The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-11
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

quette OF the storm door. Should push
myself In before lady and let her do all
the work, or should let her precede me
ana run the treadmill myself2 The latter
system has its disadvantages because some
giant Is likely to enter at the came time and
s psy 1ns P bob %,S h Ing spdnnS IKE TOP
storm door, anyway
Some folks who have seen q fire engine
begin pumping stream Of water at q fire
immediately II arrives, sometimes almost
within few seconds OF the sounding OF the
alarm, wonder how the engine got up steam
In 30 short time.
In the basement Of every engine house
Is boiler connected by pipes with the
fire engine above. It keeps stream Of
not water circulating in the engine boiler
ana steam pressure Of twenty pounds
the fire is already laid with exceldor and
nneiy cut wood ready for instant ignition.
when an alarm sounds II In the work Of an
instant to shut Oh the hot water from the
basement and the engine disconnects with
Of the house A pressure Of twenty pounds
Is enough to begin pumping on. but the
instant the engine fire Is lighted the steam
pressure begins to mount. Frequently
there is forty or sixty pounds when the
chbhe peBinb pumping.
Broadway has lost one Of It's all night
drug stores and the place is sadly missed
by its former frequenters. The corpora
ton which ran the store refused to stand @
5000 a year increase In rent This store
was in one OF the theatre buildings and q
large part OF it's trade came from ice cream
soda drinkers. Some OF It's patrons only
went there to buy postage stamps. At any
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with the increased rent. 80 the drug COM
pany which kept it for years and never
closed the place has moved out
Charles Burnham, the manager OF Wal
lacks Theatre. spent his vacation in Cali
fornia While he was away he shed the
fine crop OF whiskers which have kept his
face warm for the last twenty-five years
He wears only small mustache now and
even his former acquaintances have diff
Guilty in recognizing him.
Where is Manager Burnham1 demanded
a pass fiend the other night.
He addressed the man he sought, but
didn't know him without the whiskers.
The manager has stepped out said
Gee he remarked afterward, III I'd
known I could have disguised myself as
well as this I'd have lost those whiskers
years ago.
People along the water front are beginning
to look for the -berber," which at this time
Of year interests the commuters on their
twice day trip across the North and East
rivers. For the sake of the ignorant, let 1t
be known that the @berber' is the result OF
a condition OF wind and wave when the
water is warmer than the air. In such case
the wave orests send up small pulls of vapor
1t,giyes the water a peculiar appearance.
hinh fol 10 fr otf ha
term comes from seafaring folk.
If there ever was disappointed crowd
it was one that assembled in front OF the
Hotel Normande at Broadway and Thirty
eighth street, on Friday night, waiting
for the engines TO come and put out chin
ney fire in the hotel A thick cloud OF
smoke circing over the roof Of the hotel
first attracted the attention of pedestrians.
A watchful poiceman's gaze followed
theirs skyward.
kitchen chimney was ablazc. At the same
time he observed that the hotel manage
ment knew 1t. He sent boy to the nearest
engine house to tell the firemen. Then he
three minutes he prevented six watchful
citizens from sending an alarm.
Meantime tho crowd wondered why the
engines didn't come. Though folks didn't
know it. two firemen had already entered
the hotel by the Thirty eighth street en-
A hotel porter had extinguished the blaze
in the SCOT with a pail Of salt. The an
nouncer of a sightseeing automobile voiced
the general sentiment through his mega
phone thus:
II am sorry, ladies' and gentlemen, that
am not able to show you on this trip New
York s magnificent fire department at work.
Better luck the next time
Say" remarked the visiting citizen from
Jayville, "see this nickel? Here I've been
asked for a nickel at least six times day
enough seed for that sum to plant field
with a crop that would net me $50. Guess
I'll save the nickel. They're too common
down here.
The typewriter which seems to 60 by
itself keeps a group of from two to dozen
persons in front OF the Broadway store
window in which it is exhibited all day.
Those who watch it swap theories as to
by some sort Of clockwork. Another Ia
quite sure that an electrical device keeps
Il wouldn't be surprised, said man
with a shrewd eye, who watched il one
day last week, IF some sort OF punched
paper attachment were useO, buCH aS you
see in the little hand organs on the street"
mo" declared an old man with white
aide whisker. -I've given a good deal Of
thought to that machine and have come
to the conclusion that 1t ia run by music
box cylinder. think, il you figure 1t out,
You'll find that accounts for the way in
which it paragraphs and makes centred
headings and dashes and does other fancy
stunts better than anything else. And then
YOU see there's no end to the cylinder.
When all the tunes on it, so to speak, are
licked OF it begins all over again"
aAw, rats" exclaimed grinning boy in
oyeralls, adere's fairy poundin' dummy
in de basement, an de show machine il
run by gearin' from her keys
Labor saving devices have got to the
hand organs at last. In one of the latest,
instead OF the organ man turning the crank,
he presses a button. The music plays on
til he releases his finger. The music Ia
sweeter than that Of other organs and
Il can be heard blocks away.
firm OF cutters sent lot OF fifty cent
razors to prospective customers out Of
town on memorandum, last spring. All
had been returned, as the firm believed,
ercept those paid for. until, the other day,
.bto lattar from Wavhack II,