The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-30
1--WE TOPTCs ABOUT TOWN.

One OF the newly opened hotels has defied
custom by making cheaper rates for tran
sients than for those who stay In the hotel
for long period. There Is o noticeable
dinerence In the scale Of prices for the two
We must have q certain number OF
cheap rooms for transient guests" the
clerk said In explanation, shut we don't
want our rooms filed up with persons pay
Ing such small rental. We are compelled
10 give them to persons who stay only for
a, few days. They usually spend more than
the regulars and we can afford TO take them
LOT less money for that reason hotel
hlled up with cheap regulars Is not going to
pay
THE only public place that know OF
In the United States, said ira weller. where
any one on earth can take the platform
and say anything on earth, regardless Of
race, religion, politics, ethics or clothing,
Is hundred yards from the new Williams
burg Bridge, in Brooklyn, where they have
meetings every Sunday afternoon. II the
topic DO the soul OF man. you can have
I'VE or ten minutes and talk about the war
with Japan, the mud In Croton water, Coney
Island or tho Australian crop Of l870-it
makes no difference.
And they do talk OF those things. It's
the queerest and most liberal place in the
freest country In the world. The only place
anything like it Is in Fifteenth street, Man
haitian, where you can talk on any subject
IN the five minute discussions. But one
kind Of person is prohibited there-a Jes..
ut. That's been going on since 1850, and
Horace Greeley founded that club
The Bronx Zoo gamekeeper who didn't
know what was the matter with that rein
deer on Sunday will know IL he reads this:
A mt To hn oh
has wide mesh. reindeer thought him
intrusive and, running his huge tines
through the mesh, gave the boy poke In
the back that landed him yard away and
made him rub the sore spot and study up
lifting revenge.
He lit a cigarette and inched back to the
reindeer paddock. Feeding the reindeer
NAL held out his mouth for more and showed
the lighted cigarette into the mouth. Then
there were doings. This animal snorted
and almost broke the caging trying to get
at the boy. He paved holes in the dirt,
made n, break at the other deer. who lit out II
OF the way, and scared the sightseers until
keeper ran up and Quoted him.
Two old ladies riding uptown on an
elevated train the other evening were
evidently discussing domestic affairs.
when first met my husband" one Of
them said, 1T was at q masquerade ball.
He was dressed in the garbage of monk
l went up to him and said, Exit homo"
Then young woman in a rear seat Uttered
and no more gems were brought forth.
The New York Public Library now OPP
crates twenty-five branches, circulating
three and half million books year. This
makes it the largest circulating library
in the world. The expenses are paid chiefly
by municipal appropriation, and the use OF
the books Is free to all residents OF New
York city. or the buildings to be erected
In this city for branch library purposes
under the Carnegie gift. fifty will belong
to the New York Public Library system
in The Bronx Manhattan and Richmond.
Three are already occupied. Two more
will be opened soon and five or SIX more
early next year.
pieces OF birch bark, with a one cent
stamp on them and cut in the shape Of postal
cards are the popular ouvenirs from won en-
folks in the woods to women in town this
fall. said a letter carrier who was delivering
a number OF them on his route. THE
women and children who spend their vaca
ton up the State must have stripped the
birch trees pretty bare for the cards are
coming along by scores. And dainty
souvenirs Of the summer they are, too.
-This is a new experience for our horses"
remarked one Of the mounted cops on duty
at the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, as his
horse reared and plunged as a heavy van
ratified past. this new duty strikes the
horses just as though they were under
fire in a battle, and they don't like it. II
my horse could only talk or write | bet he'd
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