The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-29
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
"I've been at It a good while," said the
crosstown car conductor, 'and I've never
been robbed yet-not to know It, anyhow.
! never heard Of pickpocket getting to a
conductor, either. We get upsagainst the
strong arm man now and then on lonely
night runs, but that is different PROPOSE
ton.
"A smart Alec said to noe once:
Did you ever have your pocket piokedf
NO. said, I nsver'did.'
-Then he got OF the car and gave the
motorman the bell to 60 ahead. As the
car moved away the young outup called
after me: ~
TOO busy robbihg the company to know
when you're robbed yodrself-is that it,
I'VE were behind schedule or would
have gone back and damned that guy.
we are let alone by the pickpookets be-
sSsS are rndH ssSS and the coin Is al small
Then; our own hands are In and out OF
them 30 much that it would take pretty
slick operator to got away with the goods.
One New York woman who has spent half
the summer on hotel piazza has discovered
an easy way to lose her reputation.
1T can be done, she said, by talking
about the different cities in the United States
that you have lived in. My husbands
business has neoeesitated our moving from
pillar to post 80 frequently that have made
my home In almost every good sized town
in the Union. This summer, In the course
Of my conversation with other women.
very frequently alluded to queer incidents
that befell me during my residence In those
towns. At last it dawned upon me tina
every time mentioned q new city the
women would look at me suspiciouely, and
as soon as they conveniently could would
congregate In another corner OF the porch.
and talk me over
sJust before my reputation was reduced
to the last shreds found out what was the
matter. They Thought that because ! had
moved around 30 h1uoh belonged TO
family Of crooks that were obliged to shift
months. It il 4 fine thing for the hotel
piazza woman II she can boast Of being
a globe trotter In foreign countries, but to
claim actual residence in q score Of cities In
her native land brands her as suspicious
character"
In a quiet uptown street q well known
club Of women who write or paint profess
sionally has It's home.
sented TO the club q handsome water
cooler, which was delivered at the club
rooms, and at the same time she sent motto
regarding the gift, but addressed 1t to
the secretary at her apartment. :.
The secretary glanced at the note; and
without waiting to zee the present dashed
OF a reply, thanking the artist for the
beautiful water color; and being Q writer
Of graceful fiction, she added that the pic
ture had been hung on choice wall Of the
club, where 1t was much admired by all
who saw 1t.
besides the water has been cool In tho
club ever since.
sYou might think that they had US dead
to right said the barkeep a. he rang
up and passed out the check. This push
ing q button and ringing boil and flashing
q This registers the amount Of your pur-
chase sign would seem to be keeping all the
tabs that fluid dispenser is entitled to.
"Now, I'm not telling you whether there's
any way to beat the machine; that wouldn't
be according to the ethics at all. But for
some reason or other the bosses have sort
o. lost confidence In the machine and there's
q gang Of spoilers out. II they had badges
on their caps and could como in behind
the bar and ring up the little TIE , Old mock mock
tors, same as on the trolleys. But we get
to know 'em even II they don't wear badges.
and then there's nothing doing but straight
finance on the cash register.
@Must be a nice sort OF Job; though, to
booze and keep eyes open for the obliqpi-
ties Of your fellow cihzeps who arc In the
businessi I should like to see some Of the
reports they turn in. But the bosses put
them on the Job. and it's up to US to got
wise a. soon as q new one shows up and
pass the word along
Summer q tho season when Canadian
coins flourish In New York most abund-
antly. Then every tourist that passes
through town has dime or quarter Of the
Dominion currency that no has picked up
somewhere on his travels, and he tries to
pass 1t OF on druggists and street car con-
ductors.
The conductors, as rule. fight shy Of
and during the summer
months they make such big collection Of
Canadian coins that It takes until the next
summer to work them all on.
Patrolman Tom McManus Of the East
Fifty-Arst street station has earned for
himself the reputation Of being the most
member OF the force. When
he turned in last Wednesday afternoon,
after doing the day tour, he handed to Sergt
Breen the following report:
sTour from A. NJ. to P. NJ, Aug. %. |
At 2:8S p. M, espied an airship flying In
q northeasterly direction, between Fifty
fourth and d., Fifty . stres :, apparently p
There was no violations Of law on my post.
THOMAS ]. MoMANus.'
MANY Italians and Jews change their
names on their first papers. said the clerk
in the Federal naturalization bureau.
Tho Italians. queerly enough, have par
tiality for Irish names, going on tho sound
principle. suppose. that there's no name !
10 thoroughly American as q Hibernian
one. The latest Of example was one who
announced that his name was really An
tonio something or other, but that henoe-
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