Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-15 | Page 4 | In New York

I IN NEW NEWYORK YORK By PAUL HARRISON NEW YORK YORK- YORK OnO One nc of the most successful suc men with one of the oddest jobs about town is Anthony t. t Mr Mi- t is a professional proCessional taster not just a sampler of wines but of anything makers Cigar hire him to pass on new blends and bakers ask him to come around to tell them whether to put a little more vanilla in lit their cake icings He likes to taste tea coffee and wine best of all but doesn't pretend to know as much about vintages as some of at the European professionals But he does docs know how the American palate will vill respond to different wines About 20 years cars ago Mr was a cashier in a big restaurant and after he discovered that the chef was not too temperamental a fellow he began began began be be- gan suggesting changes in the flavorings flavorings flavor- flavor in ings s of dishes His ideas made the dishes so popular popular lar lay that realized he was wasting his talent sc he lie went into the tasting business for himself Now he gets for a few min minutes minutes utes work Or did until he signed up with a wine and liquor importing company One of the ideas he had while sampling some bottled goods was to make ice lee creams flavored with cordials The su suggestion was sold and Mr will realize a big royalty if it the scheme succeeds II Talk of tho the Town Tasting is doubtless a natural talent tal ent but for or sheer ingenuity the odd odd- job honors go to Alexander Jacob Jacoby He conducts a language exchange Not Nota a linguist himself h he realized that there are lots of newly arrived foreigners for for- eigners In New York who are anxious to learn English and almost as many ninny Americans who want to master Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian French Spanish or some other tongue So he moved a lot of tables and chairs into a big room on the edge of ot Greenwich Village sent out announcements and soon had plenty of or business The customers teach each other For a nominal registration fee feea a Japan Japanese c busboy and a Yankee clerk in an importing house can sit down and swap words and lion Uon in la writing and reading Some Some- times when theres there's an odd number of clients Mr Jacoby takes a lesson hImself himself himself him him- self but by this time he has experimented with so many languages that he cant can't remember much about any of them Greeters Pay Him Dim Another is grizzled Torkel Helgesen He trades on the welcoming instinct which seems to be part of the natures of all New York York- ers When he came came to this country 25 years ago he bought a launch and began ferrying to and from ships anchored in the lower bay But people peer pee pIe began to charter his boat so often to greet friends on incoming liners that finally he went into the business exclusively Now his boat Is crowded almost every day with about 20 people people peo pee pie at 1 a head They chug down the bay to where the liners anchor for a while of off Quarantine circle the ships a few times while his passengers passengers passengers gers wave and yell to their friends and relatives then scoot back to the pier in Brooklyn in time to welcome the voyagers again as they leave the ships Mr Helgesen reckons his little little- craft has greeted more travel travelers rs than the city's official welcoming tug Macon Getting nto the lower wage brackets of the city's oddest consider the task of Frank Gordon who does nothing but remove remove- wads of chewing gum from Radio City's vast Music Hall When the last customer customer customer cus cus- cus- cus tomer has quitted the theater at night Gordon goes to work with scraping tools toots and chemicals During especially busy weeks he has an assistant assistant as as- who merely looks for the gum and then reports Its location to the master remover They harvest about 2000 pounds of used used used- spearmint and pepsin a week and Gordon Is troubled troubled troubled trou trou- bled because he cant can't think of 01 an any use for lor it Copyright 1933 NEA Service Inc