The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-02
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOUy.

in an uptown hall affords evidence that the ac-
compartment Of liquid refreshment is not alb
sOlutey necessary to tho New Workers who
want TO enjoy music informally. All kinds OF
appropriate refreshments are provided at this
place. but the number Of persons that take adj
vantage Of the opportunity offered Is COMPARE
lively small Music without beer was for
merly looked upon as an impossbility. Most
OF the men take advantage OF their privilege
and smoke. and an occasional lemonade is
borne triumphantly by n waiter to one OF the
women III the audience; but the sight Of
stronger refreshments is rare. The character
a. the audiences at these concerts IL one OF
their most attractive features to persons seek
ing the kind OF recreation the new enterprise
provides. That they are largely made up of
| music lovers Is shown bv the presence among
concerts, The casual visitors are ali Of tho
kind that persons in search Of refined and we'll
ordered entertainment would like to he among.
| The concerts are worth visit merely for the
sake Of realizing that there is another public in
New York in the summer besides that seen In
| the roof gardens.
The portraits to which a London fashion
paner recently took exception on account Of
their lack OF modlshness are not peculiar to
the foreign exhibition referred to. Local au-
thorities on dress have beer lust as much dis.
tressed by some of the pictures shown here.
| although they have no official organ to criti-
made here recently In way as effective as
possible with the limited opportunities Of the
critic OF the sort Of clothes that artists paint
| on their male subjects. In tho window OF
| Fifth avenue tailor shop there was hung the
| portrait OF wellknown New York politician
| who was very much In the public eye at the
time ,, ne wns pbtr9n OF the tai9T
seeking some place in which to display the
rortrait when he thought Of the, Fifth avenue
c hAn wi W N IN n
tailor out Of compliment to his distinguished
customer. IT stayed there for two wesks;"
the comment 1t caused. Every customer that
came in had something to sav about it. With
hat made the most oppression another would
guy me about the sleeves and the majority
sahtiS i themselves with Observing that me
my business. SO the picture came oct OF the
window. KNEW all the things they said about
| 1t were true. but thought everybody was
reconciled to seeing misfts in portraits by this
time. The best dressed men cf the city never
look any better after an artist has nut them on
canvas than the most carolessly gotten ur.
It's ALWAYS n surprise to US that there is never
! such clothes as the artists paint their most in
different customers would rebel. Artists are
that it makes no impression, on them. So
whether coat may r. well or badly. he in the
style or not they viii paint their own lea 81
who see the result are not so indifferent. I
learned that when put the portrait in my
| Nihu'".
! The sympathy OF a neighbo.hood Is some
| times as valuable as more material aids to sue
cess In business. Recently widow with lit.
tie capital and two children to support opened
| a small shop in an uptown street. She an
nounced this intention by placing placard in
front OF the small establishment she had
rented The dav her plans we're published to
the neiGhborhood the house next her shop
was sold to man who had been a grocer
short distance away. The purchase was fol-
lowed by the announcement that he would
doubt he had perfect right to do this: but
| the neighborhood did not agree with him In
hal YG no right to start immediate comTetiioH
! with a widow struggling 10 support herself
nnd her fTo ehdT T wh very sm. cav
The entire nech6orhood took sides With her
deserted; This feeling dil not exhaust itself
val.after two months struggle, closed his shop.
borhood He hnd lost money etcndily. while
sympathy with his competitor had placed her
| on firm business basis.
II CHANGED my seat once at summer
hotel" said the New Yorker who had made his
way in the world. because some other guests
| who shared the table used to keep their medi-
| cine bottles on it ana dose themselves after
everv meal. | didn't like 1t and left the field
to them. It must have been the way it was
done that ] objected to rather than the prin-
ciple of the thing. for | didn't seen, to mind it
at all when only IA few days ago had a similar
experience without feeling the least bit
shocked by it, went to visit some people at
Newport from Saturday to Monday and never
saw life conducted on such magnificent scala
| no II Two Othor parsons he SideG
myself were stopping in the house. Every
thing that great wealth could supply made
| chef made the meals delight and they were
served by trained servants under, butler. who
looked after only the important details OF the
work Dinners were very formal and al
though only eight Of us sat down to dinner
o the bae Rs H lett
an important functions that followed the meal.
The man Of the hoqe ana ,d nk Wr were S1th
livery right after dinner the 9nly; meal at
distributed the medicines on silver waiter
They were all different and that required tho
all passed around with rs much ceremony to
the members Of ,he family as the: fine food
thought Of objcrting to it even in their own
opinions. and al though the principle, Of course,
was the same. The thing seemed very different
| butler ana his silver waiter.
| housekeeping In the Assay onlce on Wall
street is not only n painstaking operation. but
a profitable one to the Govern ment. and the
dirt which.is collected pans out better than the
average Klondike placer mine wall con-
tanning four tiues leading from the furnaces in
the assaying room has recently heen removed
and the fire bricks coating the chimneys were
saved. The inner surfaces Of the bricks were
chirped OIL and from these chips was secured
gold and silver dust. During tho year the
sw9epings OF the Assay Office and the god and
silver Obtained from the chimney scrapinGs
amount to a, considerable sum Even he
clothes worn by the workmen are burned for
the gold dust which has been caught by them
These precautions 70 save gold dust are taken
10y the large manufacturing jewellers Some
OF their workshops have false floors which are
burned from time TO time for the Eni1 dust
which has worked into them. A contractor
paid n good price several years ago for an old
building in Brooklyn which had long been
used as a watch factory, and was TO be torn
down. because Of the gold and silver in the
floors and walls OF the rooms where these
metals we're worked
Various faces familiar 10 PATRONS OF New
York hotels and restaurants have disappeared