Show I I I I L 1 In New York j r NEW YORK YORK With With the passing of Tammany Hall HaIl Fourteenth nth street gives up about its last ghost In those good old days nys when petticoats pet pet- Jet Jet- were petticoats and champagne champagne cham cham- was som something other othor than cider and shasta ta water Fourteenth street was the pride and joy of New York Hero Here the carriages let out their gay loads in front of the cafes and arid all about particularly where Dro Broadway Broad Broad- l- l way pokes okes its nose southward toward Broadway the nans nansI and other celebrities were wez-e getting getting- their start second Forty street Was was- out In the country and the tho Academy of ot Music was wag the thc last word wOld In operatic operatic op- op splendor Names that are arenow i now traditions were on the peak of the world screened nel Its naughty scenes if any and the expensive ex- ex pensive jewelry concerns sparkled their Jve e on all aU sides of of the square S 55 Gradually Fourteenth ourt street has lae disintegrated From the gay white way vay that was It became street became a street of or 1 cheap shops pawnbrokers shooting galleries radio vendors and movies A A- cinema finally crowded out theold theold the theold old Academy of f Music and a gas company took over the cinema Tammany named for a crafty cr-atty In Indian In- In dian tribe saw the East EaRt Side pass as a political stronghold saw the city mo move mou u up and ever up b but t clung to to- Its historic rock for sixty years ea s. s Now Tammany will go uptown and Join the respectability The vetel veteran an bartender will ViII go perhaps thou though h he Is what a COlt coat of arms Is ill to impoverished royalty ex Pl pleasant plasant a ant to look at and reminisce over oyer but possessing only ony sentimental sentiment n- n t tal l value I GILBERT SWAN SWAN- j Copyright t NEA 1927 1 19 i N cl Inc I ti 1 j t 0 i f |