New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-15
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

GA1HEhEO ABDUL AOU I've
In nearly every home that has windows fronting
IN those avenues by elevated trains there
are one particular cushions known Us 'Hs
elevated cushions" AS their name implies, they
are cushions on which the members OF the laihIy
rest their elbows when leaning out Of the wlnoo"
to look passing elevated trains or wnaC
is going IN the street below. This looking out OF
the window habit Is particularly a New-YorK Che'
one that is noticed Immediately by those coming
here from out of town. Residents OF other cities
look Of their windows II there is anything IN
particular going on. but here women and children
by day and men, women and children by night may
be said fairly to live with their heads projecting
from the windows. This habit is not prompted py
any particular curiosity it simply born of the
desire TO be in touch with what Is going on though
one C:ay be a hundred feet above 1t. Notice the
twilight fingers late; and on all the elevated lines
East Side and West. you viii see every wln me
from the ground floor to the top filed with all the
heads 1t VIII accommodate
The ignorance of some Of the new men (strike
breakers) the elevated roads would be amusing
II IT not fraught with dangerous possibilities
as the following incident will show. There was a
block few nights ago IN 53d-st. on the 6th-ave.
line. The switches were set that downtown
trains could not round the 53d-st and danger
signals were displayed. A train manned by new
motor1nan. conductor. two new guards and
veteran along, The motorman ran by the
DANGER signal That didn't boIher MN IN Ine 4eaSI'
The train hit the 9th-ave road tracks and still kept
All tracks were alike to the motorrnan and con-
ductor so long the stayed on them. eth-ave.
or 6th-ave. It made no difference 10 them. Pretty
went on, and the motorman and CONDUCTOR though9t
it time to investigate. They stopped the train ana
nd out What ali meant say, SAID he Ida you
hear that2 Sumthin's busted"
There has been a marked increase in the number
Of elevated passengers and in the strength Of the
earthly smell in the subway in the last few weeks
The more pronounced the smell the more elevated
passengers. If. apparently 1t is, the musty
smell in tbs subway is to become more noticeable
still the weather gets hotter the subway VIII not
be popular means OF transportation until colder
weather. Smells like graveyard" said a passen-
ger at the City Hall station the other day and ne
mouldy smell. almost solid enough to be fume. 1t
Under Gentra Park Naturally enough there seems
be less circulation of air in the train than there
was in the colder months.
The scene was laid on Amsterdam-ave. car.
Every seat was occupied mostly by men, woman
who had seen a few more than forty summers
boarded the car, and. to point the way Of duty to
the "horrtd men," another woman, no longer very
young herself and made an offer OF her seat
The latter gracopsly declined, but the younger
woman obviously anxious to complete her
object lesson than to lose her seat insstenuy OBJ
served, you are very much older than am and
You must have it, The older and wounded woman
eag hHng 70 Of Recruitment in the direction Of
the assertive member Of her SEX
Mountains don't sell very WELL" was an obser-
walton made in the Waldorf lobby one afternoon
recently and the speaker wasn't real estate man.
either. He was artist whom a friend was try
ing to persuade to go to the Businesses er MlooIe
Atlantic section for the summer. you see ex-
rlsined the artist st combine business and pleasure
in the summer I make lot Of sketches In the
summer and elaborate them on canvas IN the VIM n
inc els O1
tno +ir, IN Isndscape to sell' Pressed scale
products the artist answered.: Wen, ger $50 70
Of seasons wood have let half DOZEN 49, go for
$780, then again may get 500 for Single PICTURE
.rNTr Pewter WIS announced at the entrance TO
the private office in downtown establishment
Send him in." was the direction given TO the door
n aenteG the latter. but he must be mug"
| No one doubted he was somewhat intoxicated
when he entered dingy 6th-ave. restaurant Every
hat peg along the wall was in USE With great
effort he steadied himself, and then careInliy
placed his hat on a lighted gas jet that stuck out
| between two hat pegs A pitcher OF Ice water was
used minute later In time 20 save sn9 95 Tie the
brr on his head and went out into the night WIN
| out O word.
'orhe worst place for gathering in bad money,
said q commercial traveller the other day, as ne
| looked at NF
somewhere 'Gs Kansas City to my mind. The hrst
| time struck that burg. years ago, had
about 500 in fves and tens when started out the
| first morning. Every time changed one OF those
bills got a plugged coin Canadian money smooth
dimes or rank counterfets. BY night had several
! dollars in bad coin in pocket got disguised
and thought I might as well circulate It, so
started passing It along. NO one kckeu' not even
when the lead in q quarter was as apparent as IN q
lead pipe When / began TO refuse 10 take PAD
money every seemed surprised The town
ought to be Mecca for counterfelters Tor no one
there thinks of refusing small coins or DIS just
| because they are bad
Some nlishap to the locomotive OF train bound
| for New-York from the West a few days ago
caused halt and delay for an hour or two at a
rugged, forest and flower grown spot and while
| some of the passengers chafed at the unscheduled
detention, others turned the time to account. Dame
Nature was gorgeous IN her springtims garb Of
| green and tho verdant slopes that sBirted the
| tracks were tufted here and there with violets.
One devoted hubby who had left his better half in
the Pullman. while he went ahead to learn the de-
tails Of the accident. back little later with
dainty bouquet of the vioets and intersperston
of sprigs Of green. deftly bound together by bit
of the forest growth that seemed suited to the pur
the husbands kindly thoughtfulness appealed TO the
| appreciative little woman who was the recipient.
| But there something unusual and disappoint~
| ing in the aroma that seemed 10 be inseparable
| from the violets and upon careful inspection II
was found that they had been bound together with
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