The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-30
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

the resort on May /. People who know
Corey and have watched his management
OF the place do not believe that he has sold
1t. Their opinion Is based on the fact that
1t is too large a money-maker for any man
to let 60 willingly.
This one resort brings in more money
every week than all the Raines law resorts
, the Haymarket is making money the other
places have to close. Corey seldom took
in less than $500 each night. He got money
In two ways: for admission and for drinks.
| The profits from drinks alone would make
any one rich II he were allowed to run with
i out interruption for five years. Corey
was allowed to do 40, and he can we'll afford
! to place the management Of the resort now
IN another's name and seek business in
better repute,
A woman went into little millinery
shop in Tooth street near Amsterdam ave-
nue. the other day and asked to see a hat
chiffon creation Of which the exorbitant
price was 81 was shown to her. and she ex-
pressed keen desire for it.
May I have it now she asked III I'll
leave fifty cents on deposit, and bring in
the rest later2'
That s very unusual replied the milli-
ner. When could you pay the balance7'
II don't know. My husband Is a plastsrer
| He makes $50 day while he 10 working
But he has been on strike. for four weeks,
and we have had nothing"
But how do you live in the meantime?"
Hook everything we have, like the rest
Of the strikers. replied the woman
Everything we own Is in pawn. but must
have that hat"
She got it.
"The Downfall OF Rubber-Shoe Man"
would be good title for yellow yarn that
will never be written. The man wandered
forth few nights ago to explore Sixth
avenue in the neighborhood where Broad
way and the avenue cross. Standing in a
doorway he saw a good-looking mulatto
girl weeping.
Instinctvely ne knew that the young
woman was in trouble. He wasn't at all
sure she was not the victim OF some dss-
tardly crime. The Rubber Shoe Man
approached her and offered to help her,
"I'm in such trouble she walled 'Tm
, in such trouble"
But ',,,,I can help you,' said the man. swell
"Oh, hops, you can, sir" she said. And
then she unfolded tale Of woe 1t was
! dramatic recital and the Rubber Shoe
Man was greatly Interested. But the
WOIlldu eHCeu neF story Abruptly ana SdlC
abe would hurry to her room and get docu-
mentary proof that her story was true.
! She disappeared upstairs and the man
! waited ten minutes for her return. A
cold sweat broke out on his brow then
and he began to search his pockets. Five
twenty -dollar bills were missing,
! BY a simple process Of deduction he knew
! where they had gone and he began search
Of the house; But all he learned OF the
woman who had been in SO much trouble
was that a person answering her description
| had been seen going over the roof
! Il told Commissioner Greene few days
| ago, said he at the police station, when he
| told his tale, that there were touches
being made in this precinct and he said it
was not so. Now ! have proof that it ia."
A young man from Chicago who is visit
| ing in town, was invited several nights ago
| to house in the Murray Hill section. Early
in the evening he picked up pack Of cards
and while handling them for want Of some
| thing else to do, showed a few tricks for
which he is noted at home. The men ap-
| plauded and the women marvelled at his
skill.
There was short musicale later and after
| it a little poker game without tricks. From
the start the young Chicagoan couldn't
lose He even broke threes to draw to an
, inside straight and invariably caught.
| Once he drew four cards to a deuce and
picked up three more at time when
, full house and a flush were against him.
When the game finally ended the young
man was 81 to the good. Az he left, the
women passed him coldly and the men
eyed him suspicousy. 1t is doubtful il
any felt half as bad as did the young
| Westerner.
There are certain sections Of the city
| in which it is dangerous 10 be polite. A
/ =, knr 1hot al otr boz to-,
! lower East Side street the other day. A
| nicely dressed young man started forward
and stopped to pick it up. While he was
| in this defenceless position the woman
: brought down her umbrella with gr? at force
! and precision on the back OF his neck,
policeman rushed up Immediately to
| see what the trouble was, and the woman
things on the criminal calendar but par
| ticularly Of attempted grand larceny.
With great difficulty the young man sue
ceeded in pacifying her and explaining to
the policeman, who let him go with this
reprimand:
Them manners don't 60 down here,
young Teller. just keep yer hat on an
blow smoke in the ladies' faces an you'll
be all right.
| After all, wet weather is the best reformer
OF civic morals there is The business Of
| the city police courts is remarkably slack
! nowadays The cold wet weather makes
people stay indoors, try to keep warm and
save their clothes. II it we're warm and
dry there would be two cases in the
police courts for every one there is now
The weather man is just giving the hard
worked Magistrates a rest Maybe the
next moral crusade will be conducted with
the aid OF rain makers.
In connection with the recent articles
on the alleged kleptomanac tendencies
OF college men, it may be said that the
restaura nj keepers are not always 80 easy"
or forgving as they are said TO he. In
MANY places fixed up as German raths-
kellers and bedecked with expensive stems,
a tiny electric wire runs from stein to stein
along tho shelves and mantels. When
over one of the stems is disturbed, burglar
alarm rings in the bar This has cause d
considerable embarrassment to cnstomf RS
who have taken down some Of the hand
some stems merely to examine them.
A new variety of swindle has been dis
covered lately in the Eighth avenue pawn
broker district A shop has been selling
and distributing tickets broadcast by
means of an agent who drops them on