The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-04
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.


had alighted on the drivers left shoulder.
THAT" said the professor, us what is
known as the Colorado beetle, or Dory-
phord decemhnedtd. l guess he's lost his
bearings. You don't see hip on Broad
way very often"
1T strikes me that he's nothin' but a
dern pertater bug said a benevolent
looking old man with long beard. "He
kinder looks lunsome, don't he2 I wonder
! where he come from? Are there any per-
later patches hereabouts?"
Perhaps he came in on the train with
some OF the company" suggested young
man who was showing his Boston cousin
the sights Of the town.
The east side of Central Park is infested
by large army Of anxious, eager eyed
youths, each bearing camera, look
Of strained intelligence and common
place book on which is printed in glazing
letters the words Bird Notes.
The inquirer after truth learned that this
youthful enthusiasm for ornithology has
not been caused by the study Of nature
books, but by the thrilling experience Of
one boy, who goes to the same school
as the others. The original boy, who Is
really interested In birds, found Central
Park good place to study their habits.
to be seen there, early and late, and one
day a man, who had watched him some
time, asked him a few questions about
the bird on which his camera was at that
moment focused. The boy replied with
information which showed him to be
careful observer.
"Do you know much about birds7' asked
the man.
The boy replied that he had studied those
in the park, as we'll as many others.
The man continued his questioning; said
nattara. Uapt around With the hov Whtlo h6
took photographs; asked his name, and finally
said that he lived near the park and would
like to have the boy come to his house. As
they parted he gave the boy his card, but
the youngster was too shy to look at 1t
until the man had gone. The name 1t bore
was Andrew Carnegie.
SITS wonder to me, said travelling man,
that the B. r. T. people don't establish
parcel room at the bridge terminal. Think
of the convenience to the thousands who
cross the bridge. wanted to check a suit
case recently, so tackled a starters.
well, said he, you might try the drug
store
Il did. The druggist said he was sorry
DC. Had two dozen calls day from folks
who wanted to leave everything from trunk
to Japanese poodle in his care, but he had
to decline. He suggested that l see the
telegraph operator in big office building
close at mana. L saw tlHl, puU 1 hdu w
wait until he sent a telegram and answered
a lot of questions from strangers before l
could get rid Of my bag
Suppose a man from the South on his
way to the East comes in on the Pennsyl-
vania and wants to take look at Coney
Island before he goes up to the Grand Cen
trail Station. Well. he totes his satchel up
to the bridge entrance fully, expecting to
find parcel room there, but there's no such
luck and, that starts him cussn' good and
hard
Thousands of trolley cars daily pass the
meeting point in Brooklyn of Court Fulton
and Adams streets and Myrtle avenue.
There is a great deal of switching to be
done and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit has
got the problem simplifed. A system Of
electric switches has been instal led and
boy sitting under the elevated railroad
stairway runs the whole thing by. touching
for old Brook!ynites, who remember the
days when one of the horses drawing, a
car had to step on an iron platform In order
to turn the switch
The work of the grocery or butcher store
horse in Brooklyn is never done. He's
on the rounds delivering goods six days in
the week and on the seventh it might be
supposed he would have a rest. But SUM-
Gay Is uTlN Ing udy dtl'I i've Sdl oc oCCh P'SN-
ding patiently down the Eastern Parkway
or the Ocean Boulevard drawing a two
seated wagon of some sort in which are
Mr.. and Mrs. Groceryman or Butcherman
and as many of the little Grocerymans or
Butchermans as can be crowded in It
is not fashionable to drive on Sunday in
the City of Churches,
Don't throw away your old clothes,
said tailor to a customer the other day
Bring them to me, / have many chances
to sell second hand clothes which have
not entirely outlived their usefulness.
and can get pretty fair prices, too. Then
III credit you with what I got for them.
Some of my customers have been doing
that for years, and it makes an appreciable
difference in the amount they spend for
new outfits.
aYou may be interested to know that a
There's much more wear left in it than in
a suit made of any other kind Of material.
/ can get great deal more for it than for
a second hand dress suit, although the
latter is in demand, too.
Fire Chief Croker has to make a quick
transfer in running to fires in the daytime
from his office at Fire Headquarters. The
chiefs automobile is kept at Great Jones |
street when Mr.. Croker is at his desk up
town. He starts for the fire in his car |
rage and the automobile starts at the ]
same time from Great Jones street to catch |
him. Chief Croker's auto driver knows the |
route that the wagon will take from Fire |
Hall to reach any box in the city. Ere |
Quenty, if the fire is downtown, the auto
mobile meets the galloping wagon head on.
The horse doesn't stop galloping until the |
automobile has circled around behind IT |
and run up alongside. Then the horse is
pulled in, the Chief makes flying leap
from the carriage to the auto and away |
goes the big devil wagon" leaving the |
&c rriag e to take it easy back to Fire Hail.
The modern employer is every year de-
parting further from Russell Sage's idea OF |
the wastefulness of days off" from work.
The Fourth of July falling on Tuesday
this year gave many heads Of business
houses the opportunity to grant three
day and in many cases a four day vacation.
The mails were crowded with notices that
business houses of many sorts would not be
open from Saturday noon or from Friday |
night up to Wednesday. A Broadway |
merchant posted this sign in his window
"This ranch will be closed from Friday
IN Wednesday, Our employees are going