The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-11

Il have observed" said a visiting merchant
from the State OF Tennessee. now making his
thirty-ffth trip to New York. that your peo-
ole here have quite different notions from ours
In the matter Of carrying bundles OF trunks or
any other load-except the LIQUID variety-on
the streets. Dow in our own n woman will
kick like the Old Harry II she has to carry q
bundle on the street, and as for toting =
satchel. she wouldn't do IL to save %anybody's
life 80 LONG az there was n darky and q dime
In town. But here in New York I see we'll
dressed ladies Juggling all kinds Of bundles
around the streets, even on Broadway. Not
two days ago l met a lady, born to the purple.
jollying along with q bundle OF laundry under
her arm. and I've seen men take n bundle
home from q store hero that one OF our men
wouldn't buy II It wasn't delivered. Isaw not
lonR ago q man tote a piano stool from Union
Square clean over to Prospect Park in Brook
Ign. He wanted IL at home that evening. and
there was no delivery. so no simply grabbed 10
up and took IL along. And II every man on the
car who hadn't a bundle with him had got on
to show what he thought of a man who wonld
carry a bundle. by George, not enough would
have got of to have given a lea n seat. Walk-
ing along Broadway at any hour in the day
you will see women t~rottlng along with satch-
els or bandboxes or arnfuls OF small bun-
moving majestically down, a drawing room
with q bushel OF American Beauty roses apiece
day, trying to catch. q car, and she scnttered
packages all around her like You something's
I think, to. your men and women TO be so sen:
sible., and l wish ours had more OF 1t aud could
help themselves with a little better grace"
The colored man had on the uniform of Q
United States soldier. but he made no claims
to heroism and asked no favor on account OF
the clothes he wore. He was an intelligent
fellow and pleasant withal.
I'm from Georgia." he said, with a smile
which showed the traditional white teeth OF
the negro. and 1 have become sufficiently
unnaturalized to vote the Democratic ticket.
but that don't make me any less proud TO wear
these blue clothes. Yes, sir, this is the first
time that l was ever in New York. and / guess
1t Is some bigger than Atlanta, though us At
lanta folks kind Of think Atlanta's the biggest
place on earth excepting Georgy. I've been
round here three or four days, and I have seen
n good many New York people of mycolor, and
they all seem TO be doing right well. but I
reckon they amt learning much manners up
North. / notice in the street cars that n COLI
ored man hasn't got any better manners than
the white gentlemen, and reckon I've seen
cars. leaving white ladies' to stand, or coIored
ones either, for that matter; hut a real colorcd
P% Shrso1i Il tF Rin't our a. w Sisee ls @En' hS doE't i know aI w9 exa
actly what makes me feel that way, hut when
L see a colored man sitting down and letting a
! down niger and throw him off the ear. It's
none Of my, business If white gentlemen want
ought to be above it, sir; deed he ought"
The man who was old enough to know better
was chasing up and down a Sixteenth street
boarding house. trying to find a match to light
a cigarette with.
did it ever occur to you" he said to the man
who finally found a light for him. what u boon
and q benson the cigarette manufacturer has
been to the match manufacturer? Think OF
1t a moment. First, however. give me another
match for this cigarette. l don't know how
many cigarettes are made In this country. but
let US, for the sake Of argument, say there are
a thousand carloads a year. Well. 1t takes
on an a~verage-another light. p~lease-four
| matches to the cigarette, and the manu-
f~acturer OF matches must. therefore. make four
thousand tho carloads Of R matches aes Just j. + to o. meet meet
, thousand carloads is a great quantity. but Il
you knew how hard it was to get one match
EI oH1 tS yogr ed5ga esrload l. G WSsg yqu a T feW i th 1o9
had to go around begging them. Ihaye never
given serious study 70 the matter. but looking
at it casually l should say the match manu-
facturers owe an inestimable debt of gratitude
to the cigarette makers"
Speaking of an item l read in THE SUN
some time ago on cheaper living in New York"
said a man who looked as II he didn't go to
his daily labors In a four-in-hand. Il am re-
minded that l went into an agents office the
other day to ask him about a new fiat he has.
to be opened In October. About one-ffth OF
the suites are of two rooms with bath, and
they go at $500 a year. but, by Jove! 1 didn't
get there in time. for all the desirable ones
had been spoken for. There were high-priced
ones In plenty. but I couldn't afford that kind.
and l forthwith began to swear at the man
who would build apartments for only suchr
people as had money to let them lie idle when
the moneyed people were not on hand to take
what had been provided for them. l asked
with only $500 suites. SO they would all be
| gobbled up on the spot as the few had been,
now, and you have no idea what q help that
extra S22Oa year would be to my family"