Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-16
Lishts Of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON

To speak of forgotten memori-
als' seems ironical to say the least.
Nevertheless, New York has many.
Of 300 or more which have been
engaging the attention of group OF
WPA workers since May, 1884,
there are two which have been so
completely forgotten that no one
seems to know anything about
them. More than likely, they were
unveiled with much ceremony, IN
Guiding speeches, which set forth In
detail the accomplishments and viz
tues of those whom they commemo-
rated. At first those who passed
recognized the stone likenesses and
understood what the inscriptions
meant. But with the passing of
years, likenesses grew dim in mem
DRY and inscriptions dim to the eye.
Stone, erected to perpetuate MEM
cries, also deterioriated. The rest
of the 300 have not been forgotten
entirely. But they have been for
gotten to the extent that they have
been neglected so that they became
unsightly. So for more than three
years, 30 men, under the direction
of Walter Beretta, young sculptor,
in cooperation with the park de-
partment, have been endeavoring to
restore them.
New York's memorials face va
rious perils. First come vandals,
and New York harbors vandals in
numbers. That the memorials have
been erected by patriotic groups
and by philanthropists means moth
ing at all to vandals. They frac-
ture skulls of statesmen in stone
just as readily as they break mus
kets of soldiers of the Revolution
or noses of patriots Then there is
the atmosphere of the city. Acid
and soot-laden, it can and does dis
integrate stone. Hence, though the
Beretta forces have been laboring
for more than three years, their
task is only about one-third COM
pleted. Beretta, however, declares
that in the future, the work will pro-
coed faster since the worst cases
were tackled first. But the vandals
and atmosphere are still with us.
That airplane hostesses are less
liable to marry than other young
women of their age was the as
tonishing statement made to me by
a young woman in that line of work
who, for reasons she deems suf-
f1cient, doesn't want her name men
toned. Questioned as to why she
thought personable, attractive and
efficient girls of the air should take
such an attitude toward matrimony,
she replied it was because of their
vocation. In the course of time,
they become so accustomed to be-
ing constantly on the move that they
grow disinclined to settle down in
any one place and assume the re-
sponsibilities of keeping up home.
On the other hand, she admitted,
they are better fitted than the aver
age girl for domestic career. Not
only are they graduate nurses, but
also they are trained to meet with
all kinds of situations, including
handling DRINKS!
Possibly my informant is right.
But evidence in rebuttal seems at
hand. American Airlines had made
no plans to organize a school for
stewardesses this summer. But be-
cause 10 of the 100 blue-clad fem
mime members of their airplane
crews either had married or were
about to marry, plans had to be
changed and the school opened.
There may be significance in the
fact that the stewardesses who mar
ried didn't break entirely away
from air transport. Three became
the brides of pilots and four of other
airplane company employees.
Airplanes make me think of
streamlines and that causes me to
recall the fact that New York now
has the largest fleet of streamlined
street flushers in the world. There
are rs of them, each of which cost
Sc, 189. Built from plans made by
the department of sanitation, they
carry $500 gallons of water, which
they squirt practically silently on
dirty thoroughfares. They have
been painted aluminium instead Of
olive drab so that they will be more
visible between midnight and 8
a. m. when they are most in use.
And the streamlining is merely for
looks and not for speed.
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.