The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-26
1--we TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


1--we TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
The Tenderloin has landlord who is a
terror to his tenants. He owns two Broad
way blocks occupied chiefly by small stores.
When he raises the rents he does 1t in
generous fashion. They are always
| doubled One Of his recently. vacated
corners ia In the market, but will be rented
only to certain tenants. The, sign espe-
cially excerpts all quick lunch estaolisn-
ments and shoe concerns that charge
less than s3.5 for pair. Why this sum ,n
was chosen II 10 not possible to tell But
1t ID too little for this landlord.
Olive Fremstad occasionally married
her blond beauty last season By frown'ng
in . way that seemed inexplicable. There
is enlightenment In the statement left
behind by Miss Fremstad on her departure
for Europe. She will sing ono year more
with Mr.. Conried, and then. having finished
her contract with him. go TO the Parls
Opera. That is the customary threat
Of the dissatisfied prima donna. r., MISS
Fremstad does not like her contract. inero o.
solemnly notifies Mr.. Conried one year IN
advance that she will 60 to another opera
house unless he pays her moro salary
season after next.
Never have the liacs been more beautiful
or more plentiful than this spring. mo
country Ia full OF them, and every trolley
party returning ctyward bears great
punches OF them. Tho cars OF the Union
Railway running to Mount Vernon and New
Rochelle are full OF people carrying them;
and tho conductors live In q lilac perftned
atmosphere. This abundance s reflected
In the curb markets about town where GU.
flowers are sold. Immense punches OF
lilacs are to be seen on every hand.
.Pm going to have barber chair put into
my house when I'm rich enough to build
one" said man who suffers occasionally
from sleeplesness. "No matter how ner-
vous and fretful am, when 60 to the bar
ber's and he starts to lather me 60 right on
into dreamand. A friend tells me that
although 1t takes him an hour or two to get
to sleep at home. when he gets into an
elevated car seat he dozee OF right away. :,
SWELL, I can't very we'll put an elevated
train into my prospective mansion, 80 I'm
going to install fine upholstered, double
back action barber chair with a movable
foot rest, before ! build picture gallery
or q Roman bath.
Elsie de Wolfe, who u to combine acting
with house decoration In the future, has
dealer In antique furniture and other OBJ
clalist In French decorations devotes q
part Of her vacation every summer to coll
Letting the rare pieces that she hears OF
abroad. and never fails to find purchasers seI
for them when they are delivered N this
country. When Miss de Wolfe went abroad
this spring she carried with her orders
for the furnishing Of several houses In
edition to the Colony Club, which lie to
be her principal work.
The announcement that four party tele-
phone lines are to be abolished in favor Of
the two party lines brings joy to the hearts
OF the trouble hunters.
.You would be surprised said one Of
these officials, at the number Of people
who forget to hang the receiver on the
hook. They lay 1t down on the desk when
they are through and 60 off TO some other
notices that the little electric bulb on that
number Is burning longer than i should.
IF she remembers who had the last call
I 90 around and tell him to hang up the
receiver. II she has forgotten what sub
scriber was using the line last ! start out
and cal on each OF the four parties, unless
l locate the trouble earlier.
Meanwhile the entire line Ia tied UP: and
the three other subscribers can neither
call up nor he called m the residential
districts we have from ten to fifteen cases
a day, and some servants van never ever, can a I've
ference whether the receiver Ia laid down
or hung on the hook
novelty for the smoking room table
is a Cigarette box which hands out a cigar
ette Instead Of taking one from the box
the fiat lid is lifted and dropped back.
Then single, cigarette appears on ledge
extending from the bottom Of the box.
bottom sioping toward the sides OF this up.
right pece, and the entire box Is raised
with tue i'd One cigarette lies in the tiny
trough in the ledge, while the others fall
back into the box and are carried back.
One sure indication OF the coming Of
summer is the springing up of new branch
Offices of Stock Exchange houses at the
summer le sorts. Last week Offices were
opened at West End, N. j.; Cedar hurst, ILL.,,
and Newport, r. I. A Newport Office is in
charge of Elisha Dyer Jr.. This week
another office has been opensd at West End
and one at NarraPansett Pier That specu-
lation Is not on the decrease in New Eng
land is shown by the fact that four new
branch OFFICES have started business in
Boston within two weeks.
A big chimney is being bull. near tho
sou.h side Of tho Manhattan end OF Will
liamsburg Bridge. II Is only the width Of
the street from tho bridge roadway, and as il
ha. gradually ris-n to the level OF the
footpath cons antly changing little group
OF spectators has watched Its progress
with great interest. The stack is built
from The inside. the worltmen standing
on some kind OF platform not visible from
the promenade, the building material
being raised in baskets by a rope carried
through block attached to the hosting
frame.
When the top OF the chimney frat ap-
peared there were two bricklayers and
helper, but as the funnel has risen and the
diameter lessened one Of the bricklayers
has quit Every eighteen inches or 80 an
iron rung Ia imbedded in the outer wall
on the south side, and the spectators are
already debating whether or not the mortar
is sufficiently act to support mans weight
on the steps.
The chimney belongs to the Street
Cleaning Departments now rsfuse burning
plant.
NEW CLASS AT WEST POINT.