The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-19
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

! Hotel proprletorB seem 10 pe easy ioi
persons who want to borrow money said
the manager OF large hotel the other day.
Il believe we get stuck oftener than any
other GLASS OF business men.
why, there's a row OF /. o. US that
never expect to realize anything on" he
continued, "a he opened an account book
and ran his fingers down over the columns.
| ! guess it's because we are accustomed 10
| accommodating people that makes us such
| easy marks. Our friends, OF those we
! think our friends, come around and want
! 10 borrow something and somehow or other
| we always accommodate them. There's
about $4,000 right there, and don't believe
| I'll ever get cent Of it. | know OF more
than a dozen In the same business who
have been hit as heavily
At FIRE few nights ago half frozen
reporter asked battalion chief to take
| drink to warm him up.
Il will have some whiskey,' replied the
| fireman, but won't drink IL.
The reporter led the way to the back
room OF a saloon and ordered whiskey.
The fireman never made an attempt to raise
his glass TO his bps.
-PIl hold my coat collar back and you
| pour that down the back Of my neck he
said. 1t soaks into my hannes and does
stomach. and it's a heap sight less danger
| GUS
-Oh. this isn't a new wrinkle said the
| hre chief Some nremen pour whiskey
! down the back Of their neck and some
| put il in their rubber boots Both ways
are good but like mine on my back. It's
| an old trick OF firemen when they get very
| cold OF course all fremen don't take their
| whiskey this way. 1t would be good
thing If they did.
Sergt. Eggers, who is the boss Of Com
missioner McAdoos private detective squad,
is making fine crop of enemies for him
self Every time he raids over captains
head he makes new enemy.
III tggers wins captainoy,' said
captain over whose head raid has been
made. -he will come out Of this miK-up
all right IL ne IL not made captain. It
will be a shame what the captains will do
to him when he is put back on desk duty
again.
The Fulton Market men lose heavily
in very cold spells from tho freezing Of
their goods Bottles of pickles and sauces
freeze UP and split and fruit and vegetables
are ruined by the frost. AS the whole
market cannot be heated, the dealers do
the best they can by heating small areas
IN tnclT own bitI4No ihpoV "A'c hn'S I'D
glass showcases fight the cold by keeping
lights burning in them day and night.
One of the fruit stands On the outer tier
has been brilliantly lit up every night the
last week or two, and one night group oil
men stood around it in the early morning
hours enjoying the capers OF a big brown
rat, which apparently had no other bust
ness In view than TO get warm. lie lopez
around among bananas and nuts and apples
with absolute indifference. He never even
nibbled at them He spent most OF his time
lust under the incandescent light, where
the heat was strongest, with just an occa-
sional frisk around the glass cage 10 show
how active he was.
The crowd outside disturbed him very
little Only when man would tap on the
glass would he make jump Tor his hole,
but even then he never went into 1t. He
lust stood and waited for Developments.
When nothing happened, mo came back
under the electric light again
A lob In one OF the West street places
isn't as ba d as it looks said yesterday
a saloon man who was graduated from
the river front district. There are rough
characters there, to be sure, but the great
majority are easy enough to get along
with If only you use them right. Their
outdoor life gives them physique which
can stand much more liquor than the or
binary workin gman's. and for some rea-
son or other, perhaps because they get
scant courtesy IN most places, they are
remarkably appreoiative OF kindness.
Tho seamen especially have long memo
ries when one does them good turn.
Toward the end Of their shore leave, when
the money is gone, 1t doesn't do any one
any harm 10 give them a little liquor, which
doesn't cost much; little free lunch, which
they might as we'll have as any one else, or
n bed. which costs nothing at all. II may
be a year or two before those seamen come
around again, but when they do you can
10 pretty certain they will bring something
that the customs officers know nothing
about and that often is much more valuable
than the donors think.
Among the signs OF the times IA legend
on Barclay street which says that -the
upper part Of this building is to let. Things
have indeed come 10 a standstill in this
town when that particular place has 10
shut down business. The old house. and
il is now among the oldest in the lower
part OF the city, has been perhaps the gam
bling house with the longest history in the
city. One of the most notable inoide nts
Of that history. perhaps, was the way in
which the big fortune that Matte Dancer
made there was distributed after his death
10 churches and church charities by his
, daughter Now the green blinds 30 long
shut in will be opened to vulgar tradel
A clerk from a we'll known law firm went
into a downtown drug store the other day
and said
Can you let me have pieoe OF ribbon
such as you tie around cologne bottles?
You soc. there's a nice old lady in our office
who has Just made her will and we want to
tie IL up in style
i thought lawyers used red tape said
the druggist.
-Oh. red wouldn't do at all in this case,
said the lawyers clerk gravely. Haven't
you helotrope or perhaps mauve7'
In a few moments tho ribbon was brought
forth. and the young lawyer vert away
satisfied,