The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-25
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT OWN.

One young business man In New York has suos
ceeded in making himself valuable to his EN-
ployers in a peculiar way. He started in mer-
camille life with a firm that has a large number
Of employees, and the indications were that
progress along the ordinary lines Of the business
would be very slow indeed. 1t was only by ac-
cident that an opening suddenly came which
made this particular man almost indispensable
to his employers. and the recipient of a salary
proportionately large. The firm of which he 10
a member happens to have important social re-
lations with many OF its large customers, who
live in different cities over the United States.
There is scarcely n day that does not bring one
day this young employee was called upon to at
tend to such u visitor, and he did 1t with n tact
tude for such transactions. Gradually other
duties were handed over to him, and
before q long time had passed ne WAS relieved
himself exclusively to what might be called the
social end OF the firms business. His salary has
been raised several times. i'll view Of the capable
manner in which he attends to these transac-
tons and takes the burden off the principals in
the business. He represents tho members of his
firm at funerals, weddings. and all social func-
tions. travelling, sometimes TO remote points for
grows daily greater they hold him in proper
tionatcly higher esteem. His case was one in
stance In which certain unusual talents asserted
the ability TO I'LL a particular sphere capably.
Mme. NOTulCH . lTlcIluS utTt hTc waiting Win
considerable interest to learn just what the
new form OF entertainment is that she will give
In London. She is to sing as an accompaniment
to a lecture called unpublished Interviews
with Celebrities" that an American is to do
liver in London during the coming season.
These interviews are said TO include a number
with musicians and singers, and Nine. Nordica
will illustrate the talk with musical selections.
What the exact nature OF the lecture is, or the
character OF Nine. NOrulCH y contribution to H..
has not been announced, The London advocates
of singing Rrunnhiide with Jean de Rcszke.
There is an immense amount of politics about
the Covcnt Garden seasons, and tho en-
are always the result Of no end OF
the director. Maurice Grau is not able to act
which he looks after the Metropolitan's affairs.
He is the first manager to have assumed direc-
he IS employed. The former impresarios have
taken tho risks Of the season, and it is said that
Sir Augustus Harris's control OF the opera was
no complicated with the management Of his
other enterprises that nobody knows TO this day
whether the Covent Gardens. seasons during re-
to- fS"s secure sSnrs H MSSr Gesn & GTS".@ lhs Or air mS1t !" OF Sra tSe
company offered him a salary which, while it
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compensation for his services there. Tho old
directors' such as Gye, Mapleson, and Harris,
profit dependent on tho success OF the seasons.
Mines Levick left to his son the curious old
cottage in which he had lived for a third OF a
century in the annexed district. II was rather "a
striking looking house even for that ncighbor-
hood, and IL was situated in a region which was
selected many years ago by a number OF actors
as n place in which TO build homes. There
are still II half dozen men living in that region
who were well known On the stage years ago,
but not all OF them grew, AS Mr.. Leyick did,
prosperous from their Investment, .llo spent
all his earnings in adding to the plot he had
originally purchased, and managed eventually
to acquire IA fairly large holding, The house
was "A white frame cottage only Two stories high,
and with "a narrow piazza running across tho
front OF the building to the second story. Thu
main entrance was there, although the ma
Jority OF people entered the building through
the door on the street level. The house sLoodi N
the midst OF u large yard