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Show I SEVEN DAYS IN LIT OL' N.lTl By JESSIE HENDERSON 1 4 BY JESSIE HEKDEMON Special Correspondent i I be Stand- ard-Examiner (Copyright. by Tho Btandarrt- Exu miner. ) NEW YORK, July I. Weather, t. rides and airplane hive kept conversation con-versation from lagging hereabouts this week. Clsudbursts, coming 90 thick and fast that subways Were flooded, taxis ran In water Up to their hubs like zipping mptOrboatS, and crossings elmply vanished in swir i-Ing i-Ing Whirlpools are things to talk about. The- wet and weary folk ol I Gotham are not coing to tbrgel Nil I merry Fourth or July interlude for I years. A neck and neck race of brides provided no end of table chattel, foe brides wen Immigrant (ir.-.H and ordinarily would havo around but passing Interest However. 15 have arrived on the latest beds ll d ship, and their ship took part In a determined race with two other Gree -BhlPS, 16 see which would land b. -fore the Greek quota at Ellis Island was exhausted for the" month. Th" brides won and 125 beaming faces lined the ail a tehs vressel docked. Tn addition to demonstrating Bt Mitchell field now easy It Is to bomb a -pill box - from an altitude of - feet aviators also introduced the public pub-lic to the fieiitrhts of bubble-chasing. Phasing bubbles is a combination of polo and trap shooting done In the air and Its chief Idea is to burst a small hydrogen balloon which sails along ahead of your plane. This J a delichtful port but not lor tne aoronaut. One set of aviators Is Inclined to think the proposed ion passenger hydroplane hy-droplane that can fly around the world is 8 iPecleS of bubble chaser. Its sponsors declare, however that while the world-encircling hyeirophin-Is hyeirophin-Is still on papet, it is nevertheless about to be expressed in terms of steel, 'canvas and gasoline so If you wish to be one of the first 100 passengers to float round the globe between clouds and clods make your reservations reserva-tions early if it Hn"t one mystery, it s likely to be anothec. Now it is "Russell. He Is a bright little 10- ear-old who was taken away from "Richard Field" bv tho children's society because tho man Field didn't take proper care or the youngster. Not only nns Russell Rus-sell the g.anior of a possibly kidnaped 1 -n t,wa. hnnMiip for Kield DOV WW loin.o ' - " and the clue to the mystery of whs he kept the child for five years without with-out mentioning his parents but Russell Rus-sell has also the remarkably good 1 lu. k to be adopter! by a police cap- ; taiq. He Ifl the envy of most of the other fellows' in town. With the summer Heason on, the ' burglars' union is having it a little I easier For exampli . a leisurely coterie, co-terie, of burglars entered the home of James Iforlpe, president of the I home manufacturing plant bearing his name iust off Fifth avenue in the early 'fO's one afternoon tl is week The Morlce family was away at their summer home, so the burglars bur-glars worked tha; evening until th J were tired slept In the Moricc house and completed their task next morning morn-ing driving off with 0 wagon load of loot at noon. To be sure although the robbery Whs reported to the police. po-lice. It was not reported to the Mo-rices Mo-rices until a newspaper man called them up some days later but a policeman po-liceman can t be Everywhere at once Meanwhile flreenwich village Is not without its worries Iady" Is lost. She's a little white dog. a native na-tive of Nice, who has been the pet of the village for 13 years. Not o much as a beauty eontest entrant. I Lady nevertheless is fair In the eyes of her owner, who has set the whole village searching for a while dog with freckles on its back. "Lady" is a poodle, and poodles- are no longer stylish, but until thai white dog with i the freckled hack Is returned to its home there's going to be very little art done In the arl colony That'? how seriously a villager takes life. Former United States Senator Cornelius Cor-nelius Cole Is not taking life too seriously se-riously at the moment. At the age of 100. he came back to his native place this week to give Broadway a look over and to aay how much nicer climate they have in his adopted California Cali-fornia than they have here Broadway Broad-way was only a lane when Cornelius Cols first saw the light of day. an 1 Fifth avenue llttlo more than an alley. al-ley. To ro down to the Battery arid watch thv snllinR VSSSSls was (ioth-ani's (ioth-ani's idea of an exciting afternoon and to walk up as far as 42nd street ' wa? to walk 'way out Into tho countryside. coun-tryside. Rut that, of course, was a I hundred years ago. In the days when I a dollar bought something, before- I Rgs with Jewelry In spito of unfavorable unfa-vorable weather the former senator , made ail extended survey of the town I land nobody on Manhattan Island has1 i had a better time this week than h-. He -Jtorids ready to admit that tl 1U Old i J place has Improved a lot. |