Show I A N New eVy Yorker at Large j BY GILBERT ERT SWAN NEW YORK April 15 The 15 The o old New York World was credited wit with having one of oC the most carefully kept kep future books in inn n ii new e C w s p Only the Times was presumed to tobe tobe tobe be equally meticulous meticulous lous lass in its attention attention attention atten atten- tion to coming comins V events e A future book by the way Is n a al record of at things that have to happ hap hap- p pen n. n The birth j dates of or famous s V persons are arc recorded recorded re- re corded there are references to to 2 statesmen and actors tors and holidays s 's sand and heroes An editor can consult It and be prepared to give sive assignments accordingly Very well the well the World papers as everyone knows were marged by tl the Evening Telegram And the Telegram fell heir to this interesting document V The other day one of the feature editors was going through the var arI arIous ous annotations He lie learned that in 1936 this an and that thing would happen that i in 1948 something ng else fell feU through But as he lie read i Item m after alter item Hem h he suddenly encountered a future I dated just 2016 just a matter of almost almos almosa a n century away It seems that in 1916 a certain conner corner con cor ner stone was laid in hi a certain important important im im- Im- Im building At the ceremonies it was agree agreed that years later the cornerstone would be opened and the contents conten brought forth At tho the time it occurred oc occurred occurred oc- oc to the keeper of the future book there would be a a. good story i in what went into the stone and ho hoit how howit it would appeal to the living lhing persons of oC years ears hence And there it was was was-s a newspaper as assignment assignment as- as for the year 2016 2016 which which h by the by you OU may ask one of your our great grandchildren to look into 4 Another unusual tale talc C concerns th the father of S. S A. A otherwise known a. a Rosy Roxy who is destined t t be bo mayor of the radio cilto cit cil to be built in New York When Roxy came into the b money he bought a a. fine home i fo 10 his father in Brooklyn Now it so happened that R Roxy Ry y Sr Si had lived in a small town for foi year yean and there he be had a group of at cronie who met of afternoons and playe pinochle And in spite of or the fortune at nI comforts that had suddenly come I t b bhim him the old man felt slightly lonesome lone loni some for his Ills old card pla playing p pal pai So Roxy has three men on his pa roll who have unique jobs They are paid to play whenever he is in the mood And the th are aU sharks l 0 o Q 5 And having recently Ted Lewis' Lewis silk hat hot as Eis s having corn con from front the old Rector cafe I now lear lean that there thera are four different yarn yam connected with this particular kell kelland and he swears to all aU of them One is ls that thai he go got it from a minstrel mL rain man in III his Imis old home town I 1 Ohio another is that li Il he got it it evas evas ev c as reported by this tf o. o W department in the lh days when Rectors was a cafe and not nota a a. lunch counter 7 the third is that it r I Iwas was worn by a a. A darky shoeblack he lie met in Harlem Yand Y and the fourth is t that it was left lert in ina ina a taxicab by some sense t slightly convivial y man about Which almost convinces me nie that I he ha probably went to a hat store tore bought it and sat and sat c Oit or it until it got the way it is today Copyright 1931 NEA Sel i Service e Inc Ine |