The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


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In the get lunch quick places there has ap-
peared within a few days as certain an indi-
cation Of approaching winter as the donnine
Of their long coats by the policemen. Sup
Elementary To the warning that -the pro-
prietor will not be responsible for articles
unless checked with the cashier, Their
has been tackled up the old familiar placard
watch your overooat and hat. II cyl
IDENTIFY isn't worth while to hang up the
warning for hats alone.
A gang OF laborers has been at work
for a week mending the asphalt In front OF
tho Criminal Courts building in Centre
street. A brawny young 1rishman from
the gang went into Tom Foley's saloon
the other morning and called for a glass OF
whiskey. He filed up the glass. drank the
contents and put nickel on the bar
'Pretty big drink for a nickel said the
bartender, not tur ming hair. It'll cost
you dime
Sure, know nothin' about yer
money" replied the laborer. pulling out
a handful Of coins. 1--we only been here
two days"
The barten der explained few values to
him. Then he asked the 1rishman what
| pay he was to get. 80
Sure, don't know" said the man, but
the foreman says I'm to get this and out
came a slip Of paper on which was written
"Sl.75 q day
The Irishman went about his work
and it was noticeable that all day long
he worked hard. The next morning he
was back in Foleys again.
I'm tired he remarked to his friend
the bartender. Sure. I've been a fool
workin' so hard. just watch me swing
the hammer to-day"
He didn't display so much energy that
day. At night he was back in the saloon
aSure, did yez see me work to-day, I'm
not 80 tired" he said. Then in a whisper
but, me lad. can yez tell me phwere could
get an application fer the Police Deparrt-
| mint?"
No store window In the city has finer
display than that on the northwest corner
! Of st. Nicholas avenue and 155th street
| Through the overcrowding Of the public
school near by the store has been pre-
empted for a class Of little girls. The
| children, hard at work with primers and
states, are tho most attractive sight In the
| world to almost every passerby.
A crowd began to assemble on the park
corner at Madison avenue and Twenty
third street yesterday afternoon. Az the
minutes lurSeu tie tuVhS gre" W ouo u
proportions that the sidewalks were blocked
for hundred feet up the avenue and toward
A policeman rushed over and began to
push Ills way to the centre of the jostling
assemblage. The crowd grew larger. Two
other guardians OF the peace went to the
and the throng dispersed. The small boy
who had been feeding two squirrels with
peanuts looked up in amazement when
ordered to move on.
Cant feed the bunnies?' he asked.
Park replied the cop, : but not down here.
There are too many rubbernecks.'
A woman OF methodical habits and rigid
observance Of a system in her household
must have arranged this telegraph blank
which her husband lost in the street one
night last week and a messenger picked
up. 1t reads
IJe nnie had - born at - o'clock
Both doing well. Fine - weighing =
that's good enough SO IA r as it goes
remarked the man to whom the finder
showed IL, but what would Walter have
done, IL 1t had been twins-Hke Jones's.
AL those forms would have been wasted
Matches Mary" Is back on Broadway.
Time brings no change in her Behind
the black goggles that cover her eyes the
Oldest first nighter has never seen.
1T wouldn't seem like Broadway with
out Mary said rounder the other even
ing. sI've bought wax tapers from her
for nearly quarter OF century, She
looks as young nov as she did when / first
saw her"
Mary, like every other street vendor Of
celebrity. Is the reputed owner Of several
tenement houses in that vague region up
town" as the result az her thrift
"G'wan,' abe says when asked about her
property. Il don't own nothin' II 1t
warn't fer the matches couldn't live"
A turkey huzzard, the scnvenger bird pro-
tected in Charleston and other Southern
cities, has been habitant this fall of the
strip of country between Bath Beach and
Coney Island Creek. The buzzsrd seems
to be bachelor bird. for only one has been
seen. Come time each afternoon for the
last month the bugzard, flying at a height
OF about 100 feet above the ground, sweeps
over the Marine and Field and Dyker
Meadow golf links and circles of toward
Prospect Park,
Despite the law prohibiting the sale of
Holsters under ten inches IN length plenty
OF little lobsters-the sea food kind.-are
being sold now In New York. Most OF
them are caught illegally In Jamaica Bay
In fact 30 bold have the poachers become
there that fears are felt lest the efforts
made recently by the Fish Commissioner
TO promote the industry In those parts be
entirely frustrated and the supply e1-
hausted.
II may be asked what becomes Of the
small lobsters. Few dealers have the
temerity to expose them for sole. Ao-
cording to the fish dealers, however, they
are being sold by the cartloads to the can
ming companies and New York is eating
chat way a delicious and forbidden food is
tickling city palates nowadays.
The day OF the brass megaphone is over.
The latest thing in megaphone mouth
piece is one built like big morning glory
aud colored aocardinalY ned. white or blue.