The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-02
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

Nine. SengerB ettaque ia happier than
she was. Now she is able to enjoy a diet
moro suited TO a Wagnerian prima donna
than the food obtainable in the first hotel
she lived in. The Italian wing Of the COM
pany is quartered there, and consequently
operate food means 10 the servants either
spaghetti, Iavioli, or something equally
national in character.
In vain did Mime. Senger Bettaque call
in her most dramatic tones for Gckochtes
Rindfeiseh und Sduerkrdm All she got
in return was mdcdroni Ia Mhdndise.
She had almost begun 20 suffer from Lack
of nourishment. when Herr Conried sent
the prima donna to hotel downtown.
where she can get every German delicacy
from Berlinor Rtops TO KdIbmdulsdldt.
One OF the downtown companies which
has not nearly so large a staff Of employees
as some others distributed this year in
Christmas presents s., 900. This did not in
chlde the gifts made by the employees 10
one another The sums distributed in this
way every year are far in excess OF what
might be supposed Usually the distn-
button IL made in ratio TO the salary paid
To the employee, and this amounts in some
cases TO many thousands OF dollars,
The @hoodoo" truck was taken TO the
Fire Department morgue a week ago to be
broken up, and the firemen who had been
looking at it for year Of more in the rear
Of Fire Headquarters breathed sigh Of
relief
This piece Of apparatus had a bad repu-
tation all through the department. It was
No and was stationed at Lexington ave-
nue. and Fiftieth street. 1t seldom started
for fire without meeting with an accident,
Two years ago Fireman McGumey was
10 laI yuif
avenue trolley car. Other firemen on ii
were injured at various times and died
of their injuries.
1t was always humping into trolley
cars or wagons If there was hole any
where in the street the truck was sure
10 fnd it on the way TO fire. Firemen
who met with no accidents in other COM
paniea had plenty when transferred TO
that company SO the machine became
tnown as the @hoodoo" truck. The best
drivers in the department were sent to it,
20 break the spell II possible but it was
of no use.
The truck was the only one in the depart
ment painted green. the department color
being maroon and gold. II should be said,
however. that the fremen do not attribute
the i'll luck 70 the color.
A wagon drove up 10 the Arsenal in Gems
trail Park the other day, and the driver
unlonded dozen small houses OF rustic
build and fine workmanship.
The driver informed Secretary Willis
Holly of the Park hoard that woman
had sent the little houses on behalf OF her
children for the Park squirrels. and re-
que sted that they be put in trees. so that
the little animals could have a warm home
during the cold weather,
The interest shown in the welfare of the
squirrels 10y visitors to the Park Is often
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rels are a. fat az butter from generous feed
ing II some of them do not suffer from
dyspepsia. il j. not the fault Of the public
In the cold evenings and during the
early morning passengers on the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines may notice
big red cans on the downtown sta
lions each guarded by colored em-
poyee who puts one aboard each Of certain
trains in charge Of the motnrman. The cans
contain about twenty-five gallons Of hot
coffee, and are made Of zinc with asbestos
lining
hours I'ha cans are carried to the ends of
the div isions and their contents distributed
on the way 10 the employees Of the road
They are supplied 10y the company
In Harlem there il a small restaurant in
which the waiter, who Is cook as we'll
proprietor, maintains pleasing fiction.
SupDo-e the guest orders bacon and eggs.
Bacon and eggs repeats the waiter
through a hole in the partition which
separates the dining room from the kitchen.
Then he disappears.
Five minutes later the guest hears through
the hole the walters voice. poorly disguised,
call Bacon and eggs ready Then the
waiter steps back into the dining room.
remarks that the chef is slow. and carries
the food from the shelf inside the partition
hole IN the guest
= guess the boss ia overstaying his time,