Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-04-20 | Page 22 | In New York

Y oj I In New York I NEW YORK Manhattan Manhattan snapshots snapshots snap snap- sh shots ts The The- flower wagons with their multicolored wares reflecting gay gray colors along llong the drab miles of ot ott t tenements Th Tb The C croquet players layers bobbing up in Central 1 park with the lie first signs of or spring The In Indi Indian In- In dl di dian n snake doctor of Ninth a avenue ave ae Venue Ve- Ve nue flue and nd th tho man from India who sells cheap mountain pens in I a n Times Square auction which displays dis dl- i plays a n huge sign reading pencils I free Cree which brings In the crowd But you learn that the pencil Is a free on only if 11 you buy a a. pen Yet they talk about the lie country yokels Doroth Dorothy Gish Gishi taking her dog for lor fora lora a walk around park Just what whIt happened to Dorothy Dorothy Dorothy Dor Dor- othy anyway A And nd to Renee hence Adoree And to Mae Ma Marsh And Anda a lot Jot of oC others The fellow who fixes the clock on the r Paramount tower From rOni the street 1 he lie like a fly crawlIng crawl- crawl lug Ing ng along a wall wail It t seems th that t the velocity of ot the wind Is so 80 great treat at that height that It blows bl the he hands around and the time is 18 seldom correct On a a. particularly arly blustery day the clock gained an hour our in six seconds The rho largest clock in th the world orld by the way vay n i Is o on the Jersey ersey side of oC the Hudson Hudo facing Manhattan The dial Is more mole than 50 60 feet wide The minute hand we weighs hS more than nan a ton when lighted At St night it can be se seen n for miles mile One of Manhattans Manhattan's most famous panhandlers is now a tt model at the theArt theArt theArt Art Students' Students J league ague lie He was bumming dimes In ln the thc lie H league ague neighborhood when wien an Instructor decided he ie was a fine type for sketching Now ow he gets his so- so hour an and has merely to tot t sit 1 and and l look ok around Wherefore Where Where- lore fore fore Subway Slim for SUm for such is his moniker the philosophizes on i stran strangeness Q of life Jle He lie walks I the lie street for lor dimes and has hus to dodge crowds and anti then al along n com comes l' l someone one who pa pays s 's him for or sitting down What hat a cocke cockeyed ed world says he And AnI theres there's Topcoat Dan known from one orte end of the thc Dowery Bowery I to the tho other Ho was always to be found found In the tho bread line IIno Hed He'd wait Vait alt for Cor hours for fora Or a handout of soup and beans They caught him Sl sleep ep- ep ing in iii thc lie subway the other night and when th they y took him him to court they found bank bankbooks In his 1115 pockets pockets pockets pock pock- ets showing h he hC had on de de- de posit Dan Is 70 Now Just what he lie cx ex- to do with his ils money nobody nobody nox no- no body x dy seems to know Least of all Dan He lIo got his name by the way be because because be be- cause in winter he alwa always s 's wore three overcoats o lIe He Would explain that the other two for were quilts quilts- and ind bedding if It he lie couldn't bum a place to sleep GILBERT SWAN 1328 1928 NEA Service ice inc