| Show Lights of New York by L. L LL L. L STEVENSON The Social shows shawl why so 10 many marble mansions ns are shuttered chattered and tenanted only by caretakers or left to their own loneliness while so BO many swanky and costly apartments remain closed at a season when ordinarily gaj-ety gaj reigns at al Its lis height and debs and dowagers are kept busy trotting trot ting ling about the town attending affairs of various kinds It seems that this season more society families than ever before have decided to make their country places their winter as BI well as their summer homes In other words It Its It's smart to ilta stay In the coun coun- try Even the opening of the Metropolitan Metropolitan Metro Metro- politan opera season which sets sets a new record for lateness In getting under wa way has failed to lure back many of the smart set sel Thus evenings In those upper East side streets are far for more more quiet than they have hue been In la many a year One of the homes that has not been opened Is a rather rother grim brick house at Fifth avenue 8 and street It Is the home of Mr AIr and Mrs aIrs M M. Hartley Dodge Mil Kits Dodge being the niece of John D. D Rockefeller The Ther r reason son the house Is not open Is that the Dodges spend most of their time on their huge farm near Madison N N. N J The fluke Duke mansion at 1 East Seventy Seventy- eighth street Is tenantless the time except for servants servant and guards the family spending the greater part of the time at Duke farms near Somerville Somerville Som- Som erville N. N J J. J Then a stones stone's throw throwaway throwaway throwaway away at Fifth avenue Js is a silent white mansion That's the home of Mrs lire Payne Iane Whitney But she's Fhe seldom seldom sel sel- sel dom there Usually she's she at 4 Green Creen Greentree tree her estate at Manhasset The he he home of ot Mrs Mary Duke Biddle BIddie at Fifth Is avenue also a town townhouse townhouse house practically tenantless Mrs Biddle Diddle Did Bid dle die prefers the mansion at Irvington Irvington- the on high up on a hill hili overlooking overlooking over over- looking a great sweep of open 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 alL nil e Millions of dollars were spent by bythe bythe bythe the late J J. J It B. Duke on his New Jersey estate The ample grounds are traversed tray trav erred by 35 miles mile of paved rood roads in In Inthe Inthe the past the tLe grounds ground were open to the public nut Hut the public was unappreciative Shrubbery was broken sail and rubbish left behind So now the pub put public lie lic Is barred e e Speaking of or rubbish wonder what would happen If other magistrates follow fol low Iowan an example set Sl recently by Magistrate Magis Magis- rate Johan II Three culprits cul cuI grits wh wilt appeared before him pleaded plead ed lId guilty to lri throwing rubbish on the sidewalk They didn't have bave the 2 fine so M the magistrate set them to work sweeping In front of their homes home for an hour with a II police Inspector to tolee see lee that there was wu no loa loafing ling on the Job lob The offenders live lI down on the lower loner East side where among many It Is the custom to wrap garbage In a II paper bag and drop It out of a window In some higher rental sections tenants tenant drop refuse down Into courtyards courtyard Learned something else else this this has baa absolutely no connection with the pre pre- preceding preceding ceding from paragraph pl paragraph from the Social Register Among th those those listed therein were Ino marriages last lut year rear while the year before there were 1044 1014 Five h and nine fifty deaths there ere re re- corded e Dave Chasen Chosen Is certainly a sto stooge At er e every of ot Hold Your Tour Horses now on tour six husky stage hands bands had to be on the alert to keep him from being killed In the course of the performance Joe Cook tells Chasen Challen to drop down to the corner and get him hima a cigar Chasen Instantaneously disappears disappear through a trap door Various devices were used to break the force of his hll faIL fall But only human humon arms proved reliable And at lit that Chasen took a lot of bruises bruise on the road rood with him 6 eo B ll 8 |
