The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-23
Martini Rossi
ITALIAN
Yarmouth
Has educated the popular
taste to the full apprecia-
ton Of the benefits of
Yarmouth drinking.
lT,s THE mn Ann yOrt ENNN
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
IT'S THE BRAND YOU KNOW

The new Hotel Aston and several other
OF the newer buildings in town are made Of
black and red bricks artistically grouped.
This has become popular notion In archi-
lecture, and it is interesting to recall that
such use Of different colored bricks was
the result Of an accident
When the Dutch were settling Manhat-
tan only the wealthy could afford brick
houses. because at first all the bricks had
two enterprising colonists built brick
kiln. In their inexperience, however, they
burned most OF their bricks black and
nearly became bankrupt in consequence
of New sh' saT ss Da hsm pfaf e
bought quantity Of the blackened bricks
and used them with some bricks from
Holland to build his house on spot just
in the rear Of the present Telephone Build
ing in Stone street. He designed his wall
so artistically with the aid OF these bricks
that the colonists were amazed and de-
lighted, and from that day on the use OF
vari-colored bricks has been popular at
intervals in New York house construction.
You can't shut out the demand for music
once the taste for it has been fostered
Since the Monday evening band concerts
ended in Corlears Hook Park volunteer
band Of ten young men has taken up the
job OF keeping the pavilion lively at night
Each has a different musical instrument
and their concerts are not so very bad
While they play half Of the pavilion is used
for dancing by the children and the other
half is occupied by grown folks looking
on.
An East Side youngster had been arrested
for stealing the enamel letters of the win
dow Of the corner grocery store. His
mother appealed to the Alderman Of the
district. who has more Irish than American
AN plat do yez want me ter do?' asked
the Alderman, don't yez know that stain
letthers is Federal offinse?'
The war in the East is already adding
| new words to our vocabulary. A down
town business house has a sign in the win
dow calling for agents.
'We don't want men who will sit around
| and wait for orders to come in, the placard
reads, we want regular Togos.'
It's hard to please everybody, Mr..
McAdoo.
These mounted cops at the end OF the
Bridge are fine thing for traffic, all right
grumbled the chronic kicker. They keep
the roadway clear. I'll admit that. but
they make 1t harder to get along on
s yaps ' Who have never seen the thing i'm IN
| operation before stop right in their tracks
| to stare at the policemen, and everybody
| else has to climb around or over them.
II the novelty Of the scheme doesn't soon
wear of, hope it'll be dropped"
As everybody knows, photographs are
not always what they seem. Collectors Of
illustrated postal cards are likely to receive
some OF that kind from friends at the near
by beaches. 4 photographer has under
with a seating capacity for four The
person intending to send card to friend
seats himself in the automobile, either as
passenger or chauffeur. the PHOTOGRAPHS
| The recipient Of the photograph would
| infer that the person photographed had been
| spending his vacation autono billing
An institution peculiar to the East Side
is the man with the platform scales. who
travels around in the evening weighing
persons at cent a weigh. There are
scores Of these men, trundling their rafting
scales over the cobblestones and. although
anybody who feels he must know his exact
weight can find out with considerably less
trouble at any Of the automatic weighing
same price. these itinerant weighers all do
| a good business. Some Of them have also
a measuring rod and for another cent will
tell customer his height.
The practice Of stencillng the asphalt
pavement with advertisements is noticeably
increasing. Political parties have their
candidates names and the offices for which
they are running in large black letters in
the centre Of one Of the avenues uptown.
In the theatrical district the name of
play stands out consplcuously. II the
practice becomes universal the city streets
will soon resemble a PROSTATE sign board
Odd among fashionable carriages is an
Irish jaunting car occasionally seen on
upper Madison and Fifth avenues. Perched
on it's two high wheels il body with a seat
in front for the driver and one passenger
and at right angles two parallel seats, each
big en- ough for two other persons In all,
tn cart will hold five, four sitting sideways.
In use it rarely has more than two besides
the solemn coachman in whpcord livery,
whose air is as English as the plan Of the
car is Irish.