The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-24
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

After Commissioner McAdoo has settled
other important questions Of traffic he
will confer favor on Fifth avenue pedes-
TRANS II ne turns his attention TO the Forty
fourth street corner Of the avenue. There
hansoms in search Of fares cruise from
all Of tho large restaurants to another
with the Ieisurely gait OF the unemployed
cabby. No stress OF traffic hurries them
up. Pedestrians are compelled to await
the pleasure OF the cabbiee before they
are able TO cross and the situation at lunch
and dinner time Is even more dangerous
than inconver lent. 1t Is naturally at It's
worst on Saturday, when the streets are
almost impossible from the number OF
these cabs.
Pop" Dexter, a free lance campaign
orator, Ia In His glory in these days. When
he wants to make speech, and that feeling
strikes him several times a day as election
draws near, he does not 60 10 hall. He
docs all his speechmaking in the street.
and Broadway Is his happy stamping ground
Dexter does not talk politics because he
gains anything by tin which respect he
Ia different from most spellbinders.
He talks because he likes to be surrounded
by a crowd. just at present he is whoop-
ing 1t UP for President Roosevelt. but he
may be talking in favor Of Parker next
week.
Dexter is great fun to the Broadway
pedestrians. The only persons who have
q particular grudgs against him are the
cops. They declare that no - an Internal
nuisance, who becomes disorderiy person
by gathering q crowd. For this ofense
he landed In a cell on Saturday night, but
he was back on Broadway yesterday after
noon making stump speeches.
He WIS once q contractor and has money
still. He wears q silk hat and frock coat,
and looks 90 prosperous at all times that IL
u easy for him to gather crowd.
The extent to which specialization has
gone in New York was shown few weeks
ago when o large uptown Office building
was put up exclusively for doctors. Now
a building had just been completed for the
occupancy OF dentists The agent an
nounces, with apparent confidence in his
ability to find all the tenants he wants.
that none but dentists will be received.
He has already had applications from
enough to occupy half the apartments in
the building.
Whenever a woman who would not pos
sibly be able to attract attention under
ordinary circumstances grows weary Of
her iusisnifcance nowadays she merely
has to get hold of cane and walk down
Fifth avenue or Broadway. Then she Is
certain to be stared at, Not DAY passes
without some such appariton in the uptown
streets. The bearer Of the cane is tnvari-
ably some woman who would escape all
notice in the crowd but for her walking
stick.
Many Of the vast army of niotormen
and conductors are not laundering after
lob on the subway. The reason for this was
act forth by conductor on surface car:
aThat1l be dead hole. l don't want to
look at tiled walls all day. ] want some-
thing to see. / can see fights every now
and then on this car or see man being
kioked out OF a saloon or q fellow getting
arrested or runaway. But down there
YOU won't be able to see anything for trip
after trip and for month after month. The
novelty II soon wear on,