The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
LIVE TOPICs ABOuT TOWN.

/ the youngerast has kept his friends guessing
| by showing them up In bis short stories
/ some were amused, and some wanted IT,
One young woman spent much " her time
explaining that she was not meant In a
| certain story tNat seemed 10 disclose
| Chapter Of her Interesting life. WhaHYer
! me ethics Of the AFFAIR may be, 90 mpenaatlo
has ret in. In one Of the Sunday news
| papers the young mans own lie story,
| with a large and excellent photo graphic
likeness, has just been printed. Inc TACT
that he and his wife, who have been writing
stories at each other for soine unle' nave
| separated was the occasion.
/ The mere man stopped in front OF a
shop window. II was full Of large and
| beautiful hats. There he said 70 the
girl with him, "why don't you set one Of
those and be done with ~ Bee, they are
special, too; only $40, ,,..,- ,.-
her tone changed 10 one OF pity. ZONE
away abe aald; you are but mere man
| after all Don I you know that this u prob
ably the most conspicuous hat WINDOW IN
! town and thousands Of women have already
SEN these hats and ne PLioe on hSm ! !
! wear one for the world. Id be q marked
woman. Any other woman could tell one
1 as soon as she saw IT, know where ! got II
and just what paid for II.
Its a curious thing, said a physician.
Il was talking TO a druggist recently about
! New York being the headquarters FOR every
! thing. Him said he. New York cheer
! fully sells the stun that is made elsewhere.
I Take those prescription blanks, for instance.
! They come from Connecticut, The cocaine
! you use in your practise IL OF German make.
| The tablets you recommend for 2 cold are
put up In Detroit The morphine comes
| from Philadelphia, and the pill boxes from
Buffalo. Most Of my bottles are made in
| New jersey. The Quaker City supplies
many Of the hypodeTmic tablets, and the
seidlitz powders come from Boston, and so
on down the line: Two Of the best selling
| headache remedies are made in Baltimore,
! but the headache itself 10 manufactured
right here in New York"
The summer resort correspondents are
already making their arrangements for
the season. One clever young man hopes
to repeat the game he played last year.
He was established with his wife In large
room at q hotel not far from New York
In exchange for his board he agreed With
the landlord TO get the name OF the hotel IN
the papers often-in short TO be the hotels
press agent. Then he arranged with a
New York newspaper TO be its oorrespon-
dent from this hotel. For this, OF course
he was paid by the newspaper, and Il was
3
lord. Several small country papers and
society sheets which took his weekly gossip
furnished enough to keep him In cigarettes
and his wife in candy all summer.
Il wonder said a man Of a mechanical
turn, that there are no hand organs ground
by motors. You take the big piano hand
ofeans that are drawn about the streets
by man power. II requires two men
TO draw one Of them, and with such hand
organ il would be cheaper to have one
Of the men play II than to equip 1t with a
anyway. But now with the horse drawn
hand organs two men seem one more than
i should think an electric motor with a
storage battery could be attached TO such
a hand organ and be made TO turn the
crank for less than the cost OF the second
man
In the yard OF house in West Twenty
ninth street there stands n souvenir Of a
crime that shocked the city a few years
ago. This Ia an iron stove which stood in
the cellar 10 which the body Of a murdered
man was dragged His head was cut OF
and part Of the body burned IN this stove.
The house has been vacant sincs this crime,
which was too unusual TO be forgotten at
once. Why the stove was brought from its
place in the emf Y cellar nobody knows.
Il appeared IN the yard, however, the other
morning, and there It stands.
IF I should hear, said thrifty bachelor
who provides himself with many OF his
meals in his own room and so buys mere
or less canned goods" IL Ibhould hear q at
whales were becoming scarce II wouldn Z
surprise me at all, for ] should know what
had become OF them. They are packin 2
whales now as sardines. if can judge by
-. e E-t go . lat
have lately opened
Just how your city fathers have figured
out the military system Of your police force,
said a subaltern newly assigned 20 Govern
ors Island, is a mystery that il would take
an Upton or a Harlee to solve or oour-e
| Judge by what see-the military insignia
on police unifoms-hut you must remember
these are world wide In their application
and always mean the same thing, no mat
ter by whom worn-always excepting
these New York guardians Of the peace and
other things Beginning at the lowest rank
you have ths pain ordinary policeman.
He is officially deignlted patrolman In
effect he Is the private Of the corDs, vet nine
out Of ten address him as "officer' One
step higher up comes the romdsman, cor
re,ponding 20 the corporal and therefore
properly identified by the double chevron.
His insignia are correct. Move up yet
another grade and you have the seTgeant
OF police. He has jumped clear past the
triple chevron that belongs to all sergeants;
his single bar shows this sergeant 70 be a
frat lieutenant When you rea ch the police
captain the double bars properly designate
captain's rank. / haven't yet seen an In
spector in uniform, but, judging by analogy.
he l. inst as likely as not 70 he logged out
az a Maior-Ge" eral. It's no wonder, thCn,
that your cavalry COPS ride with the wrong
hand and salute ina way TO make a Conan
CHE yell
A well known woman Oh eHaering her
stateroom for a trip abroad the other night
found IL 80 filed with flowers that the cir
was sitting She accordingly gathered
up all the cards from the bunohes Of roses
violets and other out flowers and sent half
Of the bouquets In hanson 10 Bellevue
Hospital.
This foral contribution included six dozen
Amerioap Beauty roses and ten bunches Of
violets, and when distributed in the women's
and children's wards fulhlled even a greater
mission than the donor expected.