Show I IN NEW YORK By PAUL HARRISON NEW YORK June Bits 26 Bits about business Not all spinning wheels are antiques nowadays One entrepreneur is is having a thousand of them ma made e eup up to sell at about 12 each his idea being eing that women who are taking up knitting again might like to spin their own yarn too Maybe he heard of the he two Sally Sally Trevis and June Blossom who Blossom who oiled up some heirloom wheels a few weeks ago and now are spinning and knitting for or the unemployed S SS REFLECTING CONFIDENCE So confident of repeal are the liquor manufacturers that one firm has placed an order here for thousands fox of costly mirrored signs advertising their products Speaking of signs heres here's one in a H Harlem apartment window Voice Lessons Special Lessons Special Pains Given to Beginners Another sign in a ab b barber shop In the theatrical district promises a shave sha haircut shampoo manicure and shoe all shoeshine shine all for 25 cents Not far away though is a tonsorial salon where a haircut alone costs 2 And in the biggest hotels the barber shops have to pay up to a year for their concessions The same figure holds for cigar stands and cleaning and pressing con con- cerns If It you wanted to run the hat checkrooms in a hotel like the Wal Wal- Astoria dorf-Astoria you'd have to pay at least for the privilege and something like for fo- the florist concession IS I S S S SOCIAL CLIMBERS Word comes that Elliott Roosevelt who's his marital course and also managing a western airline likes aviation better than anything he ever tried Lots of f oth other r socially prominent people in the business Grover Loening Long Island sportsman sportsman sports sports- I man designed the amphibian that bears his name Charles L L. Lawrence I whose deb daughter is trying her fashion wings designs airplane mo moo tors The bluebook Ludington bro brothers broth broTh- herSt h- h ers erSt Townsend Wright and Nicholas started the Ludington Lines And Cornelius Cornelius Cornelius Cor Cor- nelius Vanderbilt Whitney helped organize or and finance Pan American Air Air- ways INDUSTRIAL NOTES Youve You've been hearing bearing about how the pretzel business has ha turned the corner Well th theres there's res re's a boom in the sandwich industry too With beer as asan asan asan an aid to the eat eat- cat beat counters coun coun- ers around town more than a quarter Quarter quarter ter million re sandwiches are consumed every day These are prepared the night before be be- fore ore so they will be fresh each morn- morn ing ng Machines slice the bread of course but the rest of the process is island hand land labor organized for efficiency Specialists Specialist in the craft include but but- who slap on just a suggestion of lubricant assemblers who put on the jelly cheese or meat second bread men or trimmers who put on the tops and wrappers who deftly flip the sandwiches into oiled paper The man mainly responsible for all this was Mr William C Cantor who owned a restaurant t of off Broadway about 15 years ago Business was so 50 slack he was facing ruin and one idle day he made up some sandwiches and offered them to a nearby drug drui store They sold and Cantor solicited more drug stores Finally he had to get rid of his restaurant hire a crew of salesmen train sandwich makers buy three trucks and establish a fac fac- fac tory Even then he could couldn't t handle all the business so now novi there arc are about six other concerns |