NEW YORK AND ITS PEOPLE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Issue 3941, 8 July 1918, Page 2

NEW YORK AND ITS PEOPLE.

"The New York girl," according to Mr Alexander Sass, the Australian artist, who has just returned from America, "is*the smartest-dressed girl in all the world. This, applies to all girls, from those who work in factories to those in the highest society.

"There is no home life in New York. People sleep in apartments and eat in restaurants.

"New York is a smokeless, dustless city. Traffic goes on day and night, in the subway, on the elevated, and the street cars.

"Public honesty is most pronounced. At the newspaper stalls people drop their coins, take up their change, and walk away with the paper. These stalls may be unattended for hours, but never a coin is missing. If a parcel or main matter is too large to go into the box it is, left at the foot of the box until the postman comes round. No one ever touches anything.

"In the Exchange Buffet, where 20,----000 to 100,000 people dine daily, no bill is ever handed to the diner, who merely tells the cashier how much he has eaten and pays the money. No questions are asked. No one ever refuses to pay the due amount."