The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-09-18
By L. l.. STEVENSON

By L. L. STEVENSON
To keep the city's streets from
being cluttered up with cars I'M
event of an emergency, the police
department is vigorously enforcing |
parking regulations. The courts are
cooperating. Motorists who in the
past were given tickets for over
time or parking in other illegal
ways, paid 81 for the first offense.
The rate now is 81 for the first tick
ct, So for the second and so on with
jail sentences for those who do not
pay.
The result of changed conditions
has been a great. increase in bust
ness for garages and parking lots.
With the increase has come q gen.
eral hoist in rates. Lots that In the
past were glad to get customers at
Is cents car, now demand and get
so cents. Fifty-cent parking lots
have just about disappeared from
midtown, where the demand is
greatest, particularly at theater
time The charge now is rs cents
or a dollar. Garages usually de-
mand a dollar. Some parking lots
refuse to accept customers who pay
a monthly rate, the profits from
transients being much greater. Also
there have been owners, who, when
their lots we're full, moved custom
ers' cars out into the street and took
in more. Fines of 5000 each, or Jail
sentences, have put a crimp in such
double proft-taking. But nothing
has been done about those who
upped rates.
Petty racketeers are feeling the
effects of changed conditions. I'M
the past they demanded fees for
watching" cars parked in the
street. Owners who did not come
through with at least dime, on their
return, found their tires ice-picked
or slashed Sometimes door ham
dies were sawed off, a particularly
annoying piece of business since
doors could not be opened. Time
after time, the police broke up the
gangs. But there were still enough
operators so that motorists contin-
ued to pay. Though the watchers"
are out of business, Hell's Kitchen
youngsters still hop onto running
boards, and over protests of driv-
ers, wipe windshields. And if coin
isn't forthcoming, a well-aimed
brick or rock may be.
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There is happiness IN the world
of vaudeville. Straight men, COM
les, acrobats, trick bicycle riders,
roller skaters and others of the
world Of variety are going around
with smiles. Instead of a place of
bloom, ''Palace Beach," the side
walk in the vicinity of the Palace,
theater, is now bit of brightness.
In the small hotels in the Forties,
jugglers throw their clubs. Teams
brush up on skits. Trainers put dogs
through their routines. Trunks have
been ransacked for costumes. There
is even talk that the Palace will
change back to vaudeville.
Gotham Glimpses: Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau testing a
shabby quarter by ringing it on the
counter of Radio City drugstore
Stoical MP's and SP's watch
ing their comrades having a good
time Camera addicts making
snaps of the Prometheus fountain,
one OF the most frequently photo
| graphed objects in New York
Radio musicians grabbing a quick
snack at coffee shops before hurry
ing back to studios and waiting for
the down beat A big man with
a gray goatee marching sedately
up Fifth avenue though his attire is
shirt and shorts and not far
behind, an Indian with a feathered
headdress and full regalia including
necklace of bear claws Well.
have one bear claw-a souvenir
OF Mile l22 and speckled trout.
That big banner across Twenty
| third street and Ninth avenue
A red bordered, white background on
which are hundreds of blue stars
Over the stars, the announce
ment, "The Boys From Chelsea"
-. A half dozen sailors, their
walk even more rolling than usual.
heading for the Chelsea piers and
singing, blues in the Night" . =.
Probably bound for an outgoing ship
Prim shrubbery in front of old
houses on East Tenth street :.
A bright new American flag hang
ing from the upper window of
crumbling old Third street tene-
ment A tired-looking motor
car. bearing Kansas license plates,
parked near % Washington SQUARE
West while the occupants cape at
the town home of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
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