Show i Lights of New York L LL r. r STEVENSON Meanderings 1 and meditations The quick clotting of motors In the narrow town mid cross streets at nt the change of the signal and ond taxi tux drivers trying to gain a few feet by cutting In where they dont don't b belong lon The rhe somber dignity of ot the lobby and that mahogany mahogany- faced doorman Madison ave ave- nue nul always suggests antiques to me lint But there's theres theres there's a sporting goods store store showing wha what the well-dressed well fisherman should wear Canna Gan Can na nn who's been bren exiled to America Amer Amer- ica tea ond and no turning of heads bends as she window shops on Fifth avenue A deb being led by three Impudent Impudent Im Im- I dent ch chows chows ws Commuters streamIng streaming streaming stream stream- ing toward Grand Central and most of them carrying bundles Cocktails seem to hove have tumbled another er nickel In th tire various arlous little restaurants restaurants rants In the forties t Dowagers entering the lie Wald rf-As- rf torla torin Tried to reach Gen Cen Hugh S. S Johnson there recently A voice on the wire w wanted to know wl o was calling She was In tn- for formed e 1 Then another voice asked the same question If It she was checking up the answers agreed nut lint a a third voice came on th the wire and said lId that General General General Gen Gen- eral Johnson was not registered He Ill may may not nut have hn 0 been registered il But t- t th h he was there thero all aU right 1 Wonder If that Sidetrack down underneath underneath under under- i neath the tho hotel for private cars has hns ever er been used A florists florist's window full of roses lOSIS Roses make me rue think of the late George 1 B. B Mope Hope they are still growing In n a Clairmont nt avenue n backyard backyard back back- yard ard and that this June JUlie they bloom more moro profusely and more sweetly sweet sweet- ly Iy than ever before lie He gave me those plants many 3 years ears ago One of those long-distance long busses radio equipped Wonder If It the tho passengers have anything thing to say lay about what shall be tuned In ml A A West third pretzel peddler on Forty third Forty street First time Ive I've seen slen one ono that far uptown The old peddler who stands stand In the shelter of the tho Municipal building looks like he ho stepped out of ot the Ruble Bible A safe sate with n a lock and ond kr key for forn dime Not ot many ninny being heln sold soil and business In smallest deck of of cards cards' In the world wor l to be slack Son Song sheets heets ore are holding up all nil right Saw two little stenographers steno stenographers raphers rappers make purchases Alfredo Alfrrdo of ot priced popular grand opera Ies ties on Broadway this iris season Only a dozen or so blocks from the old Met Iet Wears his hair long Likes to talk about his 34 dl dl- Fourteen decorations and nine children Has fins people In his company this year Also camels and elephants Wonder Wonder Wonder Won Won- der what's happened to the Be e brief brier signs that used to adorn desks On the wagon waon Statistical note The General Motors corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion has hns stockholders In 1017 1917 It tt had 1027 1927 t Bootblacks pitching pennies under the Paramount marquee I Three panhandlers In one block Forty Forty- three per cent of the beggars arrested recently were found to be alcoholics Yet they all nil asked for a nickel for a cuppa An apple- apple cheeked old woman with a cheery smile peddling and Im I'm wearing one now y A A waiting chauffeur reading the Bible A restaurant window filled with mushrooms mushrooms mush mush- rooms and strawberries e A friend Just back from Los ros Angeles was telling me about earthquakes A group of car carpenters was workIng on on n a set Of a sudden sudden sudden sud sud- den there was a rumble They dropped their tools and rob ran out of the studio In a n few v minutes they came back looking sheepish Hot place ploce It was only a n truck remarked remarked re re- marked one Laughed also about that Park avenue gentleman who threw n R purt party The next morning he asked one of his guests how he got home You drove me was the reply and the host promptly had the tire Jitters Because he didn't remember having been bern In his car It 11 costs 2 5 to pass n red light on and 1 a 0 lot o of time In court waiting to plead guilty Pennies dropping Into the tin cup of a blind 1 man A hurdy gurdy pla playing ln The Tile Sidewalks of New ew York and the end of another day I among the Seven Se-en Million Q nail Cell Syndicate W m Service Ser |