The sun., 1903-11-26
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

horses in a current theatrical attraction.
The theatre is well up Broadway and the
animals used in the show are stabbed down
town on the lower West Side. They are
paraded up and down Broadway before
and after each night performance. On
matinee days they only have to make one
trip, as they are kept in the theatre be-
tween performances.
The horses are all fne animals and on
their blankets is the name of the play in
which they are used, but they attract little
or no attention unless the camel is with
them. Sometimes the camel makes the trip
alone, but generally it travels with the
II ,jogs along beside horse and rider as
If long ago it had made up it's mind to be
happy and contented.
Mr.. Devery Is not nearly as much in
evidence at the Pump corner since election
The small Devery vote was a great shock
to him. as he and his intimates had come
really to believe that he stood good chance
Of winning. This is hard to believe, con-
sidering the fate of other independent
candidates before him. but persons who
talked to Devery frequently before cleo
tion were often surprised by his faith in
his own vote getting power Devery still
maintains his headquarters at Eighth ave-
nue. and Twenty-eighth street, but the old
enthusiasm among his handful OF followers
is lacking. He says he is going to keep
his headquarters so that he will be in good
shape to put up good fight at the primaries
next year.
The hardest worked policeman in this city
is the clerical man at the Tenderloin sta
ton. His is the one job in the Police De-
partment that is not coveted by some one
else. He is around the Tenderloin station
at all hours of the day and night and he
is working all the time.
More complaints are received at this
station than at any other; and each COM
report made Of it, Making the reports
is part of the clerical mans work and this
in. itself would keep any man busy. Be-
sides this he has to keep track Of all details
are assigned, and if he makes a mistake
he is called sharply to account.
IL the man was not a good typewriter
he would never be able to get through
the amount Of work he does. He receives
only policeman's salary; but he averages
He doesn't like his job, but he can't get
in uniform would be a soft berth 10 him.
If he shirks his work he is likely to get a
complaint and that means more trouble
for him. No other cop wants Sam Beattie's
Job.
This is the time when the stables main
tained by the large department stores be-
gin to prepare for the holiday rush,
"Some extent of the business we do
during the holidays can be realized from
the fact that we have about seventy-five
or eighty horses and wagons of our own, "
said the manager of one stable, yet with all
these we are unable to handle all the busi
will hN, hirin fNEa fNvn " ftN.<a
extra horses and wagons to help us out.
We have to pay s. and 81 a day for ext ra
wagons. as the demand for them Is great
and the supply is so small that their owners
can get any price for them. But we have
to pay no matter how much il costs, for
delay means loss Of trade and customers
are at no time so exacting as at Christmas.
The regular sign painter for German
merchant who runs a small department
store in Harlem did not appear the other
day to make the usual bargain signs. The
to do ths job himself. After two hours
labor this appeared:
Extra ende~smt today. spep,leues tn can goods
e: come In Try us.
:.......,....
1t remained until afternoon and the
window never attracted 30 much attention
before,
(which ony goes to show remarked a
man who knows how this particular mer-
chant has triumphed over innumerable
obst acles, that education has nothing
whatever TO DO with the knack Of money
making
Here is story" said an old Central
Office man, @an can't give you proof of
it's truth; but if it is true it must make every
strong arm and confidence man feel jealous.
1t mixes up the name Of an eighteen carat
Central Office sleuth with that of hotel
detective and two notorious badger women.
The women are colored, but don't look 1t.
They are clever thieves, and according to
the tale they are equal partners with the
to work:
"The hotel detective gets line on some
well-to-do but none too shrewd guest of the
hotel where he is employed. One of the
badger women meets the guest in the
street She takes him to her room and
robs him. The victim doesn't know that
he has been robbed by negress, and when
he discovers his loss he kicks to the hotel
detective.
aThe hotel sleuth summons the eighteen
carat rubber shoe man and the loser tells
his story to him. Then both get busy.
With a great show OF surprise they soon
tell the victim that he has been robbed by
negress and that he will have to go into
court and prosecute her. even II his name
does get into the papers. That's enough
for the victim. He throws up his hands and
cries quits. Nice game, amt it?'
A crowd stood gazing at a big bag that
had fallen from a wagon at William and
Frankfort streets. Whatever the contents
were they bulged out strangely in spots.
and there were curious red markings on
the bag as though blood had soaked into
the canvas from the contents. No one
dared touch it, but the nearer persons in
the crowd bent over it, while those on the
outside cIaned their necks and asked,
What is it,"
Some one called a policeman. He
pushed through the crowd, took one look
at the bag and called the patrol wagon.
1T came clatering up and the crowd moved
back, while it backed up to the bundle.
Two husky oops jumped out, grabbed the
bag and swung it inside.
"What is IT," asked a bystandcr with
{ awe in his tones, as he clbowed his way
TO the side OF one of the cops. The cop
gave him a tcornfu glance Potatoes,
you fool" he said, and of went the wagon
with the paint stained bundle, while the
crowd moved sleepishly away.