The evening world., 1889-07-11
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
CHANCE SKETCHES DRAWN By EVENING
WORLD" REPORTERS.
An Accommodating Brother mud an Observe
mt al" RoRd Conductor.

HHA hoHu NoUuu''oEs
As the l. train reached Houston street and
stopped. with long drawn grinding and
squenking of wheels md brakes, n fair vision
of maidenhood stepped upon the platform of
the front car.
The car was not crowded.
Stand ing- room was plenty, Tut every seat
was taken.
Yet the maiden walked in with n confident
look and step, AMI aimed II bright and imme.
date smile at somebody in a seat near the
centre.
TIE somebody proved TO be n hoy Of per.
haps fifteen. the double. in eye and complex
ion, of the smiling girl.
He arose M she approached. and in n mo-
mcnt she was snugly placed in the seat he
had vacated.
The boy fingered, standing by her side. and
the two convcrsed hlithely MS the train went
ON.
The conductor on the platform had watched
the operation with half an eye, while with the
rest OF his optical apparatus he saw that
nothing went wrong near his gates.
As he rain started OH, the ~lotiiciai turned
to the reporter with n confidential wink and II
Jerk of his thumb towards the front ours
interior.
See TINT ?" said he,
The reporter did.
u" 1t hupucus every dav. Brother nm sister,
you know. Hoe mn errand boy way down
town and she " orks somewhere in Houston
street, He gets on ut the City Hall, where he
makes sure Of n seat, and she catches his
tran. which is apt TO he pretty full, and gets
the seat he always willingly gives up.
4 Lively and Lurid War between Two
vermIIIion-T Tinted stores.
An enterprising fancy goods merchant
opened II store on one of the main thorough
fares in Brooklyn recently and called it "the
red store"
The building was painted a light shade of
vermilion and was covered over with signs
printed i'll huge white letters.
1t was not long he,ore the merchant had
built up quite n good trade and il caugh the
eye of another man who was III the same line
of trade.
He saw that there was lots of money to be
made in II store OF that kind, and thought
that be would succeed If he opened n place
somewhat similar.
There stood n vacant store the second door
away aud he hired it. lie had 1t painted a
little darker shade OF red, and he, too, calls
his place the red store"
Merchant No. / saw this and il made him
%envious, and after much thinking he engaged
q painter and had him paint his building II
little darker shade of vermillon than the
newcomer.
The latter was bound to keep up the circus,
and he had n big sign pa nted advertising his
place us the " original red store"
BY this time both stores were painted O
shade of red that was almost black, and No. /
raw lhhI he COulu EO uO lurtuer. Ile Wdb
stuck for an idea.
Not so with his wife, however. She WINS n
widc-awake individual and cast her eyes on
the store that stood between the two rival
1" red " stores. II was vacant.
She had an idea, and she communicated it
to her husband. The next day the place
was hired and n gang of painters put to work
on it.
1t the present time 1t is painted n deep
black. and large yellow hands point down TO
the entrance OF the red store belonging to
No. /.
No. 2 gays he will ray big money to the
man that comes along and gives him an idea
that will down the other fellow.
He Was Particular About Everything Ex-
crpt the Towel.
An exceedingly neat young man went into
q lunch counter near the Post Office yester-
day and called for q glass of milk and a piece
of pie.
The glasses were as clean as water could
make them. yet the young man asked the
waiter 10 rinse one out before filling 1t with
milk for him.
He wiped his plate with a towel that hung
at the counter. and examined his pie crust,
top aud bottom.
When he had eaten his pie and drunk his
milk lie wiped his mouth on the towel at the
counter and walked out.
That's rather rough on the house, ~ re-
marked the waiter.
IEe young man WAS not consistent in his
fastldlousneSS for after being So particular
about the glass, the pate and the pie. lie
used n towel that had zen used by probably
a dozen men before him.