The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-30
LIVE ToPIcs ABOUT TOWN.


exhibit to the interesting correspondence
collected at the Metropolitan. The letter
was signed &C. F. Wells and read:
MY wife purchased seat Bsls. dress
circle, for the Thursday performances of
the Cycle during February. Last night
my bull pup got hold OF IL and chewed It
into fragments. The remains are such that
they can easily be deoiphered. Kindly
advise me what we can do"
Mr.. Hir5ch IL going to write Mr.. Wells
that his wife may enter the theatre and
suggest that she bring the remains and
the bull pup along with her for identified
ton.
A cotillon leader has officiated recently
in several places of wholly different social
Importance AS he has always boosted
that he was to be found at his task only
in the most exclusive houses, his New York
friends were surprised at the Willingness
he displayed TO go to places which were
not so high in the social scale.
"Oh, really" he said, when one OF them
happened to ask the cause OF this indif-
ference. "You were surprised TO hear
it? Why. do you know l wanted to see
how the other half dances.
Sympathy over the plight Of the spar-
rows in the storm seems wasted, to Judge
by the actions OF the flock that gather on
a clear strip of turf before the statue of
Farragut in Madison Square Park. Some
Of the hack drivers have scattered oats
on the grass, and the sparrows feed and
fight there with all the vim OF summer
days Now and then a few OF the birds
fly to the fountain and, standing on the
ice between whiles battle in the cold water
as esurely and with "a much pleasure,
evidently, as a canary in an indoor cage
On one OF the cold mornings last week
an inquistive customer waiting in down
town drug store overheard man in over
ALA max for Ave cents worth of tartaric
acid. Presently another workman called
for the same acid. few minutes later
Il big Irishman came in and got some.
Are they going to make fake lemonade
this cold day?' asked the inquisitive GUS
toner.
aOhl no." explained the clerk. Those
men are plasterers. They mix the acid
with the plaster to keep it from hardening
Some mornings | have dozen calls Tor
the stuff.
Men who carry timepieces OF the cheaper
sore selling from rs cents TO 81. will be
correct, after this, in calling them clocks
and not watches, for 30 has declared the
classification committee OF the Eastern
Trunk Lines Association. The manufac-
turers, who sell them at 571i cents TO u
each, have been trying for nearly year
to get a ruling under which the clock
watches, as they are technically known,
could be shipped by freight 1t has been
the practice TO accept clocks as freight,
but watch manufacturers have been obliged
TO ship their goods by express, which Ia
more extensive. Thousands OF dollars
will be saved annually to shippers OF these
articles as the result OF the new olassifi-
cation.
You're ahead Of us in some things
said the man from Chicago in the quick
lunch place, but on this hurry up feed
game we've got you skinned mile. In
most OF our quick lunch rooms, you seat
yourself at the table and whisper your
order in the ear Of the waiter who con-
fldentially bends over your shoulder. As
soon as he gets a line on what you want
he faces the man who guards the coffee
urns and ready-to-serve dishes. wiggles his
fin gers over the deaf and dumb alphabet
and in less than a minute your order is
filed without unnecessary olamor.N
A truck horse fell in Columbus Circle.
The driver was trying TO get n blanket
under the animals feet so that he
wouldn't slip in the snow while getting up.
when an automobile stopped near by.
Get some ashes, ADVISED the chauHeur.
they're better.
aG'wan," retorted the driver. You're
an engineer. Wot d. youse know about
horsesP'
Blizzard week was hard on the mail
carriers in many ways. So many locks
on mailboxes downtown we're covered with
snow and ice that the collectors carried
wax candles with which to thaw out the
NJ ha lott
Paddy was dead, and at his home in
West Thirty-fourth street a wake was in
progress that his position in the shadowy
world might be assured. Many of his
friends we're present, but as they sat around
the room they were grieved to notice the
absence Of the cheer which usually accom-
panies functions Of the sort. Hints were
dropped that increased liberality would
meet with the unanimous approval OF the
friends of the deceased, but hints fell on
stony ground and there was nothing TO do
but ait and think what the departed would
say
that leads rebellions Rising slowly and
with dignity, he turned to the widow and
said:
Paddy was fine man. an he was
fri'nd Of mine an of ivTy man that loves
drop Of tn crayther. I'm now Ter goh
down tn sthreet where there's a man dead
as was no fri'nd OF mine but there's tn
place where q man needs rubbers an life
preserver to kape himself from drownin'.
Good night, Biddy.'
The hall boys in a large apartment house
on Riverside Drive we're kept busy one
day this week showing strange callers TO
apartment D, till imperative orders came
from the mistress that none but her friends
should be sent to her door, II came out
by degrees that all the strangers had called
to look at n Handsomely furnished room
with fine view Of Hudson, IS, advertised
from suite d. and that the eleven-year-old
pride of the family had inserted the adver-
tisement for Joke.
WEBER AND ZTEGFELD PART.
They Never Agreed in the Music Hall