The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-06
LIVE TOPICS AROUT TOWN.

OF Long Island. There was no parlor car
on the train. 30 she was forced to ride in
the day coach. She kept her own window
closed to protect herself from the dust
but the man in front Of her had his open
and the cinders bothered her.
will you be kind enough to close your
Window" she asked.
NO, l will not" he replied bruskly.
She was not accustomed to being refused
ana Tor a moment was stunned. Then
rallylng her sweetest tones she explained
that the cinders were not only unplea sant
but dangerous to her eyes.
Then you can change your seat" said
the brute, hardly giving her glance.
There was no other desirable seat, so
she, told the guard what the situation was,
and he promptly closed the man 3 window.
The man growled and made himself as un :
pleasant as possible for the ensuing hour.
When the young lady reached her des-
tination she was warmly greeted by her
hostess, who introduced to her the man
who had been her fellow passenger.
He had been invited over to help make
the weekend agreeable for the hostess 8
dearest friend.
One of the vagaries OF the man VIII O
fixes rates for railroad tickets is shown
in the schedule Of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad. The single fare
for ticket to Bridgeport is $ll5, with
no excursion rate. Yet. strangely, il one
has but so cents, he may get to Bridgeport.
and on the same road. This is how: First
he must buy ticket for New Rochelle, for
which the charge is rs cents, and at New
Rochelle ticket which will take the trav-
eler to Bridgeport may be had for rs cents
more. There are numerous trains, and
the. wait between trains is seldom more than
half an hour, yet the "a wing is IS cents each
way, or 81. 80 for the round trip.
AS the crowds pour out Of the exit
from one subway station in upper Broad
way some one-often more than one
invariably stumbles on a certain step
This step is only fraction Of an inch higher
than the others, and it shows how exactly
mans feet automatically adjust them
selves to regular heights, particularly il
he is weary from a days work.
little newsy who sells papers at the
mouth of this exit has taken advantage
OF this dissproportionate step and con-
slant stumbling and proved himself a
bus mess diplomat. As an enraged man
after iabbing his knees on the edges of the
stairs stair arises muttering, this kid announces:
They all stumble on that step
The man is usually so Modified by the
idea that the fall was due to the step and not
to his own awkwardness that out of pure
good will toward the boy he buys paper.
The Panama hat, either the real thing or
the imitation. has too many virtues to be
crowded out Of the market easily. The
haberdashers' shops display it literally
this season, and it is giving the sailor hat
hard run.
The latest twist to put on it is to turn
the brim up squarey in front and down
in the ba ok, so that it shields the neck
from the sun. The evolution of this style
may he a large number Of young men
with necks all Apearly pale and noses all
rosy red; but they should not be misunder-
STOOD
A summary view of New York at the very
beginning of the nineteenth century has
come to light in a stray copy OF Ayness
"Nouveau Dictionnaire Universal de Geog-
raphie, published at Lyons in 1904 IAN XII.)
To this city is apportioned just half OF an
octave page, conveying the following in
formation among other statistics:
-New-Yorck. an American city, capital
of the province Of the same name, built
on the little island of Manhattan, at the
mouth of the Hudson River, SO miles north
east of Amboy, 1t was partly burnt in
the war Of Independence All that has
been rebuilt is quite fine. We cite particu-
larly the street of Broadway. which is
mile and a half long and 70 feet wide and
at the south ends in n handsome park where
there is a promenade
THE water is generally bad. The prisons
are well built and we'll conducted, their
interior administration being entrusted
to the Quakers. The number OF inha btants
was very considerable, but yellow fever
depopulated it in 1899 and in 1903. The
finest building in New-Yorck is Federal
Hall, where Washington and Congress
took the oath at the be inning Of the federal
Constitution, Beyond the park there is
building to-day the elegant and new City
Of Hall trii!e de HATH. The pound Of 20
schillings of II pences liz current and is
worth 10 francs is confines,
No handorgan or hurdygurdy man ever
gets more than started on tune within
earshot of Police Headquarters. As the
first notes are waited into the building
one or two cops rush out to make the musi-
clan move on. This Ia not because Com
missioner McAdoo has any particularly
strong aversion to street music. but be-
cause the telegraph bureau of the Police
is in basement room the open
windows Of which are on Mulberry street,
and transmitting messages. many
Of them minute descriptions of lost chill
dren, missing property and criminals who
are TO be nabbed on sight,
The jingling OF In the Shade OF the Old
Apple Tree. played as though on tin pans,
makes such work difficult.
The father of a boy and girl and years
Of age, respectively, was in camp duty
with a Manhattan regiment at Peekskill,
and in his absence the youngsters gave a
parlor exhibition Of the manual of arms.
When the lad had exhausted his familiarity
with tactical terms he was not satisfied
that the drill had been complete. where
upon he shouted these commands: "Ex-
trene unction!' Holy orders!- The
mother, overhearing, put the air guns and
uniforms forthwith out of commission.
CRANES NEW SUIT,