The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-27
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

The new grip, as it has been called. pos
sesses all the inconvenience Of the more
familiar disease with the added discom-
fort hat comes from its way Of concentrate
ing all It's sufferings into a short space
of time. According 20 physicians it is
not allied In any way with the famous
influenza. but 10 merely a form Of cold that
happens to he more common this year than
ever before.
st seizes the patient suddenly, said a
doctor yesterday, and the most striking
feature of 1t IL he rapidity with which
all the symptoms Of the most serious in
fluenza are felt.
Two or three hours after the patient
has taken cold the pains that spread through
the body and the distress that he experiences
In every way are comparable only TO the
feelings Of a person with awell-developed
case Of influenza.
These sensations do not continue long
II the treatment IL begun Immediately.
But In any case. the intensity CT the dis
comfort while the preliminary stages Of the
cold last is greater even than in the case
Of the ordinary influenza"
Il would seem that a fellow so busy az
the swindler In Spain who has sent thousands
OF letters to people all over this country
Offering them a big slice of a mythical
fortune II they would handle the balance
for a young orphan girl would find IL neces-
sary to employ several secretaries or type
writer's. The manual labor Of writing so
many long letters must be enormous.
During the past two years dozens Of
these letters, all worded alike and all In
the same neat small handw riing have
been brought to THE SUN Office. Yester-
day another man who had received one
OF these Spanish swindling letters came to
THE U Office 10 give out the news that he
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the usual distant relative Of his wife who
wa dying in a Spanish prison.
He did not want to be convinced that
his good fortune was n part OF a fake. but
when a similar letter that was sent last
summer TO a Jersey City lawyer was shown
to him and the handwriting was found 10
be the same he reluctantly admitted hat
IL was a fraud.
There probably are several men interested
in this game, but all the letters are evil
IDENTIFY written by the same man.
The house at Il West Thirty-sixth street.
which has been leased 10y the Columbia
University Club for twenty years, IL rapidly
being reconstructed and II nay be opened
early next month. The clubs membership
now numbers nearly 500 and with a suitable
house IL il expected 20 increase rapidly:
The special weakness Of such college
clubs, namely, that most Of the men eligible
W WI nv - $3.50
overcome 10y making the dues very small
The clubs OF Harvard, Princeton and Yale
have proved very successful and with
Columbia's long list Of alumni here there Is
no reason to expect that her club will fan
Columbia's move To her present building
has notioaably increased the college loyalty
among Columbia men aud 10 this has been
added her rising fame In athleucs.
A man carrying what looked like an
ordinary hapd satchel came down the
steps % the Third avenue elevated station
AZ Forty SECOND street Yesterday morning
followed by a dozen other people. A..
he reached the last steps he opened his
satOhel and out Jumped a small long haired
dog, who shook himself onos or twice.
blMked. and then fell Ia behind his master
Several of tbs people behind, Who had
no, ssen ths opening Of the satchsl. we're
puzzled by the dogs aPpeafAnoe. FOR
the past year the oWnsT ~ thL dog has
carried him la a satchel "a Forty second
street, and IA. tSo have walked vest a.
n 10 busino.s
They TstuTn about ais o'clook every
evening. A4d when ths station 10 reached
tho n.an place hS ~satcl-l On the alb
uI-.ns n. and in Jumps the dog Tho sstclal
10 clos.l and Ia this way tie nuls -
slovatsd roads against dos pas@'nsefs is
not operative ASahist thu paHkulaf dos