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Show GOLD'S ALSO UNDER FAMED N. Y. STREET - By WALTER WTNCHELL ' W 1 Nev Knew TU Now About N. Y. I (And Soma New Yorken) k . The.L,mb club clock a donation many yean ago . . .A 1 girt of the pawnbroker in the sector who "obliged" many members. There is natural gold in the rocks under Wall street ,. Brodway is one ofjhe betterhealth resorts, statistics revealing that mhg-pasTliryeflrs only 29 died under 70. '. John D. Rockefeller won't donate Penny of his fortune to any char- Ity that has any political connection. His father's idea There Is a New York editor who , "till hopes to solve the Elwell mur-lr mur-lr case. He works on it on Sabbathshis Sab-bathshis day off. The only legend about Georire M. , Cohan that irks him is the famous one that it took him five minutes to writs "Over There." Between Thirty-ninth street and Fifty-second street (on Broadway) there are more than 100 newsboys who work day and night. Ths estimate esti-mate is nearly 25 000 nun. rl.v bars of his biggest song hit (Alexander's (Alex-ander's Ragtime Band) on ths rear of an Astor menu. The N. Y. Times edifice is another of the buildings which pampers the superstitious by not naming the thirteenth floor "lSth." ... It is known as the fourteenth floor, and never had a tenant who failed on It The Waldorf-Astoria hotel la on stilts no part of it touches the sidewalk. side-walk. Most of the buildings in the swankier part of Park avenus are built on foundations that go far under the N. Y. Central railroad bed. The big Idea, of course, la to stifle the train vibrations. The privileged cab companies (thos that have the line at Grand Central and the Pennsy depotaLpay J65.0O0 per annum for it Gilbert Gabriel, a recent dramatic critic, now in Hollywood's clutches, was ths only actor-frightener to be decorated by a government Venezuela. Vene-zuela. H received "The Order of Bolivar." Because he read proof on their presidential propaganda a few years ago. Maxfisld Parriah waa sxpelled from the School of Industrial Art when he waa a student there. For painting a castle on ths walL By the time they got ready to repaint it, he became famous, so they let it stand. st the four corner stands at Fiftieth. The out-of-town newsstands sell an average of 260O0 papers daily. The reason the Herald Tribune's masthead shows a clock timed at 12 after 6 is to commemorate the time Its presses started. All Pennsy R. R. employes must wear black ties. Mae West, with all her coin, never goes in for swanky hotels when visiting vis-iting here. She has a suite reserved st the Plymouth on West Forty-ninth Forty-ninth street, where she dwelled when the breaks were sour. When s laborer dies on the Clarence Clar-ence Mackay estate, his widow (or survivors) receives his salary for life. "Tobacco Road" now on th way to passing the "Abie's Irish Rose" run-record never had a "theater party." Most shows do. Harry Stevens paya 1250.000 a year for the right to peddle eoda pop and hot dogs at the local baseball parka. The first year he paid only 25 Gs. . . . Hs has been the caterer at most of ths racetracks, also, but has never risked a wager on a horse race yet One of Broadway's former nicknames nick-names was The Big Apple. The floodlights (250 of them) which illumine the statue of Liberty Liber-ty cost taxpayers $5712 per annum. Clifton Webb's real handle Is Clifton Clif-ton Raum. Grant's tomb has never really been finished. They intended featuring fea-turing a group of prancing steeds on the dome, but the money ran out. It is monitored by the Union League club. The four-story dwelling between the Astor hotel and the bus terminal termi-nal is the home of ths hotel owner, who won't sell it. The New York Telephone company com-pany receives 1 cent a pound for its old phone books which now weigh about five pounds. All the clocks on Broadway have their mazdas doused at 1 a. m. just when most of us need them most ! Irving Berlin wrote the final four |