The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-01
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


young men roamed into Coney Island
dance hall A starved voice at The other
end Of the hall was expatiating on the shade
giving the tebis . aiOk with his apron, asked,
aWhat'll 1t be9'
"A long beer for mine, : Sid ths first Arg;
Same here, said No. z Me too said
Sure" said the waiter, and a moment
later, over the bar, was heard the cry:
two Second av'noos and brownstone
front for H."
II you see swinging over noisome alley
way, where Roosevelt street begins to
look out upon the river, the worn sole
and downtrodden heel OF an upperless
shoe, you may know that through that
narrow passage lies your way to the cobbler
Of the Porto Rico colony, for that Ia the
centuries old sign Of the Sapdteyo. This
oobbler hardly aspires to 80 high title
don. one who gives to old shoes a, little
more wear. His shop Is merely bench
in the paved court OF a tenement and over
head he has few yards Of striped goods
brought from Ponce that serves him for an
awning. Against his bench leans guitar.
and it Ia not unusual TO hear the tones OF
the guitar along with the muffled tap OF
the hammer on leather and lapstone.
The porter Of an extensive warehouse In
Front street has learned to dstrust the
honesty OF his fellow man. All day Sun
day there lay on the roof Of the building
fine Panama hat, blown from the head OF
some traveller on the Bridge almost over
head. All day long the hat lay In plain
sight Of the Sunday travel on the Bridge
n - -, AopIox vpnrvinO tho
efforts for the reclamation Of that hat began
The first caller asked leave to go en- the
roof, and it was only by diligent questioning
that he was brought to the plain statement
that his hat had blown of and he had seen
it lodge on that roof Before taking him
to the upper regions the porter had the fore
thought to ask what SIT hat he wore. The
hat when recovered proved too small,
and anyway it contained a card With quite
different name. During the day no
annex that Panama, but in no case was
property proved.
English playwright select more curious
sounding titles for their plays than our
American dramatists," said a manager
last night. There may be nothing in
name, but your English dramatist thinks
there Ia a great deal. else why would he
saddle play with some Of the names that
will soon adorn our billboards? Peter Pan
not eqS sSns the RsS Who
selected the name desired to attract at
tention at the start. We will have another
one Of those hyphenated play titles to
bother US soon when Barrie's 'Alice-Sit-
by-the-Fire' is produced here
Smoke. the mascot Of Engine Company
80, returned for duty the other night after
being in the dog hospital three weeks with
. broken leg.
Smoke IL q coach dog and has been in
the house In John street near Gold for five
years Smoke was run over by Q tender
responding to an alarm. While he was In
the hospital the firemen were kept busy
reporting his condition to the telephone
girls Of the John street exchange, among
whom Smoke was great favortte.
An old customer Of a downtown seed
store entered the place few days ago and.
addressing the salesman who usually waits
on him, said:
.Sav. George, those Peerless beans
you sold me last spring as being the finest
ever are the worst seeds ever tried to
erov. They came up all right, fourished
for a time. produced about four beans to
each plant and then slowly dried up What's
HAD plenty Of thunder and lightning
out in Jersey this year, haven't your
Eyes, but what's that to do with the growth
Everything. Electricity will knock
beans out quicker a wink. II the lightning
has been sharp and close 70 your garden
this year you can depend upon II that your
beans had been struck by lightning. We've
had q number Of similar complaints.
I'll have to put lightning rods in my bean
patch.
physician who served his time a. an
inferno In a big local hospital was telling
of the different modes Of treatment for
patients who were found to be feigning
sickness. e.
1T was exceedingly effective and much
more simple than the hypodermic needle
treatment. Three times day the patient
got one dram Of tincture Of green soap and
one dram Of asAfetida, mixed with enough
vichy to keep ono dose close to the palate
until the next was administered. One
ever stayed with US
Lovers Of purity In English ought to
make a pilgrimage down here every now
and then said an old New Yorker as he
passed Burling Slip. II tradition IL to be
relied on, we are indebted to Burling Slip
| for Lindley Murray's famous Grammar OF
the English Language The story 10 that
! old Lindley as he was going nome IRON ON
| market one day with brace Of fowl IN his
hands sought TO show his ATHLETIC abilities
| BY jumping across Burling Slip. He slipped
and fell and his subsequent lameness was
attributable to that fall; TO me iameness
and consequent incapacity for act1ve exer-
else posterity IL indebted for the grammar
that made him famous"
watching thoee newdes bathing In he
City Hall fountain" seid a man whose
| ancestors lived In New York for many
generations. reminds me Of story nv
father told me his grandfather told him.
| According to my great grandpop, there
was . nice beach where Greenwich street
now runs from Beaver 70 the Battery.
Rovs and horses bathed there, and there
va big rock little way out, on which
the Kids had built q house, which they
called . fort, which they WOULD storm nom
Tie water, lust as We kids used to play
kim Of tbs Castle' o. Hold the Fort.
seems funny to think q 0reenwich street
e. . swimming beach. doesn't IT.