Show I Lights Lights of New York ByL By LL L STEVENSON I Short Is the memory of Broadway ny o 1 o matter mattor how bright the glare of the spotlight as soon as the one on whom hom It shines steps out of Its brit Plant rays nys he Is forgotten There Thereas was as Dan the Dude Dulle Reputed to be worth at leist st e a n half halt million del 1101 dollars lars he was as known from one end encl to tile the other of that thoroughfare that his s been called the gay white while whiteway whiteway way flat check girls waiters walters cl ci cigarette garette and flower lower girls musicians and others of ot the hot spots hailed his frequent appearances with joy Su So did the sItes parishes since Dan the Dude Dulle s pockets had no fish books hoobs When hIs Ills hand came out It held that w which Mich talks with an extremely loud voice along Broadway So while he paved the way with the thelong thelong long green friends flocked about hIm In numbers a a a That the source of ot the wealth of Dan the time Dude Dulle was as more or less m mysterious made no difference It at atalL alL al On Broadway y the Important question Is not How did he get it but Has Has nas he II hl got It The h hiving of It Is sufficient ans answer anser er for nil all Broadway ay purposes Dan the Dude Dulle ho however hoever ever was as once questioned as aa to the origin of ot that which he seemed to regard so lightly Ue lie replied that he bet on horses borses that ran fast apparently was as his sole patIon He lie was seen not only at the local tracks but also at other well ell known tracks about the th coup coun country country try But nut he lie always ys came back to Broadway Something happened h to Din n the Dude Maybe Ma In be It was the depression Maybe Ms his judgment as to whIch horse was the fastest of the time field lost Its keenness At any rate places where he lie had been well known saw him lIm no more He lIe wasn t missed News that his money hid h gone hid spread It seemed that occasIOnally he stopped to chat with Ith frIends on Se Seventh n avenue and was given gl small loins o ns a A well dressed man registered at ata ata ata a hotel In mid town Shortly after afterward afterward yard ward he leaped ped from a twelfth story window The crumpled crumpled body was taken to the morgue There was no Identification c and It looked as It if the final resting place would be on Harts Island In a Seventh a ellue cigar store the descrIption of the time man was noted That saved Din n the Dude Dulle from the potters field Broadway llY had forgotten him nut But Butas as Broadway a usually does docs It lIed rec hIm enough to contribute to his funeral a How flow different from the false brIghtness of ot Broadway Bro ls I the coup coun country country try at this time of ot year Went ent W cot up to eskum Wood In Connecticut to span spen J some pleasant hours with Ith Bob nob and Betty Weeks ees In the morn mornIng mornIng mornIng Ing sun the Connecticut country countryside countryside countryside side sparkled sp as If It It hid h been set with diamonds and the Sound was wasa wasa waga a mighty lashing flashing mirror The win window window window dow thermometer registered y nw down below freezing But nut In the big thing Hi 11 Ing room looking out on the bro brown n woods the lagoon of BInney park and the winding road It was as lIke spring And AntI 50 GO minutes later we were beck bick In the dt city of ot sham and illusion a Getting back to Broadway I noted the first set of ot ear car tab tabs I ve ye seen In inmany Inmany many mIDY a long year round Found them rIght In Times square too They were worn by the red faced raced burly street railway employee ee who throws the switch that turns the time Broadway trolley cars at Forty second street a a a Edward J F Flynn Flinn nn New Yorks York s secretary penthouse of state lives U In a pent house with 16 IG rooms and five baths atop an apartment house In the quIetness of ot the Spuyten ten DuyvIl Ills dis district district near Two Hundred Thirtieth Mr Ir Flynn rlynn used to live lire on the Grand Concourse nut lint he got tired of ot so many visitors and moved His apartment Is served by a eIe And those who call ale al always ways aya find lies lie's not at nt home 4 ft IOU Dell Bell te |