The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-07
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

far down over his eyes.
You can see this particular red devil
hour OF the day or night. The police pay
no attention to 1t. The driver In one OF
the city's paid flremen and the souched
nat man is Chief Croker. He Ia hustling to
fire.
Recently New Yorker built boat on the
roof OF his house. When launching time
came 1t was question az to which was the
more valuable-the boat or the house.
Not long before that Brooklynite built
fine boat in his cellar; 1t is there still He
uses 1t TO go after coal In the rainy season.
These citizens were evidently victims OF
the same obsession that overcame Erics-
son when he designed the Monitor and
left no room for the boilers
The etiquette Of flags usually requires
that they be furled on Sunday unless some
unusual occasion calls them out For
this reason the neighbors Of Madison
avenue boarding house are anxi ous to know
what happens there on Sundays that leads
the landlady to decorate. Regularly every
Sunday morning a flag floats from the end
OF pole at the second story Of the building.
IL disappears at night not to be seen again
for seven days more, when 1t proudly floats
again.
The 10 ton meteorite was being taken up
to the American Museum of Natura History
the other day. In front OF the huge truck
that carried it were twenty-eight horses
and as they passed up Eighth avenue
traffic was at a standstil whenever a cross
street was reached. On corner stood the
captain Of the precinct.
What's the rock2" he asked bystander.
That's the big meteorite that Peary
brought from Greenland and has given to
the Museum OF Natural History. 1t fell
4The divvle 1t did. Well if anybody d
present me wit thing like that Id pinch
i'm, 80 l would. Such a bother over
rockl"
And he turned away in disgust to study
the more familiar excise question.
Now and then a Japanese is seen at the
raoetrack. but not often. The Japs at the
raoetrack usually take no interest in the
betting, combining their amusement to the
crowds and the racing.
There are Japs, though, who follow
day a bright eyed, sharp faced Jap was
seen going into poolroom uptown. He
evidently knew the route well, for his face
was buried In the dope" sheet of one OF
the afternoon papers.
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Of house recently put up on one OF the East
Side streets. Several architects have built
houses in this same block and each struggled
to Guido the other in his design. But all
cheerfully agree that the honors for origi-
nality and beauty should go 70 the man
who built what they call the primrose
house"
1t is Of pink stucco, about twenty five feet
broad. and seems to have only three stories,
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more room thaR the average New York
residence. Its low, broad windows and pale
green woodwork give it the appearance
OF q cottage In some English village street.
Its restfulness and quiet taste are pleas
ant contrast to some Of the elaborate resi-
dental structures in the neighborhOod.
Its queer how people drop back into
their native vernacular when they are in
a hurry said the man at the stamp win
dow. Nearly every time we have line
at the window! with stamps selling fast.
some one asks for two bit book or two
shilling book The bit Is a far Western
is the up State New York equivalent. I'll
just bet that these people don't know that
they haven't asked for a quarters worth
They simply go back to first principles in
their hurry"
The expense incurred by some Of the
photograph companies is shown by an
offer made to one OF the prima donnas
coming to sing at the Metropolitan next
winter She rs to receive from this COM
pany, IL she decides to accept its offer 81, 900
FOR four songs. This sum is not to Ike paid
in lump, but 5000 is to be banded over
as soon az the singer has finished her
allotted number. For each OF four succeed
ing years 81 600 is to be paid on condition
that she sings for no other machine.
A young man dressed in the scantiest
kind Of running clothes tore out of the Park
at the Fifty-ninth street circle on Monday
evening and ran four blocks down Broad
yay to Fifty.fifth street, where he turned
west and disappeared. The street was
crowded, and he had to pick his way through
the crowd, but he kept up a good half-mile
clip. His scanty trunks stopped about
half way down the thigh, and his arms
were bare. There was no policeman in
sight. 80 he wasn't arrested, and the gossips
along the line are still debating whether it
was bet or college initiation.
Jack, the ferry dog. has reappeared after
an absence OF nearly month. Jack is
attached 10 the Wall Street ferry and seems
to take the greatest pleasure in crossing
and recrossing the river on the greyhounds
Of that line. he; or rather she, 1or IN spite
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disappeared several weeks ago and the
brokers coming from Brooklyn mourned.
for not one but Is friend OF the little
mongrel, but now that Jack has returned,
the world, and Jacks tall wag on as OF
yore.
The fierceness of the autumnal winds
in the cafions formed downtown by the
tall buildings has stirred up much specula-
ton as to what 1t will be like in the future
city of skyscrapers. A man who lost his
hat and umbrella In a Nassau street squall
suggests that in the city of the future the
streets and pathways for pedestrians may
be on top of the tall buildings.
at is not 80 windy up there he says,
aand one can get an occasional glimpse
Of the sun. / think that in the distant
future people will do down into the tall
BUILDINGS instead of up, az now. The
buiidings will then resemble caves into
which the sunlight never enters and where
the army OF toilers will work night and day
by electric light or it's SUCCESSOR
81 know what you are about to say
remarked the Park row panhandler to his
victim. "You are about to put forward
the bypothesis that every man Ia the archi-
tect NJ his own fortunes; II you won't work
vou shan't eat. and that the law Of nature
has ordained the survival Of the fttest'
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