The sun., 1904-11-15
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

There was pretty bit Of by-play at Nine.
Gadski's song recital last week which was
enjoyed only by those Of the audience who
had seats near the front on the left hand
side of Carnegie Hall. just before the
singer reached I'm wunderschoenen
Monat Mai one Of the safety exits near
the stage opened and a tallish girl, about
- years old. dressed in white, hat. gloves,
shoes and all, slipped in and dropped into
vacant seat. An usher followed and stood,
evidently on guard, just inside the door.
The child listened with rapt attention to
the brilliant carol and when 1t was finished,
nearly split her gloves helping to swell the
volume of applause. Then she slipped out
through the door by which she had entered
She was Lotta Tauscher, the daughter OF
Nine. Cadski.
(. tho Subway Tavern dog continues
ills good work, a Subway jag will become
only a memory. The dog is down in the
Rathskeller 1t is only a clay dog and is aa
well behaved as artificial dogs arc sup
posed to be But unlike most OF his kind
this dog is electrically equipped. When a
button Is touched his eyes shine brightly.
man who carried more OF a load than
he could gracefully handle sat down at a
Rathskeller table several nights ago and
proceeded to add to the load. After a
while his eyes fell on the dog. He wasn't
quite sure whether it was real or not 10
aid his inspection an attendant suddenly
turned on the electricity and the dogs
eyes began to glow.
The mans eyes fairly bulged with
fright. He grabbed his coat and scrambled
out and his friends say that he was sober
for q whole week afterward.
A little thing which shows how New York
draws the college youth fro m the rest Of
the country was the dinner Of the Stanford
University Club held last Saturday night.
Stanford University is 4, 900 miles away. at
Palo Alto, Cal, and graduated its first
through" class nine years ago. Never
theless, at the dinner there mustered sev-
enty-five men. Some are students in the
professional schools here, but the greater
number are active lawyers, physicians,
newspaper writer's and engineers.
This year the New York Stanford men
were able to communicate by messenger
with founder Of the institution. Mrs.
Jane Lathrop Stanford. widow, OF Leland
Stanford, is in town. The club sent her
a note Of congratulation on the football
victory Of Stanford over the University OF
California, which occurred on the day Of
the dinner.
on their prehensle fingers to the accom-
paniment Of barrel organ and thcn use
their musical instruments to collect the
pennies were at the head Of Broad street
Yesterday afternoon when one OF their
compatriots passed along carrying his
stand Of chestnuts. One Of the girls held
out her tambourine saucily The compatriot
cmtched a handful of chestnuts and held
them for a second close to her tambourine.
Then he changed his mind. The chestnuts
fell iclf into their place and he took half
a do IN cents from his pocket and dropped
them into the tambourine. Then the girl
smiled even more saucily than she had at
the prospect Of the nuts.
Business kind of dull this morning."
asked citizen Of Nelly the Newsy at I25th
street and Third avenue, as he tucked his
Sunday paper under his coat. pocketed his
change and prepared to fight the storm
again.
NO, It ia not replied the young woman.
a wet Sunday means good business for
US"
The customer looked surprised
-You see. sir, on q fine day everybody
goes out for trolley ride, or walk, OF to
see grandma or Aunt Lizzie and they
have no time to read. But il it's raining,
the men just run to the corner and buy a
couple Of papers, OF more, for every one
wants TO read, and they all can't read the
same paper. Gimme a wet Sunday every
time. It's best for business