New-York tribune., 1905-02-02

That's all right" answered the ticket seller
''yoI are getting what you paid for
"You gave 10 cents for your seat, didn't your
On bright davs in winter as in the good old
summer time" Park-ave. the heights OF Murray
Hill Is the daily scene Of baby promenade ana
veritabIe congress of nursery maids Babes ol0hu
and babies brunette, puuy mdgets and husky scions
of aristocratic households. blue eyed and black
good natured specimens and of the sort that
seem to have been born to make life burden 10
their elders-all of these and more foresatner on
.he western side of the thoroughfare and up and
down back and forth the perambUlators come and
go between the Iiaits of S4th and 10th SITS. while
the nurses exchange the stories of their troubles
and give their respective charges a molety OF IN
avOidable attention But the baoles are not ne
only pampered patrons of the avenue. ON q re-
cent afternoon of the colored men serValiCs OL
for airing on the thoroughfare with a @ Boston n
SO the servant saod ne ~ l4Oo -bs ,7or
old age. guess Is what the ma HatteT F ,, fsDii5
name He walked along at TIE end OF ieaGer
with the air of an Invalid 10 whom prlzs & "l batIT
care than lots of the babies that take the morning
ment OF his colored chaperon.
One OF the clerks in a big uptown hotel has
conned the pages of registered autographs so lons
that his interest in characteristic chirography has
made him something of a handwriting expert His
attainments in that direction were the undoing OF
a guest few days ago who was wanted III an
other city for forgery. The guest in question had
earned some attention in of the hotel papers
for his operations in bogus checks with which he
liquidated hotel bills, and his reproduced Signature
pSsessed bv the name when it appeared on the reg
lister as one possessed of chirographc pecularties
that seemed familiar and when a little later a
request was made for cash on check similarly
signed. he identified the sgnatgre as that OF me
DDS The temporary absence of the cashier from
a aa paie ft aer when the check oe
the clerk committed theperpetrator to the cus{ooy
man took him in charge
That title embelllshed foreign family names have
an attraction for many American women has been
ahIn,fsntlv proved One case in point. that may
be cited as evidence was noted not very long ago
at an exclusive uptown hotel. The woman in the
case had bided her time in the state of single
blessedness until she had passed the thirty mark;
when her patience rewarded. She married
and obtained both the husband and the title. The
husband in his bachelOrhoOd lived at Fifrh-ave.
hotel, and days after he had surrendered his
apartments the woman tripped into the hotel lobby
and on reaching the desk. she addressed the clerk
10 whom she was known only by sight with the
query rs there r any Saa man ,, for the Count or
the title the latter having been celebrated only
accustomed to the Count as a bachelor guest
looked askance for moment at his visitor, who
air OF one who knew her rights. even though they
had been recently % aequired; sae said, i am the
OF two titled Engshmen, we'll known to each
CthSr
ling incognlto, while the register of the hotel at
which both were staying was emblazOned with
the fun name and title of the other Il find il
very much comfortable said the former
'to get about without disclosing my full Identity
81 quite agree with you,' said the other, that II
is less bother but am married." What differ
ence does that make?" queried the other. "Oh! I
married an American woman the answer.
When the subway being built and there was
Kicking" William Barclay Parsons. chief engineer
of the Rapid Transit Commission, was fond of
pointing to a human skull the wall OF his prj-
vate room at his offices. Underneath the skull
this legend:
WARNING,
To those with complaints This is the result.
The skull was found in 1900 when workmen for
the subway builders were turning what Is known
the Canal-st. sewer from the North River to the
East River. Spades turned il up, along with two
or three others In OliVer-St The subway engi-
thought the skull may have been from the old
Jewish cemetery that still fronts the New Bow
cry. Oltver-st- II IS much the same as il
in the seventeenth century. when Potter StuyVesaut
granted land for IT, The year before he had refused
the request of the Jews OF the city for Il cemetery
OF their own. saying that there was no need for
st." presumably thinking the Jews would never die
but in 1656 he gave them permission to take as
their own the plot on what was then the east side
Of the old Bowery Road.
Mr. Parsons. commenting on the skull in his office
said that many OF his visitors said first Mind I
haven't got anything To kick against He re-
marked that some OF tho neODle who Kicked"
about the subway evidently never mad seen the
skull and It's legend, You see" added Mr.. Par
sons. that must have had a COMPLAINT for
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