sat around the lobby of the Occidental hotel, just Up tho street. Business was, good then, because all the politicians bought their hats at Sullivan's.
 When Foley nominated young and his crowd decided to make tho 1 brown derby q sort of poltica1 badge. Caliahans laid in big stock of them. and in later years Al himself faithfully continued to go thcre for his hats. But he couldn't wear or give away enough derbies to keep the store out of receivers hands. Y
 
 Phantom Headlines
 My Chelsea neighborhood, tn HI Manhattan, is infested frequently in the evenings with leather lunged men who dash along yell ing "Extra!" and gettnig every- body excited. Their cry the other night sounded like "Hauptmnnn dead!" bought q paper and after considerable searching discovered that q man named Hoffman had committed suicide.
 These people call themselves bootjackers," and arc pretty. proud of their art. It all lies fin their ability to make headlines sound like something else. For ex. Inmple, whenever man named Mayer dies, no matter how obscure a fellow he is, bootjacks immedi- ntely will descend on residential noighborhoods screaming: Mayor dead; read ali about 1t! Extra, Mayor dies suddcnlypv