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


Passengers on an East River ferfyboat
yesterday were interested In small stern
wheel steamboat which was being towed
down the river. She was about thirty feet
long and drew about two feet OF water.
sits long time since saw one Of those, !"
ferry. That's the kind Of boat that Is
used on the bayous OF Louisiana and Texas.
way"
Nothing could be more revolutionary
In music than the action OF the Philhar-
monio Society In changing the hour Of
It's matinee. The organization Is now
cert has begun at o'clock for a great many
years Subscribers used TO bolt their lunch
sometimes 70 without II altogether-and
try In every way to be at Carnegie Hall by
O'Clock. when the consoript fathers al
ways began promptly.
beg to have the hour changed. The 30
ciefy had been In existence for slxty-one
years and knew it's business. But the num-
Der Of late arrivals gradually beoanne 90
large that the concerto were seriously
interrupted. and the Philharmonic has
an hour later.
Ono OF the exhibits at o popular resort
last summer was the original shed that
covered the pier on the Hudson River from
which Fulton called his FIRST steamboat.
John H. Btarin. who now leases that part
Of the water front. removed the ahed and
original condition. He has also one 81 the
ORIGINAL Dutch windmills from Long Island.
Its squatty build and latticelike sails afford
q stronge contrast to the modern. wind,
mill, with Ito high steel frame and small
fanlike wheel.
The kind that mother made Is advertised
In spectacular fashion In front OF down.
town restaurant. The figure Of woman,
severe in expression, but homely and
natural In dress, stands there all day pouring
coffee out of pot which Is SO arranged as
effect Is appetizing, and the proprietor counts
OF his prosperity.
Advertisements Offering social advance
ment for q cash equivalent are comma n
enough In London, but they are rarely seen
here. For that reason the allur ing prom;
ises held out In an advertisement published
yesterday seem unlikely to m 1seern nM;
Of this sort Of thing In London are all
fairly well known to their friends as doing
It. and as a rule there is no objection to the
practice. Here although some New York
crs have intr oduoed strangers into society,
there has never been any implication that
Il was done for money. II 10 probabl lie that
the industry would not thrive long In this
oity, as New York's view OF the matter Is
quite different from that in London.
A man who, for good reasons, preferred
for while to see as few persons as possible.
found that he came to grief most frequently
when he rode on trolley cars or the ele-
sThe man who walks" he said, w i'll
almost certainly be able to avoid meeting
people He may even vent ure into the
popular districts Of the oity with impunity
New York Is very small, IL one ciings to
certain districts, but he might still do that
and avoid the people he wanted to. But
let him get aboard a car and he Is nearly
certain nine times out OF ten to bump into
somebody he does not want to meet. For
nearly two wears l was willing to be seen
as rarely a. possible and was able to man.
age II go long a. I kept Of the cars.
The ingenuity of those to whom falls the
| naming OF river craft Is evidently backed
bv familiarity with fairy history and an eye
TO proprety. The threc big automatic
partInent are respectively named Gin
deeeIla, Cenerentola and Asohenbroedel
The story Of the first Of this trinity In known
TO every one. The second nan1e Is that OF
the Spanish equivalent OF the Cinderella OF
American youth, and the last Ii the mythica
person known to all German children for q
similar adventure.