Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 23 | In New York

r t In New York rork j I I NEW YORK Not Not even the tile blind of the tIre New York streets have been able to withstand the influence of changing tastes and times Time Ilme was when the Old Toms Tonis and Little Sells Nells of the tIle curbstones pla played ed upon the passing sympathy with tuned Ill fiddles and wheezing accordions They would select for their repertoire the most antiquated ed of numbers or would render render ren rca der songs Rong harking back to the days das of oC East Lynne Year by year the tile styles changed until no street musicians with any pride or craft would think of be beIng being being be- be ing more than six months behind the tile last popular son song success But Dut the other day on Forty fit Ill street just off ott Fifth avenue 1 came caine upon one of tho the most t tattered of the street beggars proudly wailIng wailing wail trail in ing a saxophone saxophone saxophone-an an event so 60 startling startling startling start start- ling even to the tile blase FIlth Fifth avenUe avenue ave aye nue flue shopper that his efforts were being rewarded b by tile the dimes and nickels of a considerable crowd And that it seemed to me was the last word the peak of the jazz age S S S Coney Concy Island boasts a band of or winter bathers On these cold autumn days they are arc to be found leaping boldly Into the ocean o of ot Sunday afternoons mocking at the parade of fur coated and shivering shivering shivering shiver shiver- ing figures that pass on tho the boardwalk board board- walk Each looks at the tile other and mutters Poor fool SS Winter Vinter or summer Coney Island draws its Sunday parade There are aro hundreds of people who never miss this tills Sabbath VroIl whatever the tile season of the tile y yn r. r. r There are I hundreds to whom Coney is like a I drug or 01 a magnet At this time of year Coney seems tp me to be Ineffably sad All its symbols of fun and gayety are re reduced reduced reduced re- re to their trappings of painted plaster and rough board The coasters coast coast- ers era and wheels the rides and peep peepshows peepshows peepshows shows become lifeless wooden skeletons skeletons sled sled- I upon which tho the passing stroll strollers rs can but gaze longingly The Tue little city cily itself takes on a certain certain tam tain autumnal beauty leaves are blown from nearby parks parka and go flying their autumn colors down the famous boardwalk S S S STile The Tile autumn season brings to toConey toConey to toConey Coney troops of youngsters in whom the burled treasure urge is strong All through the season they have heard tales of ot people who lost this or that in the Coney sands Scores of them them and and some of their oldsters start on beach combing expeditions that uncover strange loot but rarely anything of value To the average New NewYork NewYork NewYork York youngster this is s one of the tile few thrilling games he can enjoy in the outdoors at the cost of but butone ono one nickel He Ho can be a a. pirate for fora a few hours and get a a. of air all that originates outside the tenement tenement tene tene- ment belt S S S SA A couple of or veteran hotdog men never desert the Coney ship They remain to attend those loyal Joyal souls who come ome back Sunday after Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day and who know mow the tho famous re resort resort resort re- re sort under every possible condi condi- tion Cone Coney It would seem has hag no halfway allure Either folk fall completely complete r und under r Its Us spell and cant can't get enough eno of it it or 01 the sweat swelter congestion and noise of its hot day moments send the tIle new vis vis- ilot scurrying scurrying- back to the subway murmuring that the the- world must have gone mad S S S STile The Tile arrival on Broadway is the SOda mat a close relative to the Automat In the one can mako make the rounds of ones one's fa favorite favorite ta fa- ice cream concoctions and by slipping a nickel in a n slot can press tim the button and find l his soda waiting for him This process like obtaining a n piece of pie in an Automat Automat Automat Auto Auto- mat requires lige six seconds of time it appeared In the tue Broadway belt but a few days ago and I J am told can serVe servo something like 2000 persons a minute GILBERT SWAN Copyright 1327 1927 NEA Service Inc t