The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-27
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


In this city has recently taken up his per-
manent home in one of the settlement
houses on the lower East Side and intends
to devote himself indefinitely to the work
Of the association with which he has allied
himself He has been interested in its
objects for some years. but it was only a
few weeks ago that he found himself able
to take up his residence at the headquarters
| This delay was caused by the fact that
! even mllionaires are not always able TO do
what they want just when they VIII. IL
took this young man several months to
arrange his millions no that he could devote
| himself to other duties than looking after
them
William c. Allen, whose sanity Ia now In
! question, never exed the name OF Van
| derbilt to his own until he returned to this
country from England in the middle sos.
| Then he decided that his aspirations might
| be aided by the use Of the well-known
| patronymc, and never afterwa called
| himself other than Vanderbilt Allen
That name, or his relation to the family,
led Mr. Allen to have an erroneous impress
sion as to the extent Of his fortune. In
! few years he had got rid Of most Of 1t and
! was then less able than he had been To
realize the difference between his fortune
| and that Of his cousins. So he acquired
| violent animosity to the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the head OF the family. MIR.
Allen saw no reason why the family should
not help him out of his troubles His
visits to Newport we're a source OF appre-
hension to the Vanderbilt family. Finally
he was put into Jail by creditor. and MIR
| Vanderbilt saw his chance OF getting nm
out Of Newport. He offered TO pay the
bill in case he promised never TO return TO
that city. The prisoner accepted.
Then to revenge himself on the family
he took employment IA gripman on a
cable car. But he soon came To share
the general view that this means Of revenge
was Inadequate and resigned the job
New York employers have had no oc-
casion to complain OF the restaurants
that OFFER music as a stimulus to luncheon
and thus keep the EMPLOYEES too long
from work II they had, New York en-
ployers would simply bounce the clerks
who fingered too long at lunch. instead of
calling on the police TO abolish the music.
as Iondoners have done. The fact is that
opportunities for men downtown to hear
| music at luncheon are too few and too little
In demand to be q source Of Inconvenience.
II is in the upt own restaurants that midday
music has come 10 be a feature Of luncheon.
Here the patrons are largely women, and
men who sometimes find Themselves in
these restaurants do not wonder that pa
irons are tempted to linger SO delightful
is the contrast with the places downtown.
The Wall Street community is In debt
TO George Gould for very had pun. The
other day while Manhattan Elevated stock
was the feature Of absorbing speculative
interest in the market there was current
on the floor Of the Stock Exchange rlmor
that somebody was going to get an injunc-
ton rest raining the Manhattan company
from doing whatever II was going to do.
Inquiry about this was sent directly to
Mr. Gould. He returned word to the board
room that the Manhattan sytem was all
straight lines. with no functions any
where
Lower Third avenue scarcely seems the
region in which to search for bakery
that il proud enough of its clientele to
put the names Of its most noted customers
IN its business cards Yet within sound
II the roar Of the Bowery. there is such a
place which gives the name OF these dis
iinguished customers who have patronlzed
il since 1885: Da' i'll Drew for fort y-four
years, G. Vanderbilt, thirty-two years;
Mrs. Stuyvesant, Mrs. Fish Mrs. Aston,
Mrs. Wilks. Mrs. Laugdon. Mrs. Parish, Mrs,
keletas
There are other families in the list not
| so well known now, but they serve to
-trengt hen the resemblance OF the list 20 a
page torn from some social blue book OF
| thirty wears ago III IL udN wien WeT'
sought nearer the Bowery than they are
| now.
| One day this week a letter addressed to
| -Hettv Green, Care of the New York Stock
Exchange" was handed around there II
had been received in the regular morning
| mail for members. The mail clerk thought
II was worth showing. and it trave led
| through many hands as curiosity, before
n, length being forwarded a. the writer
requested In a corner Of the envelope in
case Mrs Green was not found on the Stock
Exchange.