The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-04
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOwN.

Actors on tho Victoria ROOF Garden have
been annoyed for week or moro by rival
performers. The rivals are two little girls,
about ~ years old, who appear on the roof
Of building opposite the Victoria on the
dance together. They are dressed In shabby
gnghams. but they can do pretty good
skirt dance and some other steps that aren't
on the stage. They always have q big
audience during the internission and some.
times during the performance on the roof
garden stage
A popular magazine recently related as 4
story true to life the experience Of young
man In newspaper Office In the financial
district. A farmer whom he had known
when a lad at homo In Tennessee had sent
some money to bucket shop In this city for
Investment. The bucket shop. had played
the stocks for the farmer and had actually
bis principal nor winnings He wrote to the
young man, who called at the bucket shop
until the folks there paid up to get rid OF
him.
There is a sequel to the story. few days
e e Sn ne bs ham, ali aed
up the way they do 1t In the. South. The
farmer asked him to take 1t IN return for
what he had done for him. Did he take ~
Well, yes. He took 1t home, but brought II
pa haet <: Since he made the collection fOT
he Is slicing 1t of and distributing It among
his friends from his Wall Street Office.
A street vender on lower Broadway, .
little above Chambers street. has little
sidewalk stand on which he displays some
novelties made out Of the bark Of the red
spongy in substance and resembles moth:
ing so much as plum colored plush brushed
against the grain. This resemblance has
been taken advantage Of to considerable
effect to manufacture miniature pin cush-
ions.
He had been at his lodge, and II was
early In the morning before he returned.
He was not strictly sober, maybe, but he
had sense enough to 60 to the Ice box.
His wife heard him open the lid Of the box
and let it fall with bang against the wall.
she 1snosa d him k so Bsk ass p Gs es
the lump when suddenly the sound Of q
bombardment came to her ears.
Next morning she arose and going to
the ice box opened 1t to see what could
have been the matter the night before;
that her husband had taken the hammer
and pick, and In the darkness mistaken six
beer bottles for Jumps Of ice.
ne naQ driven bIlIltcu uoIso w Vuo
Zoo and hitching him a considerable dis
lance from the entrance had gone inside
for look at the animals. After an hour
among the lions, tigers and other flesh
eating beasts he returned to reenter his
preached the horse It showed decided signs
Of unrest, threw back its head, pricked up
its ears, then began to tremble, as though
| in terror. As the driver came closer the
horses fear increased and he seemed about
| to break away. A keeper Of the Zoo, coming
up and seeing the horses terror, said
Stand away from him a few minutes
and let him look at you and smell you.
You've been in there among the horses
natural enemies until your clothes have
keen nostTils detect the scent, and although
| he probably never saw q lion or tiger his
| instinct tells him the odor Of danger Is in
the air, and till he discovers that the odor
comes from you he will be uneasy"
talk about Col. Manns safe full Of
SCANDALS" said the telephone girl; "he
| doesn't know what scandal Is. He ought to
be telephone girl for little while il he
| wants to know what people are doing.
tell you 1t is amazing what grown peo-
| pie trust to telephone girls ears. There
isn't day that we do not hear appoint
ments and discussions Of things done the
night before that would turn Affairs up
side down II we ever told them. Men
as aI though they wefts !marooned on an un-
| inhabited island. They use their own
names and the names Of others interested
| with the most startling freedom and frank
ness"
Pledges OF many sorts are exacted by
| the Police Magistrates, but Magistrate
| Breen made an old woman from Jersey
| give q pledge the other day that was novel.
| The woman was arrested for intoxication.
She told the Magistrate that she lived in
I:town 80 small there was no dry goods store
:and so she had come to New York to do
some shopping. While in the city she fell
from grace, but insisted that she never
drank at home.
|. @Then Jersey Is the place for you said
|, Magistrate Breen. and, being inclined not
| to punish the woman, added: II let you
20 will you promise to stay out OF New
York;
The woman consented, and the Magistrate
called her to the bridge. Then, with up
lifted hand, she solemnly took the pledge
not to set foot in New York again for one
| year.
A lawyer who does an extensive business
| in contingent fee suits has takcn vow not
to act for: woman in the future unless he
Is positive that she knows and understands
no law. He took such case from woman
OF his acquaintance recently and is mourn
| ing the result
II managed to get her a verdict for $780,
he said, speaking Of the case, and in ao-
cordance with our contract, sent her check
for SIS. ! thought the matter had ended
| then, but in this mornings mail ! received
making a demand upon me for the amount
Of the costs in the action. I was dunn
founded, till noticed that there was an
other enclosure in the envelope. in the
shape Of clipping quoting !, decision ,ia no. q
| that In contingent fee actions the costs
belong to the prevailing party and not to
the attorney. No more clients like that
for NINE
The demolition Of the old Tribune tower
and clock removes from Park row land
mark that has done service for years to
those who cannot see the City H all clock
because OF the park trees. 1t is not gen
| arallv known that up in the tower Whitelaw