The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-21
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York.-At times I like to browse through files of very oij newspapers. They lift the veil Of years in way no novel or movie can do. like to imagine, too, what New York columnist would have found, had he been strolling Broadway, the Bowery and Maiden Lane 100 years ago to-day. Some thing like this:
 Man -about-town John Conger and his Phoebe have parted, and he'll put this notice in tomorrow's papers: "All persons are warned against trusting my wife, as will pay no more of her debts" :, Daniel Coster and Julia Delaney the actress, may elope Those early y-morning pistol shots up Har- lem way were fired by duelers whose names would surprise you. Find a dandy with a bandaged left arm and you'll know who lose.
 A society woman wrote the play now in rehearsal at the Park the- ater, but she won't acknowledge authorship even if it's successful. Her husband insists she must nev- ,er be identified with the stage :. Lunched with N. w. Stuyvesant at the Tavern and found him jubilant over the stock market boom, with 16 of the 17 listed securities quot CT above par Hector Craig will head the new temperance so- ciety !. Lady Catherine Lennox has joined the ranks of the cos- metic endorsers--a new kind of vegetable rouge this time.
 Racketeering
 Newest racket is the selling of Indian goods supposed to have been brought at great risk and cost from the Comanche country. Most of these articles actually are made in an attic on Hester street Glass blowers along the Bowery are cleaning up with the sale of spun flowers and amazing little reproductions of clipper ships Lambert Suydam, presi- dent of the Manhattan Gas Light company, received two casks of probably wondering how know. :. i'm always amused by the name of Preserved Fish, the in- Surance man.
 There's fuel for the wrath of reformers at the Arcade Baths in Chambers street these days, what with B. Otis Adam-and-Ev paintings being exhibited there. Titles are "The Temptatoin," "The Judgment and "The Expulsion," but I doubt that many customers go there to pursue Biblical re- search x. 'Belshazzar's Feast" is raishing few eyebrows too, but so spectacular Is this huge paint ing that. nobody has taken open objection to it.. Niblo's Diorama, on. Broadway, was built especially to house the great panoramic work, which takes up 2000 square feet of canvas.
 Side Show
 Hottest spot in town is Euter- plan Hall, on Broadway, where there is an exhibition of Sinciair's Preistrephic Panorama of events in the life of Napoleon. There are twelve pictures each with fig ures the size of life, and their moAements across the stage are ac- companied by military band and a description of each view. I'm told the Duke of Wellington saw this amazing show twice in Lon don.
 Scarcely less thrilling is the show at Peale,s Museum and Gall lery of the Fine Arts, opposite the park, on Broadway. MT Peale has just received a group of au- totmaton figures which perform with astonishing realism, especially the lady who plays a variety, of airs on a finger organ. Also there is Q piano which seems to be self playing, though there doubtless is some illusion connected with this. The living Anaconda and Boa Con +strictor Serpents seem to be in the best of health and are perfectly EAnaconda seized and .devoured e woolen blanket about . month ago. but he has shown no i'll ef- fects. z ~ West Was Wild
 Best seller this week is "A Win. ter in the West" by Charles +. Hoffman. It is causing much comment because the author, at great risk and discomfort, actual ly spent winter in the west, and survived to write two volumes about the scenery, manners and pecuIiarities of our neighbors in the interior of the continent.
 In the legitimate theater, your correspondent recommends Mr J. ". S. Hows' "shyloci'' in "The Merchant of Venice" at the Park Theater. [ In celebration of the visit of this great star, the front of the tEeafer was brilliantly iI~I iuminated last night and patrI-