The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-01
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

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The annual arrival Of the actors in New
York has flledthe sidewalks of upper Broad
way in the region of Fortieth street with
a crowd that keeps TO its place during the
greater part OF the day. Most of the men
to be seen there are young, they are gen.
orally quiet enough, and. apart from GER
tain picturesqueness of attire, are not
strikingly different from the persons
who pass them and wonder what they
find to do on the sidewalk all day.
The northward march Of New York life
has always been indicated by the station
these returned exiles: They used to be
in Union Square, in front Of the theatre
on the south side. and they next moved up
to Twenty-eighth street, which was for
Later they were at Thirty-fo,rth street
and now their most frequented stamp
ing ground is almost at Foriv-sccond
But. through all these changes. they have
chung to Broadway. and no future change
seems likely to separate them from that
thoroughfare whose name has become TO
actors the word expressive of all the de-
lights in city life.
The name which Mrs. Cunning s. Bad
ford used in her negotiations with the
woman from whom she obtained her bogus
baby suggested to many persons in New
York that she might be- Helen Bancroft,
the beautiful, who disappeared from New
York several years ago.
Mss Bancroft, who was for brief pc
Rod on the stage, was heard of last three
years ago when she was married TO a former
secretary of the late Henry f. Abbey. He
was incuably i'll and died few months
after the marriage. just before leaving
for South Africa. Miss Bancroft had finally
declined 20 marry noted New Yorker
who had been for two years desperately
devoted to her. He was not rich. but
socially distinguished. And he was old
enough to be her father.
Miss Bancroft consented and his family
was SO far reconcled to the match as to
call on their future rslative-n-law. But
AZ The last minute. Miss Bancroft ".chucked
the game, as it was graphically d. scribed
by her friends. and fleeing to South Africa
married the your z American who had gone
out there in tho hope of saving his life.
Not word has been heard of her since
that time, She came from the Middle
West and was st,ikingly beautiful.
The clearing house for waters in New
York has for years been a saloon in Sixth
avenue. which has apparently no other
patrons. The proprietor ia acclst omed
to say that anybody not waiter who
comes there must bo a stranger, since he
rarely has any other visitors. From
this saloon come most Of tho walters for
the principal restaurants The majority
Of them are, Franch, although there, are
Alsatians and a few Germans among them.
Various efforts to establish agencies of
r more businesslike character have been
made, but without success.
New York's enthusiasm for oren-air
H. -. la HAL to- loet
The weather has made the city so dusty
that the air is no adequate compensation
for the discomfort OF being even as much
out Of doors as the balcony Of Fifth avenue
restaurant New York has never yet had
an open-air dining room large enough to
accommodate all the persons who wanted
to get into II in warm weather with the eh-
That was crowded for whole summer,
but was never again opened TO the public,
II was too far from the kitchen to enable
the staff to serve meals well, The others
are all small, with the exception OF that In
Central Park. which is more like one OF the
any other in this country.
"To stimulate ambition and at the same
time contribute to the enjoyment OF the
masses as he puts 1t, publisher of popular
songs has offered gold watch to the ANA
teur song writer whose song, as sung by
himself on the stage Of a Bowerv theatre
on n certain evening, seems to be regarded
by the audience As the most popular OF the
songs presented In competition. Nothing
is said by the astute publisher about the
chance Of thus securing popular song on
easy terms and starting II out on money
making career with an excellent advertise
ment among the people who buy such songs.
Nor does he mention the recompense which
should come to him from the theatre people,
who probably see the value Of filing their
writer's and friendly rooters. But, never.
theless, these are among the rewards OF
such plans .to give slumbering genius
proper and fitting opportunity, to display
the product that has been hitherto with
held from the public ear as the music
publisher says.
Police Commissioner Greene's abolition
OF the old shields worn by patrolmen and
substitution OF new ones with numbers
30 large that they can be distinguished
twenty feet away will help parsons de-
sirous Of learning policeman's identity
in order to make complaint, and the
badges are consequently in great dsfavor
among the men themselves. One OF the
policemen stationed at this end OF the
bridge ia number liza. On the lapel OF
his blouse ia the number OF the Bridge
squad precinct which i.4.
Makes me hloomin' policy gig he
complained the other night. What would
happen il l arrested coon''
Miss Mary Britton Icavy is at least
three inches taller than jher distin-
gushed betrothed. Sgnor Scoti. She
ia very blond. and her future husband
is as dark as the darkest Of his race
car bc. 1t is strikingly illustrative Of his
devotion to the young lady that she was one
of the first persons TO whom he was intro
duced after his arrival in this country three
never in doubt according to their friends,
from the time Of their firsh meeting,
Since her engagement to the barytone the
young lady has rarely been TO the opera, al
though during Signor Scotti's first year hero
she was q regular attendant at all the per.
formances he sang in.