The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-04
sUNBE4MS,

-"Amsraca's greatest bootbiAck " Is the sign Dis
played by . colored bootblAck on Eighth avenue.
Perhaps he builded better than he knew. for the name
is very close TO what some modern geographers say
was Its original form.
Gas companies In Brooklyn encourage the use OF
gas by Offering q handsome gas stove TO every person
that shall consume In a given time el0 worth OF gas.
The stove Is worth at least twice a. much. Some of
the New York gas companies also undertake to sup
ply gas stoves TO householders and others-
-one way from typewriting into business lies
through work In a real estate once. IL Il Q common
thing 70 md a typewriter young woman In such an
onioe well acquainted with many details OF the busI.
hess. II the ONCE force be small she IL often left TO at
tend 10 customers. and In this way knowledge Of tho
business becomes 20 her more and more . necessity.
Rear Admiral ~shufeldt, retired, who entered tho
navy In 1889, and did not reach his lieutsnancy tin
late in 'oS, apparently saw nothing ahead OF him At
that rate and left the service In 1854. not TO return to
IL until 1899. After that promotion came fast enough.
He was commander before the end OF the year, Captain
In 1907 commodorsin 1870, and Rear AdmlTAlin 1883.
There seems Of late years to have been a revival OF
the buggy In this town. IL Is a vehicle that is rural
rather than urban, and there was a time when the
nearest approach TO the buggy common In New YORK
was the trotting wagon with a top. Now. however,
one sees buggies In Central Park, and sons physicians
uss them In their daily rounds. while contractors and
othsr men who must get rapidly from place 70 placein
the course OF their work use the buggy.
The queer old woman well known along the Fast
River front As Apple Mary" surprised her customers
IN Two ways recently. She carried lemons instead OF
AppleA and she wore clean clothes. Apple Mary IL
OF ihdstsminats age-any~hsre from 90 TO 2OO-with
= simiAn face, and raIment that Il : marvel OF
patches, raSA and dirt Her feet are commonly tied
In cloths OF eneased In mems ShOeS she Is the butt OF
many Jokes, but usually takes them In good nature.
There Il = tradition that abe Was crossed In love.
"A single concern In New York has been turning
out for almost nfty years pewter tOys-the kind that
several generations Of children now recall. These
things are made BY the gross aud sold the country
over. Some OF them, a. tea setA are hawkcda boug
the streets, and are familiar things the country over.
IheJ sell by the gross AZ something between $50 and
$40. The factory Is a little, old-fA4hIoned house In
downtown street and the once, which occupies what
must have been the drasing-roOm Of the dwrllug iu
other days, has an old CRATE with brass OTnamrut-
With the turning Of The leaves It Il supposed thus
the no~ens d~iAapDeaT, but In northern New England
and over the une In canada, the asters Werc never
more gorgeous, the daisies bigger. or the ~chauomilo
more abundant than nov, lust On The eve uf frosI
time In towns tive or three hundred miles north ~
NeN York the short but warm summer seems t. have
10 truitAseA after the equinox. aud the parks and gar
dsnAin hsse towns are brilliant with msriEo,is, ain
niA1' astsra eOzmoA and even sweet peas, long gone By ,
n uhese lautudeG Aeons are 10 their prime " NAAs
- asJ arc 400 On ale IA Nss Yea