The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-04

ever since il was first opened, four years
ago, with uncommonly attractive proprie-
tors. They have changed frequently, owing
to the demand for them as wives. Three
OF the proprietors have parted with pros
porous business because of the urgent
matrimonial demand for them Only last
week the third owner OF the business sold
it out and got higher price than any OF her
predeccssors.
Now that Marshall p. Wilder has become
a man of family his banner will no longer
wave on tho outer wall Of his former home
in West Thirty-third street. A flag floating
over the palace Of a ruling sovereign means
that he is in residence, and Mr.. Wilder
years ago adopted this same method OF
letting the world know that he was at home
in his aerial apartments. When the nag
was a sign that Mr.. Wilder could be- seen.
But the flag is at halfmast now. and the
humorist's friends will have to discover
some new way OF learning whether they
can see him.
Visiting notabilities usually succeed in
escaping attention as they journey through
the city if they make an effort to do So
Last week il was a mediatized Bavarian
Prince who sojourned here and was not
heard Of until he sailed away, and now
Count Conrad Won Hochberg, younger
son OF one Of the oldest families in Germany,
has just started West after brief stay in
New York. He is going to shoot big game
in the West, then return to Newport and
stop there until he returns to Europe in
the early fall.
Count Won Hochberg il the son of the
Prince Of Pless and younger brother OF
beautiful Miss CORVALLIS West. The
family has its home in Silesia and has long
been conspicuous in Prussion affairs.
Heinrich Conred has written to this city
that he expects soon to encounter the most
potent opposition to the "Parsifal" produce
ton that he has yet had to face. He usually
meets the Emperor when he goes to Germany,
and in the course Of events will be received
by his Majesty this summer. He expects
and fears that the Emperor will be per-
suaded by Nine. Wagncr's friends to ask
him to relinquish his scheme for performing
"Parsifal." The impresario admits that
this will be very trying situation, coming
as it does from the sovereign of his Father
land. But he has already prepared an
answer.
say "and would be ready to do whatever
you command were it not that am now the
subject of the great American people, and
it is in response to their command that [
am compelled to give them 'Parsifal',
\ Young man from the northern part OF
the State who recently visited New York
on his wedding trip had an unpleasant
experience which convinced him that the
Metropolitan police are energetic at least,
II was in tour Of Central Park. The
bridegroom had bad cold. While in the
park the hour for his medicine came
around. He excused himself and took his
bottle of Sullivan county cough mixture
to the windward side of the obelisk. He
had lust raised the bottle To his lips when a
stout policeman ran up and knocked the
bottle to the pavement
ave been watchin' ycuse for some
time" said the cop. "yuuse can't drink no
dope on my beat.
The Young men insisted that he had no
intention of committing suicide and finally
the policeman consented to listen to reason.
He even wet his finger i'll the dark pool on
the pavement and tasted the deadly mix
turc The ingredients we're unmistakahle
and he let the victim go.
Ii does not seem probable that the present
popularity of the parrot will survive the
passing of summer and the arrival of a
colder and soberer season in town. Par
rots are to-day very much better adapted
TO the civilization Of Newport than Of New
York In the summer city they may
perch on carriages and automobiles or
be displayed on piazzas. But IL is not likely
that they would be considered useful here
for anything else than interior decoration,
and it is not probable that the parrot as
an out-of-door companion will be i'm
ported from Newport with the return of
the summer colony.
Earl Webster Kempton, who comes from
Schenectady, and is the recognized leader
of New York's professional beggars. tried
a trick on the Charity Organization So
ciety few days ago with the result that
he was grabbed by the Brooklyn authori-
ties, photographed for the rogues' gal
lery and measured by the Berilon sys-
TEN. Till then he had managed to keep
the police from getting his picture and
measurements
Mamie Largo, the beggar leaders par
ticuar friend, is in the Bedford Reforma
tory, through the charity OF Agent Forbes
of the Charity Organization Society.
kempton got a writ Of habeas corpus for
the woman in Brooklyn, and she might
have been turned loose had not informa-
ton of what was going on reached Agent
Forbes. Mamie went back 10 Bedford
and the police thought the presence of
Kempton in court was too good an oppor-
tunity to be lost, so they just hustled him
to Police Headquarters despite his pro-
tests. and measured him,
The proud father of ten year old Brook
Ign schoolgirl, learning that his daughter
had written n composition in a prize con-
test in her school, asked to see her work.
He read it over and decided that it wasn't
10 cd enough So he wrote a substitute.
The child took it to school, meaning to
hand it in as her own work. But when she
got to school and read her fathers effusion,
She decided that she liked her own better
and turned that in. But she gave the
piece her father had written to another
girl, and the girl held it under her own name.
There we're fifteen prizes for the best fifteen
compositions out Of a hundred. The girl
who liked her own work better than her
fathers got the first prize. The father a
work was not even mentioned In the con-
test
Graham Rice, sometimes known as
Maxim Il Gay. but whose real name Is said
to be Simon Herzig, was probably the most
successful Of all the racing tipsters who
have recently gone to smash, R,ce was the
inventor of the tipping game and the story
of his beginning is interesting.
He had long been close student Of race
horses. when ono night about two years
ago b, sat in Broadway cafe and figured