The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-09

Disadvantage or Living In y House Once 90.
cupied by . Public OmciaL

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The wise man who is coming to New York to
live was talking to his friend. the reporter.
about selecting a house. He said that he had
almost decided to rent the house of a public OFF,
cial who was about to 60 to Europe.
"Don't!" said the reporter. THE house of a
prominent public official is not the place in
which o quiet, respectable citizen like yourself,
who enjoys a full nights sleep seven nights in
the week, is properly fitted to live. An expert
once Of mine will show what l mean. At about
half 1ast IL one night word came into the office
q The newspaper for which I work that the
Saepartment-well, suppose we call it the De-
partment of Control and Production of the
WeAther-was to be legislated out Of existence.
j was sent to interview the Commissioner
Another reporter. whom we may call Mr.. Blank,
was sent to see his son. who was the Deputy
Commissioner and q third reporter 1--WE may
call him Mr.. Spaced was sent to SEQ the Commits
0ioner's private secretary.
81 went directly to tho house In which tho di.
rectory said the Commissioner lived. I reached
there just at mid II hr; I rang the bell. Just
why any householder should ever connect q
cable car gong with his front door is quite be-
yond me. Tho bell made such u racket In the
hall that It really startled me. Nobody an
Swsred. I rang q second time. A third.story
window was thrown up with a bang. and a
JCaoAV ADNaSN -~Ae ." - euAs cAuo JeA1o
stuck the upper half Of his body out OF the win
dow. It was . mighty cold night.
what do you want . said he. He. was
sleepy. but not too sleepy to DO very much out
IT want to see the Commissioner I said.
ao..a PFI i've the ssr Sop bso. %avsss , ssia he he, bod.s
opposite. You haven't any right to wake a man
up at this time Of the night, no matter whom
Slammed the window down.
II went across the street and woke up tho
gsSp came to the door and tod me se thst '1 neither her
the Commissioner nor any OF his family was at
s esios: and 1 S,s eirSars0l{ , m9n!s mot nS sst a hs%s e %HSh
end settled down In the doorstep and waited. I
side Of The street towsrd- me. y was blank.
e., confidently as had. He yapEed he
waited about Ave sseo raSs' ana spp pull eSAi i twice. ac
hard. After another walt OF two seconds, there
s %a. s saall 20 for Almost ai%cst. f hsit 10 e S %iasts a iSsl a. a. t ,hs
e no could make his arm go. Before he had
nni,hsd; the same window went up that had gone
Iii clio is. shs r. T e said, He wa. quite wide
IS; WHAT in slss'' and blue = 'AaHa' s' &c you 90
.ia this the Deputy Commissioner r asked
Ii;NO, By green grsyyl' rosrsd Blue P.tam.s:
bSD NOT; NO doesn't live here, and the next
MaA that comes around here and wakes me up
AFTER midnight - going 10 get hurt, and 10 going
step. or III call a policeman
"Oan't you tell me- asked Blank In his most
cpnciliating tone, where the Deputy Commit
B,oner liveef
'"The man slammed the sash down without
answering; and Blank came down the steps
slowly and disconsolately. / couldn't hold In
any longer. ! lot off one joyful whoop after
another, and then called him over and sym.
pathized with him. Blank and / sat down on
the doorstep, and passed the time away deplor-
ing the habits OF public officials, which induced
them TO stay way from their homes until
unholy hours In the morning. We had been
there perhaps half an hour when q man jumped
on the other side Of the street 1t was Space.
He was In search Of the secretary. He jauntily
approached the bell knob. He was 1 molo-
dramatic Individual and he rang that bell ave