The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-28
WHAT WE ARE ALL TALKING AnoUr

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The house on the north side OF Union square wbIoh
Con Hancock lived in long ago. las for many Years
heen usei for business purpuscs and now IL Is about to
he torn down In it's place ~ arise a building eleven
stories high Most OF the spncs will he cut up into ONCE
rooms This will be tho first tall otro building IN mat
part OF tic city, almost tho Arst IN fari Annve Canal
street tho big ptructres recently nut up ON fih ava.
do not have IN any tenants for tie good r. ason that
Vt their space is used by ono or two interests
Single Offices and suites such as may be had In tho
Equitable tie Potter the Temple Court tie MIL. and
other down town sEy scrapurS well lifted up well
lighted and having the advantages of easy nccess and
swift elevator have zen wanted I'm town in tho
! Union and Madison sIua'e region hv many mon for a
long time. ts guto pr babie therefore that the nav
eleven story house o. vuon square Will prove pruu>
Ara'roau n'hh' WI" Ia an agent for an Eastern Eead
uoihs business WIN VI" we Western southwestern ana
Northweerh trunk hhcs says that ~ Icf cent Of the
emigraht uAV'' goes 10 tEe N"r Invest. About month
from now the ouh ot III" business Will have zen done
Tor the calendar ear from tha time until next spring
the traNei WI" NC 'he"N i"r business or pleasure THIS
same observer estmR'es t"St OF Ia" citizens Of the
United stAtesfn' w PER cent 81 U"'e moving from
their old Eastern homes 20 l" tie ww Northwrst in
preference TO the Middle ami southwest In general
tho Southwot seems To DO preferred to the middle
West The migration to the southwest and the South 10
more largely from the central western states than
from the East and New England
In that arid ugly cobbled triangle bounded hJ For
sythe street and tho forks Of Division street gather
each morning the FISH reddiers OF the downtown east
side They cry their wares IN Narions nnlnteliiRiOo
Polish women, keen at bargain and scornfully skep
teal of the reddlers fair words The peddlers never
opening the gis OF their nsh that customers
peep in, and continually protest that they sell at sac
rihce. Three cents pound mum, and shant make
q cent said the peddlsr to q middle aged woman,
Rh n fTnm he hFnW via
lie weighed out two hsh, declared them two pounds
and demanded six cents The woman shook her head,
and ho came down to nve cents Tho woman threw out
the smaller sh and the pedd"r said four cents for the
larger The woman turned to 60. but tho peddler rop
ped tho nsh into her basket crying Three cents then
and the transaction was promptly completed
You don't get rs much California wine In California
an you might expect from all you hear aboutit It's on
the wine lists In tho hotels and generally 10 placed be-
fore tho wines from the Bordeaux and Burgundy and
Champagne districts but 1t isn't often that the native
product is called for The California wines however.
sell for great deal less out there than charged for
them In New York city the prices in some cases being
almost nifty per cent less than hers 10 quite doult
TO get good whiSkoy In California Whisky dealers on
the railroad trains tell people whom they meetthaa
orders for whiskey from California have to he partcu
larly looked after. For example; barrel Of whiskeY
contains about As RaonG For Eastern consumption
there would be at least 80 and perhaps IS gallons Of
pure whskey in the BARREL the rest would he spirit1
California there would be only gallons OF
real whskey and the rest would DO spirits and other
utunn California likes beer. Beside lager they have
something called In the best hotels either
kind 10 twenty five cents q glass
II the new FIRE signal code which Chief Bonner has
been devising this year 10 complicated than
present ono as Is said tits indeed fearfuy and won
| derfully mado. Tho present system seems simple
enough in Its underlying principles hut It capable OF
astonishing deveopne nts A case in point occurred
tNa1 .on
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al calls beside In rapid succession Such an event
created the impression in every newspaper ONCE in the
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eentIeman with n Serena and humorous cast OF fnoa an
srsot nRur. and sm,Is that IA an much VIM
his countenanco as are his dropping glasses and elusive
blond noustache His mama ia Jnm.H Good win and he
IA CREATOR of idaaa la sells thu ideaa in tho rou1h
mases capital living and works ON oonsntodly With.