The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-01
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

street vendors are the brokers who can
afford to eat anything they want, but do
not scorn to buy fruit from street stand
when 1t looks tempting. The wealthiest
clientele of all these street merchants Is
| said to belong to fat man who has be-
come as much a part of1an offioe building
on Wall Street as the stone coping against
which he has leaned for the past five years.
He sells out OF clean, glasstopped box
excellent candy made BY the most efpen-
sails tho one brand OF 1t, and soon after the
luncheon hour every day the little box IL
emptied. And the men who are his best
customers are not persons OF limited means.
we run across many strange experiences
In our work. eaid q tenement house In
spector tho other day to group OF friends,
-but the ono that gave me the queerest SEN
sation came to me Last week. A tenant
over on Chrystie street told ME very con-
hdentially:
-'There's a woman an her daughter in
the cellar an they've been dead three
weeks
Filled with horror insisted on ma king
thorough investigation Of the place.
Very reluctantly the woman accompanied
me to the cellar A long search r' failed t to
cans and small box Of ashes were the only
contents Of the cellar.
"'Where are the corpses?' demanded.
"'Corpses?' replied the woman. 'Corpses7
There amt no corpses. They were in
eliminated three weeks ago"
The drop a nickel in the slot machine
has been adapted to various and divers
purposes from selling collar buttons to
dispensing gum and fortune, but an enter
prising bathing pavilion manager at Coney
yo1o ND ha, r~kt L., III HNy
viding an Insurance. policy for the nickel.
The policy is for $500 for the day issued,
the date being registered by an automatic
stamp. 1t insures the bather against
death by drowning.
The proprietor reports that the machine
investment. Thus far there have been no
claimants for insurance.
The duties Of a chambermaid In tho
modern hotels are very different from what
they once were. Whether she has pink
cheeks and white cap or is old and wrinkled,
she Is relieved Of the hardest part Of her
work; She no longer sweeps, as that
machine used In cleaning public buildings.
A porter manipulates the long hose. which
stretches from one end OF the corridors
to the other. All other kinds Of sweeping
have been abolished from the new hotels.
The tricks OF the shyster lawyer are hard
to beat. One Of tho tribe. whose ignorance
Of law Is Offset by his nerve and his oily
tongue, recently opened an office in Brook
Ign. Appearance Is everything to the
ingly. Shelves extending to the ceiling
cover three OF the walls and ON them APP
parently are stacked hundreds Of law books.
Many a would be client has been impressed
by the sight Of this library which, as
matter of fact, is not composed OF books
at all. There are g few real volumes, but
like books and serve the same purpose as
theatrical props.
'The memory Of the Slocum disaster
seems to be exerting as much Of an in
huenoe upon the steamboat excursion
business this summer as last said river
man. -You don't see the barges loaded
down with people on their way to some
park on the Sound as you used to- and
Sunday school excursions on steamboats,
this season can almost be counted on one
hand. I suppose it'll be several years
before public confidence In excursion
steamers ia restored to the point where it
was little over year ago.
1t was a warm night and the doors Of
the table nearest the street three men were
eating when a woman, not ragged nor yet
we'll dressed, lodged In from the side
walk.
II don't know you gentlemen; but I'm
apiece. she declared. You're having
good dinner and I want one. too. III sit
down and eat with you II you say eo,' and
she made move as il to take chair.
Your nerye'll do, said one of the diners
a. he contributed his quarter sn. His CON- IN
woman glided out. The head waiter ar
rived just in time to see her disappear in
the crowd on the street.
that's twice this week she's done that
trick here he said, Hungry? Certainly
a sse and fot makes s %sG but Of
going to work here any more II l can
help it.
The man with taste for eccentric styles
in headgear has better opportunity to
crafty them this year than he ever had.
There were never suoh varieties. In one
Of the Broadway shops three hats have the
band. The bands were dark green. red
md blue.
Two Southern women. sisters, every even
Ing walk ten times around the Harlem
block in which they live. They travel
rapidly. too. They say they would vary
he route except that their athletic gait
you'd attract too much attention.
1Our neighbors are used to our two mile
and have ceased to notice
IT, one Of them explained. when we
90 away for the summer We will take the
y alk on the piazza OF our hotel. It keeps
our compleIions fresh and our weight
lown. We have kept it up for Ave years,
Ind we always walk at top speed, for slow
pace is not exercise.
1The question is" said the young man,
whether the joke is on me or Jones.
you see, Jones came to me.
I ought to have my pay raised five
! week. says he, but hate to tackle the
BOSS. How would you go at it,
Why don't you write to him, saying
hat Mr.. Jones is a deserving young man,
Who has done good work for the Arm, and |
,ught to have his pay raised IS a week. |
ays !. Then sign 1t Lewis Jarvis and
end it in
/" BY Jove, that's great idea, says he.
thought he'd take 1t as a joke, of course.
But that night Jones came up to me,
trimming all over.
Wen, 1 sent that Lewis Jarvis letter.