The sun., 1901-04-28
xTLLIoyAIREs MERELY 8UMAN.
A Fire Engine Can stir Even Their Blood. q
Country Merchant Finds.


You people who live in New York are
more amusing 10 US who come In from
the smaller towns than you suppose" said
a country merchant 10 the salesman VINO
was selling him goods Il had some bust
ness In an once in the Mills Building yester-
day. II was with the had man Of hrm
that handles only such transactions as run
up into the millions. The ONCE boy said ]
would have 20 wait. as the man to whom
sent my card was very busy.
That was all right. took chair and a
newspaper A few minutes after we'll
dressed, ,proeperous-lookins individual rushed
by me
(which way did that engine go' he asked
the Office boy
Before the boy could answer another
man with a prosperous bEand upon him
poked his head into the vestibule and asked
the boy where the flre was. Then the same
man went into the ONCE Of the man TO whom
I had sent my card He left the door aiar
and / peeped in Then | went in | con-
cluded might as we'll as I saw the head OF
the irm and the two men I have just men
toned balancing thems Ives across the sill
Of an open window. They were looking
out at FIRE engine
Now. we do that At home But hero
were three financial rnagnates, each OF whom
was q busy man. who had dropped their
concerns TO look at fire engine. Well,
was glad OF It I thought better OF them
for IT, II made me feel as though | wasn't
tho only one
Il sat down in the ofice until they had
satisfied their curiosity. and when the man
whom had been waiting to see pulled his
head back he greeted me cordially and then
asked me II | had seen that fire engine Then
we got down TO business and while we
we're talking another member Of the frm
came in and the one with whom I had busi-
ness broke of the conversation 10 ask his
partner II he knew where the fire was Now
suppose he had come 10 my own and had
shown as much curiosity about that fire and
engine as my friend in the Mills Building
did-woudn't he have had laugh on me?
After | left the Mills Building | had oc-
casion to pass along Liberty street under the
shadow Of a skyscraper In process or ERECTION
II was about, the hour for luncheon ! saw
al least one hundred business men standin (
in the street looking upward They had
! possession of the sidewalk. and as | condn
| pass along without joStling others or without
being jostled. came TO a standstill and
| looked upward with the crowd What DC
| you think they were looking att A holstins
machine which contained a lot OF iron rivets
II was quite interesting, TO, me. for am a
| a hundred others SO felt better
That wasn't all that amused me that day
| ! went into n cafe where there was a CROWD
| Of business men, took a bill OF fare and
| looked over IL to sec what ! could order that
| would not make me look any more like n
| count ryman than | felt. passed over sew
| eral articles which had French labels tryinC
10 find something could say easy, when mar
| whom knew TO be the President OF bank
| came IN, and throwing his menu aside tod
| the waiter 10 bring him n plate Of corn-beei
hash, a cut Of pumpkin pie and glass Of milk
That was Just what my mouth had been
aching for, but felt bit backward in order
ing It | didn't want to appear too much
like countryman however. so changed my
seat 10 another table, and when ! had thrown
the bill Of fare aside and said 'Corn-beef
hash pumpkin pie and milk, the arcon,gsthe,y
execute the order II had tried to order
something fancy he probably would have
,iIrd me " f3r haySeed ana gwen me @S S'STs S
identity with an ice cream freezer an
always glad to come TO New York foui
people amuse me- and then always go home
feeling that am not the only one