The sun., 1900-09-10
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


The clearinghouse business in New York
has undergone decided change during recent
years, and most Of the best lodging houses
will soon be in control OF foreigners If the pres
ent tendency continues Even II this result
works a hardship on their former proprietors.
II l. a condition for which tenants have cause
TO be thankful Numerous houses In the CEN
iral part OF the city are now controlled by Ger
man and French pr0prietors who 10 about
their task In a businesslike way hitherto un-
known. They succeed In supplying comforts
that were never contemplated In the former
system Of conducting these establishments.
Ordinary New York houses are completely
transformed TO meet these newer ideas OF
lodging house comfort. one instance Of the
character Of these changes j. to be found In
the question Of bathrooms. These new pro-
prietcrs arrange for every room 10 be pro-
yided with u bath. whereas the amateur lodg-
ing-house keepers Of cJrher days were always
satisfied 10 let their tenants get along with
cvistlng conditions, whatever they happened TO
be-. German and French landlords are in
the majority, although some Englishmen,
who have usually been buffers or walters be-;
fore they became landlords, are also found
among them. Their material success In the
field they have recently invaded Ia in large
measure due to their ability TO supply much
greater comfort with corresponding increase
In price
The vogue Of amateur and college theatrcals
has given to the stage some Of the moro con-
arned victims Of that craze. \ stage manager
Of u popular burlcsquc company might have
followed the profession for which he had been
preparing himself at Harvard had his attention
not been attracted toward the stage by amateur
performances in his undergraduate days He
drlfted into the theatrical profession and. not
meeting with success as an actor he became a
stage manager, which is a well-pad and inter-
cstng occupation under some circumstances
II happened that Cheever Goodwin wrote
for the company In which this college graduate
e employed a topical song called ~ SaOby
Told All lle Knew II was at one OF the re-
hearsals Of the company that tho stage mana
ger approached the author OF So many comic
operas and topical songs 1t seems To me, he
said that the English OF your refrain is at
fault Now when I was at Harvard we were
always taught that a conditional clause re-
UuIred the subiunctive mood. Now, | should
thnnk your refrain ought to be- " sqbhy should
Accordance with the rules Of English As We
were taught at coueE MIR Goodwin also
went 70 Harvard and has been writing comic
songs Tor nearly quarter ,oi century
Praotl.al side Of hat Sasine;. and has al.o
guage Il studied English AT Harvard, too, :"
hs said TO the young stage manager, and |
also learned ,hal under certain drcGmstanges
letter Of a rule II seems 10 me that n man
might consider he had the right to oeXer.ise hat
Told All He Kuew 80 l think the rules for
the use Of the sub junctive will have TO so hang
this time The stage manager made no flr-
ther protest against the violence done 10 the
English language and the song was sung as
Mr. Goodwin wrote II.
Mrs James Brown Potter is not to return to
New ork for some years II her present plans
are carried out. She Is To- return to Australia
To play a 10 engagement with Kyrle Bellew
and will then return To her home in England
Tier new house Is said TO have been built in ac-
cordanoe with her own designs in every par
ticllar, but It now appears that this announce
ment was a mistake. Mrs Potter merely in
-tructed her architects to build a house like
Shlke-I cares at StruiUrd-On-A Avon and left
the details Of its execution 20 them. They We're
so suCcc -Sflll with the work that an Australian
millionaire Is said 10 have offered the actress
twice a. much as she paid for the house II she
viii consent to sell H. Mrs Potter recently
declared that she had great mind 20 give M
the stage and go into the business OF selling
antique furniture, as She had already
found that so profitable In small
way that she was certain she would make a
big success of II II she only went regularly into
con-ricuouaness in certain sets - London
society, has not been associated with one sic
cess since her return 10 London, Indeed
three Of the plays In which she acted were
notable failures Of recent seasons Possibly
for that reason the actress has decided 10 return
- Austrelis. which II tho cne country In which
she and yrle Bellew are really admired with
substantially whenever they return there.
Mrs Potter's eNI"renCes n this country have
rarely been profitable. one year she played
san Francisco almost exclusively in small towns
where only one Performance was given. When
she arrived In New York, the sum Of seOo repre-
sented the result Of all this labor.