JuneJune 2727 ,, 19251925 THE PricePrice 1515 centscents NEW YORKER . S - CC “ Thou Most Beauteous Inn ” - SHAKSPERE If the immortal Bard of Avon could speak such words of praise about a comparatively modest English hostelry , what could or would he have said , if BUGILEGG : living in our day , about the ideal loca . tion , the imposing loftiness and the architectural splendors of our own Majestic hotel RESTAURANTS Just a Few of Many Majestic Features UNSURPASSED LOCATION EVERY REFINEMENT NEAR SHOPS AND THEATRES COURTEOUS SERVICE ALWAYS Large COMFORTABLE Rooms SPACIOUS LOUNGE AND LIBRARY CONVENIENCE AND COMFORT DISTINCTIVE HOME - FEATURES FAMOUS FOR ORCHESTRAL MUSIC All Rooms Have Outside EXPOSURE LAND AND Sea Radio Service BEYOND THE CITY ' s DIN AND ROAR “ Best EVER ” BANQUETS AND SOCIAL LUXURIOUS Ball - ROOMS AND ART AFFAIRS SALON Write for Reservations and Descriptive Brochure Entire block Authorized Garage fronting on President Central Park Two West 72d Street Convenient Telephone Endicott 1900 MAIN ROOM GLOW ROOM GRILL ROOM The New YORKER , published weekly by the F - R Pub . Corp . , 25 W . 45th St . , New York , N . Y . Subscription $ 5 . Vol . I , No . 19 , June 27 , 1925 . Entered as second class matter , February 16 , 1925 , at the post office at New York , N . Y . , under the act of March 3 , 1879 . Copyright , 1925 , by the F - R Pub . Corp . THE NEW YORKER TUO Advisory Editors : Marc Connelly , Rea Irvin , George S . Kaufman , Alice Duer Miller , Dorothy Parker , Alexander Woollcott THE TALK OF THE TOWN Rewards The Week VER coffee in a lunch club , a group of bank - THE International Convention of Rotarians , in ers were amusing Mr . Barney M . Baruch 1 Cleveland , enjoys a snowball fight in the interest with the re - telling of a story in the Saturday of service in business and Mr . Roald Amundsen re Evening Post . turns from his North Pole flight . Mr . Robert M . The plot , they explained , concerned a young man , LaFollette is buried and Mr . Henry Ford warns Big of Jewish parentage , who devoted his life to playing Business to be good . Herr President Von Hindenburg the stock market . He hung over the ticker every day , invites Gott to line up with the Fatherland again and selling whenever what stocks he held showed him a the League of Nations decrees against the use of small profit , re - investing only after deliberation . His poison gases , or bacteria in the next war . The Com profits were small , cautious profits . mission on Race Relations finds that lynchings de One morning this young creased in 1924 and a mob , in man was caught unawares , in Utah , hangs a negro . the midst of complicated Yale , Harvard and Prince transactions , by the eve of the ton award many degrees in Jewish Day of Atonement . arts and letters and a young It was his mother ' s telephone lady , convicted of manslaugh call that reminded him , re ter , sells the story of her life proached him and begged him to a local journal . Woman ' s to observe it . The situation entire garb , it is announced , was worked up ; everything weighs less now than her hat material seemed to depend on did fifteen years ago and his ignoring the edict of his Father ' s Day passes almost religion ; all his spiritual wel MAYOR unnoticed . The Mayor of HYLAN ' S fare hung upon his obeying PEOPLE ' S Middleton , N . Y . deems July her . After a bitter struggle , CONCERT KEEP OFF 4 Defence plans silly and the young financier conquered THE General Pershing pleads for himself . He left a stop - loss MAYOR HYLAN ' S preparedness . order at his broker ' s office and PEOPLE ' S GRASS Mr . William Harrison retired into seclusion , sans Murumund BurnAF Dempsey asks $ 10 , 000 to give newspapers , sans telephone , muhimu a boxing exhibition in Vienna sans all . and a student who starved to The next day the market went wild . Unchecked death while working his way through college is by his conservative tendency to take small profits , he awarded a posthumous degree by the University of found his holdings had made him rich . Pennsylvania . The Moderation League reports that The bankers chuckled over the twist . drinking has increased greatly in the South and a “ Who , ” suddenly boomed Mr . Baruch , " wrote that Judge , hereabouts , observes that the sale of liquor is story ? ” not immoral . The Lutherans restore “ hell ” into re “ A man named Garet Garrett , ” someone answered . ligious usage and a boy flips a coin to decide whether Mr . Baruch was silent for a moment . He seemed or not he shall rob his employer . to be weighing the possibilities of the case . At length : The Mayor of a New Jersey town has not spoken “ Sounds improbable , eh ? ” in ten years to his wife , who lives with him , and the “ Utterly ridiculous ; preposterous idea . ” Duchess of Westminster is granted a divorce . In “ Well , it isn ' t , ” Baruch shot back , “ I told Garrett Colorado a Grand Dragon of the Klan is fined $ 1 , 500 that story myself . It ' s about me . That ' s the story and , in New Jersey , Klan candidates are triumphant of the first real money I ever made . ” in the primary elections . The naval officer who ap THE NEW YORKER proved the oil leases is passed over again for promotion draught beer , since he eschewed what was then known and Mexico is called to order about lack of respect for as hard liquor . A pair of steins still stood therein , American property . until its leasing , as a memento of the visit to the bar Mr . William H . Anderson sees a plot against of Prince Louis of Battenburg , over whom New York Protestantism in anti - Prohibition feeling and two bull - once went as wild as it did later over the Prince of dogs tear trousers ' seat from a dry agent following his Wales . Sir Thomas Lipton there drank his toast to appointed rounds . The Soviet removes an editor for the victor after one of his America ' s Cup defeats . living in too great style and Mr . William Randolph And , not the least of its glories , the Belleclaire bar Hearst and Mr . Arthur Brisbane negotiate $ 7 , 000 , 000 was credited by many with having been the birthplace worth of buildings in these parts . Mr . William Fox of the Tom Collins . admits that his personal insurance policies now amount to $ 6 , 500 , 000 and Lord Lee of Fareham denounces American movies as " trashy . ” Mayor Hylan picnics THE passing of charm , above or below street level , at Bear Mountain , on the Hudson , and citizens protest 1 is to be regretted . And one hears that Those that garbage scows pollute city ' s ocean beaches . Gorgeous Cellars , reached only after ordeal by kitchen Mr . Stewart Edward White is wounded stabbing a odors , have not been themselves since their con leopard and two men convicted of torturing a third flagration . are let off with a fine on the plea of their victim . The Once , of an afternoon , one saw top - hatted frag Salvation Army forms a corps to save bootleggers and ments of wedding parties lounging there , oblivious of Scotch retails locally ' at sixty - five a case . the suspicious glances of pink - and - white - shirted “ sales representatives ” from more up - and - coming ( and Passing drier ) cities wie . After the medley that was dinner , chic shop girls THE Belleclaire Bar at last has succumbed and is and inconspicuous debutantes ( of the still waters va to become a brokerage office , although for many riety ) ignored one another and the fact that their es years after the advent of Volstead , Mr . Walter Guz - corts were club - mates . Matrons came to look and stags zardi , proprietor of the Hotel Belleclaire , refused to to refresh themselves . turn the bar into a soft drink counter , maintaining The long , low room had that character so rare now it unused , with admirable sentiment , as a memorial of adays , that it needed no jazz band , nor any whirling times gone . celebrities , to amuse its patrons . Many notables have seen themselves in its shining The babble that cut its way through the smoke was mirrors , for in its day the Belleclaire was known as music enough ; there were sights more interesting than “ the best bar north of the Astor . ” It was there that silk - clad dervishes . The Bernaisians were sufficient Admiral Peary , surrounded by cronies from the Arctic unto themselves . Club , lifted the " godspeed " glass upon his departure Now , one is told , prices have gone up , undoubtedly for that exploration which led him to the North Pole . in an effort to pay for the less comfortable furnishings Woodrow Wilson , when a professor at Princeton , oc - of reconstruction , and the patronage of the Racquet casionally dropped in , his preference having been for has drifted elsewhere . One can ' t help but be sorry for the mint julep of his native South . Theodore Roose - the old captain who once piloted that precarious ship , velt was seen there ; his taste in refreshment ran to The Three Kings . MAX New Yorkers , Transient and Less Transient , THE NEW YORKER Search Eternal Hot and Cold COMES now the time of year when the offspring AMUNDSE AMUNDSEN is back ! Dethroned from the front of the Old Lady from Dubuque ce are taught do not , if a whereabouts page by grewmetropolitan too . dailies . when rumors of his they ' re willing to learn , that blonde curls do not a whereabouts grew too thin , he is returned to glory and Pickford make nor nasal tones a Cohan . banner heads . For Truth has again . proved better Hundreds of them are to be seen daily tramping up reading than Dame Rumor ' s fiction . Up and down and down the hot sands of Broadway .