Show lights of newyork new york by L L STEVENSON though not as fatuous famous as spring 7 which almost every one knows Is the telephone number of new york police headquarters one of the most frequently called numbers in new york city Is 1 lexington 1100 2 for that there Is reason lexington 1100 2 Is the sole contact of many stage screen and radio stars with the public or even their employers or managers it also serves as a general secretary tor for a long list of firms and individuals it Is the new york office of a number of out of town business houses and business men radio broadcasters often give that number to listeners who dei 1 mire dire further information concerning the fine product being advertised many w who h 0 call the telephone numbers of ghyst j clans and surgeons as well as artists and writers are answered by lexington 1 2 1100 and there an hour day or night that lexington 1100 2 does not answer the service started first as a con veni lenience ven lence ence for physicians who desired to have their phones answered while they were out of their offices through an arrangement with the telephone corna com pany not only does the doctors telephone ring but also lexington 1100 2 if the doctor answer then the other number does making appoint ments and acting as a secretary gradually the service was increased until now it includes several hundred classifications and performs services ranging from locating subscribers in thea to giving sales talks also it handles the telephone calls of those who do not wish to be disturbed calls going to the company at the hours specified one of the subscribers Is julian street by his bis arra arrangement ng ement his home telephone does docs not ring until 5 p in m the i lie service handling all calls up to that hour and then reporting them to him mr street finds telephone calls call break his concentration to such an extent that even if he talks only a few minutes he loses at least an hour getting back to work 0 0 for quite obvious reasons names cant be used but here Is an acthen tac unrecorded bit of world war history one of uncle sams fighting ships was wa equipped with which were driven by motors operated by grain alcohol each torpedo cost sighting a German gub sub three torpedoes were released simultaneously instead of speeding toward their mark they went only about twenty feet and stopped thus endangering the vessel that had discharged them investigation vesti gation showed that the sailors had drunk drank the alcohol probably that la Is a record tor for costly imbibing 0 0 what makes me think of a woman barber at this point to Is something I 1 do not know women barbars are not so common as they used to be but there is ij one who has ha been practicing her art la in the borough hall ball section of brooklyn for the last 25 years business men are her customers one has been coming in for a shave every morning since the shop opened he always gives the barber a dollar bill and never takes any change many other regular patrons have been going there for years one of those seventh avenue bar and grill places his has settled the coat matter of the sales tax tar generally known as the nuisance tax in a very handy manner that does away with the bother of coppers A sign in the window announces noun ces cocktails 24 cents sales tax I 1 cant total 20 25 cents 0 0 noticed a hea headline dUne bridge work tor for men into my ears came the words open just a little wider please along with the sharp buzz of a drill but it seems the are ar not to call on dentists dentist they are to be given employment on the now new trl borough bridge 0 a au u arti |