The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-20
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The Noble Order Of the Barons Of Runnymede
has declared through tho Noble Keeper Of the
Signet that there IL one thinR its members want
made clear. and that Ia that 'the order hasn't
any Dempsey business in It." Miss Lavinia
| Dempsey, Most Noble Queen Of the Holland
Danes. prides herself on her Dutch'ancestry,
and she probably did not have any ancestors In
the crowd that bulldozed King John into grant
ing the Magma Charta, 80 that she will probably
assert that the remarks Of the Keeper Of the
Signet are Rratuitous. She may r~etaiate by
declining to mako this Keeper of the Signet q
knight Of the Holland Danes, q favor that sho
was graciously pleased 10 bestow on his Honor.
Mayor Strong. shortly before he removed his
teapot from the City Hall. II this toesn't
make the Keeper OF tho Signet regret his hasty
remarks about Miss Dempsey he must be o man
in whom ambition Is dead. A contemporary
society, so far rs its birth is concerned, is tho
Order of the Crown, and to this only descend
ants of royalty itself arc eligible. AS Miss
Dempsey 10 royalty, she can go In MS q charter
member. According to an authoritative book
on tho subject, q ma lority Of tho old New Eng.
land families are eligible to this royal society,
and It 10 moro than probable that the entire
police force Of this city and tho Sixty.ninth
Regiment arc also eligible. A very comprohen.
sive genealogy Of the Irish families in this coun-
try was published several years ago, and 1t dem-
onstrated conclusively that every bearer Of q
wellknown Irish namo was DESCENDED from one
opens up q big field for the Order of the Crown,
and the Noble Order Of the Barons Of Runny-
Order of the Grown goes back to the sixth CEN
fury, which 10 obviously an advantage.
There Is q new pianist in town who will make
an effort to attract the women by some per-
sonal charm freaher than the mere possession Of
| LINN hafr He ia Stloff fba Ruaaiau who haa ra-
turned 10 New York this winter and will shortly
DO heard in concert. Tho absence of Rosenthal
has left tho field practically to Pugno, and
Siloti IL the only other foreigner who has come
to this country to share honors and profits with
the Frenchman. Siloti is q :mild-mannered
young man with an intelligent and rather agree
| able face. He 10 slender and dark -skinned and
quito destitute Of any Of the remarkable physi-
cal peculiarities which have attracted attention
to many musicians here and played some part
in making them successful. But Slot is not
altogether free from these little eccentricities
of nature. On one side Of his chin is a small
mole and this is carefully trimmed and cher
ished by the pianist. 1t is as religiously cult
waited as n mustache might be, and although
there may be need Of opera glasses, Silotl Is not
| without tho distinguishing popularity that tho
most successful of the visiting pianists have
| possessed. Slivinsh was merely good looking
and would only smile d~ivinely. showing his
white teeth. Stavenhagen might have been a
grocer's clerk SO far as his personal appearance
went, and Rosenthal was not exceptional enough
w nDenS Y M Slot in Is P"a., SoinF t to pel from ON his his
merely, agreeable appearance, nor win he. as
sieyeking aid, grew his hair long a couple 9ff
with something. entirely new and SO delicate,
moreover. that he. can only be observed after
sian family, has other claims to attention here.
He has played with great success In Europe and
studied under List and Nicolas Rubenstein.
Tho supposition that the character Of Fifth
avenue will be changed by the asphalt pave.
ment and the resulting increase of bicycle rid
es is founded on very reasonable grounds. If
the present indications can BIO trusted. AL
ready that part Of Fifth avenue which is in tho
| proper condition has become popular with
riders, and every clear Sunday has brought out
enough to show that the spring months will
probably find tho avenue crowded. That will
give Fifth avenue below Fifty-ninth street tho
final blow as the scene Of the weekly church
promenade. The increase in the number Of
shops and the upward march Of business have
done a great deal to drive the church crowds
Of Sunday over to Madison avenue. but that
has not yet been wholly accomplished. The
result so far has been that the promenaders have
boen divided and tho old church parade of
five or six years ago, which used to make Fifth
avenue almost impossible between 10 and 1880,
has lost nearly all of its characteristics. 1t
would need only a crowd of bicy clists to drive
all the promenaders from the avenue, and II
some of the Boulevard riders should make
their appearance on Fifth avenue, it would in
deed mark a change in the character of tho
street. The spring Sundays will probably
Sunn regularly sT1l Hiyf and t tho person sonr who nc soes to search aTs,
for the Easter sidewalk pageant will have to
e.. east of Fifth avenue. II is expected that
Fifth avenue above Fifty-ninth street will soon.
or or later become the final scene of the Sun
day morning parade. and maintain its position
Jor a long time to come. But until fashion de.
cides on the upper part of the avenue. there will
be no regular route for tao Sunday afterchurch
procession.
The clock which for two years pointed tho
hour as ITO in the office of an uptown hotel
has finally disappeared. IL was the property
of an advertising company which had made q
contract with the hotel people by which it had
to be kept there for a certain length of time,
and there was evidently no clause in the con-
tract which required good behavior of the time.
piece. That had to remain as long as the ad-
vertisements around It. whatever its vagaries
might be. 1t was evidently made with an in
eradicable tendency to stop at 7:1O. Clock
makers worked with 1t in vain. and all that
could be done to cure the instrument of this I'M
fortunate weakness was tried. But the result
of all efforts was the same. Within twenty
four hours the clock had stopped again at 7:lO.
The idea Of putting in a new machine seemed
not to occur to the hotel or tho Advertiser, and
about one year ago all effort to make any final
improvement was given up. The one clock
doctor in New York who guarantees to cure the
most severe cases has q number of them under
his charge. and the most refractory seldom fail
to yield to his treatment. Most of tho largo
clocks in the municipal buildings are under
his care, and there are as many in private
houses as he can take care of we'll. In order to
strengthen the. idea that he Visits them as u
physician Or for the same conveniences that a
doctor finds in such a means OF travel, this
noted clock doctor visits tho houses OF his GUS
toners in a buggy OF the style which was popu-
lar fifteen or twenty years ago. Tho vehicle
waits while the doctor makes his visit, and the
facr'that his wife sits without to hold the horse
adds another element of auaintness to tho idea.
Bnt this doctor has a large as well as a flour
fuhInU practica and has hAan In tha hueipaua for