The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-13
1ITB TOPTos ABoUr roWN.

The spectaoular young man who came cut Of
the West several weeks ago with half o dozen
trunks filed with weird Chicago clothes 10 teach
New York mon how to dross has been very suo-
c~essfully eclipscd By Duke Palmer, handy
observation-disclosures and business manager to
her Highness, Mrs. John Dominis, once queen
Of the Hawaiian Islands. New Workers. who
saw him around his hotel on Sunday say that
his dress was original. 1t was also symbolic.
Duke" holds q masters certificate, and no wore
was furnished with q velvet collar, and ono man
uniform Of he zenEIbar marines than anything
shrunkcn duck trousers COS model and slip
Pcrs completed his costume, To an inquisi-
tive visitor tho Duke explained tho navy
q have put on this coat, no said, because I
once of the Queen. Ordinarily I am not
eshamod to wear the coat that Is lying on tho
Tho coat that tho Duke referred to as good
sQuare-cut duck Jacket with brass buttons,
S Tnicn So 80 fS Mo the % Spake rs ' ATTIRE 0 %as sh Sri PEesi.
but his white lawn tie, fastened at the knot with
eounterparts on the Bowery. and Coney Island.
IN The o white n lsSR SS% t ,ia Tlt6 6r a tew = 9 led t pin IL
S Seasons s,Ss"b before Duke" Duke" Pa PAINE 81 be aoMn to seD assol
ciato with colored royalty.
"a visit to London during tho jubilee week
was an exponsivo luxury for Americana" said
o man who was there. II enjoy going to Lon
don In the hot season, because 1 nevor suffer
from hoat there. The Jubilee show was lno,
and I saw tho parade from q window in Fleet
street without any discomfort The week was
an exasperating ono, however, and I haven't
recovered my good nature yet. The town was
filed with.busted Americans, and L.was tackled
Gov s,.an laa~a hv ne laauk m ,,a.~ 80 a1ar,
Ono of tho most persistent of these borrowers
is an Englishman who lived seven or eight
years in Now York. He disappeared two years
ago, and on my first day In London he jumped
from'e bus In Piccadilly and Us soon as ho shook
to him, and then no asked for the names Of other
New Workers. who were In London and whom
of t %h,sh' fa POUND a as S SGSTS%id nn 16E& e Uf Im Sne
lean - actors ,bor, l loaf around T. the hotels, and nearly
had sailed for London with little moro than
enough to pay their fares. One Of them told
me. that he had come to London thinking to
Surprise he found atty other American actors
who had come relying on the same thing. I'm
ment and most Of them were short Of money.
There We're other Americans who had come to
Lon London or t and S 5sRs all Nd their money a% Sot in ns the flTSt
o soft mark for such stories, but some of them
were so obviously genuine that couldn't help
giving money to the men who told them. I
found that I was actually forced to give away
or loan, as you may choose to look at 1t, as
legitimate expenses amounted to. end l couldn't
have avoided It."
Whether or no~t'Lehmann laid the foundation
for an improved style Of rowing at Harvard,
there is no doubt that no gave O great impetus
to the interest In rowing at that university and
that he won the loyal support of every under
graduate. A project about which little has
been said was suggested'some time ago. and tho
| TJarvapd Tlph In fhia rtfv haa Italian a. nm in
earnest. This Is the erection OF a new boat
house that promises to be a model. Tho Har-
and the contributions have been generous 50
far. 1t is proposed to have, a well-equipped
exercise there during the winter. and nothing
that can add to the comfort or contribute to tho
success Of the crow will be omitted; The Har.
in the university's athletic affairs. despite tho
distance that separates it from Cambridge.
There is an italian in town ct present who
has discovered q paying held of industry which
he has 30 far succeeded in working undisturbed
and alone. He Is q pillar robber. but not in the
sense in which tho term 10 applied in the coal
mining regions, whore reckless thieves thrive
by stealing the pillars Of coal that are left by
the miners to support the roof of the mine. This
italian preys upon the pillars OF tho elevated
railroad structure. He doesn't endanger lives,
however. and, while he undoubtedly appropri.
ates property that does not belong to him. 1t is
doubtful II he violates any law. Tho truss work
Of the elevated pillars stops about 8 feet 9 inches
from the ground, and at that point there is q
cap resting upon the tops of the four solid sides
Of tho pillar. This cap forms a sort OF table,
walled around by the truss work, and Is Just the
lent repository to persons who find things
in their. possession for which they havo
no particular use. but which they con.
slider OF sufficient value to DO preserved.
The most industrious contributors to these
highway storehouses are Col. Warnings street
cleaners. Whenever, In the course of their
labors, they come across u cast-off horseshoe. q
spike fallen from the railway overhead a nut a
bolt, or any other OF the thousand and one odds
and ends that strew all streets upon which there
Is much traffic, they toss them through tho
truss work upon the base cap OF the pillar.
Truckmen. street railroad employees and labor.
ers engaged in digging up the streets also
contribute their share. and the queer
assortment that is thus piled up In n short
time Is astonishing. At odd intervals the cle.
waited railway repair men remove the little
heaps, but until the advent of the Italian pillar
robber no one seems to have been regularly
charged with the task. How no came to discover
this wealth stored up 10 his hand does not ap
, pear. but there is no doubt about the alacrlty
I with which no took advantage of the dis
covery In a systematic way. At daylight,
every morning he Is out with his push
cart, and before the city Is wide awake
and his occupation likely TO attract genera,
notice, he has collected n load that will net hin
"snap" Is not likely TO be a lasting one. TIL,
good thing will be done to death the moment &
becomes known to evcn the lowest private II
' the army of Italians who prowl the streets o.