The sun., 1905-06-25
LIVE TOPICS AROIT TOWN.

Grand opera singers who 60 into oreretta
are becoming common enough. Fritz
Scheff, Schuma mn -Heink and David Bis
pham will all Re included in that list and
there are others likely to follow II took
an astute ma nager like c. b Dillingham;
however. to think Of putting grand orera
mother into the lighter work Anna
Yaeger mother of Fritz Scheh il coming
over here next winter to fe in her daughters
company. She was for sorle years 4 we'll
known singer in Germany and has just
ended an engagement at Frankfort. All
that remains for some more daring inn
presaro is to put the eight children OF
Schumann Henk into musical farce in
support Of their gifted mother
The proudest fshwoman in the Italian
quarter is a venerable eXpatriate whose
Jeathery face is scanned with wrinkles.
She presides over large basin of salt cod
fish. II i, some four or five inches deep and
filled with the soaking pieces of cod Over
the tank p!ays little fountain which keeps
the fresh water perpetually falling over
the chunks of salted toughness. Only the
Italians are accusto omed to keep the fish
like this in fresh water. The old woman
superintends her stand and her fountain
with a look Of conscious pride in the rarity
of the device which still attracts attention
In the quarter.
The newsboys about the trolley loops at
Coney Island have a new wrinkle. On
rainy days passengers are always looking
for dry spots n the open cars and there
are usually not enough dry spots to go
round. The newsboys soon saw their
chance and now they yell:
Might e1tral Get poiper for a wet
seat"
Naturally the pink extras are not so
much in demand as others.
Department stores are very oblging to
their charge customers when they go out
of town for the summer, but one store in
Brooklyn overdid things bit the other
day. customer wrote in for a pair OF
shoelaces and other small articles request
ing that they be sent by mail. The laces
which cost IS cents, we're sent by express,
the charges, rs cents, being paid by the
store. The other things went along by
mail.
downtown Office which has its own
phone central has also system Of relief
signals. When a business visitor at any
part OF the office begins to he a bore the
man at the desk toys with his telephone.
The operation is unob trusive n { thing more
appears to the sight than an idl, move
ment OF the hands. but it is none the less
transmitter hangs clicks a signal in the ear
Of the central operator. According to the
code two clicks means that the bored is to
be called up on his phone. II that does not
start the bore three clicks summons a relief
expedition and another visitor appears
with such pressing business that the most
persistent bore is forced to vacate.
About the most attractive show window
the whole length of Broadway these days
is the one wherein an enterprising manager
las displayed all kinds of camping goods
The window repre- sents tent. Within is
a rustic bed made of natural wood, as are
the chairs. tables and other furniture. A
tall rustic clock stands in the corner Copies
OF sporting magazines lie on the tables
together with pipes. tobacco and a box of
cigars, showing that this is a camp of great
comfort. Over one chair hang shooting
coat and vest fitted with many cartridge
holders, as well as a cartridge belt. A