The sun., 1904-08-29
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

The theatrical exchanges were never so
crowded as they are this year, and the
lines waiting outside the Managers offices
resemble the nightly gathering outside
the Vienna bakery. Salaries are smaller
than ever, as the managers are practically
able to name their own terms to all but
the most popular members OF the profession.
engagements, even under these conditions,
and the rank and file OF actors face lean
winter.
Prophets Of an early fall find ground for
their theories in the condition Of the trees
In tho parks.
"There has been plenty OF rain Of late,'
said cocksure prognostica tor, "and
ordinarily the leaves are fresh and green
until September is nearly at an end. But
they are, on many trees, dry and rusty
that they feel the approach OF fall in the
air"
There Is one vote in the city Judge Parker
will lose. unless a certain City Magistrate
changes his mind before election day.
The Magistrate was at Saratoga some
time ago and was introduced to Judge
Parker as a Magistrate from New York
city; ,,...... .,o. ..,,r,,,,,,
Are you tne Ma2lstrate tnat coiniIlltteu
those women without legal warrant?' in
quired the Court Of Appeals Judge. pleas
He was doubtless thinking of several
appeals that had been taken to the higher
courts and made the remark in the way of a
and when Parker was nominated said to
friend: "He will never get my vote
There is a good deal OF misinformation
about New York being dished out to the
visitors in this city at present. On board
a southbound Fourth avenue car yester-
day morning there were two young women,
each OF whom had young man as guide;
The two couples were not acquainted and
in passing big dry goods store the guide
Of one Of them said to her:
"Thats Browns famous store
AS a matter OF fact. it was not. The
other couple were little wiser. particularly
You've often heard of the Bridge of
Sighs." said her companion, as the car
yes" said the young woman, we've
got famous one in Pittsburg, too
One Of the greatest pieces Of excayating
ever attempted for a building in New York
is being done for the new Pennsylvania
Railroad depot between Thirty-frst and
Thirty-third streets, and Eighth and Ninth
avenues. Two large steam shovels are
doing the digging and lbs teams, Of two
horses each. cart the dirt away as fast as
it can be scooped up. The steam ehovels
run the entire length OF the block digging
their way as they go, very much like a
farmer ploughing furrow. Alongside the
furrow is string OF carts waiting to be
loaded. Each cart moves promptly for
ward as the front cart is filled, and the
shovels work 80 fast that the line is con-
stantly on the move.
Golden rod is in bloom on Long Island
but the yellow plumes were waving amid
the wild flowers in Westchester county
two weeks ago. Patches Of the national
flower az some have it, may be seen In many
of the outskirts Of Brooklyn. even in the
built up portions near Prospect Park.
like meeting q country friend to see from
the trolley cars the honest yellow flower
thriving amid the thistles and burdocks
of the vacant lots.
Three trolley cars always await the
arrivals on the New York trains at the
terminal outside the Long Island Railroad
station at Sea Cliff. One is Jim Crow
car.
The term does not mean what 1t does In
the South, and the title 10 local joke It
seems that the men who form the ma iority
Of the regular travellers always crowd Into
the first two cars, which are packed to the
guards, 80 that the women arc forced to
take the third car. The cars start on the
same time and no real harm is done. but
the separation Of the sexes on the cars Is
an odd sight TO stranger.