The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-29
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

week Wlgnt nave been Justlned In coming
to the conclusion that to be tennis player
the only player Of reputation who, was
entered and whose name didn't begin
with that letter was Larned. Among the
WIS were the two Wright brothers. Leo
Ware Holcombe Ward and Malcolm d.
Whitman. The coincidence would have
brothers, Bob and George, had not with
drawn.
Some elevator mon In this town are not
@boys" by any means, and by their occu-
patton they have been able TO save modest
competence. Many of them are to be found
in office buildings Of the more Anticipated
type, where they have been fixtures for
years. One elevator man in a building Of
this type on Park place has been running
the old-fashioned elevator there for
little more than twenty years; BE has
turned sixty and with his family he lives
in n comfortable fiat In Columbus avenue
His two sons are prosperous. One is a
lawyer with an office not far from the
building in which his father runs the ele-
vator The other Is a successful salesman.
But nothing car, induce the father so far
to give up his old place az elevator man
He takes his dinner pail and eats his midday
meal now. as he has for twenty years,
between ups and downs" Apparently
nothing short of absolute decrepitude Will
cause the old man to retire.
The young teacher whose heart was in
her work was just beginning to congratu-
late herself on having made the change
from the troubles and red tape OF public
school service to one of the city's semi
fashionable private schools, when she had
q visitor In tho person of the mother OF
one of her diminutive pupils.
Il just ran in to ask you, chirped the fond
mother, lightly. mot to mark Catherine. 6
examples wrong. because, you see, she ia
such an awfully sensitive child, and 1t does
hurt her feelings So"
W. II. H. Beebe. Mayor Lows real simon
pure private secretary for many years,
strolled along West Forty-fourth street
several afternoons ago. On the opposite
side of the street was all old friend who had
not seen Mr. Beebe fol- long time.
Il wonder" said MIR. Beebe's friend to a
companion, III Beebe over there will recog
nize this" and Immediately he whistled
a bar or two Of a song in vogue forty years
ago, Instantly Mr. Bcehe turned his head
In the direction of the whistle, crossed
the street and said to his friend: 81 would
have known that in the jungles OF Africa.
We used to whistle that when we were boys
and rowed in the Alcyon Boat Club in
Brooklyn more years ago than l care to
mention"
It turned out that the bar OF music
whistled by Mr.. Beebe's friend was tho
Acyon signal of good friendship and fine
companionshlp when MIR. Beebe, the
Chauncey brothers. Horace G. DuVal and
other Brooklynites were youngsters.
A crowded cafe at the Circle was enter
tanned on Sunday night by the searching Of
q y,op ho u,itk woman cpp,na pipp was
about to leave the place after dinner. The
waiter who had served the couple discov-
cred that most of the table silver was gone
and reported it to the manager, who sig
nailed for the walters corps. The corps
moved down on the two just as they rea ched
the door.
They took OF the coat which covered the
mans evening clothes and pulled q silver
cream pitcher, two coffee spoons and an
oyster fork out Of the pockets. Then they
let him go. Meanwhile the cafe WAS In
to Mysteries and nobody could get bit of
attention from any of the walters.
When things had quieted down three
walters went back to their tables to find that
their patrons. who had dined very well had
gone out without calling for checks.
One OF the observers most pleased with
the capture OF the silver thief was a restau
rant keeper who closes his own place on
Sundays because it il downtown. He said:
a week ago count my demi tasse spoons
90 Yesterday l have only 80 left
Souvenirs carried on in sleeves. pockets
and garters. l am glad they catch one,
anyhow.
An old gentleman boarded Sixth
avenue elevated train at Fifty-ninth street
yesterday morning, unfolded his paper
and then felt anXiously in all Of his pockets
by Jove,' he exclaimed. ave forgotten
my glasses. Busy day before me, and this
is my only chance to read the news
please, sir" piped small, but enter
prising youth who sat next to him, III
read your paper to you for quarter
The old gentleman stared at him for
minute, hut finally handed the boy the
Read the headlines" he commanded
4Ill stop you when want to hear an article.
And read fast
The boy proceeded to give Il glib render
ing. Count 80 far favors Parks hit by a
battleship strikes drove him to suicide,
he read all in one breathless sentence,
The other passengers were amused
But when the old gentleman rose to ieave
the train he handed the boy half dollar.
There was remarkable exhibition OF
coolness and self-possession by a child in
Park row the other right. 1t was In the
rush hour when thousands were thronging
to the Bridge entrance. The only one in
the throng who didn't seem TO be In a hurry
was little girl, bareheaded and with two
pigtai,s braided down her back. Sho
couldn't have been more than years old
Az she mo we'd along with the jam she calmly
read her school primer. She held the book
in her left hand just as her teacher had
taught her, at the proper angle and dis
lance, and she turned the page twice be-
tween Ben Franklins statue and Frank
fort street.
Pasted on the side OF Chief Clerk Eben
Demareet's desk in the jefferson Market
police court is the picture Of dagger
smeared with red Ink gore, and with red
ink drops dripping from its bloody" point.
THAT has been there for six years, said
Mr.. Demarest when questioned on the
subject 1T was originally sent "a warn
ing by some Italian vendetta society to a
victim, but now keep it there as warning
to newspaper reporters TO keep of.
The best known Of the penny beggars is
loose on Broadway again after a long alb
sence. He is gray-bearded old man who
glides up to you on the street and says
In wheezy voice:
Boss, will you give me penny? want to
get a cup of coffee. i have four"
As an evidence Of truthfulnees he holds
out four pennies in his dirty palm His
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