The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-24
LIVE ToPiCs ABOUT TOWN.

ished and his passing was contemporaneous
with the rise OF tho shoe polishing parlor."
Occasionally small boy may be found in the
lower part OF the city with bootblack's box.
but his kit is 'shoddy affair entirely lacking
In the ornaments and appointments which in
dictated not only the prosperity OF his predcces-
sor. OF few years ago. but his pride In his
work. Any one who attempts to lind bootblack
now who family resembles the bootblacks on
Artist Browns canvases will fail The small
bootblacks have either caritulatcd to the one
shoe polishing parlor" or a sidewalk stand.
or they have gone out of business. One pa
, drone in this city. who acquired b.. purchase
employs half u hundred Of these small boys.
The introduction OF russell leather Shoes and
responsible for the dsappearnnee Of the street
EGoot6ac S Cant Price OF tho Tonderoin. who
cal eye. says that he couldn't get II shine in
h England ,r which COMPARED with Tho New York
leather shoes SEa e muck mo h at
few men will willingly stand IN the street while
f asmS boy otths old school does the work and
where wearcrs Of the shoes may rest comorta.
bly, during the operation. Moreover these
polish cheapy in large quantities, and tho
them.
decision involving the rights OF policemen
to make love to servant maids while on duty
was rendered in Washington last week. but
thus far II has not been sustained in New York
According to the testimony given before tho
District Commissioners Washington police
man from the Fifth precinct was seated beside
nursemaid on bench near Graceland Come
terry one evening. Along came an inquistive
fireman. and whenever the bluecoat reached
for, the nursegir!'s waist the flremans glance
followed IT with pryipg interest The police
man ana tho maid changed benches but the
fireman followed. The maids parasol WINS
raised. but the fireman executed a flank move
bluccoat then arrested the fireman. and when
the latter. was arragned his captor accused him
Of his ~ dy TGs s sdr sme
the charge and the Commissioners dismissed
tho policeman.
A Broadway car bound downtown was
blockaded at Twenty-third street on Saturday
afternoon by truck heavily loaded with iron
corncos. and when the passengers saw that
only one dysreptic- Choking horse was ex-
pected to draw this load they decided that they
were In for long wait. The driver was a big
man with n mustache which bristled straight
out over his mouth till It suggested a fender
for his face. He talked profaney to his horse,
but tho beasts struggles did not bulge the
truck. The wonder OF it was how the horse
had pulled the load OF iron that far Tho
motorman. inpatient to continue. was ready
to push the truck along with the car when the
driver stopped him;
bn shed on hISS5 s., he shouted This is my
The driver went behind tho heavy trnck.
pushed with one hand. held the reins with the
other and swore at the horse under his mus
,ache. The truck. which had seemed 70 he
firmly anchored, began 70 move, The driver
street. and rs long as the spectators could see
hun he was trotting behind his truck. pushing
1t along and saying unkind things to his horse.
The general curiosity in the rural districts to
see and hear Col. Robert g. Ingerso after he
had become famous as an ngnostic was tenn
pered with fear. The church people feared his
rdicule. When It was announced that Col. In
gersoll had been engaged to deliver an address
at one Of the county fairs in this State. shortly
after his agnosticlsm had attracted general at
tention. there was great clnmor raised by the
church people. They prayed that the Fair
Committee might be led to see the error OF
its ways. The Fair Committee promptly an
nounced that Col. lngersoll was bound by
his contract to make no reference to
religion In his speech. and the result was that
fully 10000 people gat hcred to hear him and
soil deli vered his speech in the afternoon and
he was invited 6y an enterprising manager, to
evening. The audience that greeted him when
he came on the platform numbered less than
hundred people. and tor weeks nfterwarI it
was term OF reproach in that town to say that
n man had attended this lecture. Several years
ago the Christian Endeavor Society. at a con-
for col ineersoIl's conVersioS few lav vo n ota
ASUN reporter saw Col. lnRersoll at his home
5ust a,eF hls return from southern trip, Ho
OF his ,ournsy and ns he tniEn ed he %nnt nvar
his mail. He handed the reporter IL letter
t whnicI ne nau llst opened. with the remark
written il The letter was sirneI Inv az a MAN nan
who said Thar he had att"n1ai tha 3hristt"m
Endeavor meeting and II contained four nages
OF closely written aims. Hare il annthnr I;
said tho toionei 'of kipI whinh
am ALWAYS nIeosei 70 Tncriyo ,rhc second
letter was written by a woman who said that
she was earnestly Drawing Tor th" C"lon"i's
G"nyersi"n These Two letters were part Of
country which would have filled a busn"l
basket Probably no nan In New YopE re-
ceiyed more Ietters from corr.srnmdants nm
known to him then did Col IneersoII peouIo
Mi over the [ nited States wrote re- him some
of them RI aoree viii bis 6niHiops I'M NM n1'r'
70 and foult witE than ana ~ nriticIssa h,o i
tnrns ~ " ~ W MS wv
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wcll-k known comic opera star Tho lives in
Westcbester county was nersunIed 70 talonn
"T.'e".e,e' 'o""'' was pe'Su"ueu " '"he UP
golf early this summer and he did it on faith,
The game did not seem TO him TO be worth the