The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-04
WHAT We ARE ALI TALKING ABoUs

n minute when you have done 90 you are TO touch
spring and already developed photograph Of your
self promised What really appears is donko!
head, worked ON the Jack the box principle.
They clothes wrnger for letter press in one o.
the largest Of the Wall street telegraph Offices The
messages to be copied are treated usual until the
time for the putting OF them into the press them In
stead Of the ordinary press which 1t takes uO
and muscle the message and damp tissue copy
paper are simply run through a clothes wrngor The
rubber rollers every purpose OF press and the
operation almost aud much easier than
tho usual way Tho machine is placed at basement
window, and there is always little hrong the side
walk watching the boys wiring out messages
Frances Tavern the Old building in Broad street
which Is about the last genuine Washingtons head
quarters left in New York being extensively altered
The first floor elevated several feet above tho pave
and the walls have been knocked out at the
ner preliminary to low ering the floor and doing away
with the necessity for steps up into thu saloon that at
present occupies the premises There considerable
doubt the stability OF the ancient walls and elab-
crate preparations were made for keeping them
from tumOlng down while the changes were DO.
ing made. when the workmcn to tear
away tie bricks however, they found them solid
as rock, aud they had to DO knocked on in hits.
Builders who have examined them that there not
u solder building in New York to day than this one
which put up by Dutch bricklayers couple of hun
dred years or Hgo Relic hunters have eagerly
red OF fragments of the old building which the masons
have knocked out OF the walls The bricks are the
thin oldfasioned sort ycowish in color. which were
imported from Holland.
"lf this thing keeps on said map printer the other
day, "we'li all have to go into bankruptcy. wehadnt
got our United States maps fixed up with North and
south Dakota before tho Brazil revolution knocked
South America endwise, and now Wyoming aud Idaho
are turned into States Africa has to be fixed over
every six months aud the latest and most serious
change of all ia in this German English arrangement to
knock out Ie!igo.and fr m tho British empire That
all our maps of Europe. 1t would almost pay the map
makers of the world TO chip in aud buy the nasty little
island in order to make present of 1t to England and
save the expense Of getting up new maps of Europe"
II the ordinance forbidding tho throwing of banana
peel the payemens were enforced for a week, and
all the fines imposed were paid, the taxpayers could
take a month of The streets are Uttered with the
treAcherous peengs all about tho Post Otce and City
Hall ard there daily falls and strains caused By
their slipperiness
The signatures of Boss Tweed, A. T, Stewart John
Claim. and other weLknown men to a single paper are
displayed in the window of Nassau street bookstore
The document Is the original OF the subscription list for
stock in insurance company which TO have been
founded IN the days when Tweed was in his prime
The Boss tie largest subscriber OF the lot being
down for $1,000 in ono place and 5000 in another.
Stewart took 5000 worth.
1t would not be supposed that anywhere within sight
OF New York city tere railroad where cattle still
disputed the rightd way with the locomotive but on the
railroad from he Weehawken ferry to the Gutten-
burg track it isa common the train
TO slow down while tho fireman climbs out in front Of
the locomotive and throws chunks of coal at cows that
have strayed upon the track and insist on galoping
along ahead OF the locomotive instead Of being scared
OF. The road runs most OF tho way through q lot
OF unmproved land q top of the Palisades which has
been used for many sort of commons for the
pasturing OF the COWS OF the neighhorhood and no
fences have yet beet put up along tho tracks. Its
cheaper tho companythinks TO coal and the fire.
men preventive otaccidenta
The public s Occasionty shocked at the sentiments
OF theatrical men towlrd tho women of the stage.
young lady resigned by place in comic opera COM
pany In this city the or day because the stage mana
ger said that she and til other feminine members Of
the chorus reminded nm OF lot of goatA she ad-
mitted that they may Mve Icon awkward but she
ddnt feel II she could uand such epithet that
There is nothing 30 starting to ssge.sruck young
man or woman tho bullying Indifference and brutal
manner In which ladies OF thechoruB are treated by
| stage managers Undoubtedly HE artificial nature Of
stage life has its effect upon who are
| brought in contact with ! daily An orches-
| ira leader has rsently been abused
| by the newspapers for interpolating some
OF his own compositions in Int opera scores In this
city remarked that no could aderstand the feelings
the cornetist who killed hm'lf he could ne
longer look upon the painted faes OF the chorus girls
and view their sereotyped shlos night after night
throughout the year. The e,t of the awful contom-
pntion, said the leader, is culuanNe Every night
grows until one EelBto condition of peevish
and exaggerated impatience. don't feel like
hitting suicide exactly, but have often had great
desire to take a gun TO the theae and shoot Of
| tho CLASSY aud woodeny uffende."
Mr. Whitney Ia as brown as a TRY and he looks ten
| years younger from the result his European trip
| He has also grown much thinne the result OF good
| deal OF hard riding in England Both he and Mrs.
| Whitney are exceedingly fond eluestriamism but
| Of IL in N.uy I,Fk r.tyba
though most of their horses aretre and their resi-.
| dence Is very near the Park iWashington the
Secretary rode continually and ts liz true London
and Newport lie says that he is ways getting ready
TO ride when lie Is in New York. butt is Impossible to
get the time. The pressure OF airs is great that
the only trip that is feasible IN the Forming rapid
ono from Fiity-seventh street 10 he Mills building.
Once there MIR Whitney /; practcRy booked until late
in the afternoon and so ais hnnterare nearly always
ridden by his grooms for exercise. lie Whitneys
prominent In establishing afternoon des as the fashion
in New York last wintu. and for while they led q
little group of society people who went out for II
O'Clock canter. Prior u that the Oriety people did
most of their riding il lie morning Mr.. Whitney stole
time enough from the Nils biding help tho fashion
get under way, but he had to give up after short
time although tho family wal for long while
scented at tho regular hour b! Mrs Whitney a six
teen hand sorre followed at asAnCe Of 100 feet or
| by u rather sedate.looAnG groom.
lam glad to see in Tax sUs an occasional intima-
|
| German periodical 'that Emn Pasha is great man.
| There is u good deal in natioul.ity. You know In
Germany nobody eve hears or thnhs of STANLEY, Emin
is the great man. and'tanley puSnug outsider. With
| the Americans End th English stanley is hero while
| Emin 10 sort OF nbGlous Ier-Oa who does not do
anything of impor AFRO EXCEPT 60 ~ IN the woods and
get lost careful etimat" Of the two men would not
IN the least affect stnleys great and sterling qualities
| AZ an explorer, ut 1t would emphasize the
fact that Emin IsIne OF tn" men Of the century
| DESPITE his somewRt cRniankerous disposition. lie
has the grit of a bldog, the knowledge of savant,
and the governing biues OF a great commander. His
ripe schOiarshp extraordinary command Of Languages
| and dialects and :reat range of general knowledge
| made him famous mong Germans even before he got
| into the nerre liIt of African publicity. lie is no.
| however a man Thon tho people love AS they love
| Stanley The gut sturdy bearing of the African
plorrr il cut! ely Hercnt from the contentious
ner which is Characteristic OF Emin lie il one Of the
most .rrair crearss In the word, but he is the
less great man
"Thr SUIT whicHas been brought by Mr.. Mackay,"
sad one Of the in the stokes MaCkaY case yes