The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-12
NEW FORK NoTrs.

east sido for the summer season There seems o he
more soda water drunk there thnn anywhere else in
the city. Prlces two. and three cents glass
The highest price Is for new naror which seems to be
fashionable on the side though It has not yet ap
rarently become known elsewhere II is spelled IN
different ways. but the usual spelling seems 10 bc
motarene Rose THIS is the cosest flavor that there
Ia Another popular flavor. which sells for only two
cents s rosbery according TO the soda water spelling
Some of the downtown business houses in advertis
ing for boys specify that Brooklyn boy is preferred
Some Of them think that tue Brooklyn boys less
likely to become wicked than tho New York boys.
Though q roundsman may be reduced at any time by
the Board Of Police. II Ia place which Is much
sought after AMI harder get an from
roundsman to Sergeant. which lasts. There almost
always 5000 candidates for roundsman. as every
qualified patrolman would like to be a roundsman, and
he has influential friends he gets them to try to have
him made one. only roundsmen are qualified to be
promoted to seigeants and as there arc about twenty
i've patrolmcn to one roundsman the fight for tho
Sergeantcy not bitter Every district leader has
list Of patromen who want to become Sergeants and
tho list is usually so long that the last will have
to wait until ho has another strip OF blue ABOUND his
sleeve before he gets his promotion.
oTcial slang and political slang have . tendency to
tho fewes number of words express idea and
the fewest number of sylabies to make the word
noted. "brole" instead of dismissed from the service
got at" to mean that has been successfully
induced to do something "bu!l" to signify influence.
favoritisn and Official friendship: pulled to sum up
what happens when squad Of policemen make a mum.
Der OF prisoners At once from the same place. fell
down" to show that thero has been final failure In
what was undertaken. done up" in the OF the
demolition and crushing Of some ono. These few
samples little thought will enable any one add
number of others. They show the tendency OF ono
class OF popular slang to brevty and sentent,ousnes
The young men who own bicycles with two wheels Of
equal and big rubber tires have found that the slot
for the cable Broadway makes good running path
for thcm. Some of tho young clerks who work down
town and are able to get to their oces At m hour
when broadway 10 not crowded with too many trucks
and cars, ride to their offices on their bicycles.
Ono OF the city Marshals who took vacation recent
ly and went to France found what a big man a
Marshal there is and how much Marshals badge
amounts to- lie started to go to several places OF pub
lie interest in Paris at hour whom they not
open to the public. Al the entrance he was stopped
and told rat tho places closed lie said that
was an American and had only short time to stay In
Paris and that II he could in then It would be
too late. That made difference until he hap
pened to put his hand in his trousers pocket for
change with which to try to bride the
attendant. His coat was unbuttoned. and his arm
pulling back the lapel showed his big city Mar
shals badge In blue. gold and gilt, with tho word
Marshall it big enough to be read ten feet away.
A. tho Frenchman saw the word Marshal he
bee obseQuious. The American Marshal as the city
Marshal became known. was shown around with
great deal of consideration. and the Frenchman de.
clined to accept a fee.
Many walters have hands that moro callous than
blacksmths or ironworkers. Tho callousness comes
from carving hot plates coffee pots and the like The
heat TO fry their skin and to make cad sur
face to keep them from being burned by things thAta
with ordinary hands could not stand 1t may have
puzzled people who go to restaurants to notice
how the walters hold things in their hands for some
time which hot for the hands OF the people at
the tables to pass to another This Is the
plantation thu the walters hands become caous and
hard tho tough skin tho surface has
feeling than piece Of horn