New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

What the City Hall Park is the homeless in
summer. the Postofhce is in winter. there in the
late night or early morning hours in weather of
biting cold and you will find a score of miserable.
unkempt wretches. who. either through choice i'll
fortune appetite for drink, have joined the drift
wood of humanity sleeping or doing near the
heat dispensing radiators. They sleep standing up.
they sleep leaning over, they sleep squatted down
the floor with their backs against the wall.
There is Waterman there but he is of the easy
going class and kindly hearted Occasionally
sense OF GUY oppresSes MN so sa3t ne ORDERS me
are long and the doors many. and by the time ne
doors some distance from him. Having appeased
the promptngs of his conscience, the watGhmaq
soon me the h@mng Of heE a5n
his wide spreading wings.
It is calendar time now. and the small boy and
his elders besieging those Offices which yearly
issue reminders to the world that 1t is growing
older. The issuing of calendars by banks. trust
companies and insurance companies has assumed
mammoth proportions with the passage of years
and the amount of money spent them mounts
up into the millions There is ken rivalry between
the big insurance hrms and banking houses as to
when Sha issue me UesI ceqa ron an artstlc
often spent on a design for them. Even the corner
calendars in these days, At this time of the year
those offices which make a speciality of issuing
say nothing OF the force employed in sending them
out by mail The boys who go calendar gathering
have no effect on them. and II one fails al the
they shows hem undernsah thr bGone5 u6
Jackets or coats so nat as they go from ONCE 70
Just been told by SUCH a boy that he has no cal
the swelling jacket.
This Is the Of the year when many an
Italian organ grinder takes his instrument to the
place where he 'getta the new tunes in" There
are several of these workshops in New-York whose
sole business is repairing and refttng the car
rousel organs as they usually call them Two or
three in Park Row. In this city particular
y do the grinders anxious for the latest pop
ular airs Many grinder with his organ
his back for the tunes For the small organ
he pays s. tune and the operation takes half a
day if the establishment isn't particularly rushed
Usually he wants tune that is more up to date
than common repute would guess. Last week such
a grinder to one of the Park Row establish
ments to have Please Come and Play in My Yard"
and "A Bit of Barney put on his cylinder in
wh6ss heaouareTs MeTe az man was cTiPR
came to the city playing his own way, through
The piece is Transcribed by ear from piano music.
the chief workman In the shop being musicians by
training Ihey pace tbs cylinder on frame, which
OF the cylinders circumference. and with diminuttve
OF the scale they punch space that each staple
IS TO oecapy. The mechanical process or inserting
the brass staple Is performed in another part OF
eight new airs in small o Sase o IS US
Such an organ originally cost perhaps So. some
thing very lively such as sailors ho-npipe, 5
usually wanted so, too, patriotic airs, suited
to the grinder clientele Frequently he asks for
st Patricks Day saying that at many places
his hearers viii demand that he play that air. and
Will smash his organ IL he hasn't Il. The Mar
seillaise. The Watch on the Rhine and Dixie
are wanted Tor certain parts of the country Yam
koe Doodle" TOO, Is general favorte. Latter-day
believers IN the tranSCendant value Of be ng able
10 write the sorSs OF people ought TO set
on this market
Many New-York dinners recently have had Ire
land for their principal theme of discussion. at
east promiepnt top!c. AT a recent one a
speaker incidentally told of Irishman. now a
c.tizen Of this country who tell ng OF present
Conditions IN his native land. Pat. said this
speaker, was declaring. L picture tC myself the
green hills Of Erin. ard behind them enough
brave men To free Ireland twice over Why don't
-hCy do IL? asked him Shure.' he replied an
he blame police won't let them p"
lie certainly was high class applicant for