The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-27

fact that trains were run as rapidly as they
the, crowds melted. The prospect Of n crisp,
cool day for Christmas probably tempted many
who otherwise would have stayed in New York.
Several years ago May Irwin. who is an cx-
pert cook, told a reporter of THE Sun q lot of
new things about making appetizing dishes.
and as the was too good to keep it
was published. Miss Irwin knew what she
was talking about. The possibilities in cook
ing as an advertisement seem to have struck
the agitators of public interest very forcibly
this year; and every, little pink or yellow journal
in town has published columns of recipes from
actresses who otherwise might not be men,
toned. A credulous person who read this
stuff might, easily imagins that the alleged in
time. when off the stage or at leisure, in plain
cooking. One at least who was quoted very
antedated her debut on the stage some twenty
years ago. and a man VINO ought to know said
5 boeks .n So U b ess os inf1r f fop t6e ec IrSm e0 6K
their personal representatives. There Is
notoriety waiting now for the actress who will
tell all about plain tatting in a signed state
ment.
The oldest letter carrier. like the Oldest Ma.
son and the oldest Yale graduate. bobs up regu-
larly in unexpected places. The latest man to
claim this honor is Charles A. Taylor of the
New York Post Office. who has been carrying
the mail to Governors Island since 1880. Tay-
lor says that he began carrying mail sixty years
ago and he believes that no is the Oldest letter
carrier in tho world. He has delivered letters
in every district in New York below Canal
street, and although he is now "A years old he
gets over his present route to the satisfaction
OF the Government. Since Taylor began carry
ing letters the Post Office has moved from the
old Rotunda in City Hall Park at Centre street
to the old Dutch Church in Nassau street, and tnHdi
pleasant memories of the day when New York
was mostly below Eighth street Is OF Charlotte
dam streets. Mr.. Taylor says that he never
left q paper at her house that she didn't in
Tho business OF carrying letters in those days,
II the carrier had n good route, was profitable.
Of one wRb GiiSSe q hai dteiI Wens q 10 letter. Ibe G=o %ss 5onr sse nna
half to the letter carrier, and in addition to
this source of revenue the carriers sold stamps
draft riots Mr.. Taylor was one of the force sta
TONED on tho roof Of the Post Office in Nassau
wounded in the wrist by "a pistol bullet.
Jack Connors, the Irish Baron" who died
last week, was one of n dozen men whose faces
are familiar to every one who has occasion to
walk on Broadway between Forty-second and
Twenty-third streets during the afternoon
hours when the crowd is the largest. He was
always well dressed. and hundreds of PERSONS
to whom his faco had become familiar in tho
dozen or more years that no paradod Broad
way bavo wondered who he was. He was a
typical production of the Tenderloin in the
days when IL was wide open and every saloon
had its back room where men and women riot
ed after midnight. Connors knew them all.
Another OF the regular Broadway ~loungers
whose identity was the subject of many sur
misses was n tail, dark, hea Willy built Young
man who wore u peculiar'shaped silk hat and
pocred through eyeglasses at every woman
who passed. He was usually alone, and II was
not until he was arrested on Il criminal charge
several years ago that the curiosity of those
who had speculatcd on his identity was salts
fod. The woman who made the charge after
ward retraCted, and tho man was released.
Since that time he has not been so conspicuous
on Broadway. Several years ago a tall. slim
man WHO wore a silk hat and a white lawn tic
began to attract the attention of the Broadway
paraders. He always wore an ovcrcoat. and
there was a suspicion that underneath II he
wore evening clothes. He looked like q for
eigner and he paraded alone. Sometimes he
switched over TO Fifth avenue. and there he at,
traCted attention. He has not been seen on
broadway for a year, and 30 far MS the police
along that street know no one has identified
him. One policeman who has served on Broad
way a long time said several weeks ago that az
least a hundred persons had asked him AT vari-
Gus times 10 tell them who was thc,man with the
white lawn tie and the silk hat. II was In this
little coteIie of men whose faces became we'll
known on Broadway that Jack COnnOrs be-
longed. 1t was his ambition TO be taken for an
actor or q prize fighter, and he Was q little Of
both.