OUR BIG ANNIVERSARY NUMBER
THE NEW YORKER with this issue enters upon the second week of its existence. Plans for a Golden Jubilee Number have been cancelled, because of the unsettled situation in Europe. Instead, THE NEW YORKER contents itself with a reproduction of some typical scenes of the New York of its youth. This rare old print is believed to be a picture of John F. Hylan (Huy- lan?), Mayor of New York when the first issue of THE NEW YORKER ap- peared. From contemporary records it seems that he was the darling of the New York World, which insisted upon 1 life-long term in office for him and eten went to the extent of opposing him bitterly to insure its purpose. From this period dates the term "prac- tical politics." SROTANDOS MORIS LAORE REVUE The first board of editors of THE NEW YORKER. Many men who later became famous in other lines got their start on THE NEW YORKER. See if you can recognize Cotton Mather, H. L. Mencken, James G. Blaine, Ring Lardner, Frank Stockton and any two of the Marx Broth- ers. (In center.) The first issue of THE NEW YORKER was published within a stone's throw of Fifth Ave nue and Forty-second Street, the site here pictured. The printing plant was in Fortieth Street and in those days, because of the traffic, it was a long and difficult journey between the two places, and the return time less than thirty minutes. SEL was never This is the Astor Theatre, fabled in New York story and song. The editors of THE NEW YORKER, in the olden days, frequently dropped in there for a few moments to while away the time in con- templation of the antics of the Artists and Models. How many old New York- ers remember this scene! It is a picture of the Sixth Avenue Elevated, which ran along the avenge along which the Sixth Avenue Elevated now runo. 1 NAME .......... No joke, enclosed find $s for a year's subscription to The New Yorker. STREET AND No......... CITY AND STATE THE NEW YORKER, 25 West 45th Street, New York City, Dept. C.
