The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

Sunday was not on the program. The
extra part couldn't even be called sacred.
The singers, clad in cap and gown. we're
piously informing the final -Amens" OF the
service, when one OF the women, anxio us
to get out In a hurry, proceeded to get rid
Of her costume. She took one hatpin from
her cap and stu ok it in the seat behind her.
Then out came the oth,r hatpin,. and she
jabbed it at the seat. It wouldn't jab, so
she gave IL an extra push. Then the fer
vent amen of the soprsno voice by her side
vice ended with feminine filters mingling
with the tones of the organ.
Skirts on stable boys when they are
breaking horse for a woman to ride is a
custom as old as horse dealing. As fact,
the lad makes an impromptu skirt from
a stable blanket or lap robe. the essential
thing being that the end shall flap against
the horse and accustom II to the drapery.
saddle horses are exercised. it ia q common
sight but always an odd one to the unini-
tiated. to see the boys riding in this mas
querade attire.
School commencements aren't what they
used to be-" declared Brooklynite who
insists that they did everything better years
ago. Take the graduation exercises at the
high school last week, for instance. Like
most Of the other parents. turned out
expecting to hear six or eight orations in
which the affairs OF nations are settled for
good and all by the brightest boys in the
class, but there was nothing OF the kind.
There we're no essays, only an address by
member Of the Board of Education and the
valedictory by member of the class. And
the valedictorian wasn't the real thing
either. He wasn't the best student he got
the. honor by vote Of his classmates, and
told the truth and declared he was glad
to get out Of school. Who ever heard of
such an admission at commencement
They wouldn't have stood for it when !
was graduated"
One Of the new hotels just opened to
the public has an office staff of some ten
men or more. In this lot there is not n
single New Yorker. Every man enga ged
by the management comes from some other
city, and most Of them are from the West
or South. The proprietor selected them
with no other idea than to get the most
efficient. Most Of them when they began
work here were AZ much strangers as the
guests OF the hotel. The manager who
New Workers. should not be successful hotel
clerks although the fact remained they
were not.
The news from Boston that the famous
Puritan, that successfully defended the
America Cup in 1885, had been sold a.
junk brought sadness to the heart of many
yachtsman who remembers well the
Puritan Genesta races. 1t is common
saying in yachting circles that of all chal-
lengerS Lieut.. HEM came nearest to vic.
tory with the GeneSta. His sportSmanlike
conduct endeared him to all who knew
him here. and his death within few months
OF his return to England was much re-
GREETED.
The truck of the Genesta was made into
an inkstand when she was broken up, and
was sent to the New York Yacht Club. where
it is highly treasured
On the East Side the Star OF Israel is a
familiar sight, a six pointed star of two
equilate. al trianeles interlaced. 1t marks
every synagogue and is frequently dis
played over the meeting places of various
fraternities whose names begin with B'nai.
1t is part Of the magical seal of Solomon
that keeps the djinns safely corked up
breaks seal and spell together. But it would
have been far more familiar had it not
been for the labor saving conceit Of n
woman. When the plan Of the Stars and
Stripes had been drafted by the Continen-
tai Congress the stars were of the six
upon to he the first seamstress of the new
ensign. With charming feminine disre-
gard for acts Of Congress she told the COM
mittee that she would sew in five pointed
stars. and illustrated with a snip Of her
scissors that by folding the bunting she
could cut each star of five points with
single cut and make them true.
The new tenor that Heinrich Conried has
just engaged for the Metropolitan Opera
House is Carl Burrian. youthful Wagner
singer, who won his first honors at Ham,
burg, where he sang for several years until
he went to Dresden 10 take the first place in
the company. He was invited to go to
Munich to sing while Heinrich Knote is
in this country, and he would have done so
but for his contract to stay in Dresden for
a certain number of years. Now he is free
to sing anywhere, so long as he does not
take any regular contracts.
They got out OF a northbound Broadway
car and turned eastward down Eighteenth
street, a good looking. prosperous couple,
still young but settling comfortably into
early middle life. They might have come
from Boston. With them was their son,
a youngster Of eight or nine. who kept run
ming ahead Of his parents, with the air Of an
explorer. Every now and then he would
cafl hack over his shoulder some new mar
vel. He was about in the middle of the
block between Madison and Fourth ave-
nues when low rnmbling reached the
child's ears. -Oh papa" he shouted back
delightedly, ~ hear the subway"
A few steps further on, as an india rubber
like smell issuing from hole in front of him
reached his nostrils, he added, And oh,
mana I can smell i'll"
No photograph shop at Coney Island is
complete this year without an automobile.
The establishments are so modest and APP
parently supplied with such limited capital
it is incredible that they could have bought
the machines shown in every tent and shack
in which the pictures are taken. The
photographers gagged the taste OF the
visitors to the islsnd accurat ely. for every
nine pictures out OF ten show the subjects in
a motor. The small price at which they can
enjoy the experience even in stationary
vehicle makes the temptation irresistible.
These are strenuous nights for the Cen