Pipe the Admiral!

THIS story goes back to a day just before World War I. A big War-Bond Drive was under way and the U.S. Treasury Department (to aid the Drive) had built a full-scale mock-up of a U.S. battleship in Union Square, facing Fourteenth street near the IRT subway kiosk. I was young in those days, holding my first job. I had whiled away the evening before, playing man-about-town in such fabulous, long-forgotten places as Shanley's, Rector's, revolving-dance-floor Murray's, Churchill's and the New Orleans Café.