The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1920, Page 17

nA , MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1920 The “Land of the Free” Inducement Ht HMA ANG | | rom Hotel ' Threatens to Swamp Ellis Island; amie y~ ee 26,710Immigrants Arrived Last Week edie ho se at ee a mmissioner Wallis Instils Americanismb Hat Check Boy Now 0 T i roviding Them With Patriotic Band Concerts) -———— SS eck Boy Now Owns T wolnns: The Island Puts Up Mammoth Lunch Boxes for the |SUITS ME . ASK VOU ONE Harry T. Choucherie, McAlpin Porter, Has Acquired His Gee Travelling Aliens; Fruit, Sandwiches, Cracker I'LL TAKE ir QUESTION See oh Mann intel as acai read, Cheese end Bolegta ter $1 Colonial, in Harlem, Was Leased for $250,000. Harry S 9 Noll en: . Former Astor Hat-Check Boy at $6 a Week, Now my to oY, Fay |,Stevenson. wes ee Two Road Houses; His Income is $50,000 a Year. has always been an interesting place. 2 Marguerite Dean. E But to-day we watch the island, where so many enter to eventually Guprright, 1999, by Bh ee On (The New Tork Mrentna Wertd), into the melti i Mi es ence Biata be Mite te ¢ Pe dpyperrechy sigiahde Vande there F Horace Gresley were alive to-day would he say “Go West, young man? Reeauas of the new Commissioner, Frederick A. Walls. He would not—if he possessed his old keen eye for budding opportanity, ‘The detention quarters are already overcrowded. Every night hundreds He'd aay, “Go into a New York hotel, where the tipping is good.” a are Lenenepipoetdbe ty bye bebadhsgrct sont Hoos had aight Ses the datly You und I will never be millionaires, But ours is the sweet satisfaction bo peg ote pnpaptsed se alionas any. le Wrest the inmertees of knowing that the dimes we give to the hotel hat-boys, the quarters: ‘ off their boats in time to permit the ships to sail on aghedule. ‘The we bestow on hotel porters, are helping to build the fortunes they—net woe ‘warehouses on Governors Inland have been suggesied a@ one solution of the ‘WAY aie poussesin: problem of curing for these hundreds of immigrants untll they can be For in the news of yesterday we foad that the former head porter of Getpond to Hautorn and Western Giutes—thélr ultimate destinations the Hotel McAlpin, Harry J. Choucherie, has just acquired the second of the chain of hotels which he hopes to run—having leased the first for a gross rental of $250,000 Just six months ago. Mr, Choucherie’s newest acquisition SWEOISH AND sSlLovac ‘NORWEGIAN WOMAN is the Elmwood Hotel, Nast Orange, N.J., and John Cruse, for many yoarw leWlworan AND, a buyer and manager for New York restaurants, ‘will manage it for him, j Lest March he leased the Colonial Hotel, with 200 rooms, at Eighth Avenue and 125th Street. At that time he expected to keep on his job of head porter at the MoAlpin, but it was eald at the hotel to-day that he had resiened presumably to devote all his time to his expanding business enterprises. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 192 TA) SO MANY PEOPLE aN “ OBIECT T CHILDREN ya) ) ’ . IN AN APARTMENT C*5 y ; House IGN THis LEASE NO THE FLAT IS Tan at Lynbroek, L. 1, both houses pis he popular resorts ix the motorisis. About a year i Tho World nome leteresting detalle about the financial scope of his busi-” average conceasion,” he sald, “ooste me between $5,000 and $€,000 WHAT DOE THEY ARE i ITALIAN RESERVIST and HS WAR BRIDK Mra. Lewie F, Nixon, wife of the Publis Service Comissioner, ts to or- wanize a committees of women work- we to help immigrants over the rough places. She proposes to have three ‘central committees—Recreation and Entertainment, Americanization, and Relief. Mrs, Nixon recently re- turned from abroad, where she @udied and learned that @ great part of the population of Central Purope mraniferted a desire to migrate to America. “I am doing all I can to American- fae these people who come to our shores right at the start," said Com- ‘miestoner Wellis. “for several Sun- days I have have been having con- certs out on the lawn and trying to make them feel the epirit of the United States, During the first of our exercises I have “America” sung er “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and although these people don't know the ‘words or even the tune they realize the wonderful spirit of it all. The men take off their hats, they all stand and many have teara Im their eyes as we welcomo them to the land of the free and the home of the brave, Old Glory floats over our heads as we lls- ten to a concert given by some mus\- cal asaociation, as the Hebrew Shel- tering Society; we have a well-known singer, and I feel it makes a, big dif- fereneo in the general Americaniza- tien of the people,” 7 “And how do you feel about ad- * mitting these people?” I asked this large, kind faced, blue-eyed Commis- sioner. Commissioner Wallis held up his hands at my query. ‘fHow do I feel bout admitting so many?” he re- peated. “Just this way—I am always glad to admit deserving: immigrants who will become good citizens and give us the clasy of labor we need. “Tt is interesting to know the length of the Ine purchasing tiokets for the West and then the one purchasing tick- eta for Bustern States,” Commented the Commissioner, “It takes one inter- preter to handle the immigrants who yo to the East and seventeen to attend to those going West.” Naturally these iinimigramte who are going on long journeys have no money to eat oi) Pullman dining cars. Yhe island has provided large inch boxes selling at $1 and $1.50 which they may purchase and enjoy along the way, The boxes are filled with rut, sandwiches, crackers, bread, cheese, bologna and are enough for large familive, How does the stranger within e strange land feel? I thought 1 looked at the worn, pinched faces of he women, most all of them hugging Hildren tw their breasts aud laden down with family baggage. . One Slovak woman partiowarly drew eur attentian ka she walked up and gown the detemtion 00m as a ligress parades in its cage, She ywus most ploturesaue in her native oos- vume an, quite fascinated the artist's eye in Mer brilliint display of color A full but almost Parisian ekirt, as to ite dhortness, of green worwted material, gray woollen stockings, a ‘lack silk blouse with embroidered pink roves, @ dark blue apron over ther Ber Cand" eaded Just anather omiesto RUSSIAN REFUGES bit of color which even surpessed the Ttalian beauties. Commissioner Walls takes aa much personal tnterest in his imm!- grants as a host in hie guests. When- evor he sees a tired mother standing with a ohild in her arms he places a chair for her, and in retunn receives an appreciative emile. ‘The Com- missioner found that cold inilk-Wwas being served to infants, and this caused much unrest and sickness, but since he has been on the island he has ordered nothing but warm milk to be given tiny bubies. Wo passed through the room where all foreign money |s exchanged and by the famous kissing post where mothers and obildren have kissed and moet for the finst time in’ years, where ted lovers meet and where even 9 men (beards and all) kisy each other. But of all the interesting sights upon the island perhaps the baggage tells the biggest story, the story of the immigrant himself, When you see the immigrant down at the Battery and see his solitary pack upon his shoulders, do not pity him and think that is all he pos- geages in the WIDE world. Fear not. he has brought his trunk along, and frequently his wicker basket and ‘nts rugs. Turkish and Armenian rugs are common sights, beautifal affairs which would make antique lovers rave, ‘There are Engllah cheats over 200 years old, Irish tin trunks, Italian wooden trunks and Dutch leather and canvas trunks with braas handle poliehed until they shine and twinkle, ‘Where are they going? Where will little old New York put them all? ‘The answer, thank beavens. is the fong line at the window going West and Commissioner Wallis’a state- ment that over two-thirds of the im- migrants go there OVING a man too much te Ite L feeding him too much; he be- pomes emotionally fat and toi id in the o: nd a physi eavyweight in the other. ‘That the temptatign of unstock- inged feminine legs on a (bathing beach menaces public morality in a discovery which almost certainly was made by @ blind man. Any woman would rather be mar ried to a man who doesn't love her, provided he tells her he DOBS, than to one of those silent, strong creatures who prides himself on being unable to utter his affections. When a man grumps about hie coffee but drinks two cups, ruehes for hs train without idssing his wife woodby, brings home a box of candy but forgets Johnnie's new cap—about which he hay been remin four times—goes to sleep in the library after dinner, the woman he has mar- tied knows that his day has been passed In a state of normalcy. No woman has phimbed the depths ot domeatio boredom til! another woman interest in her husband faila to send her shooting to the surface ‘They talk about a woman's cruelty, but a man can hurt her uncon sciousty im more ways than ehe could think of to hurt him if she spent her life in the effort. The American man is openly ready to be a pal to a woman and secretly ready to indulge his passion for her, but the reactions of romance—moom light, hand-klssing, pretty words and flawere—seem to him a sheer waste of time, THIS MEAN 2 You Told Ne ‘You HAD No CHILDREN wanted me to come up t house thia evening, but"—— began Mr. Jarr. “You did perfectly right,” put in Mrs. Jarr_ without giving him time to “You did perfectly right, is not your place to get famillar with those people. Isn't he the very stocky man who com: in his shirt in goods are ivered at your firm's?” the very party,” replied Mr, But 1 was going to say that it wasn't for the social amenities that Fritz asked me to his dwelling place, near the brewerles.” “I'm glad you did: near the breweries!" snapped Mrs ught there were no more breweries “You should worry about the brew- ." said Mr. Jarr—"the near beer ———— Maxims ofa Modern Ber Martusrite Mooese Hage! Copyright, 1920, ‘Press Publishing Co (The New Vick Evening World) sing of commission are much more forgivahie than sins of NOT MINE Copyright, 1920, by The Frees Publishing Co. (ihe New York Rveutug World) stuff the breweries brew these ro- lubition days"—— “Well, I'm sure I didn't bring up the subject!" Mrs, Jarr retorted “You come home here and commence to brag about how the shipping clerk lives beside a lot of breweries and you Wish me to move in such a hood! among near-bear breweries". “Children, leaye the room! interrupting his protests. “Would anybody belleve It, if they knew you came home and started to quarrel violently with me in the Presence of these lambs, because a shipping clerk brags to you he livés in a brewery—whaen I thought the Government had suppressed them! Now, please, please do not repeat continued Mrs, Jarr. “I only know that when I did object and when I asked you not to say another word for the sake of the children, you commenced to roar at me!" “But, my dear,” pleaded Mr. Jarr, “I didn't roar at you, I don't intend to roar ut you.” “Then you sit there glum and silent and it's all the same thing. Just when I was Interested to know why the shipping clerk did invite you to call at his house, you ait glum and silent!” “But I'm not sitting glum and silent, I was going to tell you whu Frits’ wanted me to come up to his house for.” I don’t wish to hear {t! Please don't say another word on the mat ter!" Mrs, Jarr commanded. I was going to tell you that Pritz's rister {sa trance medium and gets the most wonderful messages over t oulJa board, and as all you women a erazy about the oulja board’ “a “Well, my gracious! I don't Aes any harm in that,” interposed Mra. Jarr. “If people get consolation out of messages from the spirit world why should you criticise if {t oomfarta them?" "But Pritz'a slater ts hysterical about it,” Mr. Jurr went on, when he had a chance. “She shricks when she gets messages and says there'll be a death What have you got to do with it?” asked M "he replied. "1 el to go and mix in the matter. ad his nerve asking me! Ho thinks T have same infliwnce with the yeterical Women because I'm married I told him he was married, tao.” “And you must have told him 1 was!” cried Mrs, Jarr. “The Idea of saying such a thing about me to those na q bates And Mre, Jerr hywterica! at tne thought, P oPhie, fis Coprrigist, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co (Thy Now Vork Kvfoing World) HE following story was told to me by Mr. M. He was working in 4 shop where a number of men were employed. They were do- ing piece work. ‘That is, they were paid for the amount of work they actually performed, There came a new employee into this ¢hop who knew yery litle about the work. At the end of the day this new man told Mr. M. that he hadn't worked for ever so long, thut he had a family with several children and that they didn’t even have a pi bread in the house to ext upon Mr, M. advanced him his day's wages in order to buy food. And continued for days to do this, Tt was plainly evident, however, that the newcomer would not be at to hold the job unless he learn more wbout the trade, so M, “took him jn tow,” as it were, and stood by him. Step by step he taught him just a8 he would one of his own. ‘He worked overtime in his efforte to do this, New kinds of work came into the shop, and these too had to be learned. M. was indefatigable in his efforta to help the man. After a year of hard effort on the part of hia Good Samaritan, this fellow was able to do moat of the work in the shop. He was most profuse in his grat tude to M Now it happened that work became rather slow In this shop and the " hud to whut down part of thy work Going Down. Comrright, 1920, by The Press Publiniing Oo (The New Drening Work. AR POLITICIANA' A candi date is never greater than his party, A pe never smaller than tis candidate The individual is weak where party is strong, Phe candidate what the party has reverse is wlac t is knocking It can sland may make mivtakes—(he pa It there be war, let it be betweer parties, not Individuals Pernonalities dangerous and they get us nowhe Youre truly. ALNALYA UMETEL, f cordi M— was out of a job for a tittle while, very week he waited to get word come back but it did not come, Finally he went around to the place and asked the boss about when he might expect to resume work. To Nis astonishment the boss told im that he had fund a man who would do the work of the shop much chéaper, a man who would hire his own helpers and thus relieve him of the responsibilities, and that M— ces were no longer required a Imagine hia surprise and chagrin to find that the man who had replaced him by offering to do the work at a ower price wna the very man whom he had taught all he knew about the business, He could hardly believe his ears, The ingratitude of it all wae appall- ing. Ho did not harbor hate, but went to the usurper Ike a man and asked him why he had done this thing. Whereupon the man coolly told hin that this was a free ovuntry and that he had @ right to better bimself if he could, But somehow, ax usual, Nemesis was on the job. The man succeeded in making a Considerable sum of money my undermining his benefac- tor. But almost from that day his troubles begin. His wife died and two of his ohil- n The doctor wan fore at the t The troubles drove this man wavy drinking and just a short ago he too had to dle M. hud to change his shop and ull over wun. But success He too has several they are all on a fair eliance He has edu- cated them and gjven them every opportunity ‘T am not sorry that I helped that man a4 I did," said Mr. M. “I have no malice. Hut somehow I cannot help but feel that people get pald back for ingratitude L don't know how iu feel about it, erhaps ill pay to brand jown in the scale ai 4 human. Grasping the very bread from the mouth of a fellow worker, as it were, is not unlike the beasts of the forest. Certainly it is not good for one te think about late at night When the lighte are oul, “I began life as an express wagon Mr. Choucherie told The Pvening World at the time of his purchase of the Colonial, “and was getting $160°a month twelve years ago. But I wanted to be a hotel man, I quit the express wagon business and went to work as a porter for the Belmont Hotel at $25 a month. IT worked there six years and learned Then I connected with the pin and worked up to be head rand chief of the transportation there six years, tow did [ do it? Why, I just de up my mind to do it, A man is nothing more than he believes he is. I belleved that I would have a hotel of. my own some day and now I have it, But I'm not going to stop here, T believe a man can be what- ever he wants to be. Apparently he can—if he locates a claim in the gold mine, which is the tipping urea of any big hotel, For take the famous case of the Susskind brothers, Harry J. and Joseph A. -Check Kings,” Broadway them, though the some- word “enterprises” 1s Harry's name fn the telephone . with his iness address, No. reot, Two years ago Joseph cht sult against his brother for an accounting and a ali solution of the partnership, He sorted thun that out of the hat-cheel concessions which he und his brother had at Rector’s, the Knickerbocker, Bustanoby'’s, Churehill's and other restaurants and — hotels, — three- Quarters of a million Was the gross Income for ten years Harry Susskind became proprietor of the Pelham Heath Inn on the Pel- ham Parkway and Blossom Heath year. y twice that sun, There are more han 260 on my weekly payroll. average salary is $20 9 week; men working for me who get even $50 a week. have to bu; uniforms and | bave the e: this office. My losses last year we! $9,000, “If a tur coat is lost, I make good. I often have to pay $6,000 or $6,000 for the checking concession at a restaurant before it opens, 1 restaurant fails, do I get $6,000? Ido not. I'm out of “When | began as a hat check wt the Hotel Astor I got $6 a week, © and I was glad to get it, 1 made it a point to give service, 1 learned the names of the patrone of the hotel ‘and I studied thelr bats. It pleaser & hotel or restaurant guest to | called by: name, and he ix glad to tip for it. Nine people out of ten are wad tip if they get satisfactory seeyle Harry Susskind was known as the most efficient hat check boy the Hotel Astor ever had. He nqw controls. more checkroom concessions than any other man in New York. In jess than a dozen years his Income jumped from 46 a week to $50,000 a year, And there are othe! Wheh the old Knickerbooker decided to stop be- ing a hotel, Charles Moran, one of the Y-— uniformed automobile starters, went into the banking business, The head porter, Owen Martin, to estate in Ireland, You know the Horatio Alger kind of thing—"From Newsboy to Million~ alre,” “From Office Boy to Railroad Magnate"? Horatio’s successors ought to write a whole new series—“From Hat Check Boy to Billionaire,” “From Sahel to Hotel Magnate." Nothing to It! LILIAN Little Lillian Halbaoh, the fourteen: year-old tennis with her right hand, although she is pentheners eft hand, Lillian is a handy little girl und things any nermal girl dees, q