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Show SEVEN DAYS IN U'L' OL N. Y. I (Copyright, 1922. by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) NEW YORK. Dec. 16 In a drlv-jnp drlv-jnp snowdtorra which muffled the stp ets in white velvet and turned the tall bulldlnfts to Rhosta: the Christmas tree wa.s put Up this week in Madison Madi-son Square. Seventy foot It towered, dark greon and graceful, and th-winded th-winded snow turned It In a quarter of an hour to the r.ort of thing seen for the most Pftrt mound here only on Chrifltrnoa cards. The tre of light, the municipal Mmbol fo the Yuletlie, Is the one bit 'of placlditv in a town gone frantic with holiday shoppers. To get through a department store is a cataclysm. How H happens that In a field filled i with ra'C hatred, class hatred and jubt plain old-fa"-?"'' hatred there can be so many people so anxious to give so irumv things to some other people, is a mv.stery. But the fact remains re-mains that sidewalks, streets, store, subways, elevated and tubes and the feirfes". taxis and trolley are burstlnt: with shoppers, bristling with bundles, worn out with the struggle to get that necktie fr Uncle Ren, and reduced to that phase of the Christmas spirit which is capable only of a hard bump or a dirty look for every other straphanger. strap-hanger. In a way the Joyous season is once more upon us. Joy. however. Is an exclusive thing. It isn't circulating to any noticeable extent at present among either restaurant res-taurant or motor owners. The reason in both cases Is the police. So venom-ohoua venom-ohoua have the police become in their efforts to make the town dry that some restaurants are talking of closing clos-ing their doors at New Year s or earlier. This Is becauso the police arc I arresting everyone who flashes a pocket flask, and taking the proprietor pro-prietor along for good measure. Moreover, More-over, people who have an aversion t... arrest are dolner their drinking and . ating in their own homes or in taxi-cabs taxi-cabs hired for the evening. All of whicli means that the restaurateurs are distinctly out of luck. , So are the motorists. Th new "brake squad" has taken upon Itself the task of cocking an attentive car in the direction of each motor car In the city. If there Is a wheeze, or rattle, the "brake squad" man backs i vou Into an alley, examines your car and If tho brakes are iocs', sends you to the nearest repair station at your own expense This Is an attempt to reduce the number of street accidents acci-dents from defective brakes. 9,000 such accidents having occurred last vear. Of course this all In tho interest Of public safety, but if a few more restrictions and supervision are Imposed Im-posed on motorists it will be almost as much an annoyance to own a car as it is now to own a tenement house. Tho somewhat sluggish heart action ac-tion of the town was quickened a beat or so by three occurrences. Tho first! was too arrival of tho Sprcejacks, the I 98-foot motorbeat which has Justl finished taking Commander and Mrs. A. Y. Gowan around tho world on their honeymoon The Chicago commander com-mander and his bride were inthusi-i astlcally greeted when they docked at the foot of East Twenty-third street by friends and movio camera operators oper-ators and seemed decidedly glad to get back to civilization whero bandits iific thf homely blackjack and guni instead of poisoned darts and boomerangs. boom-erangs. Another thrill was accorded the town by tho publication of a book of verse entitled "A Fifth Avenue Parade and Other Poems" The book wnj written by the, Reverend Doctor Percy Btickhey Grant, rector of the Church of the Ascension, and dedicated to Mrs. Philip Lydlg. whoso engagement to the rector provoked a storm of opposition among Episcopalian officials of-ficials because of Mrs. I,ydig"s two d lvorces. And tho third quickening of the pul.-..- I.. ;it rami' with tii o glad news that Professor John T. Tlernan. he of tho many marital mixups, has decided to make his home here Professor Tlernan, who is tlie brother of Peter Tiernan, an assistant corporation counsel, is dwelling In a Manhattan apartment with bis first wife and three children, including Baby Bllllo. whose paternity was tho basis for tho far-famed suit against Harry Poulin of South Bend, Ind. Professor Tlernan refuses to tell his Manhattan address, but let It be known that he is instituting insti-tuting action to annul his second marriage mar-riage to Mrs. Blancno Brlmmor-Tler- nan. hi hriiio of rmo finv TKiv tKIno which brought tho quickened heartbeat heart-beat was of course, astonishment a tho fact that an outsider could walk right into a Manhattan apartment Yea and bring along his wife nnd three babies, wlnle other people here about, were putting their offsprlng.-in offsprlng.-in orphan asylums, chloroforming the. eat and giving away the dog In a vain effort to Induce finicky landlords to put them on the waiting list for a two-room flat which might be vacant next July. The apartment problem, however is ; not one of the thlngu that trouble Mathew Fleming-, Jr This nine-year-old boy has run away 24 times so far. hut this week his 26th run-., ., i broke all records The enterprising young man succeeded in amasslnc three dollars. With this hoard he boarded an elevated train and for fourteen d.iys barring a few minutes or lunch and a hour off for sleep he rode up and down on the ' L" and in the subway, covering perhaps n thousand miles and spending SctlJ one dollar. He was interrupted Vv woman who noticed the sleepy bo? curled up In a corner. "I like to ?eC the signal light flash " young Mathew explained. |