The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-01
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

It was early in the evening when three
young mon roamed into Coney Island
dance hall. A starved voice at the other
end Of the hall was expatiating on the shade
Of the old apple tree. whom the waiter,
giving the table a flick with his apron, asked
sWhatll 1t be2'
"A long beer for mine ssid the firs ,i
Same here" said No. 2. Me too, SAID
the third, but make II short. r,,r,.n.
later. over the bar, was heard the cry:
"Two Second av'noos and a brownstone
front for IT.
II you see swinging over noisome alley
way. where Roosevelt street begins to
look out upon the river, the worn sole
and downtroddep heel Of an upperless
shoe, you may know that through that
narrow passage lies your way to the coobler
Of the Porto Rico colony, for that Is the
centuries old sign Of the sapdtero. This
cobbler hardly aspires to 80 high title
as shoemaker-he 10 nothing but remen-
don, one who gives to old shoes a little
more re w veal o ms snpp and over
head he has few yards Of striped goods
brought from Ponce that serves him for an
awning. Against his bench leans guitar.
1t is a great lounging place for the colony,
and it Is not unusual to hear the tones o.
the guitar along with the muffled tap OF
the hammer on leather and lapstone.
The porter OF an extensive warehouse In
Front street has learned to distruet the
honesty OF his fellow man. All day Sun
day there lay on the roof Of the building
fine Panama hat blown from the head Of
some traveller on the Bridge almost over
head All day long the hat lay in plain
sight of the Sunday travel on the Bridge
Bright and early en- Monday morning the
efforts for the reclamation Of that hat began
The first caller asked leave to 60 on the
roof. and it was only by di!igent questioning
that he was brought to the plain statement
that his hat had blown of and he had seen
IL lodge on that roof. Before taking him
to the upper regions the porter had the fore
thought to ask what size hat he wore. The
hs: when recovered proved sco smell,
and anyway it contained card with quite
a different name. During the day no
fewer than eight attempts were made to
annex that Panama, but In no case was
property proved.
English playwrghts select more curious
sounding titles for their plays than our
American dramatists," said a manager
last night There may be nothing in q
name. but your English dramatist thinks
there is a great DEAL else why would he
saddle play with some Of the names that
will soon adon our billboards? Peter Pan
is not bad. but when they name play AL
elected the name desired to attract at
tention at the start. We will have another
one Of those hyphenated pay titles TO
bother us soon when Barrie's 'Alice-St-
by-the-Fire' is produced here
49, ~ Enn nm n
30. returned for duty the other night after
being in the dog hospital three weeks with
q broken leg.
Smoke Is a coach dog and has been in
the house in John street near Gold for Ave
years Smoke was run over by tender
responding to an alarm While he was in
reporting his condition to the telephone
Girls Of the John street exchange. among
whom Smoke was great favorite.
An old customer Of q downtown seed
store entered the place few days ago and,
addressing the salesman who usually waits
on him, said
Say, George. those Peerless beans
YOU sold me last spring as being the finest
ever are the worst seeds l ever tried to
rrow. They came up all right, hourished
for a time, produced about four beans to
each plant and then slowly dried up. What's
the troubief'
sHad plenty Of thunder and lightning
out in Jersey this year, haven't your =,
OF the beans2'
Everything. Electricity will knock
beans out quicker wink II the lightning
has been sharp and close to your garden
this year you can depend upon It that your
beans had been struck py lightning. We've
well" growled the suburbanite. Il guess
I'll have to put lightning rods In my bean
patch"
A physician who served his time as an
inferno in big local hospital was telling
~ the different modes Of treatment for
natients who were found to be feigning
sickness.
1T was exceedingly effective and much
moro simple than the hypodermio needle
treatment. Three times q day the patient
rot one dram Of tincttre Of green soap and
one dram OF asafetida. mixed with enough
yichy to lpsep one dose close to tho palate
day was the longest any Of the malin gerers
ever stayed with US.
Lovers Of purity In English ought to
make a pilgrimage down here every now
and them said an old New Yorker as he
passed Burling Slip. III tradition Is to be
relied on, We are indebted to Burling Slip
for Lindley Murray's famous Grammar Of
the English Language The story is that
old Lndley as he was going home from
ma t1ket one day with q brace Of fowl In his
hands sought to show his athletic abilities
by Jumping across Burling Slip. He slipped
and fell and his subsequent laneness was
Attributable to that fall. To his lameness
and consequent incapacity for active exer-
cise poetcrity Is indebted for the grammar
that made him famous.
sWatchng those newsies bathing In he
| city Hall fountain said man whose
| ancestors lived in New York for many
generations, reminds me Of a story my
father told me his grandfather told him.
According to my great grandpoo, there
was a nice beach where Greenwich street
! now runs from Beaver TO the Battery
Boys and horses bathed there, and there
! was a big rock little way out. on which
| tine kicle had built house. which they
called fort, which they would storm from
| the water. lust a. we kids used to play
| King OF the Castle or Hold the Fort.
seems funny to think Of Greenwich street
as swimming beach, doesn't IT. ~