The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-09
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN. b


Ten years ago it was difficult to get q
as wholesome, here. Now the twenty-five
cent restaurants are springing up like
mushrooms. New York has been behind
San Francisco in that respect. There,
although clothing and most other articles
are more costly than in the East, good
meals may be had on almost every, block
for rs cents. New York, however, Ia fast
becoming paradise of cheap food.
i lived for while In the Iterbide In the
City Of Mexico enid New Yorker. The
price was 81 a day and ! can get better
meals for is cents right here in New York
than had there. i used to buy a glass Of
beer and fill out my meals at the free lunch
counter. We had onyx halls and gold
spoons and everything else-but food
The running OF the trains In the subway
can be heard distinctly in some OF the base
ments of the buildings along Elm street.
There is a basement barber sh op at Elm
and Franklin streets. big Tom Foley
was doing In one Of the chairs Yesterday
morning when a train rumbled beneath.
Foley jumped up in hurry.
What's that, Henry?' he asked the bar
Der.
"Nuttings,' replied the German barber,
dot is der elevated train in der ground "
dots all"
It's the West for real eloquence. One
Methodist pastor from that section was
preaching here a Sunday or two ago on
the eternity of the soul. He started on
long recital Of his emotions while gazing
on the wonders OF nature In the Far West,
and presently he electrified his congrega-
ton thus:
Il looked at the mountains, and could
not help thinking Beautiful as you, are,
you will be destroyed. while my soul VIII
not. And TO the ocean 1 cried: Mighty
az you may be, you will dry up. but not l..
Stray cats are as common in the country
at this time Of the season, when the city
folks have shut up their cottages, as the
same strays are about the backyards In
town after folks have departed for the
country in the spring. One woman VINO
stays the year around at a popular resort
counted twenty-eight stray eats from her
window one afternoon early last winter
and il comforted her to know that they all
looked sleek and fat.
The abandoned cat of the country may
fora ge in barns, fields and WOODS, and rare
better than the feline outcasts OF the back !.
yards. Such cats do not heed the call OF
the wild" Instead, they haunt the environs
of the settlements and therefore, unless
they find new homes. few live through the
winter.
A REM rkahle sight attracted the atten-
ton of tn! crowds on their way to the
Thirty-fourth street ferry yesterday. A
large automobile came along Second ave-
nue. dragging truck. On the end OF the
truck a boy sat leading two horses. 1t
wasn't an advertising dodge merely a
coincidence in the life OF busy city.
The growth in size of the trucks and
express wagons has been proportionate to
the growth of buildings. The tendency
of tho express companies especially has
been to build larger wagons constantly.
The latest development is an express wagon
which ia an exact duplicate OF the moving
van. The advent OF electricity IN the
sible to increase the size OF Vehlcles enor-
mously
With so many narrow streets the subject
has become serious one. 1t seems prob
able that regulations will soon have TO be
passed limiting the size OF vehicles. In fact
seriously proposed that this be done.
A new kind OF automaton appeared on
Broadway yesterday, apparently dragging
a wagon, but in reality propelled by it.
The automaton was the counterfeit pre-
sentiment Of a man about ~ feet tall and
correepondingly proportioned. he was
we'll clothed, booted and hated. and the
movements OF his legs and feet were al
most ifelike. So close was the resemblance
to a man that even risky horses, after
glance. passed on lnafraid.
The machinery operating the man Ia
worked by the electric motor in the wagon
The engineer sits In the wagon and guides
both automaton and wagon. An advertise
ment, OF course-for a melodrama playing
not far from Broadway.
The manager Of the big department
store sighed as he handed letter to hif
Typewriter to be filed away.
aWomen always seem to think he said
4tbat thew must get some sort Of influences
brought TO bear before they can get EN-.
nlovInent in a store. AS matter OF fact
aaecd' ealeswomep are always In demand
eend wa are always willing to receive ano
tsIk with possible candidates. But they
always feel that they have 70 pun some
kind Of wires, which Is not IN tho least
necessary
Long runs are unusual IN New Yorl
theatres nowadays and genuine rur
~, = hundred nights for any play Is rare.
.Manaeers now are glad to get good
civ or EIGHT weeks out Of play, one Of
them eaid yesterday. He counts that q
sn,ccess' Yet three months was not Mn
usual for real success decade adss sFO The :,
theatres have increased 20 hss ehh ssn d,x, H
% per m anSS different directions. Consequently
averv play has less Of run than 1t used
t to have. even when 1t can be accounted
a great success.
For 81. months Of the year New Yorl
10 navsr without the beautiful oolorine
that the fruit stands supply to street scenes
lust now the purplish red Of the grape
, lads a delightful bit of color to nearly
e%eS corner All through the summer T tn.
fruit stands beginning With the sb sp sai
anu o oS The beaches constantly changed ir
Cow glow o. ~ ~ tits The color Of the peaches
i Re longer than that Of the other fruits
for their season is Longer, Next 10 are ,h tsf
III theh h;,h vera never moro beautiful