The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-24
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

The call letters used on party telephone
! lines are 80 arranged now that there is little
chance OF confusing one letter with an
other No party line has more than four
phones and the letters are J. i, X and W
Formerly the irst letters OF the alpha bet
were used, and many mistakes resulteu
Sihoe the change was made the hello girls
say that mistake rarely occurs. the letter.
being readily differentiated by their sounds.
Waters, cooks, omnibuses, kitchen maids
and the whole army Of restaurant aids
are on the run out OF New York. and
there is confusion in most of these PLACES
For the next two months the money Is 70
be made outside the city, and those whose
services the restaurant keepers can command
are merely waiting for chance to get away.
In the case Of one Broadway chop house the
entire staff migrated In body to resort
near the city.
Il would be for closing up" the pro-
prietor said the other night. after discharR..
ing the second drunken cook in week, if
it were not that certain Of my customers
would wander away, and possibly not come
back in the winter l have succeeded in
keeping head waiter The rest Of the
staff changes nearly every day. and one is
as bad as another l will not be able. more
when they want to come back, for they are
too good to lose. The man who COM
plains about service in a New York res
taurant in summer ought to know what
difficulties the proprietor has.
The Colonel was watching the Chinese
Boys Brigade at drill.
Remington rifles" he said. IF you've
an eye for such things, you've probably
noticed that the supes in nine military
dramas out OF ten carry the old fashioned
single shot Remington.
That was the arm Of the British soldiers
in the Durbar parade at Coney Island last
summer; it's the arm Of the Union and
Confederate armies at the Hippodrome
ington was tn e gun Of the f1libuster, the
revolutionist, the soldier Of fortune. When
ever a government caught a case of rifles
going into a turbulent country as barrel
slaves they were almost sure to be Rem
ingtons. So there are now a lot Of them
on the market in big consignments. which
makes it convenient for a Snowman, or
any one else who wants to. to equip COM
pany with uniform rifles where practical
shooting isn't necessary.
In these days OF repeating arms and
small calibers, the Mauser is the gun OF
romance. The Cuban insurgents, the
Fiipinos. the Panamans, the 800 Central
American revolutionary armies of the last
decade all carried Mausers.'
newcomer ITOIu Vic Cooutn HcdIu
familiar croak overhead as he passed
through Duane street the other evening, He
glanced up in time to see a night hawk
settle on the roof Of a coffee warehouse.
The Southerner was astonished to find
night hawk so far north, and to find it
adopting the habits Of its family below
Mason and Dixon's line.
Night hawks called bull bats" in the
country. are first cousins to the whippoor-
wills. Being shy, wild birds. they used to
live in deep woods But wing shots potted
them as they fitted about after sunset
and snakes ate their notified eggs. which
are laid upon the earth without a sign Of
nest. So the night hawks learned lesson
from civilization. They moved to town,
where they are safe from gunners and
hatch their eggs on the fiat roofs of business
houses, where there are no snakes. Louis
vile and Nashville are full of night hawks,
but they aren't common in New York.
There is sign in the window Of grocery
in Fifty-third street, not far west OF Broad
way, that is attracting attention. The
sign reads this way:
IF you cannot enjoy your breakfast,
why not try some Of our invalid eggs from
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