Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 7 | In New York

uN NEW YORK YORI 1 NEW EW YORK Dec 27 Of Of such fabrics fabric as these was the Manhattan 1 of or O. O Henry i Just three doors from my may third- third floor back a promising young poet works as Janitor A university graduate he soon found that es esthetics esthetics esthetics es- es did not bring bread 1 From time to time he sells poems to so- so called highbrow publications He gets 5 5 or thereabouts By stoking the furnace and sweeping out the hallways of an apartment house he gets his rent free and a modest income besides What Is most important he has leisure hours and then in hi his soot- soot blackened overalls he writes his sonnets and his songs S S Just one block down the street there lives a man considered by many as eccentric He lives alone about six flights up and there for many years he has upon drawings of those wild and primitive primitive primitive primi primi- tive horses that once loped the desert desert desert des des- ert wastes In the course of time he will have reconstructed d In con com complete conk conk- anatomical detail for the American museum such an animal and In a n. sense this will have been his life Ute work worl This man Is Isery very ery fond of cats In summer he buys cheap canned fish by the case and feeds the hungry cats of ot the neighborhood Winter is a precarious season for the cats of New York They disappear Into every available hole to creep out at nightfall and scavenge among the garbage cans that line the sidewalks sidewalks side side- walks at the end of day There Is Isa isa a suggestion of or those grisly drawings drawings drawings draw draw- ings of specters of starvation In these nightly prowlers Recently complaints were heard In the tho neighborhood that someone was removing the lids of garbage cans The gar garbage age men pointed out oui that the foraging cats would litter the streets with debris A watch was set and just about sundown they caught the old horse man going about taking the tops off oU garbage cans He had no Intention of ot letting his alley friends go hungry in winter Then in a prosperous corner grocery grocery grocery gro gro- cery operated by a portly Greek his pretty daughter daught r has waited on me during the last year or more Into this thin store ome all an the free freethinkers freethinkers freethinkers thinkers of ot the celebrated Greenwich Greenwich Greenwich Green Village I have seen her talking with them time and again Young artists would order bills bUls of i goods and tell her hereof her of paintings just sold She has seen at least Uve ive years of ot the modern life The other morning she was smiling smil smil- ing log quizzically when I came In Im going to to be married soon soon she told me when I asked her what her secret might be Some young oung poet 1 I asked looking about at the prosperous store No No I I dont don't know who i lt It Is You mean you you haven't met him I asked No You see my mr father has luis picked him out Of course you dont don't understand but we still stIn do things th that t way We still marry the man selected by our parents I think its it's really the best va way after after atter af at- af- af ter nil all I walked awa away So this was Greenwich Village land lan of ot free freelove love lovo and what have you S GILBERT S SWAN AN Copyright t 1926 Service Inc