NEW YORK AND ITS PEOPLE.

Evening Star, Issue 16780, 8 July 1918, Page 4

NEW YORK AND ITS PEOPLE.

•'The iSew York girl," according to Mr Alexander >Sass, the Australian artist, who has just returned from Am-eriea. " is the smartest-dressed girl in all the world. This applies to all girls, from these who work in factories to those in the highest

society. _ _ "There is no home hie m .New York. People sleep in apartments and cat in restaurants. , "There is never a drunken manjn the streets. In the course of a year Mr Sass

saw one. " New York is a smokeless, dUHtiess citv. Traffic goes on day and night, in the subway, on the elevated, and the street cars. '•Public honesty is mo3t pronounced. At the newspaper'stalls people drop thair coins, take np their change, and walk away with the paper. These stalls may be unattended for hours, but never a coin is missing. If & parcel or mail matter is too laiWto go into the box it is left at the foot of the box until the postman comes round. >'o one ever touches anything. -In the Exchange Buffet, where 20,000 to 100,000 people dine daily, no bill k ever handed to the diner, who merely tells the cashier bow much he has eaten and pavs the money. No questions are asked'. 'No one ever refuses to pay tb,e due amount.