The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-06
LIVE y0Pfes ASoUv TOWN.

Doss the luck that goos with clover Of
more than thrse lsavu~ iRcresss proportion
stely with tbs number al lOsvesP Four
issvod blowers are not uncominon and AVE-
leaved ones are found. but fev havs ever
seen OF heard Of clover with six I'srfectly
formed leaves
One Of these came TO THK Sun oeice the
other night, however. I. was senf by
little girl who had been epepdinG tho sum
mer At Lake Mahopac, N. T. In the letter
the little girl says
I wish | had found thi. before tle yacht
races. II ! had | would have sent II 70
Sir Thomas Upton and asked him to put
u on the Shamrock Ill. II four-ieaved
clover brings good luck, surely one with
six leaves should bring much better luck
Please keep the clover for me and II Sir
Thomas ever comes after the Cup again
let him try II ii will do him any good
Ono Of the partners in q London Arm
Of tailors which does large business In
this city recently withdrew TO carry on an
enterprise Of his own This move Of course
caused a struggle for the old firms patrons.
The seoeding partner has written to the
New York customers Offering 10 pay their
outstanding accounts with the original
firm on condition that they transfer their
patronage to him. In some cases these
accounts amount to several hundred dol
lars.
When high-prics mountain hotel this
summer surrendered one of its floors to
New Yorker of great wealth his family
and the Tetinue that accompanied them.
the house servants awaited eagerly the
generous dist ribution Of fees that was to be
expected. The hotel employees were un-
commonly solcitous, although the family's
staff Of servants, which included q cook.
was so large that they had little chance
to show how attentive they could he. To
their establishment the last Of the maids
and Wallets left the house and nobody re-
ceived a cent. II WAS a month before the
cause OF this unexpected parsimony was
made clear. To valet had been rusted
fees for the hotel servants and he had pook-
eted them. When the head Of the family,
crosby at the hotel, investigated the stories
he learned this fact and sent check for
500 to the disappointed serving men and
women.
When Director Conried, as he is to be
known at the Metropolitan, went before
the directors Of his company last week
he WAS preceded into the meeting room
by a messenger bearing a large box, which
was placed in corner until the impresario
began to speak of the new singers he has
engaged for this season; Then the box
was placed on table When he reached
the name of Signor Caruso the box was
opened and found to contain photograph
into which the young Italian tenor had
sung Mr.. Conried, after he had exhausted
all his eloGuence in praise of his new aoqui-
sition. turned the crank and the reproduction
OF the tenor's voice was heard. Phono-
L., nS 10 al
ways fatterng, as it usually sounds metal
lie and out of tune. but the new impresario
was so much pleased with the SUCCESS of
the scheme that he intends next year TO
have all the strange singers try their voices
in the photograph that the directors Of
the company may hear them before they
are finally engaged.
Everybody has heard Of fresh air children,
but fresh air chickens are not quite so COM
mon Yet there is small chicken coop in
one corner of the childrens Farm School
in the De Witt Clinton Park that is at pres
ent occupied by two scragglv hens under
going the fresh air treatment They were
hatched and raised in the kitchen of nearby
apartment and never lived out of doors
until they were sent to the Farm School
about week ago. They will stay there
a couple Of weeks and then will give way
to two more hens from another apartment.
Relianoe's first victory over Shamrock
III. caused at least one person a heart
ache. This was the Hon, Patrick Francis
Sheedy He was bit indisposed on that
Saturday and preferred the hotel piazza
to trip to the Saratoga racecourse. How
ever he sent q commission to be played
across the board on tho Whitney entry
in the third racn-the Grand Union Hotel
Stakes Mr., Whitneys entries were the
two youngsters Stalwcrt and Reliance
Sheedy got the winners of the first two
races and then came flash They're Oft"
for the third This was soon followed
by second ticking which announced that
Reliance had won by seven minutes and
something. Sheedy interpreted it to mean
that the Whitney wo-year-old had gal
loped home by seven lengths or more and
without waiting to hear further invited
all hands on the piazza to have one with
him. Later he learned that Reliance and
Stalwart had run seventh and eighth,
Mrs. Largtry and sgnor Marconi were
dining at different tables in a restaurant
the other night The actress saw the in
vento or for the first time
"What wonderful man he is" Mrs.
Iangtry said What he has done seems
Only | can't say that my
own experience with the wireless telegraph
was complete success. | had dined with
a friend the night before ! left London,
and when we passed vessel l telegraphed
by the new method, The ocean does not
part US Ten days later | had the tele-
gram back from my friend with u request
TO explain what it mernt, 1t read. The
ocean has no pants on. y"
In block of handsome houses recently
uptown is one different in an
important respect from all those about it,
Il not from every other house in New York
II is supplied with thunder room-an
apartment so built as to be practically
sound proof The young mistress OF this
house has dread Of thunder that nothing
has ever been able to overcome. So che
determined to have place of retreat in |
lines of storm, The architect who had
his unusual commission arranged room
N the centre Of the house so situated that,
With it's thick walls, no sound can penetrate |
% it. To this apartment the timid owner |
,an retreat whenever the thunder roars.