The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-30
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, March 30-First Deputy Police Commissioner Harold Fowler of New York city didn't hold win- ming Sweepstakes ticket in the Grand National. It Is even doubtful that he bought one.
 And yet. the deputy commissioner in charge of all the city's traffic and every mounted gendarme, follows the big race at Aintree, England, as if he were a winner. In reflective moments, the deputy commissioner, an equestrian of no mean eminence, likes to muse that the first 'traffic jam he ever got into, was the famous English steeplechase. { The year was 1927 and the dep- uty commissioner, the naround the bend of his fortieth birthday, crossed the Atlantic as tthe first American to ride in the Grand National. He was, in racing par lance, 8 gentleman jockey, and he was in the contest, not for monetary reasons, but for horseman's claim to immortality. Forty-six horses were entered in that years compe- tition and 1t was in the jostle at the turn that the deputy commissioner was first initiated into the impor- tance of Keeping the lanes clear.
 But 1927's experience was kid stuff fo" the traffic expert, considering the Deputy Commissioners cart- wheels on the track in '28.
 Again, he entered the Grand Na- tional as the rider of Scotch Eagle. Arriving at the canal turn on fast track with the leaders, the Deputy Commissioner was chagrined to find himself dispossessed of his saddle in a melee of flying horses. For that was the race in which Jock Whit ney's Easter Hero settled down on the fence for a breather and served as a combination blockade -buttress for three-quarters of the field. Thirty torses are said to have been felled by Easter Here's strang behavior, in- cluding the Deputy Commissioners Scotch Eagle. That was the first time he shouted traffic directions, while he clambered off the field, to anybody. g2 <.
 Deputy Commissioner Fowler doesn't ride in open competitions any more but perhaps 1t makes it a little easier to understand why the automobile scrambles at Broad way and 46th street hold no terror for him. @a
 Conflicting Programs
 Tor New Workers suffering from insomnia, there is always the Milk mans Matinee which is dispensed over the ether from 2 until 2 a. m. every morning and Is said to be the longest radio program in the world. The Milkman's Matinee is Stan Shaw,s idea and 1t was his notion that there are g great many sleep- less fasteners who would like to hear their favorite numbers while others slumber. d
 An so he gathered together a couple of thousand photograph rec ords; waits for countless telephone requests to arrive nightly from Jack,s Coffee Pot, Joe's Delicatassen or Evas Barbecue (Open All Night Places), and obliges them by play ing what they ask for. He sleeps all day while his clients garner names of more musical selections they'd like to hear. ~
 By~way of contrast, there is John Gambling who for the past II years has been broadcasting setting-up ex- ercises at 6:45 a. m. To do it daily, Gambling, formerly a horticulturist, rises at 6:30 a. In., iilhaieS, exhales by an open window, dresses quickly and hurries to the studio lie retires early and has never been late or missed program. He has never heard the Milkman's Matinee and t isn't likely that he ever will.
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 Incoming film folk have been met with some impressive receptions upon their arrival. but Bette Davis was greeted at the terminal the other morning by two grinning pick aninnies. One blew on 8 kazoo: the other beat a tin pan and between them enough racket was made to disturb Stationmaster Egan. For a minute, the celluloidian actress may have suspected her employers of are ranging this ignonimous ceremony but she soon found out differently, Seems that Ted Newton. Q stage ace tor and an old, dear friend of hers had hired the dusky street urchini to serenade her at the trainside.
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