The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-27
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
One Of the new high pressure rapid transit
lunch shops on the row has made an un.
ostentatious bid for left handed patrons
It Is one Of the establishments where the
customer helps himself at . counter anc
retirss with his food to chair Of which one
arm Is widensd out into leaf that may
serve a. table.
OF the fifty odd ohairs In the place abou,
. doDsn have the broad arm at the left
and these are rarely without patrons who
Of pic and coffee on the side that = right to
them.
what IL our greatest help In capturing
criminals9 Why their vanity, Of course,
said the detective. Men and women who
make crime a business are always proud
Of their work when 1t ia we'll done, according
to criminal standards, and sooner or later
they brag Of It, and II gets to our ears.
Even men who 90 mmit unprecedented
crimes seem unable to keep their doings to
themselves, and II they do not openly boast
they give out mysterious hints that rouse
Then again, no matter how well q crime Is
planned, there Ii nearly always an unfore-
seen contingency to be met, and it's the
failure to take preca utions against the one
contingency that gives many clew."
The most appealing window garden in
New York is on West Third street, where
the Sixth avenue elevated tracks are on q
level with the second floor Of the tenement
houses. and the passing trains make life
anything but agreeable.
The garden consists Of a single crock,
containing a solitary bean vine: but that
is apparently Of the species that Jack of
giant killing fame climbed, for il is thrifty
and generous beyond it's kind. 1t has
climbed luxuriantly up the strings st retched
for 1t until 1t shades the entire window.
It is OF the scarlet Towering variety, and
its flaming blossoms and wide leaves form
a green and scarlet screen which protects
the jewellers in the fiat from the dust of
the road as we'll as from the intrusive
gaze Of travellers.
II should like to see the little woman
who planted that vinel" exclaimed q dreamy
eyed young man as the train rolled past
she must have lovely soul, though so
poor
Probably a fat negro NANNY" said
his companion. whose suit case bore la bels
from all over the world and who evidently
thou ght he knew thing or two even about
New York.
1T used 10 make me mad" said a man
who had just been showing fine gold watch
to 6 friend, 4to have a matchmaker PASTE
his label in my watch after repairing or
regulating It. But I've got we'll over that
One day last week was running for Sixth
avenue car when my watch and fob jumped
clean out Of my pocket. had ridden ten
blocks before notice d that was shy q
watch.
II went right back to the spot, but there
was nothing doing. So left lost ads for
the morning papers.
Il was eating dinner at home that night
when III be hange II a stranger didn't
blow in who must have picked up the watch
three minutes after l dropped it, He
wouldn't listen to me when I spoke Of a
reward. He had opened the back Of the
the matchmaker who had regulated it few
months ago. The Matchmaker readily
supplied my address
Considerable alarm was spread among
the women who live In a mixed boarding
house not far from Madison Square by the
sudden appearance OF big brass sign at
their front door reading:
: rrRT TGR apH n9qMS AYR o}, BOARD !:
AT the first dinner after the sign was
put up a crusty bachelor EXPIRE his
have a new Lease Of fife, A clerk with an
anxious look on his face. glancing at the
girl who sat opposite asked the landlady:
YOU'RE not going to drive out every
one but the men, are your"
All questions were met with severe silence.
After dinner committee Of women waited
upon the tyrant and demanded an ex-
PLANTATION.
wen, il was this way, said the landlady,
committees. Y have some vacant g rooms ms
that I've got to All. So went to the sign
painter around the corner to have wooden
sign painted with the words Table Board
and Lodging He told me how much 1t
little extra 1' he could let me have that Brass
sign with black letters. thad been ordered
BY 4 stranger who made a deposit and
never came back. I took the thing and
I'm going to use it till l have tenants for
those rooms"
around defiantly, but the committee, to
woman, had softened the moment she
reached the bargain counter feature of
the case.
speaking apout noises, salu tne darlem
man just returned from q months sojourn
In the Maine woods. II came across new
one to-day that 1 never heard here before,
or In the woods either. It's kind Of a
hybrid, but I can't describe it because
/ never heard anything Just like it before
All I know IL that 1t goes with automol lies
"You have heard" said the man across
tho air shaft, "the successor to the honk
horn, what they call Gabriel's horn. New
attachment to the escape valve and operated
at will. Kind OF cross between a tugboat
whistle and tremoo organ pipe"
"Or a Cross between Trinity chimes and
the Group, said the other. that's it,"
Brooklyn BARRIERS who manage to scrape
up living from the patronage of what
business men are to be found in the Rorough
Hall section are in keen competition. To
improve business one Of the artists in Fulton
street has displayed this card
..........'.'..' ..''.....',.'..'....
NOTICE.
:Dont Lose Time Get Your Nails Manicu:ed
While shaving.
:.........,,..........,. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
THAT man." said the barber across the
street, wants 20 be up 10 date, and he may
have skilled help; but 1t will take him