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...serene period of U. S. history. For young Clarence Day it was a great treat to visit his father's dusty Wall Street office on Saturday mornings, riding to work on the steam-driven Sixth Avenue Elevated, watching his father salute acquaintances by touching cane to ilk hat brim. He listened to bewhiskered brokers fuming about the proposal of the Knights of Labor for an eight-hour day, watched bookkeepers remove their detachable cuffs, carried messages through a financial district that rarely saw a woman visitor, never a female employe. Father lunched at Delmonico's, stopped for half...
Municipal government is notoriously bad but I doubt very much that even our Philadelphia authorities ever permitted Everett Shinn and ''a one-eyed Civil War veteran" to spend a night ''sitting on the 3-ft. hat brim of the 37-ft. statue of William Penn" atop our monstrous City Hall, as stated in your issue of March...
Artist Shinn now explains his story as follows: He and his one-eyed friend, following a brief visit on the statue's hat brim, moved inside the head & shoulders for greater comfort. Seeing the old man busily occupied astride William Penn's armpit, Artist Shinn asked what he was doing. "Writing a letter to posterity," the friend replied, and promptly fell down into the Penn elbow. With some difficulty Artist Shinn extricated...
...younger he practiced acrobatics until he became expert, haunted vaudeville theatres, performed somersaults in theatre lobbies, went home to try to repeat the stunts he had seen on the stage. Once he spent the night with a one-eyed Civil War veteran sitting on the 3-ft. hat brim of the 37-ft. statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia's City Hall. Just before dawn the oldster slipped off into the Founder's outstretched arms, unharmed...
...speed tourists and prospective suicides from Tokyo 59 miles to the Island of Oshima in 3½ hours. President Hayashi has provided all sorts of conveniences to get passengers from the landing dock up sulphur-belching Mihara-yama (Mount Mihara) to popular Suicide Point on the crater's brim. One may even ride a camel, one of the first three ever imported into Japan, all by Go-Getter Hayashi. Last week his publicity men, inspired by the windfall of a second triple suicide this year, excitedly conjectured "The God of Death must now have taken up his abode...