Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-01-22
SIDE LIGHTS OF
NEW YORK CITY
Told By L. L. Stevenson in
His Own Immical Way
of Doings in City
INTERESTING SKETCHES

dried seahorse to a locomotive may
be purchased in New York-if you
know where to go. But on occa-
sions, the most common article
can't be found. Case in point: A
friend who lives in the Biltmore
needed tabs-you know, those stiff
things that fit into soft collar and
makes it behave-and which are so
many times left in when the shirt
goes to the laundry. He made a
canvass of six blocks up and down
Madison avenue with no luck. Then
he tried five and dime stores. Even
tually, tired and somewhat dis
couraged, he went into big depart
ment store. A haberdashery clerk
told him tabs were carried in stock
but they were sold out. After some
urging, the clerk consented, how
ever, to take two out of new shirt
and turn them over. In event of
any complaint on the part of pur-
chaser, he explained, he'd simply
take two more from another shirt.
Nostalgia Cure: Edgar V. M. Gill
bert, bronzed boniface of the Hotel
Champlain, up in New York's wide
open spaces, declares that this year
he will equip and maintain "city
room" for guests who get home
sick for the hustle, hustle and gen.
eral turmoil of the Metropolis. The
room will look out on Photographic
skyline Of New York city and in it
will be fire hydrant, red and
green traffic signal, two 'detour"
and SLOW traffic signs, revolv-
ing door, time clock, a street sign
reading, "Times Square" and there
will be at least three daily postal
deliveries of overdue bills. Last but
not least, a deferential turnkey will
step on the guests feet push
him inside door la subway rush
hours, honk horns, rattle ash cans
and milk bottles, screech brakes and
blow police whistles.
Street Scene: A pretty young
mother towing bawling child along
Broadway and endeavoring to still
his woes with soft and soothing
words An extremely fat colored
woman, her arms loaded with bum
dies, peeling a banana despite her
handicaps, and taking huge bites
while stealing side glances at win
dow displays of hats A young
man, his face swatched in bandages,
informing a wide-eyed girl that the
other fellow looks twice as bad as
he does A woman caught by
traffic light change at Fiftieth
street, hurriedly backing toward the
curb and apologizing for stepping on
a foot and on looking around
discovers it to be the foot of a
mounted cops horse.
Reward: A gray-head who served
his country in the Spanish-American
war and who was discharged in the
Philippines in 1899, was extremely
down on his luck. In fact, he had
reached a point where a dollar
looked just about as big around as
the head of bass drum. The other
day the postman left government
envelope in his mail box. AS he
took it out, he smiled bit because
he thought it was notice about
income taxes and he hadn't had any
income last year either. The en-
velope, however, contained check
for $417.30 and notation saying it
was travel pay from the Philippines
to the point of his enlistment AZ
years ago. The veteran is no little
puzzled about the whole affair but is
asking no questions.
At Forty-fourth street and Broad
way, girl went up to a mounted
cops horse, stroked its sleek muzzle
and then kissed it on the nose. De-
spite the fact that the girl was so
pretty she could get seat in
crowded subway car, the horse
threw up its head and backed away.
And sane folks talk of horse
sense"