The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-26
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


The police. fire and health departments
have all been very active this season in keep
ing the number Of admission tickets sold
at theatres down 10 the limit. AZ the Met
ropolitan Opera House they were especially
active for they seemed 70 entertain a sus =
picion that Mr.. Conried would net be 10th
TO admit at times a few more standees than
the law allowed. One night, when the
doors at the rear Of the auditorium seemed
about ready 70 bulge with the crowd, Fire
Commissioner Hayes appeared at the en-
trance and requested permission 10 enter
the house.
sNo, MOI exclaimed Mr.. Conried. with
trepidation In every tone; If you should
enter the house, you would be one more
than the limit and ] should have 10 sur
render myself to the police
They were discussing symphony music
at a famous Bowery restaurant the other
night.
I'm high class music you always hear
'em talkin' about the theme, said one.
whats the theme Of piece, Barneyl'
why. the theme, John, Is a BIT O. tune
that they ell take turns fddlin' around
with, tryin' 70 find out where II belongs.
Then, when some one finally gets the right
place for Il. the whole bunch Of 'em lend q
hoAAN ~ ANARaA W NAAHV - -
when subway trains came together at
Twenty-third street during the strike
said an Interborough electrician. Il thought
all the newspaper reporters In the city
were on the scene in ten minutes. Ioounted
sixty men with police cards in their hats
Later / discovered that while there
were perhap, twenty newspaper men there,
few II any Of them wore their police cards
in their hats. OF the remainder probably
some we're curiosity seekers with a right 70
use the cards, but the great maj ority were
ambulance chasing lawyers collecting testi-
mony for narrowing details to be pre-
sent later In court and working up suits
against the company,
sAll through the strike the ambulance
chasers were as alert as strikers' pickets,
and II Is hard TO tell which we're more dis
appointed at the ANAL number OF accidents.
] don't know how the chasers procured
police cards, but II seems to me that a
recent Investigation as to the sale Of these
cards ought to be renewed and prosecuted
vigorously
The Interborough company has found,
as a result Of its strike. that 1t takes more
nerve to run an elevated than a subway
train. That up In the air" feeling rattles
many experienced motormen who have
never tried elevated work before, and after
a few days they beg for an underground
Job. That IL one reason Why the old men
are being transferred from the subway to
the elevated.
II seems that the barber retains longer
than other men who work with their hands !
the peCuliarties Of former training.
They all show signs Of what they used !
to do said the oldest barber In the shop, |
II they have ever been In any other kind |
OF work before they take up this. Look |
NJ that fellow by the other chair. He used |
10 be in the delioatessen business before he |
took this thing up, He never got over
that first training. None Of them do. /
He still goes at a man who wants a shave
with the same gesture he used when he
started TO cut leberwurst.
News Of the japanese victories In the
Far East is received with enthusiasm In
he japanese colony In the old Fourth
ward. japanese stewards, buffers and
Walters who reside In the Japanese board
nR houses In the locality eagerly scan the
for the latest news Of the prog
ess Of their army When the victories
4 IA5ovnR. Mukden and Telling were
eported the Japs became frenzied In their
Enthusiasm. Kegs Of beer were put out
nd every passerby was invited to have
ne" with his Majesty the Emperor.
Little japanese flags are common
household posss ssion In Fourth ward
omes Irish, Italian, German, Greek and
Of these 60 10 make the
population Of the ward--like the little
elbows from the island In the Pacific and
hey are with the Japs 20 a man.
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EDO you know what many Of the streets
( New York that have not yet been cleaned
I the snow and loo remind noe of" said
he school teacher. why, relief MAPS.
-ou will end in some Of them Y thick
eating Of Ice with higher ridges, elf sided
long the edges where the loo has been
ug out Of the cutters, these thick places
nd elevations representing the plsteaUs
nd mountains. Then In the middle Of
he street where the Toe has been more
-orn away are the valleys Of the map.
nth little tortuous gulleys worn BY water
owing from the melting Ice, these being
he wateroourses a. they would be shown |
n the map. We might find object les
Jns In physical geography right now In !
AMY Of the streets Of New York.
Health Commissioner Darlington tells
his story Of bic experiences a. tourist In
ermany:
i went into . restaurant and wanted