Show National Men and Affairs New ew Yorkers Move En Masse and Swamp Telephone Veteran Umpire Not Not Peeved at Fans Locomotive Engineer Back Seat Scat Driver Knees Same All Over United States Dy n Ii ROBERT nO ERT T Sf LI S of The Tho Copyright 1926 Consolidated Prose Preas Association NEW EW YORK has ha just passed I 5 through the th thi-ces thi th es ot of Its an- an annual an annual nual spell and never n vcr before has the th restlessness of the soul been so thoroughly demon demon- demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated The Th moving Industry which thrives on this restlessness this constant search earch for something better bettor something different call estl- mates mates that between and families changed chanted their abodes In the th during the tho hurricane of ot transfer that cen- cen centered centered cen centered about the th first of o October The telephone company In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York CitY lad had orders for lor more than changes In service fairlY swampinG Its mechanical force torce and pi placing acinI out of ot date some some- something some thinK thing like a II million Immense tele- tele telephone t le phone directories The Th gas and electric companies were Inundated with hanges and with new servIce service service ice as many any modern apartments were opened fore for for the first time The remarkable part Dart of at o this ex- ex extraordinary ex extraordinary human shift was fact that only an Infinitesimal number of ot movers made any marked changes In their manner of at living Few l-anyo l the Iho tam fam farn- farn families Illes moved to the country Few flat dwellers moved Into homes and few homo home dwellers dwell rs switched to apartment houses Virtually all ot of the moving was from flat to flat fiat It Is a a great game amo amo of o rainbow chasing chasin looking for tor something more desirable just around the corner lots of of families moved od front from one on apartment to another In Inthe Inthe the tho same building For the most part the owners It seems Were seeking to better themselves New York ha has been rolling In lit prosperity and an orgy of spending The Th first of at success to a New York family Is to put on more style lyle to move uptown to move downtown to change from West est Side Sido to Jt it Side from Manhattan to the Bronx Bront or from the th Bronx back to Man Man- Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan hattan always conditioned upon paying more rent an and l thereupon feeling more satisfied with life lite flat dweller Tho year ear I I I I I m moved d i 1400 1400 flat The rent payer moved up to One Ono new V apartment house on tho the upper East Side Sido opened this October with a IL rental fee of ot 3 35 35 a y year ar for for ir a a seven-room seven suite Yet dav day was not all 1111 beer and ond skittles Some Somo families had to slow down to to- to give Ive Un and return to the th ob- ob obscurity ob obscurity ot of cheap rentals In a la i-la ris ing In there are arB always some who do pot not ride rid the thc crest of ot the wave Hank Manic the tho noblest Roman Romano of all the tho umpires of the tha national game Jame Insists insist that that- baseball fan fans tn in general and In particular particular lar hr have hav been much maligned lie thinks this Is especially tru of ot the SL St Louis fans tans who tor for some re rca rea reason son or other have hav achieved Quite a awid wide reputation as ot of pop bottles and as umpire bait bait- ers era when thinas on the diamond are not favorable to the th home team I a It It Is all the tho bunk said Hank os as he be stood tood In the tho lobby of a SL St StI Louis louls hotel during the world so- so se e series rica ries spasm which held the tho Missouri metropolis enthralled during the past week Hank Honk has been chief umpire ot of the tho series for tor the tho Xa- Xa XaI Na 1 I lIonal league old said Im 2 63 years and 1 I have havo been umpiring off oft and andon andon andon on most ot of that long lonK and somewhat som eventful life I have been In tn more more tight places than most moat umpires and anti andI I have hare to call cm em em close and hardIn hardin hard In many a It touch game And I I have yet to have hate a pop bottle thrown at me ne Nobody has ha ever heaved a soft drink jar lar ar In my di- di di direction nor nor a beer bottle bottlo In what you call tho the good old days Ot course the fans tan have to shed empty bottles on the th field just as you have havo seen eon people sometimes throw them from a car windoW or from an automobile They throw cushions sometimes too but It Is just a gesture ot of C care car and not an effort to murder mur murder der del th the umpire as the tho newspaper r boys bos so often otten have havo It I am for tor forthe the fans tans all the th time I wouldn't a thing thine away from them If they couldn't yell at the tha umpire there would be b no national game Kame It Is a part natt of tho the spirit keeps the gamo game alive Kill Mill the enthusiasm ana ann the th spirit of ot the tans fans and you kill kilt baseball Let L t em yell I say ay That Is what they are there for and they know In the thelong thelong long run that the tho umpires are arc all allright allright allright right Wo We dont don't worry about that On one of ot the world series p running out of ot St Loul Loui the of ot the tho past cast week eek an old en- en engineer en engineer was a passenger The fhe train was late lato across the In Indiana diana flatlands and was trying to tomake tomake make up time It kept gaining speed until It fairly seemed to be ln 1 living alon along the th rails ralls only touch touch- touch log the tho high spot spots poti Tho The gers gera were enjoying themselves hugely all alt savo save one Tho The old en- en en n In er was nervous as a a 8 cat cat flu kept consulting his hi watch and giving InK ing an nn appraisIng eye ey to the the- th pass pass pass-Ine Ing landscape Ho H has long been beena beena a Judge of at pace You could him applying a a restraining hand to the throttle and easing on tile the air all Just Juit a trifle In short ho he WItS was a backseat seat driver to the th life Ito was palpablY uncomfortable In Inthe inthe inthe the Pullman In the th engine cab te 10 would havo have been step step- stepping step stepping ping ping- on the tha steam It t Is ii an odd thin thing c that the th most reckless auto drivers are ar the th moat most nervous auto passengers The Tho men who sit It at atthe atthe the wheel of ot a racing car at miles an en hour and never blink an ancy eye oye are ar nervous wrecks reck after a 15 15 minute drive In a taxicab Let the tho psycho analysts solve the tho problem It if th y can There Ther Is ts no It It The modern feminine styles stYle are ar reve reveal reveal- r To the observer who vho travels they reveal among arnoni other things that feminine knees knes aro am much the tho same tho the country over Western Vestern knees and New Nw York knees knee are sIsters under their silken hose hOBe The Th amazing thing thine about the styles styles- of today Is the th fact that IL a anew anew now new Idea flashes from one ono end ot the country to the th other almost almot over There Ther was a time not so verv very long lon r ago when styles trav tray traveled traveled slowly from the th east to the wet Jobbers ut ct the tho th we west t had a chance to work off oft old old stock I before the new wrinkles became popularly known All this 1 Is past San Francisco knows the th nouveaux modes from front Paris as soon as New NewYork NewYork N York docs does The Th comparatively new art of ot national advertising has ha been largely loi responsible for tor bringing this about Tero was a IL time too when hen easterners predominated In the tide of at European travel All that thatIs thatis thatIs Is past The Th westerner has become a abbe trotter r too oven even It St he h doe does have bavo to travel across a eon con con con- continent to reach the 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