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LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

II this town is not wide open after Jan.
I. a great many people will loso money
on the investments they are making
on the strength of Tammanys victory
Houses thnt have been hard to rent under
this administration in both the old and new
Tender!oin now have many people camor-
ing for leases at stiff prices. A resA estate
broker who handles good deal ~ this
sporty" property said yesterday:
The rush to get possession n these
houses surprised me. Persons who own
two years, but from the way things look
now they will recover their losses and profit
handsomely on their investment besides;
l have been overwhelmed with cn.rs ana
so have other real estate agents. | think
that most of the people who have obtained
leases 80 far have done so for speculating.
All the leases 1 have given are for two
years. The leaseholders are not taking
chances on Tammany staying in power
longer than that time.
Copies of the new traffic rules formulated
by Deputy Commissioner Piper and W.
p Emo, a retired merchant, who showed
sufficient interest in street travel to work
in conjunction with Capt. Piper, can be
had at any police station. Drivers are
supposed to understand these rules pretty
well by this time. but to those who don't
the diagrams printed with the rules will
be great aid. Either most drivers know
the rules or they are not sufficiently in
terested to get copy OF them. Few re-
quests for copies have been made.
That gray-bearded old fakir known to
the police and to upper Broadway as Hcnri
Greer. tried to beat his way on Broadway
car few nights age but passenger who
knew him made the fellow s identity known
to the conductor and had the satisfaction
of seeing him put off.
Greer jumped aboard q northbound car
in front of the Hotel Imperial by way Of
the front platform. The conductor vas
busy collecting fares in the rear and when
the motorman gave the accustomed signal
that a passenger had got on at his end,
the conductor did not look around to see
through the car and out to the rear plat
form as If he was going to alight. There
he stood dangling his cane and stroking
his well kept beard.
Meantime the conductor had gone forward
to collect that fare he knew was coming.
He found no one willing to pay ard began
to scan the faces of all his passengers. He
couldn't remember collecting a nickel
from the gray bearded man and he asked
him for it.
But, I've paid you once said Greer
loudly.
The mans tone almost convinced the
conductor that he had made mistak
and he was going to let the fare go when a
passenger called him into the car and whis-
pered who Greer was. The conductor
stopped the car
"Give up nickel or get off" H. tad to
the man.
Greer pulled n ped and penci with
great show OF indignation and jot.ed down
tho car number, but the conductor helped
Inn off quickly. He had managed to beat
khn ~ tNxyS, rtl
A man who carries small account In q
branch office Of trust company got
notice the other day that he had overdrawn
his account three cents. The notice came
on a sheet of letter paper with the com
pany's engraved letterh cad, enclosed in an
envelope bearing two-cent stamp. 1t
had been dictated, typewriter, personally
signed by the manager and then copied.
money by making good the three cents it
self or by taking chances on the depositor
keeping up his account.
One citizen of Manhattan lost his vote
this year purely through superstition.
The board Of registry in his district met
in an undertakers shop and this man is
to go into one. He never has set foot in
one and he says he never will
A young widow who is soon to make her
debut on the stage is the protegde Of West
ern man. whose name has been associated
more or less with actresses. She possesses
many Of the attributes which ought to make
her debut a success. She saws, though,
that she hasn't any hankering after a stage
life. but must do something to increase her
diminished income and help to support
herself and her two children.
"I've looked over the field to see what
I was best fitted for she explained a few
days ago, Aand I find can obtain larger
income from the stage than ] could from
any other business. Whether will be sue
cessful remains to be seen. II fail will
have to try something else"
This woman will receive pretty fat
salary for beginner, considering she only
has a small part The chances are, how
ever that she would never have been hired
at all, if the Western man, who is interested
in her welfare. wasn't backing the show
in which she will appear.