The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

you've heard Of an acquired taste.
said the man in the drug store, but maybe
you've never heard attention called to an
acquired smell. Well I'm acquiring some.
For instance, used to dislike the smell
OF carbolic acid. l have acquired a smell
for it and now l positively like it. can
say the same Of witch hazel and camphor
most satisfying are those lacking anything
In the nature OF cloying sweetness
An inexperienced election inspector can
make lot Of trouble. In one Of the election
districts uptown the registry officers were
kept at work Strengthening out Fridays
registration until o'clock on Saturday
morning, putting in just twenty five hours
Of continuous work. One Of the inspectors
had entered the names Of those who regis
tered that day in the wrong book The
mistake was not discovered till after mid
night, and the inspectors didn't get out OF
the booth. The second day Of registra-
ton was on them before they had finished
up the first.
SITS the first day Of me life In New York. =
pleaded truck driver accused in one OF
the police courts the other day Of keeping
know the rules here"
where did you come FROM" asked the
Magistrate.
brooklyn" confessed the prisoner.
THAT Is worse than Philadelphia, re-
marked the Magistrate alphabetically,
as he discharged the unfortunate man
without benefit Of clergy.
Evidently hard winter with consider
able snow is expected this year. One
evening last week the trolley cars in Green
point avenue Brooklyn, were held up for
more than twenty minutes by truckload
of children's sleighs, which got stalled
on the tract, and was 30 heavy that the two
horses could not get It started After a
long delay the horses from another truck,
also loaded with sleds, were hitched In
front and the united efforts Of the four
horses got the truck moving.
There were more than O thousand sleighs
In the two loads and they we're only part
Of consignment to one OF the department
stores across the river.
This is the dulleet time OF the year for
this business said a moving van man.
-The law requires that voter must reside
thirty days in his district previous to cleo
ton, 80 most men to save their vote will
stay in their present quarters. Things are
30 slow that have laid of nearly all my
men till after election
Ol dlIlOBt any uLS Ohy tLoTO Luay 10 bedll
outside Sixth avenue store a serried rank
Of empty baby carriages. The babies are
presumably inside with their shopping
mothers.
II the babies are as much alike as the
carriages are" remarked an old bachelor
sits the Lords own wonder that they
don't get hopelessly mixed up while their
mothers are rushing the bargain counter
what some men don't know would All
a bookl" snapped red faced woman with
a baby in her arms who overheard the
remark.
The real estate records soon to be housed
in the handsome new hall in Chambers
street have not always been even 30 well
housed as they are in the Morton build
ing. their present temporary home. They
have been moved about good deal,
but the queerest resting place they have
occupied was the island In the Collect.
The Collect was the fresh water pond
which occupied the hollow near the centre
OF which the Criminal Courts Building and
the Tornbs now stand. 1t was not filed
in until after 1903. Near the centre OF this
pond was small island, Originally 1t had
been used as a place Of refuge for the Indian
so,laws and children in times Of danger
The colonists followed the example OF the
Indians.
In 1928 all the city records were hidden
on this island It Is due to such care that
New York possesses such complete records
of it's growth.