Show Lights of Newyork New York I by L L L STEVENSON The Social o lal Register shows why so il many marble mansions are shuttered and tenanted only by caretakers or left to their own loneliness while so sommy many s swanky sanky anky and costly apartments I remlin closed at a season when ordinarily I gay ga ety reigns at Its height and debs and dowagers are kept busy trot trot- trotting ting about the town attending affairs ot of carious arlous kinds It seems that this season more society families than ever before haze hu decided to make their country places their winter as we well as their summer h homes mes In other words Its It's smart to stay In the coup conn try Even the opening ot of the Metro Metropolitan politan opera season which sets a new record for lateness In getting under underway wa way has failed to lure back many of the smart set Thus e In those upper East side streets are tar far more quiet than they ha hale hae e been In many a year S One ot of the thc homes that has not been opened Is a rather grim brick house bouse at Fifth a and Sixty first street It Is the home ot of Mr and Mrs M Hartley Dodge Mrs Dodge beIng th the niece of John D Rockefeller The reason the house Is not open Is that the Dodges spend most of their time on their huge farm near Madison N J The Duke mansion at I 1 East Seventy el street Is tenantless most of the time except for servants and guards the family spending the greater part of the time at Duke farms near Som Som- Som Somerville erville N J Then a stones stone's throw at FIfth avenue lB is a silent white mansion That's the home of Mrs Urs Payne ne Whitney But she's ghe's sel- sel seldom seldom dom there Usually she's at Green Greentree Greentree tree tree her estate at Manhasset S S The home of Mrs Mary Duke BIddle at 1009 Firth Fifth avenue Is also a town townhouse town townhouse house practically tenantless Mrs Bid die prefers the mansion at on the Hudson high up on a hill over overlooking looking a great sweep country There are more many more And those silent town houses dont don't do those who profited by the entertainments of old any good at nIl all S S bythe Millions or of dollars were spent by the J B Duke on his New Jersey 7 he ample grounds are tray trav- traversed by 35 miles of paved roads In Inthe Inthe the past the grounds were ere open to the public But the public was dative Shrubbery v was as broken and rubbIsh left behind So now the put pub lie Is blI bai red reds s S or of rubbish won wonder er what follow happen If other magistrates fol Magistrate low an e ample set recently by Magis Job Job-in H Gol Goldstein Three cul cui grits nhi v hI appeared before him plead plead- pleaded ed cd gUilty to throwing rubbish on the sidewalk They dIdot didn't have the 2 fine so the magistrate set them to cork ork sweeping s In front ot of their homes for nn an hour with n a polIce Inspector to see that there was no loafing on the Job The offenders live down on the lower East side where among many It Is the custom to wrap garbage In a 8 paper bag and drop It out of a window In n some higher rental sectIons tenants drop refuse down Into courtyards S Learned something this else has absolutely no connection with the pre pre- the Social ceding paragraph from Register Among those listed therein were marriages last year while the year before there were 1044 Fh Fise e eh h and fifty nIne deaths were re recorded recorded corded S S e eDas Da Das e a Chasen Is certainly a durable stooge At every performance ot of Hold Your Horses now on tour six husky stage hinds had bad to be on the alert to keep him from being killed In the course of the performance Joe Cook tells Chasen to drop down to the corner and get him a cigar Chasen Instantaneously disappears through a trap door Various devices were used to break the force of his fall But only human buman arms proved relIable And at that Chasen took a lot of bruIses on the road rond with him m 0 Bell Syndicate Service |